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A company wants to implement a public IaaS solution but also wants to address site resiliency challenges. When selecting an IaaS provider, which of the following should a cloud technician look for within the provider’s capabilities to meet the requirements?
A cloud engineer is migrating an application running on an on-premises server to a SaaS solution. The cloud engineer has validated the SaaS solution, as well as created and tested a migration plan. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do before performing the migration? (Choose two.)
A cloud administrator wants to apply patches in an isolated copy of the production virtual server to assess the impact. Which of the following activities would BEST achieve this objective?
A performance test team recently completed a simulated load test on a new e-commerce application hosted in the public cloud environment. The test was a 50% load test and produced the following results:
Based on these results, which of the following is the BEST recommendation to ensure the environment can handle a full load?
A private cloud administrator realizes a specific VM has grown, and there is a low amount of free space on the disk/datastore. The disk/datastore sizes are standardized, so the cloud administrator cannot expand it.
Which of the following is the BEST way to resolve this issue?
A company has an internal SLA for CPU and RAM oversubscription that should stay below 120%. Storage utilization should stay below 90% with oversubscription below 160%. Given the following:
Which of the following should be done to meet the SLA?
Team members should be able to review their organization's resource utilization and adjust workloads to ensure they stay within budget. The organization has three different teams and associated cloud environments:
development, staging, and production.
Which of the following access control models would be BEST in this scenario?
After load testing on the QA environment, which showed good performance results with 10,000 users, the new version was installed in the production environment. However, users are reporting performance issues, and there are only 7,000 users currently utilizing the application. The configuration of each environment is shown in the table below.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of differing performance in the QA and PROD environments?
A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a network issue that was raised after the introduction of a CASB solution. The administrator attempts different ideas during troubleshooting but is unable to resolve the issue. In which of the following steps of the troubleshooting process is the administrator experiencing an issue?
Which of the following provides the BEST approach for deploying multiple new firewalls into an IaaS cloud environment with minimal errors?
A QA team recently completed testing new features for an e-commerce application that will be deployed to support the busy season. All security tests have been completed, and the new application is scheduled for
release tomorrow.
Which of the following types of testing is still needed?
A cloud administrator is managing two private cloud environments. In cloud A, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of five minutes and RTO of one hour. In cloud B, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of one hour and RTO of 24 hours. A new customer’s application requires that, in case of a disaster, no more than 15 minutes of data can be lost, and it should be fully recovered within one day. Which of the following would be the BEST approach to this application?
An upgrade to a web application, which supports 400 users at four sites, is being tested. The application runs on four servers behind a load balancer.
The following test plan is proposed:
Have 50 users from site A connect to server 1 Have 50 users from site B connect to server 2 Have 50 users from site C connect to server 3 Have 50 users from site D connect to server 4
Which of the following parameters is being properly tested by this plan?
To enhance availability, a company has expanded its public cloud presence to multiple regions from a single CSP. The company wants to ensure resources in the public cloud are highly available to users at company headquarters.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to fulfill this requirement?
The end users of a SaaS application use multiple services from the same application. A unique login ID and password are required for each user to access each service.
Which of the following access control methods should be implemented by the SaaS application vendor to simplify the access to its services?
A company wants to take advantage of cloud benefits while retaining control of and maintaining compliance with all its security policy obligations. Based on the non-functional requirements, which of the following should the company use?
Company A has just implemented a SaaS-based cloud storage solution. The SaaS solution provides services for both commercial and personal use. The IT department has been tasked to migrate all the on-premises file shares to the SaaS solution with the username being the corporate email address. The IT department is currently using am IAM solution to provision the accounts in the SaaS solution. Upon execution of the account creation process, the IT department is receiving multiple “unable to create account” alerts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
An administrator has virtualized four database servers in a private cloud. The DBA is concerned that a failure of one host will take down all four servers.
Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to alleviate the DBA's concerns?
Since the hypervisors were upgraded to the latest version, each new deployment results in an error being displayed at the orchestrator. To troubleshoot the issue, which of the following should be done FIRST?
A multinational corporation is moving its worldwide cloud presence to a single region, which is called Region A. An administrator attempts to use a workflow, which was previously used to deploy VMs to Region E in the new Region A environment, and receives the following error: Invalid character set. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?
A software development company is building cloud-ready applications and needs to determine the best approach for releasing software. Which of the following approaches should be used?
An administrator is creating new severs in a public cloud. The workflow creates and application group with three VMs, one web server, one application server and one database server. The three VMs are all accessible via SSH, but the websites shows a 503-error referring to a database issue.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?
A cloud service company is proposing a solution to a major sporting venue. The solution offers 99.999% availability during special events, which is proven through specialized testing. Which of the following techniques should be applied to confirm the high availability claimed by the company? (Select TWO.)
A cloud engineer is using a hosted service for aggregating the logs for all the servers in a public cloud environment. Each server is configured via syslog to send its logs to a central location. A new version of the application was recently deployed, and the SaaS server now stops processing logs at noon each day. In reviewing the system logs, the engineer notices the size of the logs has increased by 50% each day. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the logs are not being published after noon?
A new company policy requires all data stored in a private cloud to be encrypted at rest. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to achieve this requirement with the least performance impact?
A cloud administrator works for an online gaming company that is hosting its multiplayer servers in a public IaaS cloud. The following metrics are reported during a controlled beta test:
RAM usage80%
Bandwidth usage50% Average ping800ms
The beta test shows poor performance for gamers. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement FIRST to improve the gamers’ experience?
A consultant is helping a large company migrate its development environment to a public cloud provider. The developers are working on a VDI solution. The development tools that employees utilize require greater control of the OS environment. Which of the following cloud types should the consultant implement?
As part of a nightly testing process, new version of an application is deployed to the set of web servers in the development environment.
Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure the test environment is consistent with the previous night’s test?
A company has hired a technician to build a cloud infrastructure for a massively parallel application. Which of the following should the technician consider doing FIRST?
A cloud administrator is provisioning several user accounts that have administrator rights to assets using JSON within an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator is required to configure "alternate” settings using the API. Given this scenario, which of the following elements would allow the administrator to meet these requirements in the JSON file?
A company has been migrating a significant number of its on-premises applications to various SaaS providers. The IT department has noticed the following:
1.User account management has become challenging.
2.User account compromises have increased.
3.Accessing various SaaS applications is challenging.
Which of the following should the IT security department implement to BEST resolve the issue? (Select THREE).
An administrator needs to make a file-level backup of a VM before deploying monthly updates. The backup should capture all changes since the last backup but should NOT reset the archive bit on any files.
Which of the following backup types BEST meets these requirements?
A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data.
Which of the following techniques should the cloud administrator deploy to ensure testing requirements are met?
A security administrator wants to automate the implementation of network-based ACLs for services deployed within the company VPC. The security administrator is mostly concerned with intra-VPN separation to prevent unauthorized communication between cloud deployed services within the VPC.
Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
A new SaaS timecard application that is being tested will be used by all employees at a large corporation. The following process was used to test the application:
1.Three users from each site used the application for three weeks.
2.The new application was used side by side with the existing application.
3.The outputs of the old and new applications were compared side by side.
Which of the following requirements did the testing plan confirm? (Select two.)
All the virtual server instances within an organization’s private cloud environment are having trouble logging into the Kerberos realm. Upon investigation, the CSA notices the time stamps are different on the server virtual instances. Which of the following should be the CSA’s NEXT step to resolve this issue?
A cloud administrator is tasked with ensuring redundancy and high availability of an IaaS cloud platform environment. The administrator is given the following requirements:
Two web servers must share the same configurations and service client connections evenly. Two database servers must share data and configurations, with only one being used at a time.
Given the above, which of the following should the administrator propose to BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).
Users at a university are experiencing slow response and performance issues with private cloud services. The university was compromised, and a loss of bandwidth utilization was reported.
Without deploying new software, which of the following should be performed to determine the cause of the issues?
A consultant is helping a gaming-as-a-service company set up a new cloud. The company recently bought several graphic cards that need to be added to the servers.
Which of the following should the consultant suggest as the MOST cost effective?
A Big Data analytics company wants to ensure its data is protected at rest.
Which of the following is the BEST hardware-based solution?
IaaS users are reporting longer than expected wait times when accessing the virtual file repository. There are more than 2TB of free disk space, and vCPU and vRAM do not reach more than 75% utilization. In which of the following ways should the cloud systems administrator analyze this issue?
Performance on a new private cloud deployment is not meeting expectations. An engineer has determined the virtualization host is experiencing high ready/wait times. VMs with the following configurations and metrics currently reside on the host:
Which of the following troubleshooting choices would MOST likely be used to bring the high ready/wait times to meet the expected baseline?
A new cloud infrastructure needs to meet the following requirements:
Which of the following deployment models BEST fit these requirements?
Last month, a cloud engineer updated all the Linux servers to disallow telnet communication by updating the firewall and uninstalling the application. However, it was recently discovered that three of the servers had the
telnet port and application installed and configured.
Which of the following is the BEST way to implement and maintain the change?
A service engineer is trying to determine why one of the company’s SaaS solution is no longer available. The internal systems are responding and other online applications using the same SaaS solution are responding as expected.
Which of the following is the MOST common cause of the availability issue?
A company requires all system logs to be saved for a minimum 30 days. However, many employees are
reporting storage near capacity alerts. A cloud administrator is trying to fix and prevent this issue from happening again.
Which of the following is the BEST option?
A file server is being migrated from physical hardware into a private cloud. Baselining of the server shows the disks average 90% full at all times. The contents of the file server consist mostly of compressed audio files. Multiple copies of the same files are often saved in different locations on the same disk. Which of the following storage technologies is MOST likely to help minimize storage utilization when moving this server to the private cloud?
An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization:
Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%. Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?
A cloud administrator is configuring block-level storage. The storage must be configured to be resistant from faults. Given this scenario, which of the following would aid in establishing fault tolerance with asynchronous redundancy?