A cloud administrator has deployed a new web application to a private cloud. The application platform consists of two web servers that communicate to a redundant database back end. The traffic to the web servers is directed by a load balancer appliance. The administrator connects to the website on each of the webservers individually and confirms they are able to log in.
Which of the following aspects of the application has the administrator tested successfully?
After monthly patching, a large number of users who are logged onto the network report that application links from a company’s intranet site, which previously opened directly into the website, are now prompting for logon information. Application administrators confirm that the websites in QUESTION NO: are working properly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the new behavior?
A cloud provider is suggesting a hot disaster recovery site to enable the customer to migrate services to them as quickly as possible in case of a failure on the primary site.
Which of the following metrics BEST represents what the provider is asking the tenant to consider?
A cloud administrator updates the syslog forwarder configuration on a local server in production to use a different port. The development team is no longer receiving the audit logs from that server. However, the security team can retrieve and search the logs for the same server. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?
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?
A technician receives a call from Joe, a user, who is unable to log into any of the company’s SaaS application. The applications are provided by multiple vendors. Joe reports his credentials were working previously, and he is able to log into the locally hosted applications with the same credentials.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of Joe’s issues?
At 2:00 a.m each day, the database team runs a batch job to import the sales data for the day, index it, and generate sales reports for the next day. The team has informed the cloud administrator that sales data is expected to increase in the next month and will take longer to complete. The current environment uses several batch servers that process chunks of data individually.
Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take to handle the increased load?
A company hosts a database application in a private cloud that is available to its user population. Only one group of users is unable to access the database server after being able to log on to the private cloud
authentication application.
Which of the following represents the troubleshooting steps that should be taken to resolve this issue?
A software company recently moved all of its development testing to a public cloud environment. The company primarily uses IaaS to deploy and test its code. The company needs the software developers to be more agile and efficient when testing application code. Which of the following backup types should the developers use to BEST ensure the speedy recovery of a system if it is damaged?
A cloud administrator notices three additional servers running in the company's account at a new public cloud provider. After a discussion with the development team, the administrator is unable to determine who
deployed the servers, and a review of the change management board's minutes does not provide any additional insight.
Which of the following is the BEST approach for the administrator to take?
An administrator needs to deploy a new release of an application in a way that allows a quick rollback to the previous version of the application. Which of the following is the BEST strategy to apply?
A company is subcontracting part of a large project to another company. Management wants to ensure that there is a secure way for employees from both companies to share data without exposing internal information to employees at the other company.
Which of the following cloud models BEST serves this purpose?
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?
A public cloud provider recently updated one of its services to provide a new type of application load balancer. The cloud administrator is tasked with building out a proof-of-concept using this new service type. The administrator sets out to update the scripts and notices the cloud provider does not list the load balancer as an available option type for deploying this service. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?
A customer is building a web cluster in which all nodes must access a shared pool of images.
Which of the following storage types would be BEST for this workload?
To enhance availability, a company has expanded its public cloud presence to multiple regions from a single CSP. The company wants to ensure resources in the public cloud are highly available to users at company headquarters.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to fulfill this requirement?
There has been a change in requirements for two countries where PCI virtual instances exist. As such three virtual instances need to be added in both countries’ PCI environments, and two instances need to be removed.
Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure compliance is met in those two countries?
A customer wants to schedule a backup job that compares and saves changes from the last full backup. Which of the following backup types should be used?
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?
Team members should be able to review their organization's resource utilization and adjust workloads to ensure they stay within budget. The organization has three different teams and associated cloud environments:
development, staging, and production.
Which of the following access control models would be BEST in this scenario?
It is taking an unusually long time for a financial division to run monthly reports on its SaaS-based, multitenant application. The cloud provider has grown exponentially, and more financial industry clients have moved their processing to the SaaS provider.
Which of the following is the MOST probable cause of the issue?
A cloud administrator is provisioning five VMs, each with a minimum of 8GB of RAM and a varying load throughout the day. The hypervisor has only 32GB of RAM. Which of the following features should the administrator use?
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:
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?
Last month, a cloud engineer updated all the Linux servers to disallow telnet communication by updating the firewall and uninstalling the application. However, it was recently discovered that three of the servers had the
telnet port and application installed and configured.
Which of the following is the BEST way to implement and maintain the change?
A systems administrator needs to deploy a database that saves a unique ID/hash at the beginning of each block into a private cloud. The administrator needs to maximize storage savings. The administrator has multiple storage policies set. Which of the following would be the BEST option for this deployment?
An application server, which uses a SaaS fax provider, is determined to cost too much money. An upgrade to the application allows for use of a physical fax card so the company only has to pay for a phone line. This is a production application; therefore, downtime must be minimized. Which of the following types of migration is MOST efficient in facilitating this application upgrade?
A cloud administrator wants to apply patches in an isolated copy of the production virtual server to assess the impact. Which of the following activities would BEST achieve this objective?
A cloud administrator sets up performance monitoring, which raises alerts. The monitoring runs periodically and checks for the suggested parameters. However, alerts are not being raised in a timely fashion.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate action to resolve the issue?
A company is deploying a new instant messaging app to allow for communications with external vendors. Each entity will host its own version of the application, but users must be able to talk between the companies. Which of the following security techniques would MOST likely be used to allow this to happen?
A courier company has virtualized its packing software application. The CSA needs to confirm the deployment is utilizing the correct amount of CPU per virtual instance. After confirming the deployment requirements, the CSA should log into the cloud services portal to ensure that:
During peak times, users are unable to access their online wealth management applications in a timely fashion. The online banking application resides in a community cloud environment. Which of the following explains how the cloud systems administrator should start to resolve this issue?
Ann, an internal user, has been accessing an internal SaaS solution on a different subnet for the last several months. When Ann tries to connect to the application today, she receives an error stating the resource cannot be found. When checking with her teammates, she discovers some users can access the resource and others cannot. Which of the following tools would be the BEST option to determine where the issue is located?
Given the IaaS cloud service model, at which of the following layers of the platform does microsegmentation BEST apply?
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?
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?
A company purchased a SaaS CRM application. The signed SLA meets year-round performance requirements. Three months after deployment, customers start reporting a slow application response time. System availability, connectivity, and proper functionality still meet the SLA. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for the poor response time?
A company uses a public IaaS. Company engineers use an orchestration tool to deploy VMs. The orchestration tool was configured a year ago and worked well. Now, however, the company cannot deploy new VMs.
Given the information below:
* No one changed the configuration of the orchestration tool.
* Other deployments (e.g., network, storage) are working on the orchestration tool.
* There are enough resources assigned for the company.
Which of the following is the cause of this issue?
A cloud administrator notices one of the servers is using the wrong set of NTP servers. The administrator needs to avoid the same issue in the future but needs to minimize administration resources. Which of the following tools should a cloud administrator deploy to meet this requirement?
A QA team recently completed testing new features for an e-commerce application that will be deployed to support the busy season. All security tests have been completed, and the new application is scheduled for
release tomorrow.
Which of the following types of testing is still needed?
A company has moved all on-premises workloads into a public cloud. After some time, the cloud engineer starts noticing time drifts on the VMs and suspects an NTP issue. Time drifts were not an issue when all the workloads were on-premises. Which of the following describes how the cloud engineer should resolve the issue?
A customer wants a cloud systems administrator to adjust the backup schedule after month-end to ensure the data can be restored as fast as possible while minimizing the time needed to perform the backup. Which of the following backup types should be scheduled?
Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application. The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization’s administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?
A programmer is building a new web application for a client's public cloud infrastructure. The client has requested that the web application stay available even in the event of a regional outage at the cloud provider.
Which of the following would BEST address these availability requirements?
After deploying new VMs, the systems administrator notices it is not possible to connect to them using network credentials; however, local accounts work. After logging in, the administrator notices the NTP servers are not set. Which of the following is MOST likely causing this issue?
A company has a requirement of an active/active datacenter and wants to implement synchronous replication for all its storage services. The company is doing a proof of concept with a datacenter provider that has two datacenters 200mi (322km) apart that utilize MPLS. Each time the company starts synchronous replication, it fails. All network connectivity has been established and is functioning correctly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A cloud administrator notices one of the servers in the public cloud environment has a non-compliant firewall policy. In reviewing the logs, the administrator notices a couple technicians made individual changes to the
firewall policy for a new project.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to reduce configuration drift for the firewall policy?
Company A has just implemented a SaaS-based cloud storage solution. The SaaS solution provides services for both commercial and personal use. The IT department has been tasked to migrate all the on-premises file shares to the SaaS solution with the username being the corporate email address. The IT department is currently using am IAM solution to provision the accounts in the SaaS solution. Upon execution of the account creation process, the IT department is receiving multiple “unable to create account” alerts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A cloud engineer deployed an email server in a public cloud. Users can access the email server, but the emails they send cannot reach their destinations. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do FIRST?
The on-premises database server is experiencing high memory and CPU utilization over the course of a month. The current on-premises infrastructure is at capacity with no ability to scale up. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has asked the CSA to provide a solution without any capital expenditure. Which of the following is the BEST solution to resolve the issue?