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1. A company is required to ensure all access to its cloud instance for all users to utilize two-factor authentication.

The QA team confirms all functional requirements successfully test. After deployment, all business users report the two-factor authentication is not enforced while accessing the instance.

Which of the following would be the MOST likely reason the QA team did not catch the issue?

2. A customer wants to remove a user’s access to the SaaS CRM system.

Which of the following methods should be executed FIRST?

3. IaaS users are reporting longer than expected wait times when accessing the virtual file repository. There are more than 2TB of free disk space, and vCPU and vRAM do not reach more than 75% utilization. In which of the following ways should the cloud systems administrator analyze this issue?

4. A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders. A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes for server template: x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

Given an expected increase in workload, which of the following is the BEST solution to improve application performance?

5. A consultant is helping a gaming-as-a-service company set up a new cloud. The company recently bought several graphic cards that need to be added to the servers.

Which of the following should the consultant suggest as the MOST cost effective?

6. A technician receives a report of system utilization:

Which of the following additional resources should the technician add FIRST given the trend data shown above?

7. The administrator at a SaaS provider wants to improve security of the systems hosting the SaaS application. The administrator has created a script that monitors malware research sites and automatically creates and uploads signatures when new vulnerabilities are announced.

To which of the following security services is the script MOST likely to upload these signatures?

8. An automation performs the following on a monthly basis:

- Disable accounts that have not logged on in the last 60 days

- Remove firewall rules with zero hits in the last 30 days

- Remove DNS entries that have not been updated in the last 60 days

- Archive all logs that are more than 30 days old

Six weeks after this new automation is implemented, an internal client reports that quarterly replication failover testing has failed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the failed test?

9. An organization is replacing its internal human resources system with a SaaS-based application. The solution is multi-tenant, and the organization wants to ensure ubiquitous access while preventing password replay attacks.

Which of the following would BEST help to mitigate the risk?

10. A cloud administrator has finished building a virtual server template in a public cloud environment. The administrator is now cloning six servers from that template. Each server is configured with one private IP address and one public IP address. After starting the server instances, the cloud administrator notices that two of the servers do not have a public IP address.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

11. A company's security policy requires full disk encryption on all clients with preboot enabled. The encryption server is hosted, and the requirement is to push an update to all endpoints.

Which of the following is the BEST method to test and apply the update with minimal disruption to end users?

12. A consumer is performing a comparison between different IaaS providers for upcoming cloud migrations.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate option to make a comparison for the selection process?

13. A cloud administrator runs a maintenance script to remove unused resources. After the maintenance has been performed, users report they can no longer access the application website. The administrator confirms the server is up and responding on the proper ports.

Which of the following cleanup actions MOST likely caused the problem?

14. A company is looking for a hardware feature with the least amount of downtime in terms of firmware upgrades.

Which of the following features BEST meet this requirement?

15. A company changed its policy to have seven-year data retention in the public cloud.

Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective way to meet retention requirements?

16. A SaaS customer reports that no one can access the application portal. After some troubleshooting, the cloud administrator finds a problem and provides a remedy by restarting the cluster. After documenting the solution, the support case is closed. Multiple tenants lose access to their hosts the following day.

Which of the following troubleshooting steps did the administrator miss?

17. A company is migrating its application to a cloud provider. Six months before going live, a

representative from each stakeholder group validated the functionality and performance in the QA environment and did not identify any issues. After going live, the system response time is slower that the testing environment.

Which of the following is the MOST likely gap in the testing plan?

18. A company has deployed a four-node cluster in a COLO environment with server configurations listed below. The company wants to ensure there is 50% overhead for failover and redundancy. There are currently eight VMs running within the cluster with four vCPUs x32GB each.

The company wants to better utilize its resources within the cluster without compromising failover and redundancy.

Given the information above, which of the following should a cloud administrator do to BEST accommodate failover and redundancy requirements?

19. A cloud engineer recently applied the troubleshooting process for a major connectivity issue.

Which of the following is the FINAL step in the troubleshooting methodology?

20. A company needs to meet the security requirements for PII.

Which of the following cloud service models allows the company to have the MOST control to meet the security requirements?

21. A company has implemented a change management process that allows standard changes during business hours. The company’s private cloud hardware needs firmware updates and supports rolling upgrades.

Which of the following considerations should be given to upgrade firmware and make the change as transparent as possible to users?

22. The InfoSec team has directed compliance database activity monitoring without agents on a hosted database server in the public IaaS.

Which of the following configurations is needed to ensure this requirement is achieved?

23. A cloud-based web store is experiencing poor website performance and unavailability.

Which of the following approaches would prevent the issue without administrator intervention?

24. A cloud architect is tasked with isolating traffic between subnets in an IaaS platform. The networks should be able to statefully communicate with each other.

Given this scenario, which of the following should the architect implement?

25. A cloud administrator configures a new web server for the site https://companyname.com. The administrator installs a wildcard SSL certificate for *.companyname.com. When users attempt to access the site, a certificate error is received.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

26. A company uses its own private cloud, which has few available resources. Mission-critical systems and other information systems are running on it. A new system will be deployed on the private cloud.

The following tests are included in the test plan:

✑ Load test (2h)

✑ Backup/restore test (6h)

✑ Functional test (8h)

✑ Failover test (1h)

The work schedule of the existing system is shown below.

To minimize the effect to the existing system, which of the following schedules is MOST suitable for the load test?

27. A new private cloud platform is being deployed by an engineer. SLA requirements state that any clusters should have a baseline redundancy sufficient to handle the failure of at least two hosts.

The engineer records the following metrics after the deployment:

Which of the following metrics is MOST likely to represent a violation of SLA?

28. A CSA is reviewing the deployment of an e-commerce application in a public cloud provider. The CSA wants to ensure the sizing is optimal to keep the cost of the environment down.

The available server configurations are as follows:

A review of the current system shows the following utilization information:

Which of the following should the CSA implement to ensure the MOST optimal sizing?

29. A rural manufacturing company wants to move all IT services, including the industrial control systems, to the cloud.

Given this scenario, which of the following cloud services elements would be a challenge to the deployment?

30. A technician uses a workflow to create new virtual servers in a private cloud. The workflow reports that the process was successful, but the virtual servers do not appear in the cloud dashboard.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the servers were not created?

31. A user cannot consume SaaS services while working remotely. IP whitelisting is implemented to connect to a SaaS provider as a security mechanism.

Which of the following describes the MOST likely reason why the user cannot access the SaaS resources?

32. Email users report that it takes more than one minute to open emails, including those without attachments. There are three email instances in three different regions hosted by the same CSP. Other applications hosted by the same CSP have no reported issues.

Which of the following solutions BEST resolves the issue?

33. An administrator defines a backup as follows:

✑ One weekly full backup

✑ Daily incremental backup

Which of the following BEST describes where the administrator would define this?

34. A company is using storage-as-a-service from an IaaS provider for application services. The company has a mandate to protect personal information being stored on the cloud. The service provided includes encryption for in-transit data and requires a security solution for data-at-rest.

Which of the following should be deployed to secure the personal information?

35. Identify the problematic device(s).

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36. After deploying a VM with a baseline CPU utilization below 80%, a cloud engineer notices the current CPU utilization stays in the 95% to 99% range.

Which of the following describes how this should be fixed to BEST meet the baseline?

37. Based on demand, an IaaS provider wants to deploy a security application for its customers.

Which of the following is the BEST technique for the IaaS provider to apply this to target systems?

38. A cloud implementation engineer successfully created a new VM. However, the engineer notices the new VM is not accessible from another network. A ping test works from another VM on the same subnet.

Which of the following is the MOST likely problem?

39. A cloud engineer is deploying a new application to a multicloud platform. After running the script, the engineer sees the VMs were not created on one of the cloud providers. The engineer confirms the proper credentials are being used for all cloud providers and there is available capacity.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the deployment failure?

40. A cloud administrator is receiving alerts that the disk on several systems is 90% full. Upon reviewing the systems, the administrator determines that the log directory is using 50% of the disk. The company has a 14- day retention policy for all logs.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to implement to minimize future alerts?

41. A new startup company is growing and wants to deploy a human resources management system on a private cloud that is only accessible to the human resources department.

Which of the following is the BEST method of access control?

42. A cloud engineer is required to ensure all servers in the cloud environment meet requirements for PCI compliance. One of the requirements is to make certain all administrator logins and commands are logged.

Which of the following is the BEST approach to meet these requirements?

43. In a private cloud environment, which of the following is the BEST way to update 20 VMs with the same patch that has been regression tested and approved for rollout?

44. A cloud administrator for a state government agency is tasked with giving access to the voter registration application to a government agency in another state. Only authorized officials from each state should access the application. These agencies have a common environment where applications have been deployed in the past.

Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to give access to the application?

45. A VM was deleted by mistake today at 11:05 a.m.

Below are the backups currently available for the VM:

Crash-consistent restore is acceptable.

Which of the following backups should be chosen?

46. While reviewing the auto-scaling events for a web application, a cloud engineer identified that the application upsized and downsized multiple times within the last hour.

Which of the following should the cloud engineer do NEXT?

47. A production IaaS database server contains PCI data and is a critical business capability. The CAB approved a normal code change release for QA and PROD to occur 30 minutes apart and to last a maximum of one hour. The cloud DBA team is 45 minutes behind schedule, so they miss the start time on QA.

As the cloud DBA, which of the following is the BEST course of action to apply the code change?

48. An administrator is implementing a new SaaS application. The administrator has been directed to enhance the user authentication experience.

Which of the following technologies BEST meets this requirement?

49. A customer has requirements for its application data to be copied into a second location for failover possibilities. Latency should be minimized, while RPO and RTO are over 15 minutes.

Which of the following technologies BEST fits the customer’s needs?

50. A cloud administrator is managing a VPC within an IaaS service model and needs to install quarterly updates.

Which of the following cloud components should the administrator update? (Choose three.)

51. A company is seeking a new backup solution for its virtualized file servers that fits the following characteristics:

✑ The files stored on the servers are extremely large.

✑ Existing files receive multiple small changes per day.

✑ New files are only created once per month.

All backups are being sent to a cloud repository.

Which of the following would BEST minimize backup size?

52. In an IaaS environment, the security team issues a new signature file to prevent specific malware threats from infiltrating the company network.

Which of the following describes where the security team should deploy the updated signatures?

53. Ann, the lead product developer for a company, just hired three new developers. Ann asked the cloud administrator to give these developers access to the fileshares in the public cloud environment.

Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take?

54. A systems administrator created several new VMs on a private cloud and wants to ensure the new baseline still meets corporate guidelines.

The administrator finds the following new load numbers on the hosts:

If corporate policy requires N+1 host capacity, which of the following metrics is MOST likely to present a problem?

55. A company has hired a technician to build a cloud infrastructure for a massively parallel application.

Which of the following should the technician consider doing FIRST?

56. Apply the network and security groups from the original region to the new VM.

57. An administrator is creating new severs in a public cloud. The workflow creates and application group with three VMs, one web server, one application server and one database server. The three VMs are all accessible via SSH, but the websites shows a 503-error referring to a database issue.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

58. A service engineer is trying to determine why one of the company’s SaaS solution is no longer available. The internal systems are responding and other online applications using the same SaaS solution are responding as expected.

Which of the following is the MOST common cause of the availability issue?

59. A university is running a DNA decoding project that will take seven years if it runs on its current internal mainframe. The university negotiated a deal with a large cloud provider, which will donate its cloud resource to process the DNA decoding during the low peak time throughout the world.

Which of the following is the MOST important resource the university should ask the cloud provider to donate?

60. A backup solution for a new cloud environment must meet the following requirements:

* Use no more than two backup sets for a complete restore.

* Minimize backup space used.

* Support physical and virtual machines.

Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

61. A company has developed a SaaS product for the financial services industry. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SaaS company has engaged an independent third party to run tests against its platform.

Which of the following is the MOST likely test the third party has been engaged to perform?

62. A company moved its on-premises applications to several SaaS providers. As a result, the security team is concerned about accounts being compromised.

Which of the following should the security tem implement to reduce this risk?

63. An entertainment company with a very large movie library is moving all of its production systems to an IaaS cloud. The current lease is expiring in the next month, and the company made a last-minute decision not to renew the lease.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective way to move all the data to the new cloud provider?

64. An organization just went through a substantial audit, and the top findings were orphaned and inactive privileged accounts. Given the scenario, which of the following would be the BEST method for addressing these findings?

65. An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization:

Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%.

Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?

66. A cloud administrator has to migrate from an on-premises to a public cloud. The administrator has 20 physical servers and 600 virtual instances to migrate within a month.

Which of the following should the administrator analyze?

67. A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking into account the values provided by the users as input. The scripts need to be run automatically as part of the provisioning process and reused later for other purposes.

Which of the following would help the provider do this?

68. A cloud performance engineer is asked to review the usage and resource utilization from last quarter and then provide analysis and a recommendation. The data shown in the exhibit is collected and plotted for analysis.

In addition to investigating the alarms, which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the engineer to provide?

69. Recent feedback from an employee engagement survey stated that users are frustrated with multiple logins to different SaaS providers, and the cloud engineering teams is directed to address this issue and implement a solution. The security policy states that users must access the SaaS from approved IP addresses.

Which of the following is the BEST and most efficient solution to deploy?

70. A company is interested in a DRP. The purpose of the plan is to recover business as soon as possible.

The MOST effective technique is:

71. A cloud administrator has deployed a new all-flash storage array with deduplication and compression enabled, and moved some of the VMs into it. The goal was to achieve 4:1 storage efficiency while maintaining sub- millisecond latency.

Which of the following results would BEST suit the requirements?

72. A law firm wants to limit log retention to the minimum required by law and regulation.

Which of the following is the engineer most likely to do FIRST?

73. A pharmaceutical company is migrating its systems and infrastructure to the cloud. Due to security restrictions and regulatory policies, the company Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is concerned about moving this information to the cloud.

Based on the CEO’s concern, which of the following should the company do First?

74. One of the IaaS production web servers has a critical OS vulnerability that requires remediation. The vulnerability report indicates it is a zero-day exploit.

Which of the following is the BEST course of action to remediate the vulnerability?

75. Ann. a user, has tried to connect to a VM hosted in a private cloud using her directory services credentials. After three attempts, she realizes the keyboard was set to German instead of English, and she was typing "z" instead of "y". After fixing this issue, Ann is still unable to log in; however, other users can access the VM.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

76. Government agencies currently operate their own websites, each with its own directory services. There is a mandate to minimize IT administration.

Which of the following should the cloud services architect choose to BEST meet this mandate?

77. A cloud administrator wants to make a web application on the company's private cloud available to multiple remote sites.

Which of the following protocols BEST provides IP packet encapsulation?

78. DRAG DROP

Drag and drop each Disaster Recovery Solution need to the corresponding SLA requirement. Options may be used once or not at all.

79. The CSA needs to install a patch on 58 virtual server instances during the Friday evening maintenance window.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to get the patches installed?

80. A large finance firm processes three times as many transactions in December of each year. The transactions are processed in a private cloud. Management wants to avoid adding permanent resources to accommodate the single month increase.

Which of the following is the BEST way to meet the need?

81. The IT department receives a client request to build multiple file server instances.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way for a cloud systems administrator to fulfill this request?

82. A cloud administrator has configured a connection between two virtual private cloud environments at a public cloud provider that are each in different accounts. The administrator has configured the accounts correctly so they can connect to each other’s resources. Both cloud environments have policies that allow anyone from 0.0.0.0/0 on TCP port 22.

The following table shows the network configuration information:

However, the administrator is unable to establish an SSH connection from a server in 10.250.40.100 to 10.250.48.214.

Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?

83. A communications service operator is planning to start migrating its complex network infrastructure to cloud by NFV, including a pool of media gateway servers, routers, and firewalls. The network elements consist of two controller cards, two redundant drives, and redundant ASIC boards.

Which of the following virtualization requirements outlines the correct deployment plan?

84. A cloud administrator is required to implement a solution to handle data-at-rest encryption requirements for a database.

Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?

85. Given the metric below:

Using iSCSI storage reports across three datacenters, which of the following recorded metrics indicates an anomaly in the performance?

86. A healthcare provider determines a Europe-based SaaS electronic medical record system will meet all functional requirements. The healthcare provider plans to sign a contract to use the system starting in the next calendar year.

Which of the following should be reviewed prior to signing the contract?

87. A company has an internal SLA for CPU and RAM oversubscription that should stay below 120%. Storage utilization should stay below 90% with oversubscription below 160%.

Given the following:

Which of the following should be done to meet the SLA?

88. Several of an organization's mobile applications are hosted in a cloud environment, and the risk team requires cross-site scripting protection to ensure availability.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient security tool to implement?

89. A firm responsible for ticket sales notices its local web servers are unable to handle the traffic, which often causes timeout errors and results in lost revenue. The firm wants to obtain additional cloud-based server resources only during peak times. Due to budget constraints, the firm wants to purchase only the exact amount required during peak times.

Which of the following steps should be performed to BEST meet the budget requirement?

90. A cloud administrator is deploying a memory-intensive, three-tier web application with a database back end to one server in an IaaS cloud platform.

The minimum application memory requirements are as follows:

✑ RAM for Web Service Role: 1024MB

✑ RAM for Application Service Role: 2048MB

✑ RAM for Database Service Role: 4192MB

Configuration requirements state that web content should be separated from the operating system on another drive.

Given this scenario, which of the following is the minimum amount of RAM required in GB and what is the most optimal logical volume design to BEST meet these requirements? (Choose two.)