EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following can be used to enable out-of-band management of a Windows-based host?

Question2: Which of the following describes connecting a physical Ethernet adapter to a virtual Ethernet adapter?

Question3: Which of the following would create an efficient means of accessing and organizing data in a cloud environment, as well as provide a list of useful, relevant data?

Question4: An administrator has been promoted to architect when trying to access one of the servers, the architect receives the error: "Authentication failure: Account is not allowed". Which of the following explains why access was denied?

Question5: Which of the following is a MINIMUM requirement for VM online migration?

Question6: Which of the following authentication types is being required when a user must swipe a key card and then enter a password before being allowed access to the server room?

Question7: In a mission critical environment, performing maintenance operations on a host FIRST requires which of the following?

Question8: In which of the following situations would an administrator use VLANs on a network? (Select TWO).

Question9: The requirements for a web application state that it must be architected for high availability. The web application consists of front-end web server and back-end database server components respectively.
Which of the following describes a solution that meets this requirement, while minimizing costs?

Question10: Which of the following is an example of two-factor authentication when accessing a virtual server?

Question11: Which of the following is MOST likely to be retrieved from an individually addressable blob?

Question12: Which of the following can an administrator implement to achieve boot on SAN?

Question13: Users have been reporting slow response times on a database server. The administrator noticed the server at any given time has between 30 to 50 users connected to various databases. Additional research shows disk metrics such as disk queuing and disk access rates are both around 10% to 15%. Which of the following can be the root cause of this slow performing server?

Question14: ARP is used to resolve IP addresses to:

Question15: An administrator needs to over allocate storage on VMs in a development cluster. Which of the following storage practices will be followed?

Question16: Which of the following can be used to encrypt data at rest on a VM located in the cloud?

Question17: An application has been moved to a new third-party public cloud provider. Which of the following should be completed before load testing begins?

Question18: An administrator has been tasked with the collection of all errors and events on the servers. These must be centralized and emailed directly from the central server. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question19: A system administrator repeatedly gets reports of files becoming unexpectedly deleted from a shared storage file system. Which of the following is the system administrator MOST likely to investigate?

Question20: A bare metal hypervisor runs:

Question21: New servers were purchased specifically for virtualization capabilities. However, the hypervisor of choice cannot find compatible processors on the new servers. Which of the following would a system administrator MOST likely need to configure to enable virtualization features for these systems?

Question22: A technician wants to isolate storage from other network traffic. Which of the following MUST the technician implement to ensure storage traffic is securely segregated?

Question23: Some users are experiencing high latency when accessing their virtual desktops or retrieving saved documents. The administrator notices that two virtual desktops in the department are reserved for database processing applications that run several times a day. These machines are assigned to different hosts in the resource pool to provide a level of redundancy. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to remedy the situation?

Question24: Which of the following is a best practice used in relation to MTBF?

Question25: A hypervisor is unable to access its fibre-channel storage. Which of the following is the reason?

Question26: Which of the following should an administrator implement when connecting the company's existing network to a public cloud environment to ensure confidentiality of data that is being transmitted?

Question27: An administrator has noticed that a 500MB file is taking over three hours to move over a 10Gbps link.
Which of the following is MOST likely responsible for this performance?

Question28: Which of the following can limit VM mobility in a host cluster based on architectural differences?

Question29: Hardware compatibility among multiple hosts guarantees which of the following?

Question30: Which of the following reduces the amount of data that must be transmitted on a network by keeping a copy of recently transmitted data in memory?

Question31: Which of the following goals are met by multi-port link aggregation? (Select TWO).

Question32: Joe, an administrator, is experiencing connectivity problems with a new VM. Joe is able to ping the gateway, however he is unable to ping the hostname of another VM on the subnet. Which of the following tools should be used NEXT when troubleshooting?

Question33: The BEST way to compare daily performance metrics against a "normal" operational metric is to first establish:

Question34: Which of the following protocols could be used to identify the OS version installed on a server?

Question35: Which of the following is an example of a customer solely renting computing resources?

Question36: The corporate security department is recommending that the administrator deploys Type I hypervisor versus Type II. Which of the following is a security concern in regards to deploying a Type II hypervisor?

Question37: Requiring all SaaS vendors to perform updates to systems within the customer's datacenter is an example of which of the following types of cloud delivery services?

Question38: An enterprise hypervisor offers which of the following benefits over a workstation hypervisor?

Question39: An administrator is configuring a website in the cloud. Which of the following secure network protocols should the administrator configure?

Question40: Students in a virtual lab must be able to upload and download homework assignments from personal external storage devices to their virtual desktops. Which of the following should the lab administrator implement to allow students to upload files?

Question41: Which of the following is true about a Type II hypervisor?

Question42: An administrator has installed a new NAS and is now attempting to optimize the servers for best performance when communicating with the NAS. Modifying which of the following would MOST likely enhance throughput?

Question43: Joe, a system administrator, has noticed that a remote facility has entries in his 3-year-old slave LDAP server that has not been updated from its master in about a month. Which of the following failures is MOST likely to have occurred?

Question44: Which of the following RAID configuration would be used to accomplish disk mirroring with two disks?

Question45: Which of the following ports is used for HTTPS?

Question46: An administrator notices one of the VMs hosting an application server is consuming more CPU resources over time. As a result, the host is running near 90% CPU capacity at peak time. Which of the following is the BEST method to alleviate this issue while minimizing downtime?

Question47: Which of the following would need to be consistent for a LUN to be considered healthy?

Question48: Which of the following cloud services provides application isolation?

Question49: A new network engineer logs into a router and discovers multiple and separate routing tables configured.
This router MOST likely has which of the following items configured?

Question50: Which of the following RAID levels spreads blocks of a file across multiple disks without parity?

Question51: Which of the following provides a company with the BEST equipment to minimize downtime in the event of catastrophic damage to their main datacenter?

Question52: Which of the following are VM template hardening techniques? (Select TWO).

Question53: A storage administrator has just partitioned storage to several of the servers. Another layer of security has been added to the storage access to complement the fabric zoning. Which of the following layers of security did the administrator implement on the storage array?

Question54: An administrator is unable to communicate with the physical server via RDP. When using an IP KVM a successful connection was established with the server. Which of the following is being used?

Question55: Which of the following would be used to mitigate the risk of an unauthorized party authenticating into the network?

Question56: A network engineer is investigating slow response times for queries to a cloud-hosted database. The switch configurations show that there are several traffic bottlenecks. Which of the following should the engineer implement to BEST solve the problem and prevent future issues?

Question57: A hypervisor host that has two fibre-channel ports needs to be connected to a storage array that has four fibre-channel ports. How many zones should be created for maximum redundancy?

Question58: A number of VMs in a host are experiencing processor contention, showing down operations Which of the following host hardware upgrade paths would yield higher VM performance, for the same VMs in the given hypervisor host?

Question59: A software development team is looking for a sandbox environment to test new releases before deploying to production and has requested several virtual machines for this purpose. Which of the following virtual components could be utilized to help isolate these virtual machines from the production infrastructure?

Question60: Which of the following routine practices can help protect required and running services during an attack?

Question61: Users report that they are unable to access the Internet. The network administrator notices spikes of traffic during the outage reports. Which of the following will MOST likely need to be upgraded to allow more traffic and will help avoid further outages?

Question62: A programmer removes OS software from a laptop during development of a new prototype for the company. After the code is promoted from development to QA, none of the QA testers can get the application to work. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the application not working properly in QA?

Question63: Elasticity is closely related to which of the following cloud characteristics?

Question64: Monitoring alarms should be set based on:

Question65: In order to enhance security on a SAN, which of the following should be configured?

Question66: After deploying VM guests from a VM template on an NFS datastore, the administrator has discovered misaligned VM guest partition offsets in multiple VM guests. Which of the following represents a complete solution for improving I/O performance?

Question67: A company has tasked an administrator with virtualizing the server farm and wants to adhere to the principle of n+1. The administrator has analyzed the resource consumption of the current server farm and observes the following:
5 application servers consuming 12 GB RAM each.
4 web servers consuming 2 GB RAM each.
10 terminal servers consuming 6 GB RAM each.
Which of the following is the MINIMUM necessary to meet the requirements of the new host cluster?

Question68: An administrator has been reviewing a cloud provider's website and would like to view the current information about all services available. Which of the following should the administrator analyze?

Question69: Which of the following may be used prior to encryption of information stored in a database if only weak encryption algorithms are allowed?

Question70: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has established the requirement to limit data loss to within two hours of a disaster. Which of the following terms describes this requirement?

Question71: A technician would like to connect to a virtual server from inside the network, using a desktop computer.
Which of the following tools could the technician use?

Question72: A company wants to streamline their reporting tools. They have decided to implement a third party SaaS cloud reporting tool to process additional data, but will continue to process confidential data internally.
Which of the following deployment models is BEST suited for the company?

Question73: A college has implemented a private cloud for students and faculty. The college is required by their accrediting body to ensure that the cloud meets certain confidentiality and privacy requirements. Which of the following represents the LEAST intrusive testing method for the college to use, while ensuring separation of duties during the testing?

Question74: A system administrator has been monitoring cloud infrastructure usage over a period of time. The administrator notices that several hosts are consistently running close to capacity during work hours. To balance the workload across more hosts the administrator performs a virtual resource migration. Which of the following terms BEST describes the reason the administrator performed this action?

Question75: Which of the following network optimization techniques would be MOST appropriate far more efficient delivery of frequently accessed websites?

Question76: A company has purchased two new servers to host several virtualized database servers. Each server has two 3GHz quad-core processors each, 64GB RAM each, 200GB DAS, and two 10GbE NICs each. Which of the following is the MOST likely bottleneck for these systems?

Question77: A small business is moving ten physical servers to the cloud. Which of the following should the cloud provider implement to ensure that all ten servers can dynamically share memory resources with other tenants as needed while not interfering with the other tenants?

Question78: Which of the following would mitigate a "ping of death" attack?

Question79: An organization wants to create a server VM that is segregated from the rest of the servers. Which of the following should the server administrator configure?

Question80: Which of the following will be the BEST option for an administrator to bring VMs online at a warm site after a natural disaster has occurred at the primary site?

Question81: A small startup wins a contest giving them advertising time during a major sporting event. Which of the following cloud characteristics should be in place to handle the possible spike in demand?

Question82: Which of the following are components of an Object-Based Storage system? (Select TWO).

Question83: A company decided to go with a cloud-based hosted email solution across all offices and wishes to make the transition as seamless as possible. Which of the following methods would provide the MOST seamless transition for end users?

Question84: The network administrator creates a DNS A record. Which of the following tools can identify which IP has been assigned to a FQDN?

Question85: Which of the following protocols uses port 53, by default?

Question86: A technician is converting a company's physical server to a virtual server. Which of the following should the technician do before migrating? (Select two.)

Question87: Which of the following cloud services would MOST likely be used to deliver web applications?

Question88: Which of the following cloud delivery models consists of private internal resources and external provider resources?

Question89: Which of the following would be the FIRST choice to encrypt a laptop hard drive?

Question90: An administrator of a credit card company needs to ensure that private cloud resources are allocated effectively, but needs to utilize the agility of the public cloud during peak seasons. Which of the following would accomplish this?

Question91: Which of the following is an access control type that requires a username and password along with a hardware token?

Question92: Ubiquitous access to cloud computing means:

Question93: A cloud solution provider offers services solely to the healthcare industry which meets specific security and government regulations. This is an example of which of the following cloud types?

Question94: A cloud infrastructure function that can grow and shrink to meet peak demand requirements quickly is known as:

Question95: A company is migrating to the cloud and needs to implement a security policy. Which of the following should the company implement?

Question96: Which of the following elements should be tested when deploying cloud based services? (Select two.)

Question97: Which of the following network terms describes the process of grouping similar traffic on a network?

Question98: An administrator has configured a cluster but one of the VMs returns an error when attempting to automatically fail-over to another host in the cluster. Which of the following should be verified?

Question99: A company has made the decision to virtualize as many servers as possible. To avoid VM sprawl the company implements a system to help business units understand the costs associated with these efforts.
Which of the following system types has been implemented?

Question100: Which of the following is used by storage tiering to meet SLAs?

Question101: Which of the following is used in Object-Based Storage to reference the servers that provide services to store, retrieve, and manage data in the Object-Based Storage system?

Question102: Which of the following would be used to establish a dedicated connection in a hybrid cloud environment?

Question103: Which of the following would be used to advertise a public IP address on redundant WAN circuits?

Question104: A round robin is an example of which of the following methods of network optimization?

Question105: Which of the following encryption types would be used to protect company information when stored on a cloud server being shared by multiple companies?

Question106: Which of the following tools would an administrator use to troubleshoot when users are unable to reach web servers by name to determine if the name is valid?

Question107: Which of the following access control types allows users to assign security attributes to objects such as files and directories?

Question108: Which of the following can be used to physically restrict employees from accessing a datacenter?

Question109: A company is testing a new software product that is intended for auto discovery of assets within a cloud environment. The testing department wants to ensure that initial testing does not allow the product to leave the boundary of the test environment. Which of the following should the network administrator implement in the department test environment?

Question110: The IT department has had problems coping with the demand of service provisioning and deprovisioning. If the IT department implements a cloud computing platform, which of the following would improve their productivity?

Question111: Which of the following storage technologies can leverage switches in its implementation?

Question112: An administrator recently deployed a critical web server that only uses HTTPS in the DMZ. All the ports are open on the server. Which of the following should the administrator perform to harden this server?

Question113: Which of the following terms describes a system where multiple storage controllers allow access to data in a cloud environment where it appears as a single storage system to the user?

Question114: A company that provides cloud-based storage services allows user authentication using third-party social network credentials. Which of the following should be implemented to accomplish this task?

Question115: A company is experiencing network access errors within one department that operates in a secure environment. The network administrator needs to investigate the configurations of the switches servicing that department to determine the cause of the network access errors. Which of the following tools should be used to directly access the switches in that department?

Question116: A storage administrator has 100 terabytes of physical storage space within the SAN. Which of the following is used to enable access to the storage space?

Question117: A company has hired a new Chief Security Officer (CSO). While reviewing the company's RAID levels on business critical data volumes, the CSO has decided to change the RAID level to allow for the best protection against number of disk failures. Which of the following RAID levels will accomplish this?

Question118: Which of the following cloud service models would be recommended to a company for hardware capacity to host a production database application?

Question119: Which of the following is often a difficult process when working with internationally-based cloud providers?

Question120: An administrator deployed a DaaS cloud delivery model for a financial institution and implemented a data encryption technology using AES cryptography. Which of the following should the administrator implement NEXT?

Question121: An administrator is working on a guest operating system and needs access to the CD-ROM drive from the host operating system to install a driver. Which of the following describes what the administrator should use to accomplish this goal?

Question122: A company wants to build a cloud environment where individual departments can host applications and data on shared resources, but users cannot access data that is outside of their department without specific permissions. To deploy an architecture that meets this requirement, the network administrator will need to employ which of the following configurations on the switches?

Question123: Which of the following statements defines fault tolerance in a public cloud environment?

Question124: A cloud based global multiplayer game is an example of which of the following?

Question125: Which of the following factors yields cost savings in cloud computing? (Select TWO).

Question126: Which of the following is a type of hypervisor that runs on another operating system instead of running directly on the host's hardware?

Question127: Which of the following is the BEST technique an administrator can use to keep copies of various VM states while servers are online?

Question128: Internal users are reporting high latency when connecting to external servers in the cloud. Which of the following should a network administrator optimize?

Question129: Which of the following techniques would be used to deliver SLA performance guarantees for a VM in a virtual environment? (Select two.)

Question130: The administrator of an organization needs to configure a VM to be able to communicate on the physical network connected to the host. Which of the following steps MUST the administrator perform?

Question131: An administrator needs to test the latency between two servers. Which of the following commands should be used?

Question132: Which of the following is a benefit of having a virtual versus physical server environment?

Question133: Which of the following actions should be taken when a VM reports high swap file utilization?

Question134: Which of the following tools would an administrator use when determining the hop count between a source and a destination?

Question135: A system administrator has a pool of employees using VMs that have a low business value. Which of the following would MOST likely be an appropriate allocation of host resources for this pool?

Question136: A user in the human resource (HR) department has reported slow response time to the company personnel database when trying to process new hires to the company. The administrator reviews the department VMs and resource pools to determine the cause of the slow access. The memory and CPU for the host machines in this resource pool have recently been upgraded. Other HR users that do not access the database are not reporting any problems. Which of the following is the cause of the slow response time?

Question137: Which of the following would be used to prove the existence of vulnerabilities on a network?

Question138: Cloud bursting can alleviate which of the following attacks?

Question139: How many cores are available to the resource pool with a Type I hypervisor that has 4 quad core processors installed?

Question140: Which of the following utilities would BEST help diagnose NAS mount points?

Question141: A new self-service provisioning system has been deployed to serve the company's rapid VM provisioning needs. Since the website is in the DMZ, HTTPS is required, but company policy states that SSL certificates can not terminate at the server. The company also has a requirement that the web portal be redundant while providing session state. Which of the following availability technologies can be used to meet the company's requirements?

Question142: Which of the following detection controls can be used to identify an unauthorized individual who accessed a remote network share?

Question143: Which of the following cloud delivery models presents the LEAST vulnerabilities to a company's existing network?

Question144: A company has just established a new branch office that needs to connect back to centrally hosted applications for day to day operations. The branch office has noted that access to many company services are slow and causing a drop in productivity. The company IT department has investigated a plan to improve performance across the link to the branch office without having to pay for more bandwidth from the Internet Service Provider. This plan includes hardware that after installation will allow for much faster access to day to day business applications. Which of the following terms BEST describes the action taken by the IT department?

Question145: A server hosting file shares is an example of which of the following types of storage?

Question146: Network statistics show that the 1Gbps switch port used for storage traffic is fully saturated. Which of the following switch technologies can be used to provide twice the bandwidth?

Question147: Which of the following is used to locate a specific area of storage in a cloud environment?

Question148: An external USB hard drive physically attached to a server is a:

Question149: Joe, an administrator, has just added a new VM to a production network. Joe's workstation is connecting into the environment from a VPN. Other VMs on the same subnet are open to connections, however the new VM is inaccessible by RDP, SSH, or ping from Joe's workstation. Joe can ping other systems on the production network while connected into the new VM by console. Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?

Question150: Which of the following are types of storage media? (Select two.)

Question151: A security administrator is being hired to perform a penetration test of a third-party cloud provider as part of an annual security audit. Which of the following is the FIRST step that must be performed?

Question152: A storage system that retains data in a flat address space is known as:

Question153: An administrator has logically grouped several VMs and configured settings describing the minimum memory requirement for the group. This is a description of which of the following?

Question154: An administrator creates a new virtual desktop for a user. The user is unable to log in with their domain credentials. However, the administrator is able to log in with a local administrator account and ping other VDIs on the same subnet. Which of the following does the administrator need to correct?

Question155: An administrator has overcommitted resources in a cluster. An application team would like assurance that performance will not be adversely affected. Which of the following can the administrator configure to ensure optimum application performance?

Question156: An administrator is creating a new VM template and has a requirement that the OS must be hardened.
Which of the following should be performed to harden a guest OS?

Question157: A company needs to have a system that allows for high availability access to data for users. Which of the following terms BEST describes how a storage engineer would design the system to allow for that level of redundancy?

Question158: Which of the following is the BEST means of ensuring resource utilization remains even across the hosts?

Question159: Which of the following server types would be an ideal candidate for virtualization? (Select two.)

Question160: A company with an online store website has migrated the website and store database information to a cloud provider. The company wants to ensure credit cards used for online store purchases are processed such that local compliance regulations are met. Which of the following is used by a third party to verify the cloud vendor is meeting the compliance standards?

Question161: During deployment, which of the following should a technician install to be used in the future to shut down a virtual server?

Question162: Which of the following is the BEST process to provide data access control to only the hosts authorized to access the LUN?

Question163: Which of the following virtualization implementations yields the HIGHEST performance of the same hardware configuration?

Question164: An educational institution would like to install hypervisors for a new cloud development class with very limited funding. Which of the following hypervisors is MOST likely to be selected by the institution?

Question165: A host with 30 VMs has 64GB of RAM, four quad-core CPUs, four 1-gigabit NICs and is connected to a NAS that provides NFS volumes. The hosted VMs are reporting slow performance. From the information given, which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the slow performance?

Question166: An administrator is asked to securely upload a configuration file to a web server in a cloud. Which of the following protocols should be used in this scenario?

Question167: An administrator is configuring access to hypervisors that will allow them to connect in the event that the management network is down. This type of access is referred to as:

Question168: A virtual machine snapshot is:

Question169: Host A and B can both access LUNs one to ten in a single SAN LUN 11 has been created and Host A can access it but Host B cannot. Which of the following will likely be the cause of this issue?

Question170: An IT professional is considering the migration of an on-line store to the cloud due to high variation in demand. Which of the following cloud characteristics is key?

Question171: Which of the following technologies enables port sharing on a single physical port?

Question172: An administrator has three VMs and each has been allocated two virtual CPUs. VM1 and VM2 have CPU shares set to normal priority. VM3 has CPU shares set to high priority. All three VMs are running CPU intensive workloads and begin to contend for CPU resources. If VM1 and VM2 are effectively given 1600 MHz each, which when combined represents 50% of the available processing power, VM3 will be given:

Question173: Which of the following components should be virtualized and added to cloud infrastructure to ensure virtual servers are only able to access the volumes assigned to them?

Question174: An administrator needs to monitor server applications in the company's data center. Which of the following tools would the administrator need to accomplish this objective?

Question175: Which of the following is bridged and sends packets on the wire with its own unique MAC address?

Question176: One of the administrators of a cloud service provider has been asked to assist one of its newest customers to deploy a multi-tier application (web, application, and database). The architecture design does not specify where each service should reside and the customer is asking for a recommendation. Which of the following should be recommended?

Question177: Which of the following protocols allows fibre channel to be transmitted over the network?

Question178: Which of the following may be used to increase data confidentiality when encryption is not an option?

Question179: Which of the following solutions primarily relies on private cloud resources but may use public cloud resources based on capacity requirements?

Question180: After an administrator successfully migrated the last physical application server to a virtual environment, the help desk reported slow performance. Which of the following should the administrator have done FIRST before migrating this server?

Question181: Which of the following is used to connect a VM to a SAN?

Question182: Which of the following would be a good reason to perform a V2V migration?

Question183: A new server is connected to the fibre channel switch. In order to allow the server to see its allocated storage on the storage array, the administrator must configure the server's WWNN as a member. The server administrator is configuring which of the following?

Question184: VM templates should have their default account passwords changed upon deployment to prevent:

Question185: Which of the following access control types would give a system administrator the ability to assign access according to least privilege?

Question186: Which of the following tools is used to manage virtual servers?

Question187: In a storage fabric, which of the following is the primary way to implement multipathing?

Question188: The actual data within an object store is called the:

Question189: An administrator is installing a new Unix-based server and will be creating the LUNs for the database. The database needs to have two LUNs. Which of the following should the administrator use for rapid provisioning?

Question190: Which of the following cloud delivery models has the LEAST probability of data leakage?

Question191: Which of the following BEST describes the process of mapping storage initiators to targets?

Question192: Joe, an administrator, is searching through directories on his multi-tenant cloud environment when he notices he is able to access a directory holding another company's data. Which of the following should be implemented to mitigate this issue?

Question193: A system administrator identified an issue on a critical server that is hosted in the cloud. The user community is affected by this issue, but is still able to work. A reboot is needed to rectify this issue. Which of the following steps should the administrator do FIRST to resolve this issue?

Question194: Which of the following would be a deciding factor when choosing a multi-tenant cloud environment over a locally hosted virtual environment?

Question195: Which of the following is the BEST choice for a clustered host interconnect?

Question196: An administrator is responsible for managing a private cloud that has servers that require a significant amount of RAM, but does not have the resources to dedicate to the guests. Which of the following features should the administrator configure on the hypervisor?

Question197: A web hosting company received reports of slow performance from four out of the five clients. Upon investigation, it was determined that a hosted virtual machine was using more RAM and CPU than the others. Which of the following MOST likely contributed to the issue?

Question198: An administrator for a non-profit organization has been tasked with creating a flexible cloud solution. Which of the following would allow the programmer to customize this implementation?

Question199: Which of the following deployment models BEST meets the requirement to host some of a company's applications in a third party environment while retaining control over some of their data?

Question200: Engineers are preparing to move guests to new compute and storage infrastructure. Basic network and SAN connectivity have been established. Which of the following options are valid NEXT steps to prepare for guest migration to the new infrastructure? (Select two.)

Question201: An amount of storage capacity presented to a host to format with its own file system is:

Question202: Management has implemented a policy which states that the OS, the swap file, and data must each reside on its own disk. The virtualization administrator has deployed a VM from a template that has one virtual disk configured. Which of the following steps MUST the administrator take to comply with policy?

Question203: An administrator deployed ten application servers from a single VM template. A senior administrator notices that these ten VMs are not using their resources efficiently. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue with the new servers?

Question204: A system has the ability to automatically provision additional virtual servers in response to a load increase.
This is an example of which of the following cloud features?

Question205: Clients of a cloud provider are able to access their information from a smart phone, tablet, and PC. Which of the following characteristics of a cloud does this describe?

Question206: Which of the following contributes to increased read access performance on a fibre channel SAN?

Question207: An organization is looking to implement an online web-based mail system to allow employees to access email while not on the network. The organization wants to have complete control over the servers and the data. Which of the following should the organization implement?

Question208: An administrator is responsible for managing a host that is part of a private cloud. The host has one physical quad core CPU. The administrator is tasked with creating a new guest that requires a single CPU.
Which of the following actions should the administrator do?

Question209: An administrator finds and removes an "any any" allow rule. Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely modifying?

Question210: Which of the following describes the combination of a disk, computer, and a network into a pool of resources to efficiently allocate resources?

Question211: Which of the following backup methods is MOST used by VM users?

Question212: An administrator has been asked to remotely configure a guest machine while on vacation. The administrator only has access to a hotel kiosk to make the necessary changes. Which of the following can be used to securely meet this request?

Question213: A department requires segregated access due to project requirements. Anne, the engineer, has designated storage and a separate resource pool for VMs through a new VLAN. She wants to ensure a more secure environment for this department within the company cloud. Which of the following should Anne implement?

Question214: Which of the following tables would an administrator use to find a list of paths to network nodes?

Question215: A new vulnerability has been announced which affects several critical VM guests, but no patch is available.
Which of the following can the administrator perform to mitigate this risk prior to a patch being released?

Question216: In regards to private clouds, which of the following BEST explains the term failover?

Question217: Which of the following generally has better performance when accessing larger databases?

Question218: A company has multiple guest operating systems running in a virtual environment. An administrator would like to ensure all servers consistently receive the same IP addresses. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question219: Which of the following cloud delivery models is deployed over a company intranet or company-hosted datacenter?

Question220: An administrator is tasked with writing the company disaster recovery plan in the event the hosting company experiences a catastrophe. Which of the following should be included? (Select TWO).

Question221: An administrator is building a sandbox environment. There is one host assigned to the resource pool with eight CPU cores available. There will be two highly utilized, identical virtual application servers and three virtual desktops running in this environment. One of the virtual desktops will be running a new management application for the environment. Which of the following is the BEST recommended configuration for the sandbox environment?

Question222: An administrator suspects malware has infected a server. Which of the following should be used to check services communicating with external servers?

Question223: A company is migrating their physical servers to virtual. The administrator is tasked with migrating three servers:
One application server with a dual-core 3.2GHz processor that reaches 50% CPU utilization at peak time.
Two web servers, each with a dual-core 3.2GHz processor, both reaching 70% CPU utilization at peak time.
Currently, the administrator only has two hosts available, so resources will need to be set for the new VMs.
Each host has two 2.4GHz quad-core processors. One host is already near maximum capacity, and the second host is at 30% CPU utilization.
Which of the following would be the BEST minimum CPU resources set on the second host for the new VMs?

Question224: An administrator adds a new virtualization host to an existing cluster but is unable to move existing VMs to the new host. Which of the following is MOST likely to be a reason for the VM mobility failure?

Question225: Which of the following should an administrator perform to harden a VM that has been provisioned in a public cloud environment before deploying the system?

Question226: A company that provides Software as a Service wants to prevent the application code from being modified.
Which of the following techniques should be used to accomplish this task?

Question227: An administrator receives an automated text that indicates a server hosting a critical app is unavailable.
Upon further review, the server needs to be restored from backup. Which of the following defines the amount of time a restore cannot exceed?

Question228: Which of the following storage technologies would be MOST appropriate for installations where fast data access time is paramount?

Question229: Two independent organizations want to share authentication and other employees' attributes to leverage a central online collaboration tool for a common project. Which of the following will allow the two companies to keep their internal authentication system while allowing visibility into the other company's employees' attributes?

Question230: A company has changed their web hosting policy and now requires SSL certificates on all web servers.
Users are reporting that they can no longer access an internal website. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to determine if port 443 1s listening? (Select two.)

Question231: A technician has just installed a key-value store on a server and is unable to connect it to the application using port 8291. The technician logged on to the server and needs to determine if the port is listening.
Which of the following tools should the technician use?

Question232: A company has five servers and wishes to consolidate into a single physical server. Which of the following migration methods would accomplish this?

Question233: A corporate office allows employees to work remotely, using their personal computers to access network resources through a browser-based gateway. Which of the following settings should be applied to the virtualized application running on the gateway to reduce the risk of company information being transferred to employees' personal machines?

Question234: Which of the following would be considered use cases for Object-Based Storage? (Select two.)

Question235: A system administrator is planning storage infrastructure to store backup copies of virtual machines that are at least 5GB in size. Which of the following file systems can be used in this scenario? (Select TWO).

Question236: An IPS is used to:

Question237: A company has decided to reduce their datacenter size. An administrator for the company has been tasked to virtualize many of the company's servers. Which of the following should the administrator perform to accomplish this goal?

Question238: Tenants in a shared datacenter environment are concerned with the privacy of their data as it moves from the application to the database servers in clear text. Which of the following can the provider implement to isolate tenants' data?

Question239: In which of the following cloud services will the customer be responsible for securing provisioned hosts?

Question240: Which of the following technologies would MOST likely be used for personal use to virtualize a desktop?

Question241: Which of the following describes the access control method where data owners authorize who is granted access to their files?

Question242: Which of the following is the BEST answer for implementing a feature that will remove a single point of failure between a SAN and host?

Question243: An administrator has been asked by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to provide storage that will have the ability to accommodate at least FC and SATA in the same enterprise array with software that will be policy driven based on performance. Which of the following enterprise storage features should be recommended?

Question244: Which of the following disk drive types would be the BEST for a mission critical application with low latency requirements?

Question245: Which of the following could be reviewed on devices to help determine whether unauthorized access has occurred?

Question246: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a company is tasked to save costs by reducing datacenter space.
The administrator explains that virtualization of servers will support this task as a benefit of migrating to a cloud environment known as:

Question247: Several servers are connected to a SAN using three storage devices and FCoE for transmissions. These servers only need to access one SAN device. All servers, the SAN, and the HBA are virtualized. Which of the following should be used to ensure access is controlled appropriately between devices? (Select TWO).

Question248: Which of the following is MOST important when factoring network level security in a public cloud environment?

Question249: Which of the following services can an administrator disable to prevent remote access to a system?

Question250: A storage array is shared with other departments. An administrator would like to ensure that no other department performs backups on the LUNs. Which of the following could be used to mitigate this? (Select TWO).

Question251: Which of the following would MOST likely require a cold migration?

Question252: A company is implementing a private cloud infrastructure and is testing its high availability components. In a planned outage test, all systems will be shut down sequentially. Which of the following would be the LAST area to shut down?

Question253: Which of the following describes federated access control?

Question254: Users on a network report that they are unable to access any external websites, however, they are able to access resources by IP address. Which of the following command line utilities would be used FIRST in troubleshooting this problem?

Question255: An administrator is tasked with the virtualization of all database management applications. Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to ensure that database performance will be optimal?

Question256: Which of the following can be used by the cloud consumer and provides a visualization of key service metrics?

Question257: A system administrator has a distribution switch with four uplinks to the core switch in a single aggregated link. The aggregated link requires all four connections to be up to function. Which of the following is this MOSTLY an example of?

Question258: After an administrator deployed a private cloud a couple of years ago, users have started reporting that the network is getting slower. The administrator looks at the monitoring tools and notices that, even though supernetting was used to allow for 8,000 more VMs, the most utilized switch port in the datacenter is only using 40% of its total throughput speed. Which of the following is MOST likely the problem?

Question259: Which of the following should a network administrator implement to logically segregate network traffic?

Question260: Which of the following solutions would an administrator deploy to meet high availability requirements?

Question261: A company has instituted a cloud solution where the solution consolidates resources between the human resources and engineering departments. The combined resources are available to be assigned dynamically to each of the two departments without any visible impact on performance to the users. Which of the following terms BEST describes this cloud characteristic?

Question262: To avoid the same LUN showing up multiple times in client hosts, an administrator should implement:

Question263: A system administrator has a server that has lost one of its connections to an adjacent server room. The server can still be accessed remotely through its single network interface; however, it has lost access to some of its drives. Which of the following is MOST likely correct?

Question264: A small business owner needs to establish a secure logon to the company database server to troubleshoot an issue while on vacation. Which of the following will allow secure access to manage the server from a remote location?

Question265: Which of the following can be used to enable additional network interfaces on a router?

Question266: Which of the following is true about physical and virtual CPUs?

Question267: An administrator has access to the following tools: ping, tracert, ipconfig/ifconfig, and route. All of these can be used to troubleshoot which of the following?

Question268: Which of the following is a hardening technique that an administrator would perform when creating a standard VM template that would be used for deploying servers in a production environment?

Question269: Metadata is described as which of the following?

Question270: Anne, a disgruntled employee, decides to load a VM onto a USB drive, in order to take her work to a competitor. Anne is able to insert the USB drive and copy over all pertinent files so she can boot the VM from any machine. Which of the following could have prevented this from occurring?

Question271: An administrator has enabled NPIV and has configured the SAN for SAN boot; however, SAN boot fails intermittently. Which of the following, if configured incorrectly, could cause the issue?

Question272: Which of the following security methods would be used to harden a switch?

Question273: A technician wants to remotely gather a list of all the software running on the client PCs throughout the organization. Which of the following should be used to gather this information?

Question274: Which of the following backup types will enable scheduled point-in-time recovery of data and is accessible to end-users?

Question275: Which of the following is often used by a certificate to keep the contents of the page confidential?

Question276: An administrator, who operates a public cloud, has been tasked with implementing a secondary datacenter for failover purposes. Immediate replication has too much of an impact on the WAN link during production hours. Which of the following is the BEST option?

Question277: When the cache receives write data from the hosts, which of the following does the controller send back to the host?

Question278: Several clients hosted on a cluster, is BEST referred to as:

Question279: A group of users can no longer access a number of different LUNs hosted across multiple hosts. Which of the following failures could have caused this issue?

Question280: When is chargeback, when using private cloud infrastructure in a large company, helpful to an organization?

Question281: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a company would like to close one of the company's four datacenters. The CIO has asked the administrator to perform tests to determine if the servers can be migrated to a public cloud located in another region. Which of the following tests should the administrator perform specific to the location change, to determine if user experience will be impacted?

Question282: Which of the following tools would an administrator use to configure a host server when the WAN to the company's network was down?

Question283: An administrator has configured a new VM with the correct IP, netmask, and default gateway. However, even with the vNIC showing a link and incoming and outgoing packets, the VM is unable to ping its default gateway. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason the VM network connection is not functioning properly?

Question284: Which of the following protocols would allow data to be transferred securely through the cloud?

Question285: An administrator notices that the mouse does not perform as expected within a VM. Which of the following might improve the performance of the mouse?

Question286: Which of the following is MOST important when working in highly available virtual environments?

Question287: Which of the following provides insight information when investigating potential security breaches but does not make changes to the environment? (Select TWO).

Question288: Which of the following service delivery models is MOST likely targeted towards an end-user?

Question289: An administrator is building a VM for a department whose requirements mandate that a particular vendor's application run on one physical processor. In order to ensure that this requirement is met while ensuring optimal performance, which of the following should the administrator configure?

Question290: Which of the following typically provides a FASTER access speed in a network storage implementation?

Question291: An administrator has virtualized a physical server. The application team reports satisfactory performance.
The physical machine has been reimaged with a newer operating system. The following day, the application team remembers that the physical server had a dual purpose and uses a proprietary telephony card that connects to the PBX switch. The administrator needs to restore the server to its previous state.
Which of the following should the administrator perform?

Question292: A company has two datacenters in different cities. When one of the datacenters loses power, there is near instant failover to the other datacenter. This is an example of which of the following?

Question293: Which of the following provides a secure tunnel through the Internet?

Question294: Which of the following could be assigned to a virtual CPU?

Question295: When a firewall takes an incoming request for a specific IP address and redirects it to an internal host, which of the following is being used?

Question296: Which of the following hypervisors will allocate resources MORE efficiently?

Question297: Joe, a new administrator, is asked to enter his mobile phone number into a log management system.
Which of the following alert features is MOST likely being edited?

Question298: A company is experiencing latency problems connecting to the cloud. Which of the following should an administrator check FIRST?

Question299: Which of the following describes a host server that is configured to bridge four guest servers?

Question300: Multipathing achieves which of the following high availability objectives? (Select TWO).

Question301: An administrator is building a VM for a department in the company. The requirements for the department include:
1. Run multiple mission critical applications.
2. Generate and interpret large quantities of test data.
The administrator will start with the standard company VM template.
Which of the following should the administrator configure for this new department template to meet department requirements? (Select two.)

Question302: A company that provides a cloud-based storage solution for consumers needs to ensure that users' data is encrypted while it is stored on its premises. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task?

Question303: Which of the following is a zone, within a network, that is MOST likely to be accessed by both internal and external hosts?

Question304: A system administrator needs to spread data storage allocation across multiple physical drives and ensure that these are mapped properly to communicate with the virtual server farm. The administrator also needs the ability to quickly create or remove these mappings so data storage is not assigned without being used.
Which of the following storage techniques would fit these requirements?

Question305: A company wants to ensure their website, which allows customers to purchase products, is in a cluster at another geographical location. Which of the following solutions does this represent?

Question306: Which of the following increases storage read throughput?

Question307: Which of the following would provide the ability to perform transparent page sharing?

Question308: Which of the following BEST describes the process of restoring service to a primary datacenter in a controlled manner, following a disaster?

Question309: A system administrator is asked to build ten servers and is given only 4U of rack space in the company datacenter. Of which of the following virtualization benefits is the administrator MOST likely taking advantage?

Question310: Which of the following are benefits of virtualization in a cloud environment? (Select two.)

Question311: Which of the following storage technologies is file-based?

Question312: An administrator has recently moved all VoIP to a CaaS offering. In order to ensure that VoIP traffic remains separate from the rest of the data traffic, which of the following MUST be done?

Question313: An administrator needs to verify what ports are listening on an operating system. Which of the following tools can be used to accomplish this task?

Question314: Which of the following is the BEST way to achieve network throughput on any host with existing NICs?

Question315: Fault tolerant design allows a host to overcome a single HBA failure through:

Question316: An administrator needs to add more guests in a virtual environment. Which of the following MUST the administrator take into account before adding additional VMs to a host? (Select TWO).

Question317: Every quarter, technicians perform a UPS and generator test at the datacenter. During the test, the diesel generators did not function correctly resulting in a datacenter black out. After the engineers restore power, they quickly turn on each device and go home for the day. The next morning, clients start reporting they are not receiving email. After investigation, the engineers find that not all VMs are online and it is determined that some VMs did not start up in a correct sequence. Which of the following policies might need to be reviewed to help remediate the above scenario?

Question318: An administrator is investigating performance issues related to database application response time that is not within the baseline. Which of the following is the symptom of the performance issue?

Question319: The IT department of a company has received many calls concerning slow response time from a common application. The administrator can develop a solution after diagnosing the symptoms by using:

Question320: Which of the following would physically block access to a zone from any device outside of the zone?

Question321: Which of the following only uses Fibre Channel to implement a storage infrastructure?

Question322: An administrator is responsible for maintenance and support of servers in the cloud environment. There are over 500 virtual servers spanning across ten physical hosts. The administrator deploys a new application server. The administrator allocated the appropriate virtual resources for the application. Users report slow response after the new server was deployed. Which of the following is the cause of this issue?

Question323: An administrator needs to build a VM for a legacy, single-threaded application. According to best practice, how many virtual CPUs should the administrator use?

Question324: An administrator has implemented a self-service provisioning portal in the company and has associated a cost to CPU, memory, storage, and OS type. Which of the following cloud computing options has been configured?

Question325: A host has four NICs. Two of the NICs that have been teamed will be used for VM traffic. The remaining two will be used for management, backup, and VM mobility. The VMs will span four VLANs. Which of the following will the administrator need to configure?

Question326: Which of the following describes a community string?

Question327: Which of the following business continuity designs provides the highest degree of fault tolerance?

Question328: Which of the following is LEAST suitable for online storage platforms?

Question329: Which of the following could an administrator perform to restore confidential data housed within a VM server in case the data becomes corrupted or overwritten?

Question330: A company is building a new server cluster to host applications for external clients. The company wants to ensure high availability and maximum throughput, and requests that the server administrators configure teamed interfaces on all servers in the cluster. In this scenario, a teamed interface refers to:

Question331: An administrator needs to securely troubleshoot an issue with a virtual host from a remote location. Which of the following allows for this by default?

Question332: An administrator needs to test that a service is responding to external requests. Which of the following tools can be used to accomplish this task?

Question333: An organization allows clients to retrieve information on earthquake events. This is a description of which of the following classifications?

Question334: Which of the following BEST describes the need for LUN Masking?

Question335: High CPU wait times can often be attributed to:

Question336: An administrator has enabled monitoring for a new tenant environment. The administrator checks 24 hours after the new environment has been added and sees data for other tenants' environments but no data for the new environment. Which of the following has NOT been properly configured?

Question337: Which of the following types of storage technologies uses fiber channel protocols?

Question338: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) tells the IT department that all non business critical production applications can be down for no more than 48 hours. Which of the following has the CIO defined?

Question339: Which of the following will allow for configuration of a round robin, load balanced environment?

Question340: A storage administrator wants to limit an operating system from accessing all of the storage within the array. Which of the following could be enabled on the SAN?

Question341: Which of the following should be implemented to ensure email continuity is not disrupted if one of multiple datacenters experiences an outage?

Question342: Which of the following events will force a storage migration in a virtual environment?

Question343: Which of the following terms would describe a cloud characteristic that hosts separate customers on shared infrastructure?

Question344: Which of the following would an administrator implement between a host and a guest to allow the virtual server to connect to a third party USB drive license key?

Question345: A small software development company wants to provide four of their developers with the ability to create four or five VMs each. The company also wants to be able to share all of the VM images and snapshots on a NAS. Which of the following would meet these objectives at the lowest cost?

Question346: Which of the following network topologies should an administrator use to segment traffic?

Question347: A network administrator was tasked with creating several new subnets which will support 30 virtual hosts per subnet. Which of the following VLANs below would be used to support those hosts?
VLAN 100 192.168.1.0/30
VLAN 200 192.168.1.0/29
VLAN 300 192.168.1.0/26
VLAN 400 192.168.1.30/32

Question348: Which of the following allows a network device to process storage traffic without significant delays, even if the amount of other network traffic has saturated the link?

Question349: An administrator is tasked to reduce the company's datacenter power utilization. Currently there are 500 physical servers in the datacenter and 600 virtual servers with five additional available host servers. Which of the following should the administrator perform?

Question350: A company has a virtual database server running in the cloud that the company would like to start hosting in-house on a newly purchased blade server. Which of the following virtualization tools would BEST be used to accomplish this?

Question351: Which of the following BEST describes a copy of data?

Question352: Which of the following would assist in preventing malware from spreading in a cloud environment?

Question353: A critical hypervisor security patch has been released and needs to be rolled out as soon as possible.
Which of the following steps can be taken to minimize downtime for all guest VMs currently running?

Question354: In which of the following situations would a network administrator optimize a company's WAN?

Question355: An administrator is unable to connect to servers in the DMZ. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to determine where the connection failure occurs?

Question356: A company has deployed a website which is mirrored at a secondary datacenter. Which of the following should be changed to route users to the secondary datacenter in case of a primary site failure?

Question357: A web server is offline. Which of the following will allow the FASTEST possible recovery of the web server?

Question358: A company is required to provide their customers with zero downtime for its web application. Which of the following would satisfy this requirement?

Question359: After a sudden spike in traffic Anne, an administrator, notices many internal IP addresses are sending traffic to an external web server belonging to another company. Which of the following attacks may she be witnessing from her network?

Question360: Which of the following, in conjunction with IPSec, can be configured to provide secure access to files on a NAS?

Question361: Which of the following would allow separation between the Internet and the internal network of a company?

Question362: Joe, an administrator, is responsible for the maintenance and support of all virtual servers in his environment. He needs to ensure that access to files and folders is optimized. Which of the following should Joe perform to accomplish this goal?

Question363: An IT manager wishes to migrate classified data to a cloud environment. Before the manager begins the planning phase, which of the following should be reviewed FIRST?

Question364: Which of the following would be the FASTEST way to backup a virtual server for the first time?

Question365: An administrator allocates 50GB on a SAN for use by a server. Which of the following describes what the administrator has just created?

Question366: Which of the following is a concern when migrating from a private cloud to a public cloud?

Question367: An administrator is no longer receiving alerting messages from the web server platform that recently failed over to a new secondary datacenter due to a power failure. Which of the following is the cause of the problem?

Question368: The helpdesk starts receiving calls from a number of users that are suddenly having issues accessing one of the project management shared drives. When Joe, an administrator, logs onto the guest hosting the drive via the console he is able to get to the information. Which of the following failures could have caused this issue?

Question369: Which of the following offers 128, 192, and 256 bit encryption?

Question370: Which of the following may be used to provide certificate management within an organization?

Question371: A datacenter migration is taking place and the administrator has been tasked with reducing the footprint of the new datacenter by virtualizing as many servers as possible. A physical server has been flagged as a candidate for relocation to the new data center. Which of the following methods would be the FIRST method for relocating the server to the new data center?

Question372: After receiving a report from the helpdesk that a database application is exhibiting degraded performance, the storage administrator detected an issue. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue that was discovered resulting in the degraded performance?

Question373: An administrator is attempting to troubleshoot an issue between a web server in the DMZ and an internal workstation by reviewing packet captures. Upon inspection, the payloads of the packets are unreadable.
Which of the following could be the cause of this issue?

Question374: Which of the following would be considered a cold site?

Question375: Some of the VMs in an environment are experiencing network connectivity loss. The VM management network has no connectivity issues. Which of the following could cause this connectivity issue?

Question376: A system administrator wants to be able to use one server to collect all of the logs on the network. Which of the following would be used to satisfy this scenario?

Question377: Joe, an administrator, has cloned a new virtualized application server. The new application server runs for several months and meets performance expectations. After building a second application server from the clone, Joe receives a few reports that the second server is too slow. Which of the following should Joe use FIRST to determine expected server performance?

Question378: The system administrator created a file sharing service to the cloud for easier access for those working remotely. Which of the following tests should be performed to determine if services can be compromised?

Question379: A company wants to migrate its critical application to a public cloud but the security administrator is concerned with the application's data confidentiality requirements. Which of the following can be done to review if the appropriate management security controls are in place at the provider?

Question380: Which of the following types of geo-clustering should a cloud service provider implement in case a tenant requires that response time decreases if operations are moved closer to the cloud service provider's primary site?

Question381: An administrator has been tasked with reducing costs by consolidating a firewall, proxy server, and NIPS.
Which of the following risks does this change introduce?

Question382: Which of the following is a subcomponent of a virtual machine?

Question383: Which of the following access control methods could allow for a network user to sign onto their corporate network and their supplier's network portal without having to enter their ID and password more than once?

Question384: Which of the following is the correct subnet mask for a VM with an IP address configuration of
192.168.1.10/24?

Question385: A hypervisor that prevents vendor lock-in is:

Question386: Which of the following ports is generally associated with a UDP based service?

Question387: A hosting company provides 10 VM web servers for a financial institution. The financial institution recently introduced a new web application and now their web traffic has significantly increased. Which of the following could the administrator implement to assist in reducing the load on the web servers?

Question388: A company is expanding its cloud hosting services to include storage. Prior to upgrading existing customers with the new service, the testing department needs to validate that users can access the new service without seeing other customer data or company sensitive data also hosted in the cloud environment. Which of the following should be conducted prior to deployment of the new service?

Question389: A company has decided to replace hypervisors to reduce licensing costs. An administrator has been tasked with migrating VMs to the new hypervisor. Which of the following migration types will be used?

Question390: Which of the following technologies allows for the secure exchange of encryption keys within an internal network?

Question391: An administrator creates a new VM, but after powering on the VM, the administrator receives the message
"no boot device detected". Which of the following needs to be done to resolve this problem?

Question392: The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has recently implemented a policy requiring all critical systems, including the virtualized environment to be highly available in the primary datacenter. The organization also maintains a cold site for disaster recovery. Which of the following BEST satisfies this requirement?

Question393: A recently deployed VM is running a Human Resource (HR) application on the HR network. Workstations in the accounting department can access the Internet and other accounting servers, but are unable to ping the new VM. Which of the following must be enabled for the accounting department to access this HR application?

Question394: A company uses a third-party utility to protect critical virtual machines. The third party uses deduplication to compress workloads without degrading performance. Which of the following should be tested to ensure appropriate network support?

Question395: Which of the following cloud services provides billing, payroll, contract management, and human resource management functions?

Question396: A financial storage system will be required by law to retain copies of checks for up to two years. Which of the following would be suited to meet this requirement?

Question397: Which of the following would allow the knowledge management division to maximize the ability to find documents within an online document repository?

Question398: A company has purchased a new self-service provisioning system and has brought in a consultant to deploy the system. During the installation the application attempts to connect to the database server but fails. Which of the following could cause the connection issue?

Question399: Which of the following is commonly the MAIN concern in public cloud implementations?

Question400: A storage appliance has lost all network access. Which of the following network access methods could a storage engineer use to investigate and correct the issue?

Question401: An administrator is tasked with installing an application patch on a virtual server. The administrator needs the ability to restore the server to its previous state quickly if the patch corrupts the system. Which of the following should the administrator do to accomplish this task?

Question402: Which of the following locations would a system engineer MOST likely place a NAS storage device for VM image files?

Question403: A server has two power supplies such that when the first one fails, the second one automatically is used to provide power to the server. This type of setup is an example of which of the following?

Question404: Multipathing software normally chooses favored paths based on which of the following?

Question405: A company that provides IaaS to small business organizations needs to allow customers to control the power state of their virtual machines. Which of the following should be implemented to accomplish this task?

Question406: A government agency wants to create a common environment that would allow them to share documents with other agencies using a cloud model. Which of the following would be the BEST approach?

Question407: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to know how secure the company's new IT system is. The Information Assurance Officer (IAO) decides that an external third party test of the system prior to deployment will provide an objective assessment for the CIO. Which of the following methods should be used in the scenario to test the system?

Question408: Which of the following tests would be MOST appropriate when determining the need for patches and updates to servers in the datacenter?

Question409: A system administrator has been tasked with increasing redundancy after a hard drive failure caused significant productivity loss for a company. The administrator suggests creating several routes to reach the storage array. Which of the following is the administrator suggesting to solve this issue?

Question410: A cloud service provider is associating chargeback values with their storage tiering solution as follows:
Tier 1 - RAID 10 on SAS 15,000 RPM disks. Sold at $0.25/GB
Tier 2 - RAID __?__ on SAS 15,000 RPM disks. Sold at $0.21/GB
Tier 3 - RAID 5 on SAS 10,000 RPM disks. Sold at $0.17/GB
Tier 4 - RAID 0 on SATA 10,000 RPM disks. Sold at $0.12/GB
Storage tiering is arranged by disk and RAID types and the cumulative benefits of both. The cloud service provider administrator is attempting to determine which RAID type to configure for Tier 2 storage.
Which of the following RAID types should the administrator use for Tier 2 storage?

Question411: A storage administrator has created five new LUNs for a company's virtual cluster. The company uses iSCSI to connect to storage. Which of the following is needed to present the newly created LUNs on the virtual cluster?

Question412: Which of the following is typically the BEST boundary controller in a private cloud implementation?

Question413: Which of the following is a file transfer protocol that would be MOST appropriate for transferring sensitive data?

Question414: An administrator is called in to determine why a virtual desktop has been unable to connect to the corporate network. Which of the following should be run to determine if the adapter is enabled? (Select TWO).

Question415: An administrator deployed a VM from a template which has the firewall disabled. The server IP address is manually assigned. The administrator cannot ping the server by IP address or DNS hostname and has logged in from the hypervisor management console to verify the TCP/IP settings are correct. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the issue?

Question416: A network administrator needs to manage a virtual switch remotely in a secure manner. Which of the following tools would MOST likely be used?

Question417: A start-up company has recently gone public and is experiencing unexpected growth. Which of the following cloud service models would allow the company to provide internal email quickly to new employees?

Question418: Which of the following will allow the administrator to be able to reduce Internet Service Provider costs for two sites that have replication as a preferred method for disaster recovery events?

Question419: Virtual switches are:

Question420: Which of the following virtual network components allows a virtual NIC to connect to local area resources?

Question421: Which of the following should an administrator establish before deploying a guest VM in a production environment?

Question422: Which of the following is a boot type that requires a NIC when provisioning a hypervisor on bare metal?

Question423: A new contract requires software to be developed, tested, and implemented within a month. Which of the following levels of service would allow rapid provisioning and deployment?

Question424: An administrator is planning to implement multipathing for iSCSI-connected storage. Which of the following is required for this configuration?

Question425: The performance logs on a virtualization server show a large number of pages being written to disk at a high rate. Which of the following should the technician do?

Question426: Which of the following tools would an administrator use to test connectivity of a server in the cloud?

Question427: A company has an existing internal network that hosts confidential information. However, this network also has a connection to a separate site. The separate site is managed by a third party organization that has an SLA with the company. Which of the following BEST defines this cloud delivery model?

Question428: A company would like to virtualize as many servers as possible. Which of the following would make a server that requires a connection to a dot matrix printer a viable candidate?

Question429: Which of the following would be the FIRST thing to do after determining an upgrade is required for a production application server?

Question430: Geo-clustering protects against which of the following?

Question431: Which of the following access control methods would be BEST suited in a peer-to-peer network?

Question432: A user is notified that they will be terminated at the end of the day. As they start cleaning up their workstation, they try to FTP information from their workstation to a cloud-based, personal backup solution.
Which of the following hardening techniques would be used to restrict their ability to transfer this information via FTP?

Question433: An administrator is tasked to perform a P2V migration of a critical application. Which of the following steps should the administrator perform FIRST before the migration?

Question434: Which of the following is the BEST approach to re-architect a server farm running transport encryption termination on web servers when HA is an overall major requirement?

Question435: Which of the following characteristics hosts several clients on a single physical platform?

Question436: An administrator wants to repurpose server hardware to host hypervisors. The administrator must FIRST:

Question437: A company just received a shipment of brand new blade servers and an administrator has been tasked with virtualizing the blade fabric switches. Which of the following would be used to accomplish this?

Question438: When conducting penetration testing on production systems during business hours, such testing will MOST likely cause disruption to operations when doing which of the following?

Question439: Which of the following BEST defines RAID 4?

Question440: A VM that is generally used for development is tested quarterly on other hypervisors to validate sideways compatibility. Which of the following migrations does this describe?

Question441: Which of the following would be BEST to use to host and manage virtualized database servers?

Question442: Users are reporting slow performance on a virtual server. An administrator notices that the virtual CPU is at
50%. Which of the following should the administrator check on the host?

Question443: In order for a company to transition to a cloud solution, which of the following should the company check FIRST before transitioning? (Select TWO).

Question444: Which of the following is an example of vertical scaling?

Question445: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has summoned an administrator due to the datacenter power bill being significantly higher than normal. The administrator explains that a new array was installed for a 20TB CRM application. Which of the following solutions would provide a new performance benefit and also reduce power consumption?

Question446: Which of the following is a benefit of virtualization in a cloud environment?

Question447: Which of the following protocols is MOST likely used by a switch to communicate status information to an administrator?

Question448: Which of the following storage technologies uses file level access?

Question449: Which of the following BEST explains why remote access works on a Type I host but not on a Type II host, when both are deployed in a single fully functioning environment as part of a hybrid cloud implementation?

Question450: Which of the following data replication methods provides the shortest RPO?

Question451: A catastrophic disk failure occurred on a company's critical database. After a technician performs a full system restore, one of the business units realizes that the current backup does not hold fresh enough information. Which of the following should the company revise?

Question452: An employee is asked to run an instance of a Linux OS while booted up in a Windows OS. Which of the following types of virtualization would be used to meet this requirement?

Question453: An administrator has recently added a new host server to a private cloud environment. The host has two quad-core processors and 128GB of RAM. The server will have ten guest servers that require a minimum of 1 CPU and 8GB of RAM per server. Four of the servers will only be used during off hours. Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure that the guest servers have the proper resources?

Question454: A fault tolerant storage array with clustered nodes is being installed. Which of the following would be the BEST description of this type of array?

Question455: A virtualized mission critical application requires a guaranteed level of resource utilization. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question456: A business has a virtualized environment which relies on specific file types, formats, and vendor supported tools. The business is MOST likely using which of the following?

Question457: The administrator wants to have central storage for all of the files to be stored for each VM. Which of the following is used to connect a host to a SAN utilizing a fiber connection?

Question458: Which of the following storage technologies is IP-based?

Question459: A company has a virtualized environment. Hosts are configured to dynamically assign resources from the resource pool as required. Ann, an administrator is remotely connected to a host and is adding ten more guests. She suddenly looses connection to the host and fails to reconnect. Ann now finds that the server no longer responds when pinged. Which of the following BEST describes the issue?

Question460: An administrator is responsible for creating a new template that will be used to deploy servers in a virtual environment. Which of the following should be the LAST step in completing the template?

Question461: A network administrator has been asked to implement a security solution to protect a company's internal network from external threats on the Internet. Which of the following technologies is the administrator MOST likely to use?

Question462: Which of the following will explain why only some of the CPU cycles are available to a virtualized server using two virtualized processors?

Question463: Which of the following is used for keeping track of all logical and physical data?

Question464: Which of the following networking components would be used to connect two subnets in a virtual environment?

Question465: An administrator is tasked with encrypting all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a cloud-based database. Which of the following types of encryption will ensure that ONLY this type of information is encrypted while the rest of the database remains unencrypted?

Question466: Which of the following encryption technologies would MOST likely be used to protect in-transit user data on a publicly accessible service?

Question467: An administrator is designing a VM cluster to support a new testing department in the company. This department will require high availability and the ability to migrate VMs with little impact to other network functions within the department. The infrastructure available for the department supports a 1GB internal backbone upon which virtual switches are being configured. Which of the following network designs would meet the criteria for the department?

Question468: Which of the following mitigates newly found vulnerabilities within software for an environment?

Question469: A company has contracted email and storage services from a cloud provider. They have seen significant growth in sales of their product and have been hiring additional workers. Their recent cloud services bill has increased and is projected to increase with another new project coming online. Which of the following cloud characteristics is represented?

Question470: An administrator is planning to implement multipathing for IP-based storage. Which of the following protocols can be used in this configuration?

Question471: Which of the following cloud services would MOST likely be selected by a software development company that needs a cloud in which to develop software and does not have infrastructure requirements?

Question472: Which of the following can be used to protect data integrity when information is being written to a SAN from multiple clients?

Question473: Which of the following cryptographic technologies is MOST likely to be used to protect data at rest?

Question474: An administrator deployed a VM that is hosting an internal website. Users report they are unable to access the new website. Which of the following should the network administrator do to test whether web traffic is being sent and received?

Question475: Which of the following hypervisor types runs on a host operating system that provides virtualization services, including memory management and device support?

Question476: A shipment company is looking to streamline some of their business activity. They are considering the automation of a number of electronic services. The company handles confidential documents and confidential data. Which of the following service options would the company choose?

Question477: Which of the following is used to handle non-sensitive information in a datacenter and can be moved to the public cloud to free up local resources and meet high demands?

Question478: A system administrator can no longer easily control a remote hypervisor because the workstation's mouse is broken. Which of the following remote access tools is the system administrator using?

Question479: An administrator needs to provide Internet access to all internal systems using a single IP address. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question480: A company has virtualized all of their servers on one physical server located on the company's first floor datacenter. The company also uses security software from a third-party cloud vendor as part of a SaaS contract. The overall cloud network model for this company's network is BEST described by which of the following?

Question481: A company that provides cloud-based storage services wants to ensure that if underlying hard disk drives are sent to the disposal facility, they will not contain any data in clear-text format. Which of the following should be done to accomplish this task?

Question482: Which of the following can be done after an administrator deploys a virtual server to ensure that the server vNIC can communicate to the physical network?

Question483: Which of the following would BEST ensure uninterrupted communication from the storage controller to the SAN?

Question484: A network engineer continuously runs traceroute at different network utilization levels. Which of the following is MOST likely being tested?

Question485: An administrator is tasked with ensuring that any new virtual server deployed will meet the minimum requirements for the environment. Which of the following items would be included in a baseline for a VM template? (Select TWO).

Question486: Which of the following does the administrator use to consolidate all the VMs into a single IP while allowing access to the Internet?

Question487: Every night a datacenter takes snapshots of each VM and backs them up to a tape which is shipped off to a disaster recovery site once a week. Which of the following can mitigate a security breach if the tapes were to fall out of the shipping vehicle during transport?

Question488: Which of the following would a company implement to provide authentication to multiple websites that are delivered through PaaS?

Question489: An administrator reports the company is running out of disk space on the SAN. The network administrator is installing a new SAN. Which of the following should the administrator implement to alleviate this problem on the new SAN?

Question490: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is selecting a hardware network solution that will optimize the WAN between company locations in North America and Europe. Which of the following can be changed by third- party hardware?

Question491: A developer is storing a large number of images in binary format to call for a website. Which of the following BEST describes this type of storage object?

Question492: For budget purposes, the accounting department has asked an administrator to provide a disaster recovery solution that will comply with the following requirements:
- Systems have to be operational within two days
- No disaster will be declared if the primary site is fully operational within 24 hours Which of the following is the BEST solution the administrator can propose to the accounting department?

Question493: Which of the following are used in guest servers? (Select TWO).

Question494: A system administrator is creating images of the physical servers on the network to create multiple VMs.
Which of the following is this process called?

Question495: After a recent outage going unnoticed, an administrator has been tasked to configure monitoring for the Linux-based and Windows-based host operating systems in a hybrid cloud. Which of the following services should the administrator confirm are functional prior to employing centralized monitoring to both types of operating systems? (Select two.)

Question496: Which of the following reduces the risk of known attacks from being successful?

Question497: An administrator has created a new virtual server according to specifications and verified that TCP/IP settings are correct. When the VM is powered on, however, an error message indicates that a network card MAC address conflict exists. Which of the following would resolve this issue?

Question498: A company has a contract with a cloud vendor in which their monthly bill changes based on how much data is stored in the cloud. Which of the following is a benefit of this contract?

Question499: A system administrator currently has two web server VMs on one host. Users are reporting that query searches within the site are slow. The system administrator notices that the host CPU is above the threshold. Which of the following should be completed?

Question500: Anne, an administrator, is unable to bring her system back up after installing a patch onto the live system.
Which of the following should Anne do in order to get the system back up and running?

Question501: Which of the following will provide the MOST network address information possible for a system that belongs to a tenant in a private cloud?