EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A cloud service provider is marketing its new PaaS offering to potential clients. Which of the following companies would MOST likely be interested?

Question2: A business analyst is examining a report and notices compute costs are very high for four cloud-based, load- balanced virtual machines hosting an application. The application will be in use for at least two more years, but there are no developers available to help optimize it. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to BEST reduce costs without impacting performance?

Question3: A new company directive requires all departments to ensure intellectual property is kept within a country's borders. Which of the following concepts BEST represents this requirement?

Question4: A company has a perpetual license for a database application. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option when moving to the cloud?

Question5: A company is evaluating the capital expenditure necessary to modernize its on-premises datacenter. Management has directed that 50% of capital expenditure be reallocated to operating expenditure. Which of the following cloud characteristics applies?

Question6: A cloud administrator for an ISP identified a vulnerability in the software that controls all the firewall rules for a geographic are a. To ensure the software upgrade is properly tested, approved, and applied, which of the following processes should the administrator follow?

Question7: Which of the following can be used to achieve automation, environment consistency, and standardization of computer resources in a cloud environment?

Question8: A company is in its second year of a three-year agreement with a cloud vendor. After the initial phase of the cloud migration, resource consumption has stabilized.
Which of the following would help the company reduce the cost of infrastructure?

Question9: An online retailer wants to ensure its inventory for the holiday season is correct. The company does not have a large IT infrastructure or staff to collect and analyze sales information, customer analytics, marketing information, or trends. Which of the following cloud services will help the company analyze these metrics without a large investment in human capital?

Question10: When selecting a cloud provider, which of the following is MOST likely to be a financial consideration?

Question11: Following a risk assessment, a company decides to adopt a multicloud strategy for its IT applications.
Which of the following is the company trying to avoid as part of its risk mitigation strategy?

Question12: A company wants to save on cloud storage costs for data that does not need to be accessible in a timely manner. Which of the following storage types would be the BEST option?

Question13: A company is required to move its human resources application to the cloud to reduce capital expenses. The IT team does a feasibility analysis and learns the application requires legacy infrastructure and cannot be moved to the cloud.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate cloud migration approach for the company?

Question14: A business is experiencing an outage of a customer-facing e-commerce website after a SaaS-based CDN upgrade. The RTO is 5 minutes or less, but it has already been 10 minutes since the outage. After 15 minutes, the CDN recovers for the outage. The business loses $25000 in revenue per minute of the outage. Which of the following is the financial impact to the business?

Question15: A cloud administrator configures a server to insert an entry into a log file whenever an administrator logs in to
the server remotely. Which of the following BEST describes the type of policy being used?

Question16: A company is required to move its human resources application to the cloud to reduce capital expenses. The
IT team does a feasibility analysis and learns the application requires legacy infrastructure and cannot be
moved to the cloud.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate cloud migration approach for the company?

Question17: An online retailer wants to ensure its inventory for the holiday season is correct. The company does not have a
large IT infrastructure or staff to collect and analyze sales information, customer analytics, marketing
information, or trends. Which of the following cloud services will help the company analyze these metrics
without a large investment in human capital?

Question18: Which of the following security objectives is MOST improved when moving a system to the cloud?

Question19: A cloud systems administrator needs to log in to a remote Linux server that is hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following protocols will the administrator MOST likely use?

Question20: Which of the following is commonly used to forecast market trends?

Question21: An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the
virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM.
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

Question22: A company is discontinuing its use of a cloud provider. Which of the following should the provider do to ensure there is no sensitive data stored in the company's cloud?

Question23: A company is migrating a legacy application to the cloud. Two C-level executives are currently engaged in the initial stages of the migration, and they are planning a rip-and-replace approach.
Before initiating the project, the FIRST step should be to identify:

Question24: Which of the following would help a company avoid failure of a cloud project due to a lack of adherence of the company's operations and business processes to a cloud solution?

Question25: Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead?

Question26: Which of the following BEST describes decreasing the resources assigned to a system to avoid paying for unused capacity?

Question27: Which of the following allows an IP address to be referenced via an easily remembered name for a SaaS application?

Question28: A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?

Question29: A startup company that provides streaming media services is considering a new CSP. The company sees an average volume of 5000TB daily and high QoS. It has received the following bids:

Based on the information above, which of the following CSPs offers the MOST cost-effective solution for streaming?

Question30: A mobile application development team requires frequent software updates for a major launch of a customer-
facing application. The business requirement is to be first-to-market on a new feature that leverages third-
party-hosted services.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to use for speed and efficiency?

Question31: A web application was deployed, and files are available globally to improve user experience. Which of the following technologies is being used?

Question32: Which of the following security concerns is BEST addressed by moving systems to the cloud?

Question33: Which of the following BEST explains why there should be an established communication policy between CSPs and clients?

Question34: An organization is determining an acceptable amount of downtime. Which of the following aspects of cloud design should the organization evaluate?

Question35: A company is moving its long-term archive data to the cloud. Which of the following storage types will the company MOST likely use?

Question36: A cloud administrator needs to enable users to access business applications remotely while ensuring these
applications are only installed on company-controlled equipment. All users require the ability to modify personal
working environments. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question37: An architect recently discovered new opportunities the cloud can provide to the company. A business analyst is currently working with the architect to document the business use-case scenarios. Which of the following should be the architect's NEXT step?

Question38: A low-budget project with a flexible completion time can become financially feasible via the use of:

Question39: Which of the following DevOps options is used to integrate with cloud solutions?

Question40: Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?

Question41: A document that outlines the scope of a project, specific deliverables, scheduling, and additional specific
details from the client/buyer is called a:

Question42: Which of the following can be used by a client's finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments?

Question43: A requirement states that an application must be restored within six hours. Which of the following should be
included in the SLA to satisfy this requirement?

Question44: A company deploys a data management capability that reduces RPO. Which of the following BEST describes the capability needed?

Question45: A company purchased insurance due to the risks involved with a cloud migration project. Which of the following risk response strategies is this an example of?

Question46: Which of the following BEST describes the open-source licensing model for application software?

Question47: Volume, variety, velocity, and veracity are the four characteristics of:

Question48: A cloud developer chooses to use private key encryption for all traffic in a new application. Which of the following security concerns does this BEST describe?

Question49: A cloud administrator notices users call to report application performance degradation between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. every day. Which of the following is the BEST option for the administrator to configure?

Question50: Which of the following policies is MOST critical for being in compliance with regulatory agencies?

Question51: An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM.
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

Question52: Which of the following is an example of outsourcing administration in the context of the cloud?

Question53: A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments?

Question54: Which of the following is related to data availability in the cloud?

Question55: A cloud administrator needs to enable users to access business applications remotely while ensuring these applications are only installed on company-controlled equipment. All users require the ability to modify personal working environments. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question56: Which of the following cloud characteristics helps transform from a typical capital expenditure model to an operating expenditure model?

Question57: A business analyst is comparing used vs. allocated storage cost for each reserved instance on a financial expenditures report related to the cloud. The CSP is currently billing at the following rates for storage:
$1.50 per GB of used space
$0.75 per GB of allocated space
The operating expenditures the analyst is reviewing are as follows:

Given this scenario, which of the following servers is costing the firm the least, and which should have storage increased due to over 70% utilization?

Question58: Which of the following is the cloud storage technology that would allow a company with 12 nearly identical servers to have the SMALLEST storage footprint?