EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A cloud administrator has deployed a new all-flash storage array with deduplication and compression enabled, and moved some of the VMs into it. The goal was to achieve 4:1 storage efficiency while maintaining sub-millisecond latency. Which of the following results would BEST suit the requirements?

Question2: A cloud administrator is looking at business requirements that specify the data available at the disaster recovery site must not be more than 24 hours old. Which of the following metrics correctly relates to these requirements?

Question3: A cloud administrator is integrating account logins with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter for marketing and to increase market presence using social media platforms. Given this scenario, which of the following components are needed to match these requirements? (Select TWO).

Question4: A company security policy mandates education and training for new employees. The policy must outline acceptable use policies for SaaS applications. Given these requirements, which of the following security controls is BEST suited?

Question5: A cloud administrator is required to implement a solution to handle data-at-rest encryption requirements for a database. Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?

Question6: After scheduled network maintenance, users report that an externally hosted web application is particularly slow to load. Small items on the page load such as text documents and markup, but larger multimedia files do not load. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the reported issues?

Question7: The following three hosts are being put into a virtualization cluster for a new project initiative:

As more VMs are deployed to the cluster, which of the following virtualization technologies is MOST likely to report an error with this configuration?

Question8: A company wants to leverage a SaaS provider for its back-office services, and security is paramount.
Which of the following solutions should a cloud engineer deploy to BEST meet the security requirements?

Question9: A cloud provider is evaluating an insider threat. A resource from the company operations team has access to the servers' virtual disks. This poses a risk that someone could copy and move the virtual server image and have access to the data. Which of the following solutions would help mitigate this problem?

Question10: A cloud service company is proposing a solution to a major sporting venue. The solution offers 99.999% availability during special events, which is proven through specialized testing. Which of the following techniques should be applied to confirm the high availability claimed by the company? (Select TWO.)

Question11: A customer wants to schedule a backup job that compares and saves changes from the last full backup.
Which of the following backup types should be used?

Question12: A cloud architect is tasked with isolating traffic between subnets in an IaaS platform. The networks should be able to statefully communicate with each other. Given this scenario, which of the following should the architect implement?

Question13: A private cloud customer is considering using the public cloud to accommodate the peak utilization workload. Which of the following would be considered the ideal scaling solution?

Question14: A technician receives a report of system utilization:

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

Question15: Before doing a change on a VM, a systems administrator wants to ensure there is an easy and fast way to rollback if needed. The change and testing should take approximately two hours. Which of the following is the EASIEST way to meet this requirement?

Question16: A business is demanding faster IT services turnaround from its IT groups. The current lead time between request and delivery is three weeks for a task that would take a competitor two days. An architect is asked to develop a solution to reduce the lead time of the request while ensuring adherence to the company policies. Which of the following is the BEST approach to achieve the stated objective?

Question17: A company is implementing a launchpad within an existing application that will point to an existing SaaS provider. One of the requirements is the user should not have to log on multiple times. SSO is in place.
When the launchpad is used, the user is redirected to SaaS providers as designed, but is asked for login credentials. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question18: A manufacturing company's current security policy mandates PII is not stored in the SaaS solution. Which of the following configuration controls should be used to block sensitive information from being stored in the SaaS solution?

Question19: A company wants to take advantage of cloud benefits while retaining control of and maintaining compliance with all its security policy obligations. Based on the non-functional requirements, which of the following should the company use?

Question20: A customer wants a cloud systems administrator to adjust the backup schedule after month-end to ensure the data can be restored as fast as possible while minimizing the time needed to perform the backup.
Which of the following backup types should be scheduled?

Question21: A customer recently provisioned a new server on the IaaS. The IP address assigned from the pool resolves to another hostname. Some user traffic is being dumped or is causing slowness because of this issue. Which of the following maintenance activities does the provider need to perform to prevent this issue?

Question22: A cloud administrator is provisioning several user accounts that have administrator rights to assets using JSON within an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator is required to configure "alternate" settings using the API. Given this scenario, which of the following elements would allow the administrator to meet these requirements in the JSON file?

Question23: A cloud deployment engineer is modifying versions of the existing template image to instantiate new VMs.
The engineer accomplishes this through the cloud self-service portal. After the version is changed and a new VM is successfully started, it does not have any connectivity, and all ping tests to other VMs fail.
Which of the following would be the BEST approach to solve the problem?

Question24: Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure accounts in a cloud environment are disabled as soon as they no longer need to be active?

Question25: А cloud administrator uses a script to automatically restart all the servers running in the public cloud provider environment, which hosts e-commerce applications. The administrator decides to implement the same script for a similar environment that hosts the finance applications. After verifying the script is deployed to the public cloud environment for finance, the administrator schedules a job to run at 9:00 a.m.
After 9:00 a.m., the administrator receives a report from the e-commerce team that the application is experiencing outages. Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve the issue?

Question26: An organization is replacing its internal human resources system with a SaaS-based application. The solution is multi-tenant, and the organization wants to ensure ubiquitous access while preventing password replay attacks. Which of the following would BEST help to mitigate the risk?

Question27: A software solution must be deployed based on the most granular access level. Which of the following methods should be used to meet the requirements?

Question28: A new application with availability SLA requirements of 99.99% has been deployed in a cloud. For a test spanning a month, which of the following unavailability times would mean the test was successful? (Select TWO).

Question29: In an IaaS model, to which of the following methodologies would the client apply a list of OS patches, assuming approval from CAB has been given?

Question30: A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders. A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes for server template: x- small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

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

Question31: A company uses its own private cloud, which has few available resources. Mission-critical systems and other information systems are running on it. A new system will be deployed on the private cloud. The following tests are included in the test plan:
Load test (2h)

Backup/restore test (6h)

Functional test (8h)

Failover test (1h)

The work schedule of the existing system is shown below.

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

Question32: Ann. a user, has tried to connect to a VM hosted in a private cloud using her directory services credentials.
After three attempts, she realizes the keyboard was set to German instead of English, and she was typing
"z" instead of "y". After fixing this issue, Ann is still unable to log in; however, other users can access the VM. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question33: In an IaaS environment, the security team issues a new signature file to prevent specific malware threats from infiltrating the company network. Which of the following describes where the security team should deploy the updated signatures?

Question34: The CSA needs to install a patch on 58 virtual server instances during the Friday evening maintenance window. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to get the patches installed?

Question35: A cloud administrator configures a new web server for the site https://companyname.com. The administrator installs a wildcard SSL certificate for *.companyname.com. When users attempt to access the site, a certificate error is received. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

Question36: A critical new security update has been released to fix an identified zero-day vulnerability with the SSH server process. Due to its severity, all development and staging servers must have this update applied immediately. Which of the following is the FASTEST way for the administrator to apply the patch and ensure all systems are configured consistently?

Question37: The InfoSec team has directed compliance database activity monitoring without agents on a hosted database server in the public IaaS. Which of the following configurations is needed to ensure this requirement is achieved?

Question38: A university is running a DNA decoding project that will take seven years if it runs on its current internal mainframe. The university negotiated a deal with a large cloud provider, which will donate its cloud resource to process the DNA decoding during the low peak time throughout the world. Which of the following is the MOST important resource the university should ask the cloud provider to donate?

Question39: A cloud service administrator is consuming PaaS services and is performing baseline configuration tests.
Which of the following is part of the PaaS consumer's responsibility with respect to the baseline confirmation tests?

Question40: Several suspicious emails are being reported from end users. Organizational email is hosted by a SaaS provider. Upon investigation, the URL in the email links to a phishing site where users are prompted to enter their domain credentials to reset their passwords. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to protect potential account compromise?

Question41: A public cloud provider recently updated one of its services to provide a new type of application load balancer. The cloud administrator is tasked with building out a proof-of-concept using this new service type. The administrator sets out to update the scripts and notices the cloud provider does not list the load balancer as an available option type for deploying this service. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

Question42: A development team released a new version of an application and wants to deploy it to the cloud environment with a faster rollback and minimal downtime. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to achieve this goal?

Question43: A cloud administrator has finished building a virtual server template in a public cloud environment. The administrator is now cloning six servers from that template. Each server is configured with one private IP address and one public IP address. After starting the server instances, the cloud administrator notices that two of the servers do not have a public IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question44: An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization:

Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%. Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?

Question45: After monthly patching, a large number of users who are logged onto the network report that application links from a company's intranet site, which previously opened directly into the website, are now prompting for logon information. Application administrators confirm that the websites in question are working properly.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the new behavior?

Question46: A cloud implementation engineer successfully created a new VM. However, the engineer notices the new VM is not accessible from another network. A ping test works from another VM on the same subnet. Which of the following is the MOST likely problem?

Question47: A user has submitted a ticket to request additional VMs due to long wait times for online ordering. Given the snapshot of the resources in the table below:

Which of the following is the BEST option for the administrator to resolve the ticket?

Question48: A newly established CSP allows for drive shipping to upload new data into the environment. Sensitive data on 40TB of storage needs to be transferred within one week. Which of the following is the MOST efficient and secure method for shipment of the data to the CSP with minimal downtime?

Question49: A cloud administrator is analyzing usage trends for a website housed within an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator notices that traffic and visitors to the site quadrupled from the normal baseline during the holiday season. The environment has a load balancer that uses standardized VMs to host the applications.
Given this scenario, which of the following would be the MOST efficient, provide no downtime, and address the temporary spike in traffic?

Question50: A company is implementing a SaaS solution with a large user base. SaaS solution licensing is user based, and user management is critical to keep the cost in check. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to meet this requirement?

Question51: A storage administrator must choose the best replication methodology for storage.
The datacenters are on opposite sides of the country.

The RPO is 24 hours.

Replication and customer access use the same connections.

Replication should not impact customer access during the day.

Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

Question52: A cloud administrator reports a problem with the maximum number of users reached in one of the pools.
There are ten VMs in the pool, each with a software capacity to handle ten users. Based on the dashboard metrics, 15% of the incoming new service requests are failing. Which of the following is the BEST approach to resolve the issue?

Question53: A company's security policy requires full disk encryption on all clients with preboot enabled. The encryption server is hosted, and the requirement is to push an update to all endpoints. Which of the following is the BEST method to test and apply the update with minimal disruption to end users?

Question54: Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application.
The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization's administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?

Question55: A cloud administrator for a state government agency is tasked with giving access to the voter registration application to a government agency in another state. Only authorized officials from each state should access the application. These agencies have a common environment where applications have been deployed in the past. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to give access to the application?

Question56: A company upgraded a hosted vulnerability scanner to the latest version, and now tickets are not being created to assign critical vulnerabilities. After confirming the ticketing issue, all the scanning services are confirmed to be running on the VM. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause and best method to fix the issue?

Question57: A system's application servers need to be patched. The requirements for maintenance work are as follows:
System downtime is not allowed.

The application server in use must be in the sane patch status.

System performance must be maintained during patching work.

Testing after patching must be done before the application server is in use.

If any trouble occurs, recover the previous version in ten minutes.

Which of the following methodologies should be selected?

Question58: A software development company is building cloud-ready applications and needs to determine the best approach for releasing software. Which of the following approaches should be used?