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A university IT department hosts its student enrollment registry in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment in Microsoft Azure. Under the Azure shared responsibility model, is the university responsible for maintaining the physical security of the hardware and datacenters?

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No, the university is not responsible for maintaining the physical security of the hardware and datacenters.
Under the Azure shared responsibility model, physical security is always the responsibility of the cloud provider (Microsoft) across all service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Therefore, the university is not responsible for physical security.

Step-by-Step Solution

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Analyze the service model described in the scenario (Infrastructure as a Service / IaaS).
Identify that in IaaS, virtual machines and network configurations are managed by the customer, but the physical infrastructure is managed by Microsoft.
Understanding the boundary between provider and customer responsibilities is required to evaluate the statement.
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Evaluate the specific task of maintaining physical security for hardware and datacenters.
Determine that physical security is a shared responsibility area that always falls on the cloud provider.
Cloud providers guarantee that customers do not have physical access to the server racks or datacenter facilities, so customers cannot be responsible for their physical security.

Key Concept

Shared Responsibility Model in IaaS
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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