ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your cloud engineering team must select a backend storage service for a new multi-tenant IaaS offering. Virtual machine disks must be able to boot from the service, support crash-consistent snapshots, and deliver predictable low-latency random reads and writes for transactional databases. Which type of storage best meets these requirements?
Virtual tape library used for long-term archival
Distributed file storage presented via NFS or SMB
Network-based block storage (e.g., SAN or iSCSI volumes)
Block-level storage systems expose volumes that appear to the guest operating system as locally attached disks. Because the hypervisor can treat a block device as a boot volume, virtual machines can start directly from it. Block storage is optimized for low-latency, small, random I/O patterns typical of databases, and most services (for example, cloud SAN or iSCSI volumes) natively provide point-in-time snapshot capabilities.
Object storage is accessed through REST APIs, is optimized for throughput rather than latency, and offers eventual consistency-making it unsuitable for boot volumes or database workloads. Distributed file storage (NFS/SMB) adds file-system semantics and higher latency than raw block devices, while virtual tape libraries are designed for sequential, archival workloads and cannot serve as VM boot disks. Therefore, network-based block storage is the only option that satisfies all stated requirements.
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