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A cloud engineer is deploying a server in a cloud platform. The engineer reviews a security scan report. Which of the following recommended services should be disabled? (Select two).
A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign
attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?
A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance is very slow at the start of the workday, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Choose two.)
A systems administrator notices that a piece of networking equipment is about to reach its end of support.
Which of the following actions should the administrator recommend?
In an existing IaaS instance, it is required to deploy a single application that has different versions.
Which of the following should be recommended to meet this requirement?
An organization will be deploying a web application in a public cloud with two web servers, two database servers, and a load balancer that is accessible over a single public IP.
Taking into account the gateway for this subnet and the potential to add two more web servers, which of the following will meet the minimum IP requirement?
A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?
A systems administrator needs to deploy a solution to automate new application releases that come from the development team. The administrator is responsible for provisioning resources at the infrastructure layer without modifying any configurations in the application code. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this task?
Which of the following strategies will mitigate the risk of a zero-day vulnerability MOST efficiently?
A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter. The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below:
The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions.
Which of the following solutions would help the company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?
A company wants to implement business continuity, and the cloud solution architect needs to design the correct solution.
Which of the following will provide the data to measure business continuity? (Choose two.)
A systems administrator is deploying a solution that requires a virtual network in a private cloud environment. The solution design requires the virtual network to transport multiple payload types.
Which of the following network virtualization options would BEST satisfy the requirement?
A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information:
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?
A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances. Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?
A cloud administrator configured a local cloud-resource pool lo offer 64GB of memory, 64 cores, and 640GB of storage. Thirty-two machines with identical resource allocations are started. but one machine is unable to handle requests. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A cloud engineer is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. There is currently one virtual network that is used to host the servers in the cloud environment. The environment is rapidly growing, and the network does not have any more available IP addresses. Which of the following should the engineer do to accommodate additional servers in this environment?
A systems administrator deployed a new application release to the green stack of a blue-green infrastructure model and made the green stack primary. Immediately afterward, users began reporting application issues. The systems administrator must take action to bring the service online as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the FASTEST way to restore the service?
A security analyst is investigating incidents in which attackers are able to access sensitive data from a corporate application's database. The attacks occur periodically and usually
after the release of a new application's version. The following log confirms the compromise:
The following actions are made after every incident occurrence:
• Validation of firewall rules
• Scripted rebuild of the database and web instances
• Application deployment from a cloud code repository
Which of the following actions will MOST likely prevent future compromises?
A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed.
Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?
A cloud administrator is setting up a DR site on a different zone of the same CSP. The application servers are replicated using the VM replication, and the database replication is set up using log shipping. Upon testing the DR site, the application servers are unable to access the database servers. The administrator has verified the systems are running and are accessible from the CSP portal.
Which of the following should the administrator do to fix this issue?
A systems administrator is planning to deploy a database cluster in a virtualization environment. The administrator needs to ensure the database nodes do not exist on the same physical host. Which of the following would best meet this requirement?
A cloud administrator is configuring several security appliances hosted in the private laaS environment to forward the logs to a central log aggregation solution using syslog. Which of the following firewall rules should the administrator add to allow the web servers to connect to the central log collector?
A systems administrator is concerned about having two virtual database servers on the same host. Which of the following should be configured?
A systems administrator needs to implement a service to protect a web application from external attacks. The administrator must have session-based granular control of all HTTP traffic. Which of the following should the administrator configure?
A systems administrator needs to migrate email services to the cloud model that requires the least amount of administrative effort. Which of the following should the administrator select?
A systems administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue with a virtual database server. The administrator has identified the issue as being disk related and believes the cause is a lack of IOPS on the existing spinning disk storage. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT to resolve this issue?
An administrator is securing a private cloud environment and wants to ensure only approved systems can connect to switches. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?
A cloud administrator would like to deploy a cloud solution to its provider using automation techniques. Which of the following must be used? (Choose two.)
A cloud security analyst is implementing a vulnerability scan of the web server in the DMZ, which is running in an IaaS compute instance. The default inbound firewall settings are as follows:
Which of the following will provide the analyst with the MOST accurate report?
A company is performing a DR drill and is looking to validate its documentation. Which of the following metrics will determine the service recovery duration?
A cloud security analyst needs to ensure the web servers in the public subnet allow only secure communications and must remediate any possible issue. The stateful configuration for the public web servers is as follows:
Which of the following actions should the analyst take to accomplish the objective?
A systems administrator is deploying a solution that includes multiple network I/O-intensive VMs. The solution design requires that vNICs of the VMs provide low-latency, near-native performance of a physical NIC and data protection between the VMs. Which of the following would BEST satisfy these requirements?
A company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly.
Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?
After a few new web servers were deployed, the storage team began receiving incidents in their queue about the web servers. The storage administrator wants to verify the incident tickets that should have gone to the web server team. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A cloud administrator is setting up a new coworker for API access to a public cloud environment. The administrator creates a new user and gives the coworker access to a collection of automation scripts. When the coworker attempts to use a deployment script, a 403 error is returned. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?
A database analyst reports it takes two hours to perform a scheduled job after onboarding 10,000 new users to the system. The analyst made no changes to the scheduled job before or after onboarding the users. The database is hosted in an IaaS instance on a cloud provider. Which of the following should the cloud administrator evaluate to troubleshoot the performance of the job?
A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled.
Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?
A systems administrator wants to have near-real-time information on the volume of data being exchanged between an application server and its clients on the Internet.
Which of the following should the systems administrator implement to achieve this objective?
A systems administrator is deploying a new version of a website. The website is deployed in the cloud using a VM cluster. The administrator must then deploy the new version into one VM first. After a period of time, if there are no issues detected, a second VM will be updated. This process must continue until all the VMS are updated. Which of the following upgrade methods is being implemented?
A company needs to access the cloud administration console using its corporate identity. Which of the following actions would MOST likely meet the requirements?
An organization is deploying development, quality assurance, and production environments with equal numbers of IP addresses to the cloud. The IP address range provided is 10.168.0.0/24, and it needs to be terminated on a firewall. Which of the following IP subnets and firewall IPS should be used for one of the environments?
A systems administrator is using a configuration management tool to perform maintenance tasks in a system. The tool is leveraging the target system's API to perform these maintenance tasks. After a number of features and security updates are applied to the target system, the configuration management tool no longer works as expected. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A systems administrator wants to verify the word "qwerty" has not been used as a password on any of the administrative web consoles in a network. Which of the following will achieve this goal?
A cloud administrator has created a new asynchronous workflow lo deploy VMs to the cloud in bulk. When the workflow is tested for a single VM, it completes successfully. However, if the workflow is used to create 50 VMs at once, the job fails. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Choose two.)
A storage administrator is reviewing the storage consumption of a SAN appliance that is running a VDI environment. Which of the following features should the administrator implement to BEST reduce the storage consumption of the SAN?
A company has an in-house-developed application. The administrator wants to utilize cloud services for additional peak usage workloads. The application has a very unique stack of dependencies.
Which of the following cloud service subscription types would BEST meet these requirements?
A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure?
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating the company’s security management program. The CISO needs to locate all the assets with identified deviations and mitigation measures. Which of the following would help the CISO with these requirements?
A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would all ow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?
A development team recently completed testing changes to a company's web-based CMS in the sandbox environment. The cloud administrator deployed these CMS application changes to the staging environment as part of the next phase in the release life cycle. The deployment was successful, but after deploying the CMS application, the web page displays an error message stating the application is unavailable. After reviewing the application logs, the administrator sees an error message that the CMS is unable to connect to the database. Which of the following is the BEST action for the cloud administrator to perform to resolve the issue?
A system administrator supports an application in the cloud, which includes a restful API that receives an encrypted message that is passed to a calculator system. The administrator needs to ensure the proper function of the API using a new automation tool. Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the administrator to use to accomplish this requirement?
An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall. The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%. Which of the following should be deployed?
A company is considering consolidating a number of physical machines into a virtual infrastructure that will be located at its main office. The company has the following requirements:
High-performance VMs
More secure
Has system independence
Which of the following is the BEST platform for the company to use?
A systems administrator adds servers to a round-robin, load-balanced pool, and then starts receiving reports of the website being intermittently unavailable. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A web server has been deployed in a public IaaS provider and has been assigned the public IP address of 72.135.10.100. Users are now reporting that when they browse to the website, they receive a message indicating the service is unavailable. The cloud administrator logs into the server, runs a netstat command,
and notices the following relevant output:
Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take to resolve the issue?
A developer is no longer able to access a public cloud API deployment, which was working ten minutes prior.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A SAN that holds VM files is running out of storage space.
Which of the following will BEST increase the amount of effective storage on the SAN?
A systems administrator is working on the backup schedule for a critical business application that is running in a private cloud. Which of the following would help the administrator schedule the frequency of the backup job?
A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a second hard drive failed.
Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?
Which of the following would be the BEST option for discussion of what individuals should do in an incident response or disaster recovery scenario?
A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?
A systems administrator is performing upgrades to all the hypervisors in the environment. Which of the following components of the hypervisors should be upgraded? (Choose two.)
A systems administrator is using a configuration management tool to perform maintenance tasks in a system. The tool is leveraging the target system's API to perform these maintenance tasks After a number of features and security updates are applied to the target system, the configuration management tool no longer works as expected. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A cloud security engineer needs to design an IDS/IPS solution for a web application in a single virtual private network. The engineer is considering implementing IPS protection for traffic coming from the internet. Which of the following should the engineer consider to meet this requirement?
An organization has a web-server farm. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to obtain efficient distribution of requests to theservers?
A systems administrator is working in a globally distributed cloud environment. After a file server VM was moved to another region, all users began reporting slowness when saving files. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the administrator should check while troubleshooting?
A systems administrator notices several VMS are constantly ballooning, while the memory usage of several other VMS is significantly lower than their resource allocation. Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?
A company has a web application that is accessed around the world. An administrator has been notified of performance issues regarding the application. Which of the following will BEST improve performance?
A cloud administrator received a request to provision a set of cloud resources in an effort to switch to infrastructure as code to automate and optimize operations. The administrator decides to try to run some tests with the following definition:
Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?
A cloud administrator is investigating slow VM performance. The administrator has checked the physical server performance and has identified the host is under stress due to a peak usage workload. Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should complete?
A systems administrator is working within a private cloud environment. Over time. random 4K read/write speeds on all VMS in the environment slow down until the VMS are completely unusable, with disk speeds of less than 1MBps. The administrator has gathered the information below:
• There is no correlation between the slowdown and VM/hypervisor resource utilization.
• The network is rated to 40Gbps and utilization is between 1—5%.
• The hypervisors use hundreds of NFSv3 mounts to the same storage appliance, one per VM.
• The VMS on each hypervisor become unresponsive after two weeks of uptime.
• The unresponsiveness is resolved by moving slow VMS onto a rebooted hypervisor.
Which of the following solutions will MOST likely resolve this issue?
A company has applications that need to remain available in the event of the data center being unavailable. The company's cloud architect needs to find a solution to maintain business continuity. Which of following should the company implement?
A systems administrator is configuring a cloud solution for a vulnerability assessment to test the company's resources that are hosted in a public cloud. The solution must test the company's resources from an external user's perspective. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?
A cloud administrator needs to implement a new system within the current CSR The system requires a storage service to allocate a large number of digital files and images. The storage service must keep files for distributed access and serve images directly to the user's browser. Which of the following solutions would best meet these requirements?
A cloud administrator is having difficulty correlating logs for multiple servers. Upon inspection, the administrator finds that the time-zone settings are mismatched throughout the deployment. Which of the following solutions can help maintain time synchronization between all the resources?
A cloud administrator who is troubleshooting DNS issues discovers zone transfers are not occurring between the primary and secondary name servers due to an error in the serial numbers. Which of the following records should the administrator query for the serial number?
A systems administrator is implementing a new file storage service that has been deployed in the company's private cloud instance. The key requirement is fast read/write times for the targeted users, and the budget for this project is not a concern. Which of the following storage types should the administrator deploy?
A systems administrator has received an email from the virtualized environment's alarms indicating the memory was reaching full utilization. When logging in, the administrator notices that one out of a five-host cluster has a utilization of 500GB out of 512GB of RAM. The baseline utilization has been 300GB for that host. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?
Following the deployment of a new VM, a cloud engineer notices the backup platform has not added the machine to the appropriate job. The backup platform uses a text-based variable for job configuration. This variable is based on the RPO requirements for the workload. Which of the following did the cloud engineer forget to configure when deploying the virtual machine?
A cloud engineer recently set up a container image repository. The engineer wants to ensure that downloaded images are not modified in transit. Which of the following is the best method to achieve this goal?
After an infrastructure-as-code cloud migration to an laaS environment, the cloud engineer discovers that configurations on DB servers have drifted from the corporate standard baselines. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do to best ensure configurations are restored to the baselines?
An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:
Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?
A cloud administrator needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the expense of the company’s cloud resources.
Which of the following is the BEST option to execute this task with minimal effort?
Which of the following cloud deployment models allows a company to have full control over its IT infrastructure?
A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage.
Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?
Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?
An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs.
Which of the following should be verified NEXT?
A VDI administrator is deploying 512 desktops for remote workers. Which of the following would meet the minimum number of IP addresses needed for the desktops?
A cloud administrator has received a physical disk that was analyzed by the incident response team. Which of the following documents should the cloud administrator update?
Different healthcare organizations have agreed to collaborate and build a cloud infrastructure that should minimize compliance costs and provide a high degree of security and privacy, as per regulatory requirements. This is an example of a:
A systems administrator is implementing a new version of a company's primary human-resources application. An upgrade will be performed on the production server, as there is no development environment. The administrator needs to have a
plan in case something goes wrong with the upgrade. Which of the following will work best to ensure a quick rollback in case an issue arises?
A cloud administrator deployed new hosts in a private cloud. After a few months elapsed, some of the hypervisor features did not seem to be working. Which of the following was MOST likely causing the issue?
An organization's two-node, hybrid container cluster is experiencing failures during horizontal scaling to the cloud cluster instance. The on-premises IP range is 192.168.0.0/16, and the cloud environment is 10.168.0.0/16. Overlapping or stretched VLANs are not permitted, and a node is deployed in each location. The cloud monitoring agent reports a healthy status for the second instance, but when pinging the clusters from on premises, the following output is received:
pinging cluster1. comptia. containers.com C192.168.100 reply
pinging cluster2. comptia. containers.com [192.16B .100 .128] request timed out
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the scaling failure?
A systems administrator is selecting the appropriate RAID level to support a private cloud with the following requirements:
. The storage array must withstand the failure of up to two drives.
. The storage array must maximize the storage capacity of its drives.
Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator implement?
An IT professional is selecting the appropriate cloud storage solution for an application that has the following requirements:
. The owner of the objects should be the object writer.
· The storage system must enforce TLS encryption.
Which of the following should the IT professional configure?
A company that performs passive vulnerability scanning at its transit VPC has detected a vulnerability related to outdated web-server software on one of its public subnets. Which of the following can the use to verify if this is a true positive with the LEAST effort and cost? (Select TWO).
A cloud engineer is migrating a customer's web servers from a hypervisor platform to a CSP environment. The engineer needs to decouple the infrastructure and components during the migration to reduce the single points of failure. Which of the following storage options should the cloud engineer migrate the content to in order to improve availability?
A company's marketing department is running a rendering application on virtual desktops. Currently, the application runs slowly, and it takes a long time to refresh the screen. The virtualization administrator is tasked with resolving this issue. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
Which of the following enables CSPs to offer unlimited capacity to customers?
A cloud administrator has built a new private cloud environment and needs to monitor all computer, storage, and network components of the environment.
Which of the following protocols would be MOST useful for this task?
A systems administrator needs to configure an email client to ensure data integrity of the email messages.
Which of the following provides the BEST mechanism to achieve this goal?
An organization has the following requirements that need to be met when implementing cloud services:
Which of the following cloud models would meet these requirements?
A media company has made the decision to migrate a physical, internal file server to the cloud and use a web- based interface to access and manage the files. The users must be able to use their current corporate logins.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to achieve this goal?
A cloud administrator is planning to migrate a globally accessed application to the cloud.
Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement to BEST reduce latency for all users?
Company A has acquired Company B and is in the process of integrating their cloud resources. Company B needs access to Company A’s cloud resources while retaining its IAM solution.
Which of the following should be implemented?
A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?
A web application has been configured to use autoscaling for provisioning and deprovisioning more VMs according to the workload. The systems administrator deployed a new CI/CD tool to automate new releases of the web application. During the night, a script was deployed and configured to be executed by the VMs during bootstrapping. Now. the autoscaling configuration is creating a new VM ever\ five minutes. Which of the following actions will MOS I like y resolve the issue?
A cloud administrator is reviewing the annual contracts for all hosted solutions. Upon review of the contract for the hosted mail solution, the administrator notes the monthly subscription rate has increased every year. The provider has been in place for ten years, and there is a large amount of data being hosted. Which of the following is a barrier to switching providers?
A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a highly available web application running within three containers behind a Layer 7 load balancer with a WAF inspecting all traffic. The application frequently asks the users to log in again even when the session timeout has not been reached. Which of the following should the cloud administrator configure to solve this issue?
A company has two identical environments (X and Y) running its core business application. As part of an upgrade, the X environment is patched/upgraded and tested while the Y environment is still serving the consumer workloads. Upon successful testing of the X environment, all workload is sent to this environment, and the Y environment is then upgraded before both environments start to manage the workloads. Which of the following upgrade methods is being used?
In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?
A systems administrator received an email from a cloud provider stating that storage is 80% full on the volume that stores VDI desktops. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to mitigate the situation?
A systems administrator is responding to an outage in a cloud environment that was caused by a network-based flooding attack. Which of the following should the administrator configure to mitigate the attack?
A company would like to migrate its current on-premises workloads to the public cloud. The current platform requires at least 80 instances running at all times to work properly. The company wants the workload to be highly available, even if the cloud provider loses one region due to a catastrophe, and the costs to be kept to a minimum. Which of the following strategies should the company implement?
A systems administrator is configuring a storage system for maximum performance and redundancy. Which of the following storage technologies should the administrator use to achieve this?
A systems administrator needs to modify the replication factors of an automated application container from 3 to 5. Which of the following file types should the systems administrator modify on the master controller?
A product-based company wants to transition to a method that provides the capability to enhance the product seamlessly and keep the development iterations to a shorter time frame. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?
A company is planning its cloud architecture and wants to use a VPC for each of its three products per environment in two regions, totaling 18 VPCs. The products have interdependences, consuming services between VPCs. Which of the following should the cloud architect use to connect all the VPCs?
A cloud engineer is performing updates to an application and needs to gracefully stop any new transactions from processing before the updates can be applied. Which of the following steps should the engineer take?