alleryStart learning →The NIST definition gives mobile phones, tablets, laptops and workstations as examples of what?
- Pooled physical resources
- Metered service abstractions
- Heterogeneous client platforms
- Rapidly elastic capabilities
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Correct answer: C. Heterogeneous client platforms
1. Locate where that list of devices appears. It sits inside the broad network access clause.
2. That clause reads: "Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations)."
3. The four devices are therefore illustrating heterogeneous client platforms, both thin and thick.
4. The pooled resources the definition names elsewhere are storage, processing, memory and network bandwidth, which is a different list
metering examples are storage, processing, bandwidth and active user accounts.
_Source: NIST SP 800-145 "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing" (Sept 2011), p.2 section 2 "Essential Characteristics"_