Which statement best contrasts on-premise and cloud infrastructure in MDC3?

• A. Cloud only supports static workloads.
• B. MDC3 avoids cloud entirely.
• C. On-premises uses local infrastructure; cloud provides scalable resources and managed services; MDC3 often employs hybrid or cloud-first patterns.
• D. On-premises is always more scalable than cloud.

Answer: (C)

Understanding the contrast between on-premises and cloud infrastructure is essential. On-premises means you run and manage your own hardware in a local data center, handling capacity planning, updates, and maintenance. Cloud infrastructure provides scalable resources and managed services, with elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing that lets you adjust capacity quickly without owning hardware. MDC3 practices commonly favor hybrid or cloud-first patterns, selecting the right mix: keep some workloads on premises for control or latency reasons, while moving others to the cloud to gain scalability and managed services, or design architectures to be cloud-native from the start. This captures the core difference between fixed local resources and flexible cloud resources, and why the approach described is most accurate.

The other statements don’t fit because cloud is not limited to static workloads, MDC3 doesn’t avoid cloud entirely, and on-premises is not inherently more scalable than cloud.