After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A systems administrator is deploying a VM and would like to minimize storage utilization by ensuring the VM uses only the storage if needs. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?
A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?
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 company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?
A cloud administrator is configuring a CDN for an organization’s website to improve performance for users in remote regions. Which of the following CDN features will help achieve this goal?
Over the last couple of years, the growth of a company has required a more complex DNS and DHCP environment. Which of the following should a systems administration team implement as an appropriate solution to simplify management?
A systems administrator is about to deploy a new VM to a cloud environment. Which of the following will the administrator MOST likely use to select an address for the VM?
A cloud administrator set up a link between the private and public cloud through a VPN tunnel. As part of the migration, a large set of files will be copied. Which of the following network ports are required from a security perspective?
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 system administrator has provisioned a new web server. Which of the following, in combination, form the best practice to secure the server's OS? (Choose three.)
A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?
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?
A DevOps administrator is designing a new machine-learning platform. The application needs to be portable between public and private clouds and should be kept as small as possible. Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?
A cloud administrator is working in a secure government environment. The administrator needs to implement corrective action due to recently identified security issue on the OS of a VM that is running a facility-management application in a cloud environment. The administrator needs to consult the application vendor, so it might take some time to resolve the issue. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take while working on the resolution?
A systems administrator wants to ensure two VMs remain together on the same host. Which of the following must be set up to enable this functionality?
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 cloud administrator is building a new VM for machine-learning training. The developer requesting the VM has stated that the machine will need a full GPU dedicated to it.
Which of the following configuration options would BEST meet this requirement?
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 is analyzing a report of slow performance in a cloud application. This application is working behind a network load balancer with two VMs, and each VM has its own digital certificate configured. Currently, each VM is consuming 85% CPU on average. Due to cost restrictions, the administrator cannot scale vertically or horizontally in the environment. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to decrease the CPU utilization? (Choose two.)
A company needs to access the cloud administration console using its corporate identity. Which of the following actions would MOST likely meet the requirements?
A company plans to publish a new application and must conform with security standards. Which of the following types of testing are most important for the systems administrator to run to assure the security and compliance of the application before publishing? (Select two).
A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?
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 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 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 in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department’s database servers.
Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?
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?
An organization is using multiple SaaS-based business applications, and the systems administrator is unable to monitor and control the use of these subscriptions. The administrator needs to implement a solution that will help the organization apply security policies and monitor each individual SaaS subscription. Which of the following should be deployed to achieve these requirements?
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 company is migrating workloads from on premises to the cloud and would like to establish a connection between the entire data center and the cloud environment. Which of the following VPN configurations would accomplish this task?
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 cloud security engineer needs to ensure authentication to the cloud pro-vider console is secure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this ob-jective?
An administrator needs to back up all the data from each VM daily while also saving space. Which of the following backup types will BEST fit this scenario?
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?
An organization purchased new servers with GPUs for render farms. The servers have limited CPU resources.
Which of the following GPU configurations will be the MOST optimal for virtualizing this environment?
A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance has been slow since the images were upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
This VDI environment is used to run simple tasks, such as Microsoft Office. The administrator investigates the virtual machines and finds the following settings:
4 vCPU
16GB RAM
10Gb networking
256MB frame buffer
Which of the following MOST likely needs to be upgraded?
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 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 cloud administrator is troubleshooting an issue regarding users at one location who are reporting that their API access tokens have become invalid. The users are issued tokens based on their credentials in a federated cluster. Which of the following should the administrator check to determine the cause of this issue?
A systems administrator automates a series of tasks in a playbook and receives the following error during testing:
"Unable to find any of pip2, pip to use. pip needs to be installed."
The administrator verifies that pip is installed correctly. Which of the following actions will most likely resolve this issue?
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?
A systems administrator is deploying a new virtualized environment. The setup is a three-server cluster with 12 VMs running on each server. While executing a vertical-scaling test of the vCPU on the VMs, the administrator gets an error. Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?
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?
Users currently access SaaS email with five-character passwords that use only letters and numbers. An administrator needs to make access more secure without changing the password policy. Which of the following will provide a more secure way of accessing email at the lowest cost?
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 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? (Select TWO).
A cloud engineer has deployed a virtual storage appliance into a public cloud environment. The storage appliance has a NAT to a public IP address. An administrator later notices there are some strange files on the storage appliance and a large spike in network traffic on the machine. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
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 company with a worldwide presence wants to improve the user experience for its website. Which of the following can a systems administrator implement to improve download speeds and latency for the end users?
A systems administrator is helping to develop a disaster recovery solution. The solution must ensure all production capabilities are available within two hours. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?
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?
A financial industry services firm was the victim of an internal data breach, and the perpetrator was a member of the company's development team. During the investigation, one of the security administrators accidentally deleted the perpetrator's user data. Even though the data is recoverable, which of the following has been violated?
After initial stress testing showed that a platform performed well with the specification of a single 32 vCPU node, which of the following will provide the desired service with the LOWEST cost and downtime?
A company is using an laaS environment. Which of the following licensing models would BEST suit the organization from a financial perspective to implement scaling?
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 startup online gaming company is designing the optimal graphical user experience for multiplayer scenarios. However, online players have reported latency issues. Which of the following should the company configure as a remediation?
A production engineer is configuring a new application, which is running in containers, that requires access to a database. Which of the following methods will allow the application to authenticate to the database in the MOST secure way?
In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?
Audit and system logs are being forwarded to a syslog solution. An administrator observes that two application servers have not generated any logs for a period of three days, while others continue to send logs normally. Which of the following BEST explains what is occurring?
An organization has a public-facing API that is hosted on a cloud provider. The API performs slowly at times. Which of the following technologies should the cloud administrator apply to provide speed acceleration and a secure connection?
A systems administrator wants to restrict access to a set of sensitive files to a specific group of users. Which of the following will achieve the objective?
A security audit related to confidentiality controls found the following transactions occurring in the system:
GET http://gateway.securetransaction.com/privileged/api/v1/changeResource?id=123 &user=277
Which of the following solutions will solve the audit finding?
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 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 company is using a method of tests and upgrades in which a small set of end users are exposed to new services before the majority of other users. Which of the following deployment methods is being used?
A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a VDI environment that provides end users with access to limited applications. Which of the following should the administrator make changes to when a new application needs to be provided?
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 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?
An IaaS application has a two-hour RTO and a four-hour RPO. The application takes one hour to back up its data or restore from a local backup file. A systems administrator is tasked with configuring the backup policy.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to achieve the application requirements with the LEAST cost?
A global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event. Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content.
Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?
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?
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?
A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service.
Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?
A systems administrator is building a standardized OS template for the deployment of a web service. The image is intended for various autoscaling groups. Which of the following should be included in the image as best practice?
A company uses multiple SaaS-based cloud applications. All the applications require authentication upon access. An administrator has been asked to address this issue and enhance security. Which of the following technologies would be the BEST solution?
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 move its environment from on premises to the cloud without vendor lock-in. Which of the following would BEST meet this requirement?
A systems administrator has migrated an internal application to a public cloud. The new web server is running under a TLS connection and has the same TLS certificate as the internal application that is deployed. However, the IT department reports that only internal users who are using new versions of the OSs are able to load the application home page.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
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?
A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers.
Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?
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 cloud administrator recently noticed that a number of files stored at a SaaS provider’s file-sharing service were deleted. As part of the root cause analysis, the administrator noticed the parent folder permissions were modified last week. The administrator then used a test user account and determined the permissions on the files allowed everyone to have write access.
Which of the following is the best step for the administrator to take NEXT?
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?
An organization is running a database application on a SATA disk, and a customer is experiencing slow performance most of the time.
Which of the following should be implemented to improve application performance?
A systems administrator is tasked with configuring a cloud-based disaster recovery solution. The organization requires that the recovery point objective (RPO) be as low as possible while keeping costs manageable. Which of the following strategies best meets this requirement?
Based on the shared responsibility model, which of the following solutions passes the responsibility of patching the OS to the customer?
A company has decided to get multiple compliance and security certifications for its public cloud environment. However, the company has few staff members to handle the extra workload, and it has limited knowledge of the current infrastructure.
Which of the following will help the company meet the compliance requirements as quickly as possible?
The human resources department was charged for a cloud service that belongs to another department. All other cloud costs seem to be correct.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error?
A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements.
Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?
Which of the following will mitigate the risk of users who have access to an instance modifying the system configurations?
A cloud engineer needs to perform a database migration_ The database has a restricted SLA and cannot be offline for more than ten minutes per month The database stores 800GB of data, and the network bandwidth to the CSP is 100MBps. Which of the following is the BEST option to perform the migration?
A cloud administrator has deployed a website and needs to improve the site security to meet requirements. The website architecture is designed to have a DBaaS in the back end and autoscaling instances in the front end using a load balancer to distribute the request. Which of the following will the cloud administrator most likely use?
The Chief Information Officer of a financial services company wants to ensure stringent security measures are maintained while migrating customer financial information from a private cloud to the public cloud. The cloud engineer must deploy automated validation and verification checks to prevent unauthorized disclosure of financial information. Which of the following should be configured during the migration?
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 systems administrator received a report stating resumes submitted through the company's website are being exposed at the URL https://careers.company.com/upload/. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to fix the issue?
A systems administrator receives an alert that VDI performance on the cluster is poor. Opening any application takes one to two minutes. The administrator investigates and finds the following conditions:
Cluster memory utilization: 65%
Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
Average VM CPU wait time: 14%
Cluster CPU utilization: 75%
Which of the following actions should the administrator take to improve VDI performance?
A corporation is evaluating an offer from a CSP to take advantage of volume discounts on a shared platform. The finance department is concerned about cost allocation transparency, as the current structure splits projects into dedicated billing accounts. Which of the following can be used to address this concern?
A newly deployed public cloud tenant has been billed five times the forecasted amount. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?
Which of the following lists includes examples of predeveloped AI/ML solutions?
A systems administrator is configuring a DNS server. Which of the following steps should a technician take to ensure confidentiality between the DNS server and an upstream DNS provider?
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?
Which of the following provides groups of compute units that can horizontally scale according to a workload?
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 DevOps engineer needs to provide sensitive information to applications running as containers. The sensitive information will be updated based on the environment in which the container will be deployed. Which of the following should the engineer leverage to ensure the data remains protected?
An organization is currently deploying a private cloud model. All devices should receive the time from the local environment with the least administrative effort. Which of the following ports needs to be opened to fulfill this requirement?
A systems administrator is troubleshooting issues with audio lag during phone conferences. When looking at the core switch, the administrator notices its buffers are consistently full, and packets are being dropped due to the large number being sent and received. There is no room in the budget for new hardware, but it is critical that the audio lag be fixed immediately. Which of the following will most likely resolve the issue?
A company is using laaS services from two different providers: one for its primary site, and the other for a secondary site. The primary site is completely inaccessible, and the management team has decided to run through the BCP procedures. Which of the following will provide the complete asset information?
A systems administrator receives a ticket stating the following:
“The programming team received an error during the process deploying applications to the container platform. The error after the containerized applications were created”
Which the following should the administrator Check FIRST?
A systems administrator needs to provide information for a capacity-planning document. Which of the following is the most relevant baseline and capacity information?
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 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 company use to verify if this is a true positive with the least effort and cost? (Select two).
An integration application that communicates between different application and database servers is currently hosted on a physical machine. A P2V migration needs to be done to reduce the hardware footprint. Which of the following should be considered to maintain the same level of network throughput and latency in the virtual server?
Due to a policy change, a few of a customer’s application VMs have been migrated to synchronously replicated storage. The customer now reports that performance is lower. The systems administrator checks the resource usage and discovers CPU utilization is at 60% and available memory is at 30%.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A systems administrator has finished installing monthly updates to servers in a cloud environment. The administrator notices certain portions of the playbooks are no longer functioning. Executing the playbook commands manually on a server does not work as well. There are no other reports of issues.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment.
Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?
A company has deployed a new cloud solution and is required to meet security compliance.
Which of the following will MOST likely be executed in the cloud solution to meet security requirements?
A cloud administrator recently misconfigured the permission policy on a credential vault by granting public access to it. Which of the following should the administrator do? (Select two).
A cloud administrator is managing an organization's infrastructure in a public cloud. All servers are currently located in a single virtual network with a single firewall that all traffic must pass through. Per security requirements, production, QA, and development servers should not be able to communicate directly with each other. Which of the following should an administrator perform to comply with the security requirement?
A cloud engineer is required to move legacy systems to a public cloud. The system configuration is provided below:
Server Name
Cores
OS Disk (Used)
Data Disk (Used)
Encryption
Web1
2
500GB (45%)
1TB (20%)
OS
Web2
2
500GB (40%)
1TB (90%)
OS
App1
4
250GB (90%)
2TB (65%)
No
App2
4
250GB (70%)
2TB (95%)
No
DB1
16
250GB (25%)
4TB (65%)
Data
The public cloud provider VMs support a maximum OS disk size of 250GB and a data disk size of 2TB. Which of the following tasks will contribute to a successful migration to the cloud environment? (Select two).
A cloud engineer is troubleshooting poor performance on a corporate website configured behind a cloud application load balancer. The following output was collected on the cloud console:
CDN status: Configured and content replicated to edge locations.
WAF status: 10 rules applied; 8,787,638 hits / 37,634 blocks.
Listening on ports: 80/443.
Forwarding traffic to instances: 5 (2 healthy).
Autoscaling events: 25.
Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?
A storage array that is used exclusively for datastores is being decommissioned, and a new array has been installed. Now the private cloud administrator needs to migrate the data.
Which of the following migration methods would be the BEST to use?
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 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.)
Which of the following strategies will mitigate the risk of a zero-day vulnerability MOST efficiently?
A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of the OS.
Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?
An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:
Allow HTTPS/HTTP.
Disable FTP and SMB traffic.
Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?
An organization has the following requirements that need to be met when implementing cloud services:
SSO to cloud infrastructure
On-premises directory service
RBAC for IT staff
Which of the following cloud models would meet these requirements?