Which of the following characteristics is a disadvantage of cloud-based hosting?

A) It involves significant requirement of capital.

B) It involves high annual maintenance costs.

C) It involves high dependency on vendor.

D) It involves high ongoing support costs.

The correct answer is choice c, it involves high dependency on vendor.

Cloud-based housing involves a business having its information stored on remote servers hosted on the internet, rather than having it in-house on their personal computers or servers. While their are many advantages of this, the biggest disadvantage is that there is a high dependency on the vendor that you use.