Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) — Question 363

On large distributed systems with pooled resources, cloud computing relies on extensive orchestration to maintain the environment and the constant provisioning of resources.
Which of the following is crucial to the orchestration and automation of networking resources within a cloud?

Answer options

• A. DNSSEC
• B. DNS
• C. DCOM
• D. DHCP

Correct answer: D

Explanation

DHCP is vital for the orchestration of networking resources because it automatically assigns IP addresses to devices within the network, simplifying resource management. While DNS and DNSSEC are important for resolving domain names and securing DNS data respectively, they do not directly manage IP address allocation like DHCP does. DCOM is unrelated to networking resource orchestration.