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A development team plans to deploy a custom database schema to Azure SQL Database, which is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Under the PaaS shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks is the customer responsible for performing?

  1. Configuring database user accounts and access permissionsAnswer
  2. B
    Applying security updates to the underlying operating system
  3. C
    Managing virtual machines and database server middleware
  4. D
    Configuring end-user settings for Microsoft 365 applications

Answer

Configuring database user accounts and access permissions
In a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model such as Azure SQL Database, the cloud provider manages the physical infrastructure, virtualization layer, operating system, and database software. The customer retains control over their custom schemas, data, and access permissions, which includes configuring database user accounts.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the cloud service model being evaluated.
The service is Azure SQL Database, which falls under the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model.
Determining the service model dictates the shared responsibility boundary between Microsoft and the customer.
2
Differentiate customer vs. provider responsibilities in PaaS.
The cloud provider manages the physical hosts, hypervisor, operating system, and database software. The customer is responsible for their data and configuring access permissions to that data.
This rules out cloud-managed infrastructure actions like patching or VM provisioning from customer duties.
3
Match the tasks to their correct responsibility profiles.
Database access control is a customer task, while OS updates and VM management are provider tasks, and Microsoft 365 settings belong to a different (SaaS) context.
This selects the option that represents a customer responsibility in the PaaS database context.

Key Concept

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Shared Responsibility
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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