NEW QUESTION 1
An organization is implementing a new requirement to facilitate users with faster downloads of corporate application content. At the same time, the organization is also expanding cloud regions.
Which of the following would be suitable to optimize the network for this requirement?

• A. Implement CDN for overall cloud application
• B. Implement auto-scaling of the compute resources
• C. Implement SR-IOV on the server instances
• D. Implement an application container solution

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
A systems administrator for an e-commerce company will be migrating the company’s main website to a cloud provider. The principal requirement is that the website must be highly available.
Which of the following will BEST address this requirement?

• A. Vertical scaling
• B. A server cluster
• C. Redundant switches
• D. A next-generation firewall

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 3
A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities.
Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

• A. Usability testing
• B. Regression testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Penetration testing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
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. Capacity planning
• B. Change management
• C. Backups
• D. Patching

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

• A. Implement DNSSEC in all DNS servers
• B. Segment the physical network using a VLAN
• C. Implement microsegmentation on the network
• D. Implement 802.1X in the network infrastructure

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
Which of the following cloud deployment models allows a company to have full control over its IT infrastructure?

• A. Private
• B. Cloud within a cloud
• C. Hybrid
• D. Public

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?

• A. Performance testing
• B. Penetration testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Regression testing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
A systems administrator recently deployed a VDI solution in a cloud environment; however, users are now experiencing poor rendering performance when trying to display 3-D content on their virtual desktops, especially at peak times.
Which of the following actions will MOST likely solve this issue?

• A. Update the quest graphics drivers from the official repository
• B. Add more vGPU licenses to the host
• C. Instruct users to access virtual workstations only on the VLAN
• D. Select vGPU profiles with higher video RAM

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
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. Ask the cloud provider to send a daily expense report
• B. Set custom notifications for exceeding budget thresholds
• C. Use the API to collect expense information from cloud resources
• D. Implement a financial tool to monitor cloud resource expenses

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
A cloud administrator has finished setting up an application that will use RDP to connect. During testing, users experience a connection timeout error.
Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

• A. Checking user passwords
• B. Configuring QoS rules
• C. Enforcing TLS authentication
• D. Opening TCP port 3389

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
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. Back up to long-term storage every night
• B. Back up to object storage every three hours
• C. Back up to long-term storage every four hours
• D. Back up to object storage every hour

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
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. VXLAN
• B. STT
• C. NVGRE
• D. GENEVE

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
Which of the following is relevant to capacity planning in a SaaS environment?

• A. Licensing
• B. A hypervisor
• C. Clustering
• D. Scalability

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
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. PaaS
• B. SaaS
• C. DBaaS
• D. IaaS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15
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:
The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%.
The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server.
A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address.
The server is a member of the same security group as the others.
The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

• A. The network driver updates did not apply successfully, and the interface is in a down state.
• B. The ACL policy for the server was updated as part of the server reboot, preventing login access.
• C. The server was assigned a new IP address, and DNS entry for the server name was not updated.
• D. The update caused an increase in the output to the logs, and the server is too busy to respond.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

• A. IaaS
• B. GPU in the cloud
• C. IoT
• D. Serverless compute
• E. SaaS

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17
A systems administrator is building a new virtualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

• A. a storage area network
• B. a network file system
• C. hyperconverged storage
• D. thick-provisioned disks

Answer: A

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