EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company has decided to get multiple compliance and security certifications for its public cloud environment. However, the company has few staff members to handle the extra workload, and it has limited knowledge of the current infrastructure.
Which of the following will help the company meet the compliance requirements as quickly as possible?

Question2: A company needs a solution to find content in images. Which of the following technologies, when used in conjunction with cloud services, would facilitate the BEST solution?

Question3: A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of the OS.
Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?

Question4: An organization is currently deploying a private cloud model. All devices should receive the time from the local environment with the least administrative effort. Which of the following ports needs to be opened to fulfill this requirement?

Question5: A technician is working with an American company that is using cloud services to provide video-based training for its customers. Recently, due to a surge in demand, customers in Europe are experiencing latency.
Which of the following services should the technician deploy to eliminate the latency issue?

Question6: A storage array that is used exclusively for datastores is being decommissioned, and a new array has been installed. Now the private cloud administrator needs to migrate the data.
Which of the following migration methods would be the BEST to use?

Question7: A systems administrator is asked to implement a new three-host cluster. The cloud architect specifies this should be a testing environment, and the budget is limited. The estimated resource consumption for each application is as follows:

Question8: A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service.
Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?

Question9: A systems administrator needs to configure a set of policies to protect the data to comply with mandatory regulations.
Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure DLP efficiently prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

Question10: Which of the following should be considered for capacity planning?

Question11: A systems administrator needs to migrate email services to the cloud model that requires the least amount of administrative effort. Which of the following should the administrator select?

Question12: A systems administrator has finished installing monthly updates to servers in a cloud environment. The administrator notices certain portions of the playbooks are no longer functioning. Executing the playbook commands manually on a server does not work as well. There are no other reports of issues.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question13: A cloud solutions architect has received guidance to migrate an application from on premises to a public cloud. Which of the following requirements will help predict the operational expenditures in the cloud?

Question14: A company wants to move its environment from on premises to the cloud without vendor lock-in. Which of the following would BEST meet this requirement?

Question15: A storage administrator is reviewing the storage consumption of a SAN appliance that is running a VDI environment. Which of the following features should the administrator implement to BEST reduce the storage consumption of the SAN?

Question16: A media company has made the decision to migrate a physical, internal file server to the cloud and use a web- based interface to access and manage the files. The users must be able to use their current corporate logins.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to achieve this goal?

Question17: An organization's web server farm, which is hosted in the cloud with DNS load balancing, is experiencing a spike in network traffic. This has caused an outage of the organization's web server infrastructure.
Which of the following should be implemented to prevent this in the future as a mitigation method?

Question18: A company had a system compromise, and the engineering team resolved the issue after 12 hours. Which of the following information will MOST likely be requested by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to understand the issue and its resolution?

Question19: A systems administrator is deploying a solution that includes multiple network I/O-intensive VMs. The solution design requires that vNICs of the VMs provide low-latency, near-native performance of a physical NIC and data protection between the VMs. Which of the following would BEST satisfy these requirements?

Question20: A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Question21: A cloud administrator wants to have a central repository for all the logs in the company's private cloud. Which of the following should be implemented to BEST meet this requirement?

Question22: A cloud administrator is monitoring a database system and notices an unusual increase in the read operations, which is causing a heavy load in the system. The system is using a relational database and is running in a VM.
Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve the issue with minimal architectural changes?

Question23: An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:
Allow HTTPS/HTTP.
Disable FTP and SMB traffic.
Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?

Question24: A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled.
Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?

Question25: A production engineer is configuring a new application, which is running in containers, that requires access to a database. Which of the following methods will allow the application to authenticate to the database in the MOST secure way?

Question26: A company would like to migrate its current on-premises workloads to the public cloud. The current platform requires at least 80 instances running at all times to work properly. The company wants the workload to be highly available, even if the cloud provider loses one region due to a catastrophe, and the costs to be kept to a minimum. Which of the following strategies should the company implement?

Question27: Users of a public website that is hosted on a cloud platform are receiving a message indicating the connection is not secure when landing on the website. The administrator has found that only a single protocol is opened to the service and accessed through the URL https://www.comptiasite.com. Which of the following would MOST likely resolve the issue?

Question28: A cloud administrator needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the expense of the company's cloud resources.
Which of the following is the BEST option to execute this task with minimal effort?

Question29: An administrator needs to back up all the data from each VM daily while also saving space. Which of the following backup types will BEST fit this scenario?

Question30: A company is planning its cloud architecture and wants to use a VPC for each of its three products per environment in two regions, totaling 18 VPCs. The products have interdependences, consuming services between VPCs. Which of the following should the cloud architect use to connect all the VPCs?

Question31: After initial stress testing showed that a platform performed well with the specification of a single 32 vCPU node, which of the following will provide the desired service with the LOWEST cost and downtime?

Question32: A company is considering consolidating a number of physical machines into a virtual infrastructure that will be located at its main office. The company has the following requirements:
High-performance VMs
More secure
Has system independence
Which of the following is the BEST platform for the company to use?

Question33: A systems administrator wants to ensure two VMs remain together on the same host. Which of the following must be set up to enable this functionality?

Question34: A company has hired a security firm to perform a vulnerability assessment of its environment. In the first phase, an engineer needs to scan the network services exposed by the hosts. Which of the following will help achieve this with the LEAST privileges?

Question35: Which of the following would be the BEST option for discussion of what individuals should do in an incident response or disaster recovery scenario?

Question36: An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs.
Which of the following should be verified NEXT?

Question37: A cloud administrator is upgrading a cloud environment and needs to update the automation script to use a new feature from the cloud provider. After executing the script, the deployment fails. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question38: A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter. The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below:

The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions.
Which of the following solutions would help the company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

Question39: A company wants to move to a multicloud environment and utilize the technology that provides the most portability. Which of the following technology solutions would BEST meet the company's needs?

Question40: A vendor is installing a new retail store management application for a customer. The application license ensures software costs are low when the application is not being used, but costs go up when use is higher.
Which of the following licensing models is MOST likely being used?

Question41: A cloud administrator recently noticed that a number of files stored at a SaaS provider's file-sharing service were deleted. As part of the root cause analysis, the administrator noticed the parent folder permissions were modified last week. The administrator then used a test user account and determined the permissions on the files allowed everyone to have write access.
Which of the following is the best step for the administrator to take NEXT?

Question42: An IaaS provider has numerous devices and services that are commissioned and decommissioned automatically on an ongoing basis. The cloud administrator needs to implement a solution that will help reduce administrative overhead.
Which of the following will accomplish this task?

Question43: A developer is no longer able to access a public cloud API deployment, which was working ten minutes prior.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Question44: An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.
Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?

Question45: A systems administrator recently upgraded the processors in a web application host. Upon the next login, the administrator sees a new alert regarding the license being out of compliance.
Which of the following licensing models is the application MOST likely using?

Question46: A systems administrator is troubleshooting issues with network slowness. Traffic analysis shows that uplink bandwidth on the core switch is often sustained at 125Mbps due to a combination of production traffic from other sources. Which of the following would BEST resolve the issue?

Question47: In an existing IaaS instance, it is required to deploy a single application that has different versions.
Which of the following should be recommended to meet this requirement?

Question48: A cloud administrator is managing an organization's infrastructure in a public cloud. All servers are currently located in a single virtual network with a single firewall that all traffic must pass through. Per security requirements, production, QA, and development servers should not be able to communicate directly with each other. Which of the following should an administrator perform to comply with the security requirement?

Question49: A company developed a product using a cloud provider's PaaS platform and many of the platform-based components within the application environment.
Which of the following would the company MOST likely be concerned about when utilizing a multicloud strategy or migrating to another cloud provider?

Question50: A systems administrator is building a new virtualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host.
This is an example of:

Question51: An organization suffered a critical failure of its primary datacenter and made the decision to switch to the DR site. After one week of using the DR site, the primary datacenter is now ready to resume operations.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to bring the block storage in the primary datacenter up to date with the DR site?

Question52: A systems administrator is deploying a VM and would like to minimize storage utilization by ensuring the VM uses only the storage if needs. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

Question53: A cloud administrator is assigned to establish a connection between the on-premises data center and the new CSP infrastructure. The connection between the two locations must be secure at all times and provide service for all users inside the organization. Low latency is also required to improve performance during data transfer operations. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Question54: A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances. Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective?

Question55: A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such data. Which of the following should the systems administrator implement?

Question56: Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

Question57: A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage.
Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?

Question58: A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.
Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

Question59: A cloud provider wants to make sure consumers are utilizing its IaaS platform but prevent them from installing a hypervisor on the server. Which of the following will help the cloud provider secure the environment and limit consumers' activity?

Question60: A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?

Question61: A systems administrator is diagnosing performance issues on a web application. The web application sends thousands of extremely complex SQL queries to a database server, which has trouble retrieving the information in time. The administrator checks the database server and notes the following resource utilization:
CPU: 64%
RAM: 97%
Network throughput: 384,100Kbps.
Disk throughput: 382,700Kbps
The administrator also looks at the storage for the database server and notices it is consistently near its OPS limit. Which of the following will BEST resolve these performance issues?

Question62: A cloud administrator is setting up a DR site on a different zone of the same CSP. The application servers are replicated using the VM replication, and the database replication is set up using log shipping. Upon testing the DR site, the application servers are unable to access the database servers. The administrator has verified the systems are running and are accessible from the CSP portal.
Which of the following should the administrator do to fix this issue?

Question63: A cloud engineer is responsible for managing two cloud environments from different MSPs. The security department would like to inspect all traffic from the two cloud environments.
Which of the following network topology solutions should the cloud engineer implement to reduce long-term maintenance?

Question64: A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department's database servers.
Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

Question65: A cloud administrator needs to reduce the cost of cloud services by using the company's off-peak period.
Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this with minimal effort?

Question66: A systems administrator notices that a piece of networking equipment is about to reach its end of support.
Which of the following actions should the administrator recommend?

Question67: A cloud administrator is reviewing the authentication and authorization mechanism implemented within the cloud environment. Upon review, the administrator discovers the sales group is part of the finance group, and the sales team members can access the financial application. Single sign-on is also implemented, which makes access much easier.
Which of the following access control rules should be changed?

Question68: Which of the following actions should a systems administrator perform during the containment phase of a security incident in the cloud?

Question69: A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure?

Question70: A DevOps administrator is designing a new machine-learning platform. The application needs to be portable between public and private clouds and should be kept as small as possible. Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?

Question71: A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance has been slow since the images were upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows
10.
This VDI environment is used to run simple tasks, such as Microsoft Office. The administrator investigates the virtual machines and finds the following settings:
4 vCPU
16GB RAM
10Gb networking
256MB frame buffer
Which of the following MOST likely needs to be upgraded?

Question72: A systems administrator wants to verify the word "qwerty" has not been used as a password on any of the administrative web consoles in a network. Which of the following will achieve this goal?

Question73: An organization is hosting a cloud-based web server infrastructure that provides web-hosting solutions.
Sudden continuous bursts of traffic have caused the web servers to saturate CPU and network utilizations.
Which of the following should be implemented to prevent such disruptive traffic from reaching the web servers?

Question74: A company is currently running a website on site. However, because of a business requirement to reduce current RTO from 12 hours to one hour, and the RPO from one day to eight hours, the company is considering operating in a hybrid environment. The website uses mostly static files and a small relational database. Which of the following should the cloud architect implement to achieve the objective at the LOWEST cost possible?

Question75: After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)

Question76: A systems administrator has been asked to restore a VM from backup without changing the current VM's operating state. Which of the following restoration methods would BEST fit this scenario?

Question77: An organization is using multiple SaaS-based business applications, and the systems administrator is unable to monitor and control the use of these subscriptions. The administrator needs to implement a solution that will help the organization apply security policies and monitor each individual SaaS subscription. Which of the following should be deployed to achieve these requirements?

Question78: A SAN that holds VM files is running out of storage space.
Which of the following will BEST increase the amount of effective storage on the SAN?

Question79: The QA team is testing a newly implemented clinical trial management (CTM) SaaS application that uses a business intelligence application for reporting. The UAT users were instructed to use HTTP and HTTPS.
Refer to the application dataflow:
1A - The end user accesses the application through a web browser to enter and view clinical data.
2A - The CTM application server reads/writes data to/from the database server.
1B - The end user accesses the application through a web browser to run reports on clinical data.
2B - The CTM application server makes a SOAP call on a non-privileged port to the BI application server.
3B - The BI application server gets the data from the database server and presents it to the CTM application server.
When
UAT users try to access the application using https://ctm.app.com or http://ctm.app.com, they get a message stating: "Browser cannot display the webpage." The QA team has raised a ticket to troubleshoot the issue.
INSTRUCTIONS
You are a cloud engineer who is tasked with reviewing the firewall rules as well as virtual network settings.
You should ensure the firewall rules are allowing only the traffic based on the dataflow.
You have already verified the external DNS resolution and NAT are working.
Verify and appropriately configure the VLAN assignments and ACLs. Drag and drop the appropriate VLANs to each tier from the VLAN Tags table. Click on each Firewall to change ACLs as needed.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question80: A company needs to rehost its ERP system to complete a datacenter migration to the public cloud. The company has already migrated other systems and configured VPN connections.
Which of the following MOST likely needs to be analyzed before rehosting the ERP?

Question81: A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would all ow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

Question82: A cloud architect wants to minimize the risk of having systems administrators in an IaaS compute instance perform application code changes. The development group should be the only group allowed to modify files in the directory.
Which of the following will accomplish the desired objective?

Question83: A systems administrator is configuring network management but is concerned about confidentiality. Which of the following should the administrator configure to address this concern?

Question84: A company is switching from one cloud provider to another and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible.
Which of the following is the MOST important consideration to ensure a seamless migration?

Question85: A company needs to migrate the storage system and batch jobs from the local storage system to a public cloud provider. Which of the following accounts will MOST likely be created to run the batch processes?

Question86: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating the company's security management program. The CISO needs to locate all the assets with identified deviations and mitigation measures. Which of the following would help the CISO with these requirements?

Question87: A startup online gaming company is designing the optimal graphical user experience for multiplayer scenarios.
However, online players have reported latency issues. Which of the following should the company configure as a remediation?

Question88: A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities.
Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

Question89: A company has decided to scale its e-commerce application from its corporate datacenter to a commercial cloud provider to meet an anticipated increase in demand during an upcoming holiday.
The majority of the application load takes place on the application server under normal conditions. For this reason, the company decides to deploy additional application servers into a commercial cloud provider using the on-premises orchestration engine that installs and configures common software and network configurations.
The remote computing environment is connected to the on-premises datacenter via a site-to-site IPSec tunnel.
The external DNS provider has been configured to use weighted round-robin routing to load balance connections from the Internet.
During testing, the company discovers that only 20% of connections completed successfully.
INSTRUCTIONS
Review the network architecture and supporting documents and fulfill these requirements:
Part 1:
Analyze the configuration of the following components: DNS, Firewall 1, Firewall 2, Router 1, Router 2, VPN and Orchestrator Server.
Identify the problematic device(s).
Part 2:
Identify the correct options to provide adequate configuration for hybrid cloud architecture.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Part 1:
Cloud Hybrid Network Diagram








Part 2:
Only select a maximum of TWO options from the multiple choice question

Question90: A cloud security analyst is implementing a vulnerability scan of the web server in the DMZ, which is running in an IaaS compute instance. The default inbound firewall settings are as follows:

Which of the following will provide the analyst with the MOST accurate report?

Question91: An enterprise recently upgraded the memory of its on-premises VMs from 8GB to 16GB. However, users are not experiencing any performance benefit. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

Question92: A systems administrator needs to deploy a solution to automate new application releases that come from the development team. The administrator is responsible for provisioning resources at the infrastructure layer without modifying any configurations in the application code. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this task?

Question93: A technician needs to deploy two virtual machines in preparation for the configuration of a financial application next week. Which of the following cloud deployment models should the technician use?

Question94: A company has an in-house-developed application. The administrator wants to utilize cloud services for additional peak usage workloads. The application has a very unique stack of dependencies.
Which of the following cloud service subscription types would BEST meet these requirements?

Question95: An IaaS application has a two-hour RTO and a four-hour RPO. The application takes one hour to back up its data or restore from a local backup file. A systems administrator is tasked with configuring the backup policy.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to achieve the application requirements with the LEAST cost?

Question96: A technician just received the lessons learned from some recent data that was lost due to an on-premises file-server crash. The action point is to change the backup strategy to minimize manual intervention. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the technician to implement?

Question97: An organization is implementing a new requirement to facilitate users with faster downloads of corporate application content. At the same time, the organization is also expanding cloud regions.
Which of the following would be suitable to optimize the network for this requirement?

Question98: A user reports a poor-quality remote VDI session. Which of the following should the help desk technician do FIRST to troubleshoot the issue?

Question99: A cloud solutions architect needs to determine the best strategy to deploy an application environment in production, given the following requirements:
No downtime
Instant switch to a new version using traffic control for all users
Which of the following deployment strategies would be the BEST solution?

Question100: A systems administrator is working on the backup schedule for a critical business application that is running in a private cloud. Which of the following would help the administrator schedule the frequency of the backup job?

Question101: A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations.
Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?

Question102: A systems administrator wants to have near-real-time information on the volume of data being exchanged between an application server and its clients on the Internet.
Which of the following should the systems administrator implement to achieve this objective?

Question103: A systems administrator needs to configure monitoring for a private cloud environment. The administrator has decided to use SNMP for this task.
Which of the following ports should the administrator open on the monitoring server's firewall?

Question104: A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information:
The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%.
The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server.
A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address.
The server is a member of the same security group as the others.
The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

Question105: A system administrator supports an application in the cloud, which includes a restful API that receives an encrypted message that is passed to a calculator system. The administrator needs to ensure the proper function of the API using a new automation tool. Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the administrator to use to accomplish this requirement?

Question106: Users are experiencing slow response times from an intranet website that is hosted on a cloud platform. There is a site-to-site VPN connection to the cloud provider over a link of 100Mbps.
Which of the following solutions will resolve the issue the FASTEST?

Question107: A financial industry services firm was the victim of an internal data breach, and the perpetrator was a member of the company's development team. During the investigation, one of the security administrators accidentally deleted the perpetrator's user data. Even though the data is recoverable, which of the following has been violated?