Cloud & DevOps · Question 15 · Hard
Cloud & DevOps question 15
Under the shared responsibility model for IaaS, who is responsible for applying security patches to the guest operating system running on a virtual machine?
- The customer
- The cloud provider
- The hypervisor vendor
- Nobody; IaaS operating systems patch themselves
Answer and explanation
Answer: A. The customer
Explanation: In IaaS, the provider secures the physical infrastructure and the virtualisation layer. The customer manages and patches the guest OS, middleware and applications.
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