UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

SaaS delivers applications over the Internet, with providers hosting and maintaining the software on their servers. Users access the service through thin clients such as browsers and do not manage underlying infrastructure or platform components. A hosted LMS exemplifies this model, as teachers and students simply log in to use its features.

Option A:
This option correctly illustrates outsourced application delivery and the client–server relationship central to SaaS, similar to Google Workspace or hosted LMS platforms widely used in education.

Option B:
This describes an on-premises or Infrastructure-as-a-Service style deployment where the institution manages its own servers and software, so it is not SaaS.

Option C:
Hardware assembly is concerned with building devices, not with cloud-based application delivery over the Internet.

Option D:
Physical book storage in a cupboard is unrelated to cloud computing and does not involve web-delivered software services.