NEW QUESTION 1
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?

• 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.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead?

• A. SaaS
• B. PaaS
• C. MaaS
• D. IaaS

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 3
An organization plans to keep three of its cloud servers online for another nine months and a fourth server online for a year. The current pricing is $200 per month per server. The cloud provider announced the sale price of $1,500 per year per reserved instance.
Which of the following represents the cost savings by converting all four of the cloud servers to reserved instances?

• A. $900
• B. $1,800
• C. $2,400
• D. $3,600

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
Transferring all of a customer's on-premises data and virtual machines to an appliance, and then shipping it to a cloud provider is a technique used in a:

• A. phased migration approach.
• B. replatforming migration approach.
• C. rip and replace migration approach.
• D. lift and shift migration approach.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
A cloud administrator for an ISP identified a vulnerability in the software that controls all the firewall rules for a geographic area. To ensure the software upgrade is properly tested, approved, and applied, which of the following processes should the administrator follow?

• A. Configuration management
• B. Incident management
• C. Resource management
• D. Change management

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
Which of the following is the cloud storage technology that would allow a company with 12 nearly identical servers to have the SMALLEST storage footprint?

• A. Capacity on demand
• B. Compression
• C. Software-defined storage
• D. Deduplication

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
A company has defined a multicloud model.
Which of the following is the MOST important aspect to consider when defining the company's needs?

• A. Change management
• B. Data sovereignty
• C. Data portability
• D. Data classification

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
A company is required to move its human resources application to the cloud to reduce capital expenses. The IT team does a feasibility analysis and learns the application requires legacy infrastructure and cannot be moved to the cloud.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate cloud migration approach for the company?

• A. Lift and shift
• B. Hybrid
• C. Rip and replace
• D. In-place upgrade

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 9
Which of the following DevOps options is used to integrate with cloud solutions?

• A. Provisioning
• B. API
• C. SOA
• D. Automation

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
A SaaS provider specifies in a user agreement that the customer agrees that any misuse of the service will be the responsibility of the customer. Which of the following risk response methods was applied?

• A. Acceptance
• B. Avoidance
• C. Transference
• D. Mitigation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 11
A systems administrator is reviewing a disaster recovery option that requires little to no downtime in the event of a natural disaster.
Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

• A. Configure availability zones.
• B. Configure high availability.
• C. Configure geo-redundancy.
• D. Configure auto-scaling.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 12
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?

• A. MTTR
• B. RPO
• C. ROI
• D. RTO

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13
Which of the following BEST describes how a cloud provider helps a company with security
risk responses?

• A. Acceptance
• B. Mitigation
• C. Avoidance
• D. Transference

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
A web application was deployed, and files are available globally to improve user experience. Which of the following technologies is being used?

• A. SAN
• B. CDN
• C. VDI
• D. API

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15
Which of the following technologies would help a game company prepare its cloud infrastructure to support a global distribution workload of a newly released online game? (Choose two.)

• A. Auto-scaling
• B. VDI
• C. Data portability
• D. CDN
• E. Templates
• F. Blockchain

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 16
Which of the following BEST explains the concept of RTOs for restoring servers to operational use?

• A. To reduce the amount of data loss that can occur in the event of a server failure
• B. To ensure the restored server is available and operational within a given window of time
• C. To ensure the data on the restored server is current within a given window of time
• D. To reduce the amount of time a particular server is unavailable and offline

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 17
Which of the following results from implementing a proprietary SaaS solution when an organization does not ensure the solution adopts open standards? (Choose two.)

• A. Vendor lock-in
• B. Inability to enforce the SLA
• C. Lack of technical support
• D. Higher ongoing operational expenditure
• E. Integration issues
• F. Higher initial capital expenditure

Answer: AE

NEW QUESTION 18
An IT team documented the procedure for upgrading an existing IT resource within the cloud. Which of the following BEST describes this procedure?

• A. Security procedure
• B. Incident management
• C. Change management
• D. Standard operating procedure

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 19
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?

• A. Feasibility study
• B. Gap analysis
• C. Future requirements
• D. Baseline report

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 20
A company wants to process a batch job in a faster, cost-effective manner. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

• A. Implement right-sizing.
• B. Increase CPU usage.
• C. Utilize spot instances.
• D. Add storage.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 21
A company migrated all of its infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud security team must review the security post-migration.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate task for the cloud security team to perform?

• A. Risk register
• B. Threat assessment
• C. Application scan
• D. Vulnerability scan

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 22
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