Which description matches a DaaS deployment where the provider maintains the infrastructure and delivers desktops as a service?

Which description matches a DaaS deployment where the provider maintains the infrastructure and delivers desktops as a service?

• A. An on-demand software licensing model.
• B. Maintained by a service provider and provided to the end user as a service.
• C. A model where each user runs a local desktop on their own device.
• D. A storage as a service model.

Answer: (B)

Desktop as a Service is a cloud-delivered model where the provider runs and maintains all the underlying infrastructure—hardware, virtualization, operating system, applications, and security—and delivers the desktop environment to users over the internet as a service. The description that matches this scenario is the one where the service provider maintains the infrastructure and provides desktops to end users as a service. This distinguishes DaaS from other concepts: licensing models describe how software is paid for rather than how desktops are delivered; running a local desktop on each user’s device is the traditional on-premises approach; and storage as a service focuses on storage resources, not full desktops.