CLO-002 CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ practice exam v2
Which of the following cloud principles will help manage the risk of a network breach? A. Shared responsibility B. Self-service C. Availability D. Elasticity
A. Shared responsibility
How can cloud computing help reduce integrity risks? A. Cloud computing makes it easier to have a backup available. B. Cloud computing makes it easier to monitor access and usage of data. C. Cloud computing makes it easier to give people access to data in the cloud. D. Cloud computing makes it easier to have redundancy capabilities.
A. Cloud computing makes it easier to have a backup available.
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.
A. Configure availability zones.
A company is in its second year of a three-year agreement with a cloud vendor. After the initial phase of the cloud migration, resource consumption has stabilized. Which of the following would help the company reduce the cost of infrastructure? A. Reserved instances B. Pay-as-you-go C. Spot instances D. Bring your own license
A. Reserved instances
A company wants to ensure its existing functionalities are not compromised by the addition of a new functionality. Which of the following is the BEST testing technique? A. Regression B. Stress C. Load D. Quality
A. Regression
Which of the following services represents an environment where the computing architecture is providing a hosted service to a limited group inside a corporate firewall? A. Public Cloud B. VLAN C. Private Cloud D. VPN
C. Private Cloud
A company has decided to implement a third-party hosted service so that they have access to as many virtual instances as needed, for exclusive use. Which of the following types of services would this represent? A. VPN B. Public cloud C. Private cloud D. VTP
C. Private cloud
Which of the following BEST describes decreasing the resources assigned to a system to avoid paying for unused capacity? A. Orchestration B. Auto-scaling C. Right-sizing D. Scalability
C. Right-sizing
Which of the following is a reason why an IT manager understanding business cost allocations would recommend implementing a cloud infrastructure? (Select TWO). A. The cloud can be used to increase revenue. B. The cloud can be used to help cut unnecessary spending on IT. C. The cloud can be used to increase system downtime. D. The cloud can be used to reduce payroll costs of IT staff E. The cloud can be used to increase customer base.
B. The cloud can be used to help cut unnecessary spending on IT. D. The cloud can be used to reduce payroll costs of IT staff
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
B. Threat assessment
A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments? A. Right-sizing B. Scaling C. Chargeback D. Showback
C. Chargeback
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
C. Data portability
A new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been hired to develop competitive advantage strategies for the company, which is falling behind the competition. The CIO is looking at cloud computing to give the company a competitive edge. Which of the following is the CIO MOST interested in? A. Increasing the company carbon footprint B. Upgrading the company datacenter C. Implementing new IT strategies D. Increasing the MTTR after an incident
C. Implementing new IT strategies
Which of the following is a drawback of direct cost when implementing cloud computing? A. It cannot be applied to IaaS. B. It is complex. C. It is less accurate. D. It only works with SaaS.
C. It is less accurate.
Which of the following can influence the monthly service fee Company A pays for Company B to host their cloud, such that Company A might pay more per month as their company grows? A. Amount of data stored B. Connectivity speed C. Confidentiality of the data D. Uptime requirements
A. Amount of data stored
Which of the following application types is suitable for a cloud computing pilot? A. Desktop productivity applications B. Marginal applications C. Mission-critical applications D. Legacy applications
A. Desktop productivity applications
Which of the following is one way to mitigate the issue of non-secure communication methods used by cloud providers? A. Insist that the provider switch to secure protocols, such as SSH instead of Telnet. B. Insist that the provider use authentication to connect to the non-secure applications. C. Insist that the provider place firewalls and routers at the border of the cloud environment. D. Insist that the provider implement username/password on all protocols.
A. Insist that the provider switch to secure protocols, such as SSH instead of Telnet.
Which of the following is an example of outsourcing administration in the context of the cloud? A. Managed services B. Audit by a third party C. Community support D. Premium support
A. Managed services
Which of the following is a service level management tool aimed at quantifying a cloud offerings' performance? A. Mean Time to Recovery B. Risk Assessment C. Business Impact Analysis D. Request for Proposal
A. Mean Time to Recovery
A company decides to reduce its IT labor force by hiring an external company to manage various aspects of IT administration, such as software patch management, desktop virtualization, and remote network maintenance. The company will still retain technicians for maintenance and storage administration. Which of the following services has this company implemented? A. Outsourcing B. Virtualization C. PaaS D. IaaS
A. Outsourcing
A human resources department is considering a SaaS-based human resources portal and requires a risk analysis. Which of the following are requirements to consider? (Choose two.) A. Support B. Threats C. Chargebacks D. Vulnerabilities E. Maintenance F. Gap analysis
A. Support D. Vulnerabilities
Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider? A. Vendor lock-in B. Data portability C. Network connectivity D. Data sovereignty
A. Vendor lock-in
Which of the following questions should be considered BEFORE selecting a cloud computing vendor? A. What cloud computing product will fit the business need? B. What is the vendor policy on telecommuting? C. What is the timeline for transition to the vendor? D. What is the datacenter's power consumption?
A. What cloud computing product will fit the business need?
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
B. Hybrid
Which of the following is the business benefit of private PaaS? A. Improve the reuse of internal databases in an organization. B. Improve the speed of the internal development and deployment processes. C. Reduce cost and reliance on internal technical skills. D. Simplify interfaces for specific user groups.
B. Improve the speed of the internal development and deployment processes.
Following a risk assessment, a company decides to adopt a multicloud strategy for its IT applications. Which of the following is the company trying to avoid as part of its risk mitigation strategy? A. Geo-redundancy B. Vendor lock-in C. High availability D. Data sovereignty
B. Vendor lock-in
Which of the following is an effect of cloud computing on application development? A. SaaS allows for open-source application development. B. SaaS delays the time to market for most applications. C. SaaS inhibits vendor interoperability on application platforms. D. SaaS allows for a shorter time to market for some applications.
C. SaaS inhibits vendor interoperability on application platforms.
Which of the following types of organizations would NOT benefit from cloud computing due to legal requirements? A. Online library B. Social media sites C. Large marketing agencies D. Medical facility
D. Medical facility
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
C. Transference
In which of the following scenarios would a hybrid cloud be the BEST choice for an organization to use? A. A security organization that performs a large percentage of penetration testing. B. A financial organization that must keep all data under their control. C. A retail organization that needs to maintain all processing in their own datacenter. D. A large development firm that creates applications for the customer to host on their cloud.
D. A large development firm that creates applications for the customer to host on their cloud.
A new company directive requires all departments to ensure intellectual property is kept within a country's borders. Which of the following concepts BEST represents this requirement? A. Data portability B. Data security C. Data locality D. Data sovereignty
D. Data sovereignty
A contract that defines the quality and performance metrics that are agreeable to both parties is called an: A. SOP. B. SOA. C. SOW. D. SLA.
D. SLA.
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
D. Transference
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
B. $1,800
Which of the following DevOps options is used to integrate with cloud solutions? A. Provisioning B. API C. SOA D. Automation
B. API
A mobile application development team requires frequent software updates for a major launch of a customer-facing application. The business requirement is to be first-to-market on a new feature that leverages third-party-hosted services. Which of the following is the BEST approach to use for speed and efficiency? A. Proprietary code solution B. Application programming interface C. Regression testing D. Production load testing
B. Application programming interface
The IT department has migrated company email to a web-based cloud provider. Which of the following dependencies placed on the cloud computing vendor will have the MOST affect on all company staff? A. Cost of service B. Availability of service C. Maintainability of service D. Location of service
B. Availability of service
An online retailer wants to ensure its inventory for the holiday season is correct. The company does not have a large IT infrastructure or staff to collect and analyze sales information, customer analytics, marketing information, or trends. Which of the following cloud services will help the company analyze these metrics without a large investment in human capital? A. Containerization B. Big Data C. Microservices D. Blockchain
B. Big Data
Volume, variety, velocity, and veracity are the four characteristics of: A. machine learning. B. Big Data. C. microservice design. D. blockchain. E. object storage.
B. Big Data.
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
B. CDN
Which of the following skills is MOST needed by the cloud vendor to communicate with the subscriber? A. Project management B. Customer service C. Industry best practices D. Visualization
B. Customer service
An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM. Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue? A. Availability B. Elasticity C. Pay-as-you-go D. Self-service
B. Elasticity
Which of the following are the main advantages of using ML/AI for data analytics in the cloud as opposed to on premises? (Choose two.) A. Cloud providers offer enhanced technical support. B. Elasticity allows access to a large pool of compute resources. C. The shared responsibility model offers greater security. D. AI enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster. E. A pay-as-you-go approach allows the company to save money. F. ML enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster.
B. Elasticity allows access to a large pool of compute resources. E. A pay-as-you-go approach allows the company to save money.
An organization wants to migrate a locally hosted application to a PaaS model. The application currently runs on a 15-year-old operating system and cannot be upgraded. Which of the following should the organization perform to ensure the application will be supported in the cloud? A. Risk register B. Feasibility study C. Benchmarks D. Baseline
B. Feasibility study
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
B. Gap analysis
A company with critical resources in the cloud needs to ensure data is available in multiple datacenters around the world. Which of the following BEST meets the company's needs? A. Auto-scaling B. Geo-redundancy C. Disaster recovery D. High availability
B. Geo-redundancy
Which of the following techniques helps an organization determine benchmarks for application performance within a set of resources? A. Auto-scaling B. Load testing C. Sandboxing D. Regression testing
B. Load testing
Which of the following is a cloud service model that organizations use when their third-party ERP tool is provided as a complete service? A. Public cloud B. SaaS C. Hybrid cloud D. IaaS
B. SaaS
A small online retailer is looking for a solution to handle the high load on its servers during the holiday season. The retailer is not currently ready to move its IT operations completely to the cloud. Which of the following will BEST fit these requirements? A. Elasticity B. Scalability C. Bursting D. Self-service
B. Scalability
A report identified that several of a company's SaaS applications are against corporate policy. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue? A. Shadow IT B. Sensitive data C. Encryption D. Vendor lock-in
B. Sensitive data
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
B. To ensure the restored server is available and operational within a given window of time
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.
B. replatforming migration approach.
A company is migrating a legacy application to the cloud. Two C-level executives are currently engaged in the initial stages of the migration, and they are planning a rip-and-replace approach. Before initiating the project, the FIRST step should be to identify: A. the required network performance. B. the key stakeholders. C. the desired CSP. D. the required cloud services. E. the required amount of storage.
C. the desired CSP. D. the required cloud services.
A cloud administrator needs to enable users to access business applications remotely while ensuring these applications are only installed on company-controlled equipment. All users require the ability to modify personal working environments. Which of the following is the BEST solution? A. SSO B. VDI C. SSH D. VPN
D. VPN
A document that outlines the scope of a project, specific deliverables, scheduling, and additional specific details from the client/buyer is called a: A. statement of work. B. standard operating procedure. C. master service document. D. service level agreement.
D. service level agreement.
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
A. Vendor lock-in E. Integration issues
A business analyst is drafting a risk assessment. Which of the following components should be included in the draft? (Choose two.) A. Asset management B. Database type C. Encryption algorithms D. Certificate name E. Asset inventory F. Data classification
A. Asset management F. Data classification
A cloud administrator configures a server to insert an entry into a log file whenever an administrator logs in to the server remotely. Which of the following BEST describes the type of policy being used? A. Audit B. Authorization C. Hardening D. Access
A. Audit
An incident response team requires documentation for an email phishing campaign against a company's email server. Which of the following is the BEST resource to use to start the investigation? A. Audit and system logs B. Change management procedures C. Departmental policies D. Standard operating procedures
A. Audit and system logs
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
A. Auto-scaling D. CDN
A company is implementing a system replacement which has application components that are internally hosted and multiple application components that are hosted as software as a service by different cloud providers. Which of the following represents the challenge of this architecture? A. Complexity B. Time to market C. Cost saving D. Elasticity
A. Complexity
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
A. Configuration management
Which of the following would be a method to ensure ongoing benefits of a cloud agreement? A. Confirm a continual assurance framework is in place to measure the cloud provider's performance in line with organizational objectives. B. Have independent security testing performed against the cloud provider to ensure that the business's customer data is safe. C. Ask the cloud provider to lower the cost before each contractual renewal so that the business is obtaining value for money. D. Have independent stress and volume testing performed against the cloud provider to measure the availability SLA.
A. Confirm a continual assurance framework is in place to measure the cloud provider's performance in line with organizational objectives.
A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images? A. Object B. Cold C. File D. Block
A. Object
Which of the following cloud characteristics helps transform from a typical capital expenditure model to an operating expenditure model? A. Pay-as-you-go B. Elasticity C. Self-service D. Availability
A. Pay-as-you-go
A financial services company plans to move its existing CRM system into the cloud. The current system hosts 50 million customers. Which of the following steps should be done FIRST for moving this application into the cloud? A. Perform security testing of the application to ensure that there are no new security vulnerabilities being introduced. B. Perform testing to confirm that all the customer data can be mapped/migrated during the allocated change window. C. Communicate with customers that they will be moving to a new CRM system which will be hosted in the cloud. D. Perform a physical site assessment on where the application is hosted to ensure adequate controls are in place.
A. Perform security testing of the application to ensure that there are no new security vulnerabilities being introduced.
After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management. Which of the following should be presented to management? A. Project charter B. Feasibility study C. Managed services D. Pilot
A. Project charter
Which of the following would BEST provide access to a Windows VDI? A. RDP B. VPN C. SSH D. HTTPS
A. RDP
Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead? A. SaaS B. PaaS C. MaaS D. IaaS
A. SaaS
Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that allows changes in transaction volume without major changes to the system? A. Scalability B. Reliability C. Integrity D. Availability
A. Scalability
Which of the following services would restrict connectivity to cloud resources? A. Security lists B. Firewall C. VPN D. Intrusion detection system
A. Security lists
A company wants to migrate mission-critical applications to the cloud. In order for technicians to build, decommission, and perform other routine functions, which of the following cloud characteristics would BEST satisfy this business requirement? A. Self-service B. Elasticity C. Broad network access D. Availability
A. Self-service
Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two). A. Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios. B. Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services. C. Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads. D. Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling. E. Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch. F. Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.
A. Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios. D. Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.
When selecting a cloud provider, which of the following is MOST likely to be a financial consideration? A. Proof of concept B. Request for information C. Licensing models D. Request for proposal
C. Licensing models
A cloud systems administrator needs to migrate several corporate applications to a public cloud provider and decommission the internal hosting environment. This migration must be completed by the end of the month. Because these applications are internally developed to meet specific business accounting needs, the administrator cannot use an alternative application. Which of the following BEST describes the approach the administrator should use? A. Hybrid deployment B. Phased migration C. Lift and shift D. Rip and replace
C. Lift and shift
Which of the following is commonly used to forecast market trends? A. Serverless computing B. Data warehouse C. Machine learning D. Accelerated computing
C. Machine learning
A company has been running tests on a newly developed algorithm to increase the responsiveness of the application. The company's monthly bills for the testing have been much higher than expected. Which of the following documents should the company examine FIRST? A. Memory report B. Compute report C. Network report D. Storage report
C. Network report
A provider supplies storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth to multiple tenants, using physical and virtual resources. This is an example of which of the following cloud characteristics? A. On-demand self-service B. Measured service C. Resource pooling D. Rapid elasticity
C. Resource pooling
Which of the following can be used by a client's finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments? A. Reserved instances B. Service level agreement C. Resource tagging D. RFI from the CSP
C. Resource tagging
A cloud systems administrator needs to log in to a remote Linux server that is hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following protocols will the administrator MOST likely use? A. HTTPS B. RDP C. Secure Shell D. Virtual network computing
C. Secure Shell
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
C. Software-defined storage
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.
C. The application needs to handle unpredictable instance termination.
Which of the following is the BEST example of a cloud vendor's monthly hosting fee changing based on cost allocations? A. The company's fee varies based on the projected quarterly revenue of the client's company. B. The company's fee varies based on the number of their IT staff required to support the infrastructure. C. The company's fee varies based on the number of servers needed to house data in the datacenter. D. The company's fee varies based on the energy consumption of each server in the datacenter.
C. The company's fee varies based on the number of servers needed to house data in the datacenter.
A developer is leveraging a public cloud service provider to provision servers using the templates created by the company's cloud engineer. Which of the following does this BEST describe? A. Subscription services B. Containerization C. User self-service D. Autonomous environments
C. User self-service
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.
C. Utilize spot instances.
Which of the following characteristics would allow a company to market its product to the public by using cloud computing services? A. Desktop virtualization throughout the company B. Client-server application modules C. Web-based application modules D. Client-based training modules
C. Web-based application modules
When designing a new cloud-enabled application, an organization that is considering RTO and RPO is MOST likely concerned about: A. redundancy. B. load balancing. C. disaster recovery. D. high availability.
C. disaster recovery.
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
D. Standard operating procedure
A company deploys a data management capability that reduces RPO. Which of the following BEST describes the capability needed? A. Locality B. Replication C. Portability D. Archiving
D. Archiving
A company has a perpetual license for a database application. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option when moving to the cloud? A. Fixed B. Subscription C. EULA D. BYOL
D. BYOL
A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered? A. Time to market B. Operating expenditure fees C. BYOL costs D. Human capital
D. Human capital
The cloud consumer compliance team requires the IT department to patch and update cloud resources properly. Which of the following cloud service delivery models will BEST suit this need? A. SaaS B. DBaaS C. DRaaS D. IaaS
D. IaaS
Which of the following is a benefit of implementing cloud computing via the ITIL guideline? A. Increased costs B. Larger knowledge base C. Increased free hard drive space D. Improved service level
D. Improved service level
A company is moving to the cloud and wants to enhance the provisioning of compute, storage, security, and networking. Which of the following will be leveraged? A. Infrastructure as code B. Infrastructure templates C. Infrastructure orchestration D. Infrastructure automation
D. Infrastructure automation
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
D. RTO
A business analysis team is reviewing a report to try to determine the costs for a cloud application. The report does not allow separating costs by application. Which of the following should the team use to BEST report on the costs of the specific cloud application? A. Right-sizing B. Content management C. Optimization D. Resource tagging
D. Resource tagging
A startup company wants to use a CRM application to manage its sales and support organizations. The company does not have any IT staff. Which of the following cloud computing models is MOST appropriate for this company to use? A. CaaS B. PaaS C. IaaS D. SaaS
D. SaaS
A company is discontinuing its use of a cloud provider. Which of the following should the provider do to ensure there is no sensitive data stored in the company's cloud? A. Replicate the data. B. Encrypt the data. C. Lock in the data. D. Sanitize the data.
D. Sanitize the data.
A vendor stipulates it will provide incident response within two hours of a severity level A incident. Which of the following does this describe? A. Maintenance agreement B. Managed service agreement C. Operating level agreement D. Service level agreement
D. Service level agreement
