NEW QUESTION 1
Which of the following will mitigate the risk of users who have access to an instance modifying the system configurations?

• A. Implement whole-disk encryption
• B. Deploy the latest OS patches
• C. Deploy an anti-malware solution
• D. Implement mandatory access control

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2
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. GPU
• B. CPU
• C. Storage
• D. Memory

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3
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. Performance testing
• B. Regression testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Usability testing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 4
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. A service-level agreement
• B. Automation scripts
• C. Playbooks
• D. A network diagram
• E. A backup and restore
• F. A recovery time objective

Answer: AF

NEW QUESTION 5
A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations.
Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?

• A. Initiate a failover
• B. Restore backups
• C. Configure the network
• D. Perform a failback

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
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. The local firewall from older OSs is not allowing outbound connections
• B. The local firewall from older OSs is not allowing inbound connections
• C. The cloud web server is using a self-signed certificate that is not supported by older browsers
• D. The cloud web server is using strong ciphers that are not supported by older browsers

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
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?

• A. Implement an ADC solution to load balance the VLAN traffic
• B. Configure an ACL between the VLANs
• C. Implement 802.1X in these VLANs
• D. Configure on-demand routing between the VLANs

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8
A cloud engineer is responsible for managing two cloud environments from different MSPs. The security department would like to inspect all traffic from the two cloud environments.
Which of the following network topology solutions should the cloud engineer implement to reduce long-term maintenance?

• A. Chain
• B. Star
• C. Mesh
• D. Hub and spoke

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
A systems administrator needs to configure monitoring for a private cloud environment. The administrator has decided to use SNMP for this task.
Which of the following ports should the administrator open on the monitoring server’s firewall?

• A. 53
• B. 123
• C. 139
• D. 161

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

• A. System files
• B. User backups
• C. Relational database
• D. Mail database

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11
A technician is working with an American company that is using cloud services to provide video-based training for its customers. Recently, due to a surge in demand, customers in Europe are experiencing latency.
Which of the following services should the technician deploy to eliminate the latency issue?

• A. Auto-scaling
• B. Cloud bursting
• C. A content delivery network
• D. A new cloud provider

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 12
A company is planning to migrate applications to a public cloud, and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) would like to know the cost per business unit for the applications in the cloud. Before the migration, which of the following should the administrator implement FIRST to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit?

• A. An SLA report
• B. Tagging
• C. Quotas
• D. Showback

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13
A company developed a product using a cloud provider’s PaaS platform and many of the platform-based components within the application environment.
Which of the following would the company MOST likely be concerned about when utilizing a multicloud strategy or migrating to another cloud provider?

• A. Licensing
• B. Authentication providers
• C. Service-level agreement
• D. Vendor lock-in

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
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. Restart the RAID resynchronization process
• B. Perform a P2V migration of the server
• C. Swap the failed hard drive with a fresh one
• D. Restore the server from backup

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
An organization suffered a critical failure of its primary datacenter and made the decision to switch to the DR site. After one week of using the DR site, the primary datacenter is now ready to resume operations.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to bring the block storage in the primary datacenter up to date with the DR site?

• A. Set up replication.
• B. Copy the data across both sites.
• C. Restore incremental backups.
• D. Restore full backups.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
The security team for a large corporation is investigating a data breach. The team members are all trying to do the same tasks but are interfering with each other’s work.
Which of the following did the team MOST likely forget to implement?

• A. Incident type categories
• B. A calling tree
• C. Change management
• D. Roles and responsibilities

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 17
A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider’s environment that do not belong to the company.
Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

• A. VM escape
• B. Directory traversal
• C. Buffer overflow
• D. Heap spraying

Answer: A

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