Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Certified Cybersecurity Entry-level Technician (PCCET) Practice Exam

In which cloud model does the provider manage the infrastructure while the customer manages the applications?

1. SaaS

2. PaaS

3. IaaS

4. FaaS

The correct answer is: PaaS

The correct choice indicates the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, where the cloud provider is responsible for managing the underlying infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and operating systems. This allows customers to focus on developing, managing, and deploying their applications without the need to handle the intricacies of the hardware or software stack beneath the application layer. In this model, customers benefit from features like integrated development environments, databases, middleware, and other tools offered by the provider, streamlining the application development process. With the infrastructure taken care of, developers can rapidly build and scale applications according to their needs. The other cloud service models do not align with this definition: Software as a Service (SaaS) places the responsibility of both infrastructure and applications entirely on the provider, while customers only use the software applications hosted on the cloud. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides greater control to the customer by allowing them to manage the operating systems and applications, but they must also manage the infrastructure themselves. Function as a Service (FaaS) focuses specifically on running individual functions or pieces of code without managing infrastructure, aligning it more with serverless computing rather than comprehensive application management.