The Physical view includes deployment diagrams and what?

• A. Deployment diagrams and node-level connections including databases, runtimes, workers, LBs, firewalls, and VPCs
• B. Process diagrams for business workflows
• C. Data models
• D. Security policy definitions

Answer: (A)

In the Physical view, the focus is on how the system actually sits in the real environment—hardware, networks, and infrastructure. Deployment diagrams map software components to physical nodes and show how these nodes connect and interact, including the paths between services and the infrastructure that supports them. The physical view specifically includes node-level connections such as databases, runtimes, workers, load balancers, firewalls, and VPCs, detailing how everything is deployed and protected in the network. This distinguishes it from other views: process diagrams describe business workflows, data models cover information structure, and security policy definitions address access and controls, not the hardware and network layout. So, the correct concept is that deployment diagrams, together with the node-level connections to databases, runtimes, workers, load balancers, firewalls, and VPCs, form the Physical view.