ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

The NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture groups provider offerings into three capability types.

• Infrastructure capability types expose fundamental compute, storage, and network resources (e.g., virtual machines, block storage).
• Platform capability types expose programming or execution environments and other developer-focused services, such as managed databases, identity services, message queues, and runtime frameworks.
• Application capability types deliver complete end-user applications such as CRM or email.

Because the team is consuming managed database, queuing, and identity services-components that developers incorporate into their own applications-these offerings fit the definition of platform capability types. They are not infrastructure resources nor complete end-user applications, so platform capability is the only correct classification.