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SMTP

Which e-mail transfer protocol is commonly used to send notifications?

Integrity

Which function ensures data is correct and has not been tampered with?

Run through each test case.

Which functional testing step is best suited for automation?

Balloon driver

Which hypervisor component communicates to the hypervisor to reclaim memory inside a virtual machine guest?

L2TP/IPSec

Which of the following is considered a secure protocol or protocol pair for tunneling?

Cloud service provider outage

Which of the following is most likely to be addressed by an SLA?

Lack of virtual machine guest tools

Which of the following is most likely to result in problematic network time synchronization?

Incorrect RBAC permissions

Which of the following is most likely to result in problematic runbook automation?

NAS

Which of the following is not a hard disk drive (HDD) interface?

OS update history

Which of the following is not a statistic that you would typically find in a server performance baseline?

Business continuity management

Which of the following puts the business continuity plan guidelines into motion?

Change manager

Which organizational role determines whether IT changes get approved or rejected?

Paged pool

Which performance metric represents the amount of data that has been paged to disk?

Disable network connectivity for the host.

Which plan of action best addresses an infected corporate desktop computer?

Which port is used for SSH administration?

Which port is used for standard SMTP mail transfer?

WMI

Which protocol does Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) use to gather hardware inventory?

They withstand vibrations better than hard disk drives. They are quieter than hard disk drives.

Which statements regarding SSDs are true? Choose two.

Availability

Which term best relates to an SLA?

Availability

Which term is best associated with data backups?

Multilevel SLA

Which type of cloud provider document provides a similar solution to different customer types?

Geo-clustering

Which type of redundancy allows nodes to reside on different sides of a WAN?

Synchronous

Which type of replication does not notify the application of a successful write until all replicas have acknowledged the change?

Vulnerability testing

Which type of testing identifies weaknesses but does not exploit them?

White-box

Which type of testing is executed by developers who wrote the code?

The server certificate is untrusted.

Using an internal CA, you have issued a new TLS certificate for a custom website and configured the server to use it. Users complain that they cannot successfully connect to the website. What is the most likely cause of the problem?

Content addressed storage

Regulations dictate that specific types of documents be stored permanently. Metadata must be added to each stored item to facilitate retrieval. Which term best describes this storage system?

RDP

Nick is setting up a new fleet of IIS web servers in his IaaS e-commerce site. The company has elected to use a hybrid approach and desires graphical connections to the Windows bastion hosts. What traffic must he permit through the external-facing firewall to the host?

CaaS

Outsourcing VoIP IT systems to public cloud providers is a form of ____________.

Assessment

Port scanning falls under which vulnerability testing phase?

Add project name metadata to cloud-stored files

Project managers complain that storing files in the cloud for a variety of projects makes it difficult to locate files related to a single project. Which solution involves the least amount of administrative effort?

Cloud management and monitoring application

Reports are generated where?

Marketing Management Accounting Internal operation centers

Reports are often provided to which interested parties? (Choose four.)

Network Storage Compute

Robert has been tasked to create a security implementation that segments his employer's e-commerce design to allow for policy enforcement. What are some of the areas that he is investigating? (Choose three.)

FC switch

Where is storage zoning configured?

Security

Which of the following is not a valid pooled resource?

Each cloud service has its own SLA.

While assessing public cloud providers, you decide to review SLAs. Which of the following statements accurately describes SLAs?

RTO = 3 hours

While creating a DRP, you are concerned with how long the restoration of data files will take. You conclude the restoration cannot exceed three hours. What is another way of stating this?

Virtualization host

____________ is another name for a hypervisor.

Heartbeat

What do cluster nodes use to conclude that a member is no longer available?

Block suspicious activity

What does an IPS do that an IDS does not?

Deployments Upgrades Migrations Retirements

What does the application life cycle include?

Federations

What identity system gives multiple discrete organizations access to your NoSQL community cloud database via your cloud-based application server?

Available bandwidth

What increases as compression reduces the size of transmitted data?

Dashboard

What is a common cloud-based GUI used to get an overview of your security operations?

DIACAP

What is a compliance requirement to be certified to meet the U.S. Department of Defense security requirements for contractors working with the U.S. Department of Defense?

Online backup

What is another name for a cloud backup?

Code backup

What is required for code rollback to work?

FIPS 140-2

What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology publication that coordinates the requirements and standards for cryptography modules?

Hypervisor

A ____________ is a piece of software that runs virtual machines.

Any port above 1024

A client web browser connects to an HTTPS web server. Which port does the server use to communicate back to the client?

MFA

A constantly changing six-digit numerical token is used in what type of cloud service?

Community

A medical records company wants to take advantage of a complex application but wants to realize the cost savings by accessing a shared instance of the application hosted in the cloud. Because of regulatory requirements, what type of cloud delivery model would you recommend they use?

SAN

A medium-sized corporation requires the fastest solution for reading and writing database transactions to shared storage. Which solution should be used?

Load balancing

A newly developed application is being tested under a large volume of client requests. What could increase application performance?

API

What is used by software developers to hook into cloud-provided programmatic libraries?

Document the solution.

After a development team solves bugs within a web application, what should it do next?

Ethernet

All of the following use LUN identifiers except ____________.

Web

Allison is in the process of migrating graphical vendor management utilities away from locally installed applications on her desktop and to an approach that does not require any local installations and will be easier to implement and use. What approach would meet these requirements?

Install a newer version of Visual Studio.

As a developer, you plan to use Microsoft Visual Studio to manage cloud resources through cloud APIs. When you begin testing cloud connectivity in Visual Studio, you realize cloud options are not supported. What should you do?

Submit an RFC.

As the department head for the Marketing team, you would like Android smartphones used by team members to have VPN access to corporate networks. What should you do?

Application failure Latency Request drops

Capacity boundaries can cause which of the following? (Choose three.)

Baseline

Cloud capacity can be measured by comparing current usage to what?

RAM CPU Storage

Common cloud resources in your deployment that may saturate over time include which of the following? (Choose three.)

IDS/IPS DNS

Connie is documenting different methods that her remote operations center can use to access the Calgary fleet of servers operating in a community cloud. Which of the following are not viable methods? (Choose two.)

Asynchronous

Data replication is often used to store copies of real-time data in remote zones. When there is a need to have the master data immediately updated, and then on the backend, update the remote zones, what type of replication would you recommend your operations department to configure?

True

Databases capacity can be added by scaling horizontally.

SaaS

Dimitry has been tasked to develop a cross-cloud provider migration plan as part of his company's business continuity plan. As he assesses the feasibility of migrating applications from one public cloud provider to another, what does he find is the service model that has the most lock-ins and is the most complex to migrate?

Orchestration

Developers in your organization make improvements to various web applications regularly. Currently, the process involves the manual deployment of cloud-based virtual machines, web server configurations, and back-end databases. What should be used to streamline this workflow?

Cloud templates

Developers in your organization need a quick, consistent method of creating cloud-based software testing environments with specific operating system and application software configurations. What should you configure?

Blue-green

Developers use multiple cloud staging slots, or environments, for testing and production versions of an application. What type of testing model is this?

Confidentiality

Encryption provides which service?

Two-factor

Hank goes to his local bank and inserts his card into the ATM and then enters his PIN on the keypad. What type of authentication is he participating in?

The DRP is specific to a system.

How is the DRP different from the BCP?

Three

It is generally safe to allocate up to ____________ vCPU(s) for each physical CPU.

Databases

Large batch processing jobs are common for which type of application?

Separation of duties

Laura is a Linux server administrator. Your company runs an HR payroll system on the Linux servers. At a recent IT meeting, Laura suggested being granted permissions to clear Linux server logs as their size reaches a specific size. Which security principle is violated if Laura is given the ability to clear Linux server logs?

PaaS

Liza is reviewing the maintenance responsibilities between her company and its public cloud service provider. She notices that the cloud provider takes responsibility for the operating system, and she needs to assume responsibility for any applications or services running on the operating system. What type of service model is she operating under?

.vhdx

Microsoft Hyper-V virtual disks use a file extension of ____________.

Gray-box

Penetration testers have performed reconnaissance on a target through web scraping, where publicly accessible information has been compiled. What type of testing is this?

Users

Performance issues are measured by the load on a system. Which of the following should Jane be concerned about as she integrates her new marketing group into her PaaS cloud fleet?

NAT

Petaire is a cloud network sysadmin. Cloud-based virtual machines hosting a custom web application have been deployed to a single cloud virtual network that currently has no Internet access. Each virtual machine must have Internet access, while incoming connections initiated from the Internet must be blocked. Which solution should Petaire deploy?

Asynchronous

Pete is concerned about stored data that is replicated to a standby zone but not immediately. The delay means there is going to be a short period of time where the data is not consistent. What storage replication service ensures eventual consistency?

Firewalls Load balancers Virtual machines DNS servers Durable storage volumes

RESTful APIs using XML and JSON on southbound interfaces can be used to orchestrate and automate what cloud-based services? (Chose all that apply.)

CPU RAM Network I/O

Rebecca is writing a change management plan to increase the processing abilities of one of her middleware servers. What components can she upgrade to increase server performance? (Choose three.)

Demilitarized zone

Sensitive cloud virtual machines are grouped together on a cloud network called HQApp. Two public websites will be deployed. One of the websites will require access to resources on the HQApp network. What strategy should be employed?

HBA

Servers require a(n) ____________ to connect to a SAN.

Peak capacity Bandwidth starvation

Sharon is a network engineer for your firm and is investigating the WAN connection into the hot site. In the event of operations being moved to the backup location, she wants to make sure that the load capacity is available. What should she be most concerned about? (Choose two.)

traceroute

Sharon is unable to reach her Linux-based web server hosted in the Singapore zone of the cloud. She is located in Austin, Texas. What utility can she use to verify the connection path?

Block

Storage area networks support which type of storage? (Choose the best answer.)

Ephemeral Nondurable

Storage that does not survive a virtual machine removal is referred to as what classification? (Choose two.)

RAID

Terri is planning on implementing physical disk redudenacy on her SQL database in the public cloud. She is creating specifications for her virtual machine image that will become the template for the database servers. What time of disk redundancy options could she implement to meet the needs of a SQL deployment?

Terminal server

The remote disaster recovery location follows the warm site model. To configure the network switches, routers, and firewalls remotely, Mark will need serial port access from his company's operations center. He has 14 serial ports currently but needs to be prepared for any unplanned expansion requirements during a disaster recover cutover. What device would you recommend he implement at the warm site?

Edge location

These cloud facilities provide the ability to connect locally for fast, low-latency connections to the DR location. They can also store, or cache, data at these locations for very fast responses to local user requests.

Orchestration

These cloud-based systems abstract and hide much of the complexity of modern cloud systems and also reduce operational errors by executing tested cloud systems, scripts, workflows, or runbooks to make sure the systems are configured correctly.

UDP 123

Time synchronization traffic needs to traverse a firewall. Which port must be opened?

Disable the accounts.

To increase TipoftheHat.com's security posture, Allison is reviewing her company's user accounts that access the fleet cloud resources. Allison notices that the summer interns have left to go back to school but their accounts are still active. She knows they will return for the winter corporate announcements and new products rollouts to assist in the project over winter break. What would you suggest Allison do with these accounts?

Baseline

Upgrading to a newer operating system may require that you update what?

Thin Thick

Virtual machine disks can be provisioned using ____________ or ____________ provisioning. Choose two.

Subnet

What determines the size of a group of servers sharing the same network range?

VMs cannot access host memory directly.

Why are shadow page tables necessary?

Synchronous replication

Will is running his backup DR site in a DNS load balancing rotation for testing. He needs to ensure that the database in the DR facility is updated in real time and current with the production replica in the primary data center. What type of updates should he define in his primary data center servers prior to enabling DNS load balancing?

Offline P2V

A busy on-premises file server needs to be migrated to the cloud as a virtual machine. Which migration strategy should you employ?

Storage migration

A busy virtual machine's storage needs to be moved to a faster storage array. Which process should you employ?

RTO

A cloud SLA specifies that the maximum yearly downtime is approximately 6 minutes. Which term best describes this downtime?

Resource pooling

A cloud service provider allocates resources into a group. These resources are then dynamically allocated and reallocated as the demand requires. What is this referred to as?

RTO

A company has concluded based on past website downtime events that two hours is as long as its website can be down before the company suffers irreparably. What does this timeframe apply to?

Distributed processing, jumbo frames

A custom application draws insights from big data analytics. Due to the large volume of data transmitted between application components, you need to minimize computational and network latency. Which pair of options should you consider?

HIDS

A customer service tracking application runs on an internal web server. You need to ensure any suspicious activity related to the server and the app are logged, and administrators are notified. Which solution should you deploy?

Shared storage

A high availability cluster of hypervisors allows virtual machine failover and migration with minimal to zero downtime. Which configuration makes this possible?

Create subordinate CAs, delegate to other admins.

A large corporation has a single PKI administrator. What should be done to ensure the PKI administrator is not overwhelmed?

Divide and conquer

A middleware application running in the cloud is reporting session drops in its log files. You need to quickly resolve the issue and get the server back online. You decide to run ping and traceroute tests on the server as your first line of troubleshooting. What approach are you using?

Community

A national tax preparation firm is accessing industry-specific productivity applications in the cloud; many other tax preparation companies are also subscribing to the same service. What model of cloud are they accessing?

Enter maintenance mode.

A new HBA has arrived for a physical cluster node server. You need to install the HBA while ensuring clustered apps continue to run. What is the first thing that you should do on the server?

Auto-scaling

A public website experiences unpredictable usage spikes that have historically slowed down the application to unacceptable levels. What should be configured to ensure performance is optimal during usage spikes?

There has been a change in the runbook workflow.

A runbook that previously ran without issues is no longer functioning. The runbook uses cloud APIs to query cloud service log entries. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

LUN

A storage administrator has configured iSCSI storage on host storage1.fakedomain.local. You need to configure a virtual machine that will use some of that shared storage. What piece of information is required?

MAN

A university campus consists of many buildings populating a large property. All buildings are linked together through underground fiber-optic cables, creating a private network infrastructure. What type of network is this?

Acceptable use

A user sends jokes to a large number of users through the organization's cloud mail system. What type of policy violation is this?

The certificate has expired.

A user, Pete, complains that his smartphone no longer authenticates to the company VPN when he is traveling for work. The company issues a unique PKI certificate to each smartphone for VPN access. What is the most likely cause of Pete's problem?

Incremental

A virtual machine file server's virtual hard disks are corrupt and cannot be repaired. Which type of tape backup takes the most amount of time to restore?

Full

A virtual machine file server's virtual hard disks are corrupt and cannot be repaired. Which type of tape backup will take the least amount of time to restore?

Optimized database read settings

A web application is experiencing slow performance when running back-end database queries. Which configuration would most likely improve query performance?

Change the outdated firewall rule.

A web server administrator has changed the listening port from 80 to 81 to increase security and restarted the web server daemon. External traffic must be able to reach the server. What is the next task that should be performed by the web server administrator?

API

A web-based dashboard is being deployed by your company. Hank has been tasked to develop the application but is concerned that the application must pull data from many different cloud locations and devices. What is a good interface for him to use to meet his requirements?

Network latency Storage I/O operations per second Swap file utilization Scalability

A well-architected framework includes which of the following cloud performance components? (Choose four.)

Connections per second

API request capacity is measured with what metric?

IP address Subnet

API request limits are normally applied to which of the following items? Choose two.

Speed or duplex mismatch

Adan has configured an isolated network infrastructure for a private cloud. After starting multiple hypervisors on the network for the first time, he notices unacceptable network latency for one specific hypervisor. What is the most likely cause of the problem?

Establish a log retention policy.

Administrators in your organization complain that some cloud virtual machine log files are being deleted to free up disk space. You are responsible for cloud virtual machine maintenance. What should you do?

Implement application containers.

After deploying a custom web application to an existing application server, you determine the change has negatively affected the stability of both servers. Performance metrics indicate the server is not overwhelmed. You need to ensure the stability of both servers while minimizing resource utilization. What should you do?

dig nslookup

After deploying a new public website, your validation steps ask you to check the domain name to IP address mappings. What utility can you use for validation? (Choose two.)

The DHCP configuration has run out of IP addresses.

After deploying a new virtual machine in the cloud, you notice that although it has received a public IP address, it has not received a private IP address. What is the most likely cause of the problem?

Allow TCP port 3389 traffic into the cloud network.

After performing multiple P2V migrations of Windows and Linux on-premises servers to the public cloud, you notice that only the Linux servers are reachable over SSH. What should you do to ensure the Windows servers are reachable for remote administration?

Document the solution.

After solving a unique user connectivity issue to the Internet, you move on to the next helpdesk ticket. Which troubleshooting step did you miss?

Change management

Allison is preparing to modify a network access control list and add three firewall rules to her private cloud HR systems. She is planning on submitting a detailed plan to accomplish these tasks. What process is Allison following?

An HBA World Wide Name consists of ____________ bytes.

Add process IOPS read values together.

An application uses multiple background processes to read data from a cloud MySQL database. You need to determine the average application read IOPS for performance adjustments. What should you do?

Resize the virtual machine.

An existing cloud virtual machine does not have the computing power to properly serve an application. What should you do?

Application replacement

An existing on-premises application will no longer be used in your company's public cloud implementation. Instead, a functional cloud equivalent will be used. To which aspect of the application life cycle does this apply?

dig

An intern at your company is asking about the mappings between the layer 2 MAC address and the gateway router. He wants to verify that the VM has the correct network mapping information. Which utility would you tell him to use to gather this information?

Update device trusted authority lists.

An internal CA-issued certificate has been configured for an internal website. What is the next task that should be completed?

Multipathing

An intranet website uses a backend SQL database stored on the SAN. You need to ensure that the website can access the SQL database at all times. What should you configure?

RDP

An on-premises Microsoft Windows Server Core installation provides Hyper-V virtualization without a GUI. What should be used to remotely manage virtual machines at the command line?

P2V

An on-premises database server needs to be migrated to the cloud as a virtual machine. What type of migration should be done?

Deployment

At which application life cycle phase are breakpoints removed by developers?

Maintenance

At which application life cycle phase is software performance tweaked?

Deployment

At which application life cycle phase is the software installed and configured?

Add capacity. Configure time-of-day capacity. Remove capacity. Maintain a minimum number of servers.

Autoscaling can be configured to which of the following? (Choose four.)

Not enough time to complete backup

Batch jobs handling on-premises backups to the cloud are failing on some occasions. What is the most likely reason for this?

Before a new patch is released to the public, the release manager at a large software development house has requested a report that shows the pass/fail data to verify that the fix does, in fact, work. He is requesting data about the issue it was intended to fix and the results of the tests done to make sure that the fix does not interfere with other processes and that there are no memory or buffer issues experienced with the patched version of software. What process is he verifying?

Baseline

Before determining that performance levels are out of the norm, what is required?

Install antivirus protection software on public-facing servers. Shut down unused services. Implement a host-based firewall or security groups. Disable all default accounts.

Bob is compiling a list of security tasks to implement to harden his public cloud posture. What are four recommendations you would suggest? (Choose four.)

Windows OS Android APIs Service queues Launch scripts

Bob is configuring an event notification service and notices that there are many different devices and services that can be subscribers to the notification system's published events queue. The notification services offer each event to be sent to a fan-out of multiple devices that can act upon the received information. What are examples of the notification server's receivers? (Choose all that apply.)

SSL

Brad has been tasked with encrypting data in flight into his e-commerce presence in a community cloud. He is investigating a standards-based secure solution that web customers can easily implement to ensure secure transactions. What is a good solution that you would recommend to Brad?

CPU RAM Network

Capacity and utilization reporting often contains data on which of the following objects? (Choose three.)

DNS

Carl has been investigating stale records in his database that were added by other applications but never deleted or timed out after they were no longer in use. This mappings application is now causing issues with the server addressing and troubleshooting. What system is he looking at?

Read replica I/O CPU Network packet drops

Carl has noticed a slowdown in the response times of his SQL database and has been tasked to investigate the root cause of the delays. He has decided to configure his monitoring application to gather additional data on what may be the cause of the delays. What are some of the objects you would recommend he collect data on? (Choose three.)

Private

Carl is documenting his employers cloud deployments and needs to label the cloud delivery model is used by his single organization. As a Cloud+ consultant, what would you suggest he name his internal cloud?

Storage Database

Carl is planning his cloud migration and must meet HIPPA requirements for confidential storage of cloud data at rest and in use in the cloud. What services must be addressed by Carl? (Choose two.)

Availability Instance initialization time Task runtime Total storage capacity MTBF

Carol is collecting information on objects to monitor in her community cloud deployment. She is interested in establishing a baseline to produce a trend analysis report. What are some objects that she could natively monitor? (Choose all that apply.)

SSH

Carrie is researching various remote access options to access her Linux servers in a public cloud. She has been asked to provide a standardized and secure solution that protects against snooping. As a Cloud+ architect, you have been asked to assist. What protocol would you advise she implement?

HTTPS SSH FTPS

Christina has been asked by the firewall administration group to identify secure network protocols that can be used to prevent network analyzers from being able to read data in flight. Which of the following are considered secure network protocols that she recommend using? (Choose three.)

DNS

Christina has been pinging a new web server by its URL and getting strange and seemingly unexplainable responses from unrecognized systems. She recalls that the new web farm is on a reclaimed subnet that was no longer in use in their cloud server fleet. What would you recommend she investigate to resolve the issue?

Access control list authorization

Christina is configuring her public cloud object storage bucket for granular access from a new Linux VM. She wants to set the permissions on the storage system. What would you recommend?

FedRAMP

Christina is investigating obtaining compliance for her employer, which is a large public cloud company. She has been asked to provide a report on the process to enable her company to host a large U.S. federal government database. Which compliance certification is she investigating?

Automation

Cloud dashboards allow for monitoring and sometimes configuring maintenance operations with the cloud provider. If you have regularly scheduled backups for your cloud storage volumes, you can configure the cloud provider to perform specific operations for you using what backend systems?

IaaS

Cloud data replication falls under which type of cloud model?

Shared responsibility

Cloud operations are the responsibility of both your organization and the cloud service provider. What model defines what you are responsible for and the responsibility of the provider?

Uptime Network performance

Cloud provider SLAs outline which of the following? (Choose two.)

Object storage

Cloud providers allow the storage of files of almost any size using ____________.

Compute

Cloud segmentation enhances security for cloud-based applications. What services is it a best practice to segment?

Regions

Cloud service providers will often segment their operations to allow for resiliency, survivability, and geographic proximity. What are these geographical segmentations referred to as?

PDF Excel

Cloud-based reports can be generated in which formats? (Choose two.)

Access control

Computer operating systems have mechanisms that grant rights to users for access to system objects like storage volume directories and files, administrator rights, and so on. What should you monitor to make sure that old or unused entries are deleted?

Storage

Connie has noticed an increase in the response time of the SQL database application she runs in her IaaS deployment. When comparing current results against her baseline measurements that she recorded when the database was deployed, she verified that there has been a steady increase in the number of read requests. What should she focus her troubleshooting on?

Enable the runbook to run on multiple runbook servers.

Currently your automation environment consists of one runbook server. You need to ensure a critical weekly runbook executes on schedule. What should you do?

DHCP relay agent

DHCP functionality across subnets is configured using a ____________.

Elasticity

Dale has been monitoring storage volume utilization and is writing a change request to add capacity. He has decided to automate the volume allocation size. What cloud feature can he take advantage of?

Event correlation

Dawn has been working in the NOC and has been tasked with performing a root-cause analysis on a recent outage that affected the middle tier web stack in a private cloud. She is looking at the log files generated and notices that there are more than 430 logs that were generated around the time the site failed. What function does Dawn need to perform to distill all of these log files into a meaningful report?

Private

Digital signatures are created with the ____________ key.

Public

Digital signatures are verified with the ____________ key.

Data integrity Authentication

Digital signatures provide which services? Choose two.

Lockout

Donald has been tasked by the IT security group in his company to prevent dictionary login attacks to the company's VMs running in a private cloud at a remote data center. You have been brought in to offer him advice to deter the random but steady login attacks. What would you recommend be enabled to help prevent this type of cyber-attack?

ifconfig

Donna logged into her cloud bastion host by making an SSH connection from her operations center desktop. She uses the Linux host to connect to other systems in the private cloud. She needs to add an access control list rule to allow the bastion server to access a new subnet. She needs the source IP address of her host. What command can she run on the server to collect this information?

Mirrored site

Due to a short RTO of five minutes, you need to ensure a mission-critical website is available in the event of a regional disaster. What should you configure?

3389, 22

Due to regulatory compliance, your organization's security policies require firewall rules on all cloud networks. You need to allow inbound Windows and Linux management traffic. Which ports must be opened in the firewall?

RADIUS TACACS DHCP FTP DNS Active Directory

During a disaster recovery switchover, what network services may need to be modified as part of a multisite failover to the backup site? (Choose all that apply.)

Change management

During a recent downtime window, the server team was applying patches to an application, and the networking team was upgrading a router's interface to 10Gbps. When the network was down for the upgrade, the server team complained that they could not download the needed software patches. During a post-downtime status meeting, it was determined that which process should be modified to prevent this from happening in the future?

Service strategy

During which ITIL phase are business requirements documented?

Complexity

Elaine works in IT security and is reviewing user count policies. She needs to strengthen passwords by enforcing a mandatory minimum of a nondictionary word that is six or more characters in length, contains at least one uppercase letter, and contains a special character. What is she defining?

Bursting

Ethel is the network architect for a hybrid cloud operation and has interconnected her private cloud to a community cloud in another province. She is investigating using the community cloud to supplement her private cloud operations during end-of-month processing. What operation is she going to perform?

Merger Acquisition

George and Wendy are working together as cloud engineers to combine two like systems into one. What type of activity would necessitate this? (Choose two.)

Default gateway DNS NTP

Hank designed an application tier for his company's new e-commerce site. He decided on using an IP subnet that uses a /28 IPv4 subnet. He is planning for a maximum of 14 servers. You are brought in as a cloud architect to validate his design. What other devices may be on this subnet other than the servers that would also require IP address assignments? (Choose three.)

Warm site

Hank is preparing a disaster recovery test drill in advance of the upcoming hurricane season along the Gulf of Mexico. His plan is to create a DR location in the Midwest and have a database server running at that location with a synchronously refreshed data replica. His DR plan calls for activating all other services in the event of a hurricane causing an outage at his primary data center. What model is Hank going to deploy to meet his requirements?

CPU

Hank just completed running some security automation scripts on his new fleet of application virtual machines. After applying intrusion detection, virus, and malware protection on the Linux images, he notices an increase in which VM metric on his management dashboard?

SSL/TLS

Hank works in his e-commerce company's IT security group and has been tasked to investigate options that will allow customers to securely access their personal records stored on the cloud deployment from their smartphones. What is the most common in-flight e-commerce security posture on the market?

Certificates

Harold is getting alarms from the public cloud's application load balancer about security failures. Harold reviews his problem resolution documentation to investigate, and there have been no troubles reported in the past year. The load balancer has been configured to offload port 443 web traffic from the backend fleet of web servers. As a Cloud+ consultant brought in to assist, what should be the focus of the investigation?

PaaS

Harry is investigating cloud service models and wants to outsource the security responsibility to the cloud company and not have to take responsibility for maintaining and patching the operating systems. Which service model will meet his requirements?

Mandatory access control

Harry is the cloud administrator for a company that stores object-based data in a public cloud. Because of regulatory restrictions on user access to sensitive security data, what type of access control would you suggest he implement to meet his company's security policies?

Availability zone Identity group Hypervisor

High-performance network clusters should share which the following? (Choose two.)

Deviation from baseline

Historical log data for your users shows normal cloud storage usage increases by an average of 9 percent annually. Over the past year, however, usage has increased by 18 percent. How is this change best described?

Scavenging

Host DNS records for devices no longer on the network still exist in DNS. Which option should you enable to remove stale DNS entries?

White-box

IT administrators within the organization are conducting penetration tests against the organization's cloud IT systems. What type of testing is this?

Public

In a PKI, network data is normally encrypted with the recipient's ____________ key.

MAC

In which access control model does the operating system determine who has access to a resource?

SaaS PaaS

In which cloud computing model does virtual machine operating system patching fall under the cloud provider's responsibility? Choose two.

Dedicated compute

In which type of computing environment does a single tenant lease equipment?

Trouble tickets Support engagements Outages

Incident reports include which of the following? (Choose three.)

Eight hours

Incremental cloud database backups occur three times daily. What is the RPO?

CaaS

Instead of hosting an on-premises PBX telephony solution, your organization has chosen to outsource this to a public cloud provider. Which category of cloud services does this apply to?

Cold site

Jack is preparing to update his company's business continuity with details on its DR backup site. His plan is to have a facility ready with floor space, power, and cooling that has facilities for him to load in his server racks to restore service. What type of DR implementation is Jack deploying?

RPO

James has been directed by his employer's finance department that they cannot afford to lose any more than 30 minutes of data in the case of a database failure or other catastrophic event. James has updated his corporate business continuity plan and has had his cloud provider update its SLA. What was the metric that was changed?

tcpdump

James is troubleshooting a DNS issue and wants to look at DNS frames being sent and received from his network adapter card on a web server. What utility would he use to collect the traces?

Autoscaling

Jeff has been monitoring resource usage increases in his web server farm. Based on trending data he has collected, there will be regular requirements to increase CPU capacity for his web servers as usage increases. Jeff wants to use the automation capabilities of his private cloud to automatically use the orchestration software to add CPU cores as required. What can he implement to automate this?

Create a custom dashboard.

Jenny is responsible for a subset of cloud-based virtual machines. She needs a way of quickly viewing key performance indicators for the servers. What should Jenny do?

File transfer

Jerry is doing a test cutover to his hot site as part of his company's ongoing disaster recovery preparedness. He notices on his WAN monitoring dashboard that there are peaks of traffic flow from the primary to his hot site. What is he seeing take place?

DNS

Jerry is expanding a public subnet in his company's e-commerce site. After performing the address change for all of his public-facing web servers, he tested connecting from a bastion host located offshore. He was unable to connect. What does he need to change to allow the remote site to connect to the web server?

SAN

Jerry is learning about cloud storage systems, she is interested in learning about high-speed network storage solutions, What would you recommend she focus her research on?

SSO

Jill is planning on optimizing and controlling user access by implementing a technology that will allow access to all allowed systems at the time of user authentication. She is implementing the LDAP protocol to enable this service. What is she planning on deploying?

SLA

Jill is reviewing a document form her secondary community cloud provider, what is the document that outlines specific metrics and the minimum performance that is offered by the cloud provider?

ping

Jill logs into her NoSQL database server residing in a private subnet on a public cloud. She needs to verify network connectivity with the application tier. What utility can she use as a quick connectivity test?

HIDS

Jim has a critical server in the application tier of his cloud-based deployment. He is looking at a device-specific security solution to add defense-in-depth capabilities to his currently deployed network-based security defenses. He has been researching ways to mitigate potential hacking attempts. What is a good solution for him?

Total connections Named users Current connections Usage metrics

Jim has added a new group of users to his IaaS-based NoSQL database. What license requirements does he need to investigate to ensure compliance? (Choose all that apply.)

P2V

Judy is migrating a Linux OS from running on a dual-slot, eight-core server in a private cloud to a VMware-based server in the public cloud, what type of migration would she perform?

VPN

Kelly has picked up a trouble ticket that shows the connection between the Toledo field office and the Detroit cloud edge location has dropped. She confirms it is a secure Internet-based access solution. What type of connection is this?

Smartphone app Keyfob

MFA tokens can be obtained where? (Choose two.)

Community

Marcia is an IT consultant for a medium-sized medical practice. She has been asked to determine which outsourced cloud solutions would best meet regulatory requirements for the health industry. Which type of cloud is best suited for this scenario?

RTO

Mark has been reviewing disaster recovery planning, and after receiving direction from his company's board of directors, it has been determined that they can only withstand a maximum of 36 hours of downtime. Mark is updating his DR plan with this new metric. What part of the plan should he modify?

VSAN LUN masking

Martha is learning about storage access control to secure her cloud storage assets. She wants to know what low-level security methods the cloud provider is using on its storage area network and storage head end controllers. What two technologies is she learning about? (Choose two.)

Multifactor

Mary is a Cloud+ certified security consultant for her company. She is researching enhanced security access systems. What could she suggest that requires something you have and something you know?

HIPAA

Mary's boss has asked her to investigate moving the company's medical records to the cloud. What compliance mandate must the cloud provider meet for Mary to recommend deploying her company's operations to the cloud?

Vertical scaling Horizontal scaling Cloud bursting

Matt is preparing for an upcoming promotion his company is offering during a major soccer game. He needs to determine his options to add capacity to his company's web server farm so it can handle the anticipated additional workload. You are brought in to consult with him on his options. What do you recommend as possible solutions? (Choose three.)

IPS

Mike has been investigating multiple hacking attempts on his cloud e-commerce web servers. He wants to add a front end with a service that actively takes countermeasures to shut down the hacking attempts. What application would you suggest that Mike deploy?

Vertical scaling

Mindy has a SQL database back end that runs on a multi-CPU instance that has reached 100 percent utilization. The database supports a single server. What options does she have to support the requirements of this database?

Authentication

Multiple users are complaining that they cannot access a cloud-based collaboration system. The operations center has been investigating and has, so far, verified that the MFA applications are operational. What user system are they troubleshooting?

Trends Peak usage Anomalies

Object tracking can be helpful in identifying which of the following? (Choose three.)

SLA

Object tracking should be aligned with which of the following?

Two

RAID 1 requires a minimum of how many disks?

Three

RAID 5 requires a minimum of how many disks?

Four

RAID 6 requires a minimum of how many disks?

Roles

Robert has been tasked with creating an access control solution for his company's fleet of servers in a hybrid cloud configuration. He has been asked to define the required tasks and then to put users, groups, and servers into this task-based implementation. What type of access control should Robert deploy?

Roman's user account permissions have been changed.

Roman is a user in the HelpDesk_East group. Roman complains that he no longer has access to a restricted file server share on a Windows server. You verify that HelpDesk_East has the necessary permissions. What is the most likely cause of the problem?

Provider

SaaS orchestration systems are whose responsibility in the public cloud?

Variance

Samantha has been monitoring her cloud web server dashboard and notices that the CPU utilization on her company's database servers has been consistently at more than 80 percent utilization. She checked her baselines and reported that 57 percent utilization is normal. What is she noticing?

Design Implementation Planning Validation

Samantha has been tasked to meet FedRamp compliance for her customer's new contract. Where should she integrate compliance in her project? (Choose four.)

Multifactor

Sarah has been tasked to implement a strong user authentication strategy to secure dashboard access to her SaaS cloud services. She wants to use temporarily issued tokens to prevent unauthorized users from accessing her cloud administrator's account. What type of authentication would you recommend that Sarah implement?

Authorization

Sarah manages user accounts for her company's cloud presence. She has a trouble ticket open with Jill to assist her in accessing an SSD storage volume in the San Paulo region of the public cloud. What kind of user issue is she investigating?

Online Offline

Scott is planning his company's upload of stored data to the cloud. What are two common storage migration types? (Choose two.)

Virtual switch

Server interfaces are grouped together or aggregated into channel groups for additional throughput and fault tolerance. The LAN interfaces in the server are connected to what device in a hypervisor?

Hot site

Sharon has been directed to put together a disaster recovery plan based on directives from her company's executive management team. The company's core business is operating an e-commerce website selling winter apparel with 85 percent of its revenue received during the holiday season. If there was a prolonged outage, it would put the company's ability to continue as a financially viable operation in peril. Sharon has been instructed to create a plan that will restore operations in the shortest amount of time possible. What DR model should she implement?

XML JSON

Sharon is investigating a standards-based construct to enable automation on her load balancers. What is a good lightweight data-interchange format standard that is easily readable and for computing systems to parse and to generate? (Choose two.)

Network bandwidth

Sharon posted a new software update to her company's popular smartphone application. After announcing the release, she has been monitoring her dashboard information and has noticed a large spike in activity. What cloud resource should she focus on?

LDAP AD

Single sign-on services allow a user to log into the system one time and be granted device access without having to perform multiple system authentications. What two technologies enable SSO systems? (Choose two.)

PaaS

Software developers are most likely to consume which type of cloud service model?

Type 2 hypervisor

Software developers in your organization currently use Windows 10 desktops. Custom apps are being built and tested using test servers. Developers have asked for an operating system virtualization solution they can run on their desktops. What would you recommend?

Firewalls Load balancers DHCP

Sue is preparing a change management process to harden various services running in her cloud fleet. What are common services that she is preparing to harden? (Choose three.)

Change proposal

The IT director in your organization suggests the gradual adoption of public cloud computing for selected IT workloads. What formal process should be followed to make this modification organization-wide?

Subnet mask

The ____________ determines which portion of the IPv4 address identifies the network.

The archive bit for files modified since the last backup will be set to which value?

The archive bit for unmodified files that have been backed up will be set to which value?

Top down

The backend fleet of web servers is intermittently failing load balancer health checks and dropping out of the pool. You are involved in troubleshooting and begin your investigation by making sure the web application is operational. What approach are you undertaking?

Baseline

TipoftheHat.com's IT department wants to know what its normal day-to-day web hit count is so it can plan for the upcoming holiday selling season. Jim's job is to measure the incoming web requests and graph them against delay and missed connection counts. What type of data set is Jim producing?

Objects

To collect metrics, you set up your management application to measure what?

Resource access definitions

To make sure that all users are allowed to access only approved resources, Marie is auditing her public cloud identity systems. She wants to control specific access and operations. What is Marie defining?

Cloud+

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