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CompTIA CLO-002 CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ Exam Practice Test

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CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following is true about the use of technologies such as JSON and XML for cloud data interchange and automation tasks?

Options:

A.

It can cause cloud vendor lock-in

B.

The company needs to define a specific programming language for cloud management.

C.

The same message format can be used across different cloud platforms.

D.

It is considered an unsafe format of communication.

Question 2

When designing a new cloud-enabled application, an organization that is considering RTO and RPO is MOST likely concerned about:

Options:

A.

redundancy.

B.

load balancing.

C.

disaster recovery.

D.

high availability.

Question 3

A manufacturing company is selecting applications for a cloud migration. The company’s main concern relates to the ERP system, which needs to receive data from multiple industrial systems to generate the executive reports. Which of the following will provide the details needed for the company’s decision regarding the cloud migration?

Options:

A.

Standard operating procedures

B.

Feasibility studies

C.

Statement of work

D.

Benchmarks

Question 4

Which of the following are examples of capital expenditures? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

Cloud consultant fees

B.

Data center wiring

C.

Data center electric bill

D.

Server purchases

E.

Spot instances

F.

Disposable virtual machine

Question 5

Resource consumption in a company's laaS environment has been stable; however, a few servers have recently experienced spikes in CPU usage for days at a time. Costs are rising steadily, and it is unclear who owns the servers. Which of the following would work BEST to allow the company to charge the appropriate department? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

Employ a software defined network.

B.

Employ orchestration automation.

C.

Review the storage usage reports.

D.

Review the network ingress reports.

E.

Employ resource tagging.

F.

Review the compute usage reports.

Question 6

A small online retailer is looking for a solution to handle the high load on its servers during the holiday season. The retailer is not currently ready to move its IT operations completely to the cloud.

Which of the following will BEST fit these requirements?

Options:

A.

Elasticity

B.

Scalability

C.

Bursting

D.

Self-service

Question 7

A systems administrator must select a CSP while considering system uptime and access to critical servers. Which of the following is the MOST important criterion when choosing the CSP?

Options:

A.

Elasticity

B.

Scalability

C.

Availability

D.

Serviceability

Question 8

A requirement states that an application must be restored within six hours. Which of the following should be included in the SLA to satisfy this requirement?

Options:

A.

MTTR

B.

RPO

C.

ROI

D.

RTO

Question 9

A software company that develops mobile applications is struggling with the complicated process of deploying the development, testing. QA. and staging environments. Which of the following cloud service models offers the BEST automated development environment for the software company?

Options:

A.

SaaS

B.

laaS

C.

PaaS

D.

CaaS

Question 10

A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?

Options:

A.

Time to market

B.

Operating expenditure fees

C.

BYOL costs

D.

Human capital

Question 11

A company wants to ensure its existing functionalities are not compromised by the addition of a new functionality.

Which of the following is the BEST testing technique?

Options:

A.

Regression

B.

Stress

C.

Load

D.

Quality

Question 12

Which of the following describes the contractually allowed downtime for a cloud-hosted application?

Options:

A.

SOW

B.

SLA

C.

SOP

D.

SOA

Question 13

Which of the following metrics defines how much data loss a company can tolerate?

Options:

A.

RTO

B.

TCO

C.

MTTR

D.

ROI

E.

RPO

Question 14

Which of the following documents has the sole purpose of outlining a professional services engagement that

governs a proposed cloud migration?

Options:

A.

Gap analysis

B.

Statement of work

C.

Feasibility study

D.

Service level agreement

Question 15

A company is moving to the cloud and wants to enhance the provisioning of compute, storage, security, and networking. Which of the following will be leveraged?

Options:

A.

Infrastructure as code

B.

Infrastructure templates

C.

Infrastructure orchestration

D.

Infrastructure automation

Question 16

A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments?

Options:

A.

Right-sizing

B.

Scaling

C.

Chargeback

D.

Showback

Question 17

A company is discontinuing its use of a cloud provider. Which of the following should the provider do to ensure there is no sensitive data stored in the company's cloud?

Options:

A.

Replicate the data.

B.

Encrypt the data.

C.

Lock in the data.

D.

Sanitize the data.

Question 18

A company requires 24 hours' notice when a database is taken offline for planned maintenance. Which of the following policies provides the BEST guidance about notifying users?

Options:

A.

Communication policy

B.

Access control policy

C.

Information security policy

D.

Risk management policy

Question 19

A cloud administrator suggested using spot instances to reduce cloud costs for part of a new cloud infrastructure.

Which of the following conditions must be addressed by the application that will run on these instances?

Options:

A.

The application needs to store data in a database.

B.

There is a restriction for distributed network communications.

C.

The application needs to handle unpredictable instance termination.

D.

Resource-intensive compute loads will be forbidden.

Question 20

Which of the following would be expected from a security consultant who has been hired to investigate a data breach of a private cloud instance?

Options:

A.

Incident report

B.

Application scan results

C.

Request for information

D.

Risk register

Question 21

Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?

Options:

A.

Vendor lock-in

B.

Data portability

C.

Network connectivity

D.

Data sovereignty

Question 22

Options:

Question 23

A cloud systems administrator needs to migrate several corporate applications to a public cloud provider and decommission the internal hosting environment. This migration must be completed by the end of the month. Because these applications are internally developed to meet specific business accounting needs, the administrator cannot use an alternative application.

Which of the following BEST describes the approach the administrator should use?

Options:

A.

Hybrid deployment

B.

Phased migration

C.

Lift and shift

D.

Rip and replace

Question 24

A large online car retailer needs to leverage the public cloud to host photos that must be accessible from anywhere and available at anytime. Which of the following cloud storage types would be cost-effective and meet the requirements?

Options:

A.

Cold storage

B.

File storage

C.

Block storage

D.

Object storage

Question 25

A company's SaaS provider recently changed its licensing model, and a business analyst is required to do an overall cost analysis for a three-year contract renewal. Which of the following will provide the entire financial forecast over the renewal period?

Options:

A.

ROI

B.

TCO

SOW

C.

RFI

Question 26

A company is deploying a new application and must decide whether to build an infrastructure to host the application on premises or in the cloud. Which of the following BEST describes the financial impact of hosting the application in the cloud?

Options:

A.

The company's capital expense will be less.

B.

The company will be able to defer licensing costs.

C.

The provider will share responsibility for the company's monthly bill.

D.

Monthly operating costs will remain constant despite usage.

Question 27

A company would like to improve its current DR plan with an emphasis on high availability. Which of the following metrics should the company focus on?

Options:

A.

MTTR

B.

RTO

C.

QoS

D.

RPO

Question 28

An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM.

Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

Options:

A.

Availability

B.

Elasticity

C.

Pay-as-you-go

D.

Self-service

Question 29

A redundancy option must be provided for an on-premises server cluster. The financial team is concerned about the cost of extending to the cloud. Which of the following resources about the on-premises infrastructure would BEST help to estimate cloud costs?

Options:

A.

Server cluster architecture diagram

B.

Compute and storage reporting

C.

Industry benchmarks

D.

Resource management policy

Question 30

A software developer wants to ensure a packaged application can be deployed in different environments without modifying anything but the application settings. The developer creates an image and provides instructions for the systems administrator to use for deployment. This is an example of:

Options:

A.

application versioning.

B.

source code control.

C.

containerization.

D.

deployment automation.

Question 31

A vendor stipulates it will provide incident response within two hours of a severity level A incident. Which of the following does this describe?

Options:

A.

Maintenance agreement

B.

Managed service agreement

C.

Operating level agreement

D.

Service level agreement

Question 32

A company wants to process a batch job in a faster, cost-effective manner. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Options:

A.

Implement right-sizing.

B.

Increase CPU usage.

C.

Utilize spot instances.

D.

Add storage.

Question 33

A contract that defines the quality and performance metrics that are agreeable to both parties is called an:

Options:

A.

SOP.

B.

SOA.

C.

SOW.

D.

SLA.

Question 34

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to identify two business units to be pilots for a new cloud project. A business analyst who was recently assigned to this project will be selecting a cloud provider. Which of the following should the business analyst do FIRST?

Options:

A.

Conduct a feasibility study of the environment.

B.

Conduct a benchmark of all major systems.

C.

Draw a matrix diagram of the capabilities of the cloud providers.

D.

Gather business and technical requirements for key stakeholders.

Question 35

A startup company that provides streaming media services is considering a new CSP. The company sees an average volume of 5000TB daily and high QoS. It has received the following bids:

Question # 35

Based on the information above, which of the following CSPs offers the MOST cost-effective solution for streaming?

Options:

A.

Provider 1

B.

Provider 2

C.

Provider 3

D.

Provider 4

Question 36

After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management.

Which of the following should be presented to management?

Options:

A.

Project charter

B.

Feasibility study

C.

Managed services

D.

Pilot

Question 37

Which of the following allows for the management of network policies from a central portal while maintaining a hardware-agnostic approach?

Options:

A.

Virtual private network

B.

Software-defined network

C.

Load balancing

D.

Direct Connect

Question 38

A systems administrator needs to transfer 300GB of data to the cloud every month. Given the information below:

Question # 38

Which of the following connection methods would be the MOST cost-effective and satisfy the monthly transfer requirements?

Options:

A.

VPN (100MB)

B.

Direct Connect (500MB)

C.

Enhanced VPN (200MB)

D.

Enhanced Direct Connect (1GB)

Question 39

Which of the following BEST describes a pay-as-you-go licensing model within a cloud service?

Options:

A.

Subscription agreement

B.

Perpetual agreement

C.

Enterprise agreement

D.

Promotional agreement

Question 40

A human resources department is considering a SaaS-based human resources portal and requires a risk analysis.

Which of the following are requirements to consider? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Support

B.

Threats

C.

Chargebacks

D.

Vulnerabilities

E.

Maintenance

F.

Gap analysis

Question 41

A network team establishes a new connection to an IaaS CSP that is more efficient and has networking costs that are 25% less than previous monthly expenditures. The bill outlines the following costs:

Storage:$10000

Compute:$12000

Network:$7000

Which of the following will be the total cloud expenditure for the following month? A. $26000

B. $26250

C. $27250

D. $29000

Options:

Question 42

A company decides to move some of its computing resources to a public cloud provider but keep the rest in-house. Which of the following cloud migration approaches does this BEST describe?

Options:

A.

Rip and replace

B.

Hybrid

C.

Phased

D.

Lift and shift

Question 43

A cloud administrator configures a server to insert an entry into a log file whenever an administrator logs in to the server remotely. Which of the following BEST describes the type of policy being used?

Options:

A.

Audit

B.

Authorization

C.

Hardening

D.

Access

Question 44

A company is moving its long-term archive data to the cloud. Which of the following storage types will the company MOST likely use?

Options:

A.

File

B.

Object

C.

Tape

D.

Block

Question 45

A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images?

Options:

A.

Object

B.

Cold

C.

File

D.

Block

Question 46

Which of the following cloud migration methods would be BEST suited for disaster recovery scenarios?

Options:

A.

Replatforming

B.

Phased

C.

Rip and replace

D.

Lift and shift

Question 47

A company wants to deploy an application in a public cloud. Which of the following service models gives the MOST responsibility to the provider?

Options:

A.

PaaS

B.

IaaS

C.

BPaaS

D.

SaaS

Question 48

Which of the following is a scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that a computer system integrates to improve performance of a specific task effectively based on information?

Options:

A.

loT

B.

Big Data

C.

Machine learning

D.

Blockchain

Question 49

A cloud administrator wants to ensure nodes are added automatically when the load on a web cluster increases. Which of the following should be implemented?

Options:

A.

Autonomous systems

B.

Infrastructure as code

C.

Right-sizing

D.

Autoscaling

Question 50

A company wants to save on cloud storage costs for data that does not need to be accessible in a timely manner. Which of the following storage types would be the BEST option?

Options:

A.

Cold

B.

Block

C.

Object

D.

Tape

Question 51

Which of the following security objectives is MOST improved when moving a system to the cloud?

Options:

A.

Availability

B.

Integrity

C.

Privacy

D.

Confidentiality

Question 52

A project manager must inform the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the additional resources necessary to migrate services to the cloud successfully.

Which of the following cloud assessments would be MOST appropriate to use for the recommendation?

Options:

A.

Feasibility study

B.

Gap analysis

C.

Future requirements

D.

Baseline report

Question 53

For security reasons, a cloud service that can be accessed from anywhere would make BEST use of:

Options:

A.

replication.

B.

multifactor authentication.

C.

single sign-on.

D.

data locality

Question 54

Which of the following strategies allows an organization to plan for cloud expenditures in a way that most closely aligns with the capital expenditure model?

Options:

A.

Simplifying contract requirements

B.

Implementing consolidated billing

C.

Considering a BYOL policy

D.

Using reserved cloud instances

Question 55

A company is planning to integrate the processes of several applications and assign a manager to oversee the technical coordination to improve efficiency. Which of the following would be BEST for coordinating the processes?

Options:

A.

Orchestration

B.

Scripting

C.

Continuous integration

D.

Continuous delivery

Question 56

Which of the following is the BEST way to secure a web session to a hosted e-commerce website?

Options:

A.

SSL

B.

VPN

C.

Firewall

D.

DNS

Question 57

Which of the following techniques helps an organization determine benchmarks for application performance within a set of resources?

Options:

A.

Auto-scaling

B.

Load testing

C.

Sandboxing

D.

Regression testing

Question 58

Which of the following service models BEST describes a cloud-hosted application in which the end user only creates user access and configures options?

Options:

A.

MaaS

B.

SaaS

C.

PaaS

D.

laaS

Question 59

Which of the following is an example of outsourcing administration in the context of the cloud?

Options:

A.

Managed services

B.

Audit by a third party

C.

Community support

D.

Premium support

Question 60

Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two).

Options:

A.

Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios.

B.

Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services.

C.

Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads.

D.

Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.

E.

Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch.

F.

Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.

Question 61

Which of the following can be used by a client’s finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments?

Options:

A.

Reserved instances

B.

Service level agreement

C.

Resource tagging

D.

RFI from the CSP

Question 62

Which of the following risks is MOST likely a result of vendor lock-in?

Options:

A.

Premature obsolescence

B.

Data portability issues

C.

External breach

D.

Greater system vulnerability

Question 63

Which of the following is used to connect on-premises resources to resources located in a cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Virtual private network

B.

Access control list

C.

Secure file transfer protocol

D.

Software-defined network

Question 64

Monthly cloud service costs are BEST described as:

Options:

A.

operating expenditures.

B.

fixed expenditures.

C.

capital expenditures.

D.

personnel expenditures.

Question 65

A company with a variable number of employees would make good use of the cloud model because of:

Options:

A.

multifactor authentication

B.

self-service

C.

subscription services

D.

collaboration

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