Which infrastructure combination is characteristic of a hybrid cloud model?

• A. A private cloud integrated with one or more public clouds.
• B. Only on-premises private cloud.
• C. Only public clouds.
• D. All workloads in one public cloud.

Answer: (A)

Hybrid cloud mixes private cloud resources with public cloud services, connected and orchestrated so workloads can run and move across environments. This setup lets you keep sensitive data and core apps in a private cloud while tapping public cloud capacity for scaling, disaster recovery, or specialized services. The described combination—private cloud integrated with one or more public clouds—embodies that mix of environments and the ability to manage them together. Keeping everything on a private cloud is just a private cloud. Using only public clouds, even if more than one, isn’t hybrid. Placing all workloads in a single public cloud also lacks the private-cloud component that characterizes hybrid deployments.