CompTIA Cloud+ Post-Assessment Practice Test

Direct-Attached Storage is storage that’s connected directly to a single computer, with no intervening network. An external hard drive plugged into a workstation to back up virtual machines is exactly that: the drive is attached to and used by the workstation itself, not shared over a network.

NAS would involve a dedicated storage device on the network providing file-level access; SAN is a networked storage system that typically delivers block-level access to multiple servers; cloud storage is remote storage accessed over the internet. Because the drive in this scenario isn’t on a network or remotely accessed, it’s best described as Direct-Attached Storage.