Module 9 Quiz

Syed is implementing an event monitoring system that will be able to look at all events and determine if there is a pattern established by the different events that occur. Which of the following would be a feature of this monitoring system?

a. Event correlation

Sandra gets a text message at 9 pm while she is at home that there is a problem with one of the servers she is responsible for. The message indicates that it is a major issue. She hurriedly grabs her laptop and logs into the VPN to check on the problem and start troubleshooting, but finds that the system appears to be running just fine. Which of the following might describe this situation?

a. False positive

Trey is designing a system that should maintain a 99.999% uptime by implementing multiple data centers located in different geographical regions with multiple Internet connections at each data center. Within the data centers there are redundant routers, switches, and even multiple private clouds. Which of the following is Trey designing for?

a. High availability

Teri logs into the cloud service provider's portal and reviews the reports that are available as part of her monthly analysis. She sees that one of the web applications currently using four web servers is experiencing an increase in traffic after a recent marketing campaign by the company, and she decides to add another two virtual machines to act as more web servers to help ease the load on the existing ones. Which of the following describes the procedure Teri performed?

a. Horizontal scaling

Mason is doing an annual review of his company's disaster recovery procedures. Currently, the organization stores all of the backups for its on-premises data center on a cloud service provider in cold storage. However, the company has seen rapid growth over the past couple of years and he's concerned that this could be a problem. Which of the following might be the concern?

a. Local bandwidth limitations for restoring from the cloud.

Seth is trying to determine whether his organization has enough spare parts on hand in case of component failure within their private cloud. One of the components that he is analyzing the inventory for is hard drives and finds that on average the model they use lasts three years before they fail. Which of the following terms describes this concept?

a. MTTF

Fictional Corp currently has an alerting system set up to e-mail notifications to administrators. However, it has been pointed out that it may take a while for an administrator to see one of those e-mails, so they would like to have notifications sent to their mobile phones instead. Which of the following settings should they look for in the configuration of their alerting system?

a. SMS

Summer is analyzing one of the company's database servers and sees that it is currently using 90 percent of its allocated disk space. Which of the following could she do without creating another server to split the load with?

a. Scale up

Fictional Corp has chosen to use AWS as its cloud service provider. One of the key benefits that it liked about the platform was a service that allows technicians to monitor metrics across AWS services by collating data in one or more dashboards, tracking events, or generating alerts. Which of the following AWS services were they impressed by?

b. CloudWatch

Jennifer is analyzing her company's backup plan as part of business continuity planning. She finds that the cloud service provider that her company uses offers a service that would allow her team to spin up VMs from existing images in order to bring systems back online quickly. Which of the following would describe this offering from this CSP?

b. DRaaS

Fictional Corp has multiple branch offices all over the world with servers located in them so that the web applications they offer to their local users are as fast as possible. They also have applications installed on them that are offered to their customers for the same reason. Which of the following terms might describe these branch offices and the infrastructure Fictional Corp is using?

b. Edge site

Fictional Corp has decided to use a cloud service provider rather than continue to build out the standard infrastructure they had been creating and using in their on-premises data center. The primary deciding factor is that the cloud services can add or remove resources from servers or add or remove virtual machines without any human intervention. Which of the following features is the reason why Fictional Corp chose to use a cloud service provider?

b. Elasticity

Fatima is implementing a new monitoring system that is looking for detectable changes in a cloud resource's state. Which of the following describes these changes of state?

b. Event

Marty has set up site mirroring to create a duplicate of the web server cluster. The clusters are arranged in an active-active configuration so that they both answer requests simultaneously. If something ever happens to one of the clusters, the traffic will transfer over to the other. Which of the following describes this type of configuration?

b. Hot standby

James is looking at his company's dashboard that is laid out with a number of metrics and goals that are measured for the company's cloud deployment. Which of the following is a common term used for a metric that the company may measure and report on?

b. KPI

Alex is working on new corporate guidelines that prioritizes services for business continuity protection and how much money should be invested in protecting those resources. These guidelines support the standards defined by the service level agreement. Which of the following is the document described in this scenario?

b. OLA

Zoie is using AWS as her company's chosen cloud service provider. She is interested in one of their service offerings that allows you to design the backup resources you need and leave them in a stopped state so you're not charged as much as what you would pay for running services. Which of the following is the method that this describes?

b. Pilot light

Taryn is creating the service design package for a new application. As part of the initial design, she needs to consider company policies and guidelines. One of those guidelines states that the category of service she's designing should not take any more than 4 hours to restore. Which of the following describes the guidelines she needs to take into account?

b. RTO

Wayne is looking for an application that can collect health, performance, security, and availability information on network resources. Which of the following types of technologies should he begin researching?

b. SNMP

Trish has been analyzing the company's resources on the cloud service provider her company uses. She sees that a cluster is running at near capacity and decides to add another virtual machine to the cluster. Which of the following would describe this scenario?

b. Scale out

Fictional Corp has guidelines in place that the business continuity processes should be reviewed at least once per year. As part of the review, members of the various teams responsible for carrying out certain activities meet in a conference room to discuss the business continuity plan and the disaster recovery plan and look for any gaps that may exist. Which of the following is the type of review that they are doing?

b. Tabletop exercise

Bob pulls up the company's dashboard and sees that one of the virtual machines is running low on storage space. He logs into the cloud provider's portal and increases the size of the virtual disk so that it will not run out unexpectedly and start causing errors. Which of the following processes has Bob just performed?

b. Vertical scaling

Jack gets an alert that one of his web servers is receiving more requests than it can handle given its current resources. He has decided to implement vertical scaling to resolve the issue. Which of the following could he do to meet his objective?

c. Add more vCPUs and memory to the virtual machine.

Fictional Corp's primary datacenter is located in an area that sees seasonal hurricanes every year. One particularly bad hurricane hits the area and knocks out power for the area. The generator only has 6 hours of runtime after the power goes out. Which of the following documents should they immediately reference to determine how to keep things running after the generator is out of fuel?

c. BCP

Carrie's company did not have a sufficient disaster recovery plan in place and has just had two servers fail at the same time. Their backups are a day old, but only includes the data being used by the applications that were on the servers. Which of the following describes the restoration process that she will have to pursue?

c. BMR

Patricia's manager informs her that the company has leased a new office space that they do not plan on using except in case of an emergency. The power is already on for the building, but she needs to locate an Internet connection for the building and arrange for a minimal level of service that can be quickly increased to faster speeds in the event that they need to use it as a data center. Which of the following describes the type of facility that Patricia's company is setting up?

c. Cold site

Sheri has been asked to create or find a commercial off-the-shelf software that can give her company's technicians a quick overview of critical services and draw attention to issues that might indicate problems. Which of the following systems is she being asked to implement?

c. Dashboard

Niles is analyzing a server and finds a problem with one of the applications. He didn't receive any notifications and thinks that perhaps it got lost in his spam folder or something else happened. After scouring the logs, he doesn't see any notifications or alerts in the system at all. Which of the following describes this situation?

c. False negative

Benji's manager tells him that the company is considering some changes to the backup policy because management has decided that it cannot lose any more than 2 hours' worth of data. Which of the following policies, or goals, is the manager describing?

c. RPO

Fictional Corp is a large company that provides critical SaaS applications for the medical industry. Even minimal downtime can cause quite a few problems for their clients. Which of the following does Fictional Corp most likely use as part of its business continuity plan?

d. Hot site

Fictional Corp implements multiple methods of keeping attackers out of its network and systems. Some of these systems may simply report on the intrusions while others will attempt to stop them while in progress. Which of the following describes the concept that Fictional Corp has implemented?

d. IDP

Jed has just spent some time analyzing some of the applications on the cloud service provider his company uses. He found that one of the applications was using a lot of resources between the servers that it was deployed on and implemented horizontal scaling to resolve the issue. Which of the following did Jed do?

d. Increased the number of servers available to the application.

Grant is reviewing his company's BCP as part of an annual review. One of the pieces of information that he finds missing is how long on average it takes to recover systems after a failure. Which of the following terms might describe the information he may want to add to the BCP?

d. MTTR

Fictional Corp uses a technology to gather all of the log files onto a centralized server. They then use a tool that will analyze these log files and look for correlation of events. Which of the following describes the type of tool that performs this analysis?

d. SIEM

Eddie has been analyzing one of the clusters hosted in their on-premises data center. He sees that several of the servers are consistently sitting idle. Which of the following techniques might she want to do?

d. Scale in

Piper needs a storage solution for snapshots of the virtual machines and databases within her company's cloud infrastructure. These snapshots should rarely be needed. Which of the following solutions should she use?

a. Cold backup

Jacob needs to come up with a plan so that if a natural disaster was to strike their primary data center, another data center could be brought online within two days. Which of the following solutions should he recommend?

b. Warm site

Sam is reviewing the agreements that Cheers Inc. has with their chosen cloud service provider. One of those agreements states that the RTO is 2 hours and that the system will maintain a 99.9% uptime. Which of the following describes the guarantee that Sam is currently reviewing?

c. SLA

Quincy has been working for an organization that implemented a business continuity plan in order to plan for how to continue doing business in the case of some form of a disaster. He then goes to work for another organization and finds that they call this plan something else. Which of the following terms might this other organization use?

d. COOP

Fictional Corp has a datacenter located next to a major river. Until now, the area has never flooded before, according to records that exist, but it has now been hit with what is being called a 1000-year flood. A week later the water has receded and employees are able to get back into the building. Which of the following documents should be referenced to determine how to proceed?

d. DRP

Fictional Corp uses a cloud service provider that offers the capability to spin up new virtual machines from existing images. Which of the following is the term that describes that service?

d. DRaaS