Roles and Boundaries

Question 1

Service Consumer

Answer 1

• When a software program accesses a service it is labeled as a service consumer
• A temporary runtime role assumed by a software program.

Question 2

Cloud Service Consumer

Answer 2

• Is a temporary runtime role assumed by a software program when it accesses a cloud service

Question 3

Cloud Provider

Answer 3

• A cloud provider is the organization that owns (provides) a cloud. One cloud provider may own multiple clouds

Question 4

Cloud Consumer

Answer 4

• Is an organization or a human that uses a cloud service consumer to access a cloud service.

Question 5

Cloud Resource Administrator

Answer 5

• Is the person or organization responsible for administering a cloud-based IT resource (including cloud services).
• Can be (or belong to) the cloud consumer or cloud provider of the cloud within which the cloud service resides.

Question 6

Cloud Service Owner

Answer 6

• Is the person or organization that legally owns a cloud service
• Can be either the cloud consumer or the cloud provider of the cloud within which the cloud service resides

Question 7

Organizational Boundary

Answer 7

• Represents the physical perimeter that surrounds a set of IT resources owned by a specific organization

Question 8

Trust Boundary

Answer 8

• ## Establishes a logical perimeter wherein IT resources are trusted from a security perspective.