EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: Which of the following are types of storage media? (Select two.)

Question4: A company changed its policy to have seven-year data retention in the public cloud. Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective way to meet retention requirements?

Question5: Which of the following is the BEST choice for a clustered host interconnect?

Question6: A cloud administrator wants to apply patches in an isolated copy of the production virtual server to assess the impact. Which of the following activities would BEST achieve this objective?

Question7: A business is planning to migrate from a private cloud to a public cloud. To document business continuity, which of the following should be done FIRST?

Question8: A new startup company is growing and wants to deploy a human resources management system on a private cloud that is only accessible to the human resources department. Which of the following is the BEST method of access control?

Question9: A cloud engineer is using a hosted service for aggregating the logs for all the servers in a public cloud environment. Each server is configured via syslog to send its logs to a central location. A new version of the application was recently deployed, and the SaaS server now stops processing logs at noon each day. In reviewing the system logs, the engineer notices the size of the logs has increased by 50% each day. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the logs are not being published after noon?

Question10: A security and risk team requires a weekly report to detect VM file system changes and validate the integrity of the OS. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this requirement?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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).

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: A company is experiencing latency problems connecting to the cloud. Which of the following should an administrator check FIRST?

Question16: Which of the following generally has better performance when accessing larger databases?

Question17: A company has just completed a security audit and received initial results from the auditor. The results show that the ethical hacker was able to gain access to the company servers by exploiting non-hardened VMs and hosts as guests and administrators. Which of the following should be implemented to harden the environment?
(Select two.)

Question18: 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?

Question19: Which of the following describes connecting a physical Ethernet adapter to a virtual Ethernet adapter?

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: 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?

Question22: A large finance firm processes three times as many transactions in December of each year. The transactions are processed in a private cloud. Management wants to avoid adding permanent resources to accommodate the single month increase. Which of the following is the BEST way to meet the need?

Question23: A cloud administrator updates the syslog forwarder configuration on a local server in production to use a different port. The development team is no longer receiving the audit logs from that server. However, the security team can retrieve and search the logs for the same server. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

Question24: 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?

Question25: Which of the following describes a community string?

Question26: Which of the following will allow for configuration of a round robin, load balanced environment?

Question27: Which of the following typically provides a FASTER access speed in a network storage implementation?

Question28: Which of the following encryption types would be used to protect company information when stored on a cloud server being shared by multiple companies?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: Which of the following describes connecting a physical Ethernet adapter to a virtual Ethernet adapter?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: Which of the following is a benefit of having a virtual versus physical server environment?

Question36: Which of the following ports is used for HTTPS?

Question37: 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?

Question38: Which of the following is used to connect a VM to a SAN?

Question39: A storage administrator must choose the best replication methodology for storage.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

Question40: 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?

Question41: Which of the following can be used to physically restrict employees from accessing a datacenter?

Question42: 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?

Question43: Which of the following does the administrator use to consolidate all the VMs into a single IP while allowing access to the Internet?

Question44: 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?

Question45: 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?

Question46: Which of the following are benefits of virtualization in a cloud environment? (Select two.)

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following elements should be tested when deploying cloud based services? (Select two.)

Question50: A cloud administrator is receiving alerts that the disk on several systems is 90% full. Upon reviewing the systems, the administrator determines that the log directory is using 50% of the disk. The company has a
14-day retention policy for all logs. Which of the following is the BEST solution to implement to minimize future alerts?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A company uses its own private cloud, which has few available resources. Mission-critical systems and other information systems are running on it. A new system will be deployed on the private cloud. The following tests are included in the test plan:
The work schedule of the existing system is shown below.

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

Question55: 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?

Question56: An administrator is implementing a private cloud that will be used as a test environment. To limit the number of guests per subnet to a maximum of 14, the administrator implemented a /20 network. Which of the following should the administrator use to assign the networks?

Question57: Which of the following should be implemented to ensure email continuity is not disrupted if one of multiple datacenters experiences an outage?

Question58: Which of the following is the BEST way to achieve network throughput on any host with existing NICs?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: During peak times, users are unable to access their online wealth management applications in a timely fashion.
The online banking application resides in a community cloud environment. Which of the following explains how the cloud systems administrator should start to resolve this issue?

Question62: An amount of storage capacity presented to a host to format with its own file system is:

Question63: Anne, a system administrator, has replaced an HBA in one of her servers; however, none of the FC logical drives are accessible. Which of the following is MOST likely to be the case?

Question64: After deploying new VMs, the systems administrator notices it is not possible to connect to them using network credentials; however, local accounts work. After logging in, the administrator notices the NTP servers are not set. Which of the following is MOST likely causing this issue?

Question65: Which of the following tests would be MOST appropriate when over allocate storage on VMs in a development cluster?

Question66: Which of the following is used by storage tiering to meet SLAs?

Question67: Which of the following is commonly the MAIN concern in public cloud implementations?

Question68: 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?

Question69: Which of the following may be used to increase data confidentiality when encryption is not an option?

Question70: 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?

Question71: Which of the following techniques would be used to deliver SLA performance guarantees for a VM in a virtual environment? (Select two.)

Question72: 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?

Question73: An upgrade to a web application, which supports 400 users at four sites, is being tested. The application runs on four servers behind a load balancer.
The following test plan is proposed:
Which of the following parameters is being properly tested by this plan?

Question74: Which of the following is a zone, within a network, that is MOST likely to be accessed by both internal and external hosts?

Question75: A cloud engineer deployed an email server in a public cloud. Users can access the email server, but the emails they send cannot reach their destinations. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do FIRST?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A consultant is helping a large company migrate its development environment to a public cloud provider. The developers are working on a VDI solution. The development tools that employees utilize require greater control of the OS environment. Which of the following cloud types should the consultant implement?

Question78: 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.)

Question79: An administrator defines a backup as follows:
Which of the following BEST describes where the administrator would define this?

Question80: A tenant has provisioned a new database server. It needs to add the database files in the exclusion list for security scanning, as it allows down the performance and locks the database file. Which of the following solutions must have this exclusion?

Question81: A Type 1 hypervisor has the following specifications:
RAM128GB
CPU4 socket quad-core
Storage16TB
Each VM must have 8GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 512GB storage. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of VMs that can be hosted on this hypervisor?

Question82: A hosted file share was infected with CryptoLocker and now root cause analysis needs to be performed. Place the tasks in the correct order according to the troubleshooting methodology.

Question83: 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?

Question84: A cloud architect created a new delivery controller for a large VM farm to scale up according to organizational needs. The old and new delivery controllers now form a cluster. However, the new delivery controller returns an error when entering the license code. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question85: 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?

Question86: Which of the following would a company implement to provide authentication to multiple websites that are delivered through PaaS?

Question87: Which of the following data replication methods provides the shortest RPO?

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: A VM was deleted by mistake today at 11:05 a.m. Below are the backups currently available for the VM:

Crash-consistent restore is acceptable. Which of the following backups should be chosen?

Question91: 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?

Question92: When designing a new private cloud platform, a cloud engineer wants to make sure the new hypervisor can be configured as fast as possible by cloning the OS from the other hypervisor. The engineer does not want to use local drives for the hypervisors. Which of the following storage types would BEST suit the engineer's needs?

Question93: Which of the following backup methods is MOST used by VM users?

Question94: Which of the following ensures that there is enough space for vendors to install their programs and run the software they will be managing for various SaaS products?

Question95: A company hosts its server in a public IaaS cloud. The company's management decides to migrate the servers to a different geographical region that is closer to the user base. A cloud administrator creates a new environment in that geographical region. Which of the following is the BEST way to migrate the VM from the original geographic region to the new region?

Question96: Which of the following utilities would BEST help diagnose NAS mount points?

Question97: A physical server with SSD drives that hosts an IO-intensive database has been migrated into a private cloud to ensure further growth possibilities and accommodate quarterly load spikes (up to 10,000 IOPs).
The requirement is to have log partition latency below 5ms and data partition latency below 10ms, irrespective of the load spikes.
A cloud administrator has conducted extensive tests after the migration.
Which of the following test results would ensure the migration is successful?

Question98: An engineer is configuring the monitoring for a new application server. During the day, the CPU on the server is baselined at approximately 30% utilization. At midnight, a batch job is scheduled to run that will drive the CPU utilization up to 75% for approximately an hour. Any time the CPU utilization is at 40% or higher for longer than ten minutes, administrators will receive an alert. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure administrators do not experience message fatigue due to false alerts?

Question99: 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?

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A courier company has virtualized its packing software application. The CSA needs to confirm the deployment is utilizing the correct amount of CPU per virtual instance. After confirming the deployment requirements, the CSA should log into the cloud services portal to ensure that:

Question104: Which of the following tools would an administrator use when determining the hop count between a source and a destination?

Question105: 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?

Question106: A cloud administrator is securing access to a VM using an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator must perform this task using an automated method, allow administrators to perform any method and expose any property of the VM, deny access for everyone else, and allow only read-only access to everyone else. Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator use to BEST meet these requirements?

Question107: In a private cloud environment, which of the following is the BEST way to update 20 VMs with the same patch that has been regression tested and approved for rollout?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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.)

Question111: 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?

Question112: A company has moved all on-premises workloads into a public cloud. After some time, the cloud engineer starts noticing time drifts on the VMs and suspects an NTP issue. Time drifts were not an issue when all the workloads were on-premises. Which of the following describes how the cloud engineer should resolve the issue?

Question113: 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?

Question114: 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?

Question115: A company wants to be sure their cloud infrastructure is secure but fully available. To ensure this, the company wants to observe and be alerted in the event of a security breach, but chose a response for each alert.
Which of the following solutions would meet these requirements?