Which cloud model is infrastructure managed and operated exclusively for one company to maintain a consistent level of security privacy and governance control?

• A. Private cloud
• B. Public cloud
• C. Hybrid cloud
• D. Community cloud

Answer: (A)

The key idea is having exclusive control over the infrastructure to meet a single organization’s security, privacy, and governance requirements. A private cloud provides dedicated resources for one company, whether the infrastructure is on-premises or hosted by a provider, allowing the organization to tailor and enforce its own security policies, data handling rules, and compliance measures consistently across all workloads.

This fits best because the other models involve sharing resources. A public cloud operates on a multi-tenant basis, with resources shared among many customers, making exclusive control and customized governance across all workloads less feasible. A hybrid cloud mixes private and public environments, which means some workloads run outside the exclusive private core, complicating uniform governance. A community cloud is shared by several organizations with common concerns, not a single company, so it doesn’t provide the exclusive control described.

So, the model described is a private cloud.