Employees in a small business use an online customer-relationship-management (CRM) system that they open through their web browsers. Which of the following statements BEST describes this type of cloud-hosted application and how it works?
It is a self-contained portable program that users can launch directly from a USB flash drive without installation.
It is installed only on the company's internal file server and continues to work even when the internet is unavailable.
It runs on provider-owned servers on the internet, so users must connect online to access its processing and store their data remotely.
It executes solely on each user's PC and saves all information to the local hard drive by default.
Cloud-hosted, or cloud-based, applications are delivered from servers in a provider's data center. The program's processing logic and data storage remain on those remote systems and are reached across the internet; the user's device acts mainly as a thin client. Locally-installed, network-hosted, or portable apps keep the code and/or data on a particular machine or local network, so they do not rely on constant access to online cloud resources. Therefore the first option is the best description.
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