EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An organization has multiple VLANs configured to segregate the network traffic. Following is the breakdown of the network segmentation:
Production traffic (10.10.0.0/24)
Network backup (10.20.0.0/25)
Virtual IP network (10.20.0.128/25)
The following configuration exists on the server:

The backup administrator observes that the weekly backup is failing for this server. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to identify the issue?

Question2: A cloud administrator has deployed several VM instances that are running the same applications on VDI nodes. Users are reporting that a role instance is looping between STARTED, INITIALIZING, BUSY, and stop. Upon investigation, the cloud administrator can see the status changing every few minutes. Which of the following should be done to resolve the issue?

Question3: A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers.
Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

Question4: 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:

Question5: A security audit related to confidentiality controls found the following transactions occurring in the system:
GET
http://gateway.securetransaction.com/privileged/api/v1/changeResource?id=123
&user=277
Which of the following solutions will solve the audit finding?

Question6: A systems administrator adds servers to a round-robin, load-balanced pool, and then starts receiving reports of the website being intermittently unavailable. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question7: A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?

Question8: A cloud security engineer needs to design an IDS/IPS solution for a web application in a single virtual private network. The engineer is considering implementing IPS protection for traffic coming from the internet. Which of the following should the engineer consider to meet this requirement?

Question9: 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?

Question10: A systems administrator is performing an OS upgrade on a production VM. Which of the following actions should the administrator take before the upgrade to ensure the FASTEST recovery of the system in case the upgrade fails in an unrecoverable way?

Question11: A systems administrator wants to restrict access to a set of sensitive files to a specific group of users. Which of the following will achieve the objective?

Question12: A company wants to utilize its private cloud for a new application. The private cloud resources can meet 75% of the application's resource requirements. Which of the following scaling techniques can the cloud administrator implement to accommodate 100% of the application's requirements?

Question13: A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements.
Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

Question14: A company needs to access the cloud administration console using its corporate identity. Which of the following actions would MOST likely meet the requirements?

Question15: A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed.
Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?

Question16: A systems administrator needs to implement a service to protect a web application from external attacks. The administrator must have session-based granular control of all HTTP traffic. Which of the following should the administrator configure?

Question17: A volume-based licensing model is a licensing model that charges the customer based on the amount of data or resources that they consume or use. A volume-based licensing model is suitable for an laaS (Infrastructure as a Service) environment, as it allows the customer to pay only for what they need and scale up or down as their demand changes. A volume-based licensing model can provide financial benefits for the customer, such as lower upfront costs, greater flexibility, and more predictable billing.question 277 A cloud administrator is evaluating a solution that will limit access to authorized individuals. The solution also needs to ensure the system that connects to the environment meets patching, antivirus, and configuration requirements. Which of the following technologies would BEST meet these requirements?

Question18: A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment.
Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A cloud administrator used a deployment script to recreate a number of servers hosted in a public-cloud provider_ However, after the script completes, the administrator receives the following error when attempting to connect to one of the servers Via SSH from the administrators workstation: CHANGED. Which of the following IS the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question21: A systems administrator wants the VMs on the hypervisor to share CPU resources on the same core when feasible.
Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

Question22: A software development manager is looking for a solution that will allow a team of developers to work in isolated environments that can be spun up and torn down quickly.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate solution?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A systems administrator is examining a managed hosting agreement and wants to determine how much data would be lost if a server had to be restored from backups. To which of the following metrics should the administrator refer?

Question25: Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

Question26: A company has entered into a business relationship with another organization and needs to provide access to internal resources through directory services. Which of the following should a systems administrator implement?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A cloud administrator is configuring several security appliances hosted in the private laaS environment to forward the logs to a central log aggregation solution using syslog. Which of the following firewall rules should the administrator add to allow the web servers to connect to the central log collector?

Question30: A cloud administrator has deployed a website and needs to improve the site security to meet requirements. The website architecture is designed to have a DBaaS in the back end and autoscaling instances in the front end using a load balancer to distribute the request. Which of the following will the cloud administrator MOST likely use?

Question31: A cloud security analyst needs to ensure the web servers in the public subnet allow only secure communications and must remediate any possible issue. The stateful configuration for the public web servers is as follows:

Which of the following actions should the analyst take to accomplish the objective?

Question32: A cloud administrator is building a new VM for machine-learning training. The developer requesting the VM has stated that the machine will need a full GPU dedicated to it.
Which of the following configuration options would BEST meet this requirement?

Question33: 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?

Question34: A company is using an laaS environment. Which of the following licensing models would BEST suit the organization from a financial perspective to implement scaling?

Question35: An update is being deployed to a web application, and a systems administrator notices the cloud SQL database has stopped running. The VM is responding to pings, and there were not any configuration changes scheduled for the VM. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

Question36: A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.
Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

Question37: A product-based company wants to transition to a method that provides the capability to enhance the product seamlessly and keep the development iterations to a shorter time frame. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Question38: A cloud engineer has deployed a virtual storage appliance into a public cloud environment. The storage appliance has a NAT to a public IP address. An administrator later notices there are some strange files on the storage appliance and a large spike in network traffic on the machine. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question39: A company is concerned it will run out of VLANs on its private cloud platform in the next couple months, and the product currently offered to customers requires the company to allocate three dedicated, segmented tiers.
Which of the following can the company implement to continue adding new customers and to maintain the required level of isolation from other tenants?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: A systems administrator notices several VMS are constantly ballooning, while the memory usage of several other VMS is significantly lower than their resource allocation. Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Question43: An integration application that communicates between different application and database servers is currently hosted on a physical machine. A P2V migration needs to be done to reduce the hardware footprint. Which of the following should be considered to maintain the same level of network throughput and latency in the virtual server?

Question44: A cloud administrator implemented SSO and received a business requirement to increase security when users access the cloud environment. Which of the following should be implemented NEXT to improve the company's security posture?

Question45: A company has a cloud infrastructure service, and the cloud architect needs to set up a DR site.
Which of the following should be configured in between the cloud environment and the DR site?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A systems administrator needs to connect the companys network to a public cloud services provider. Which of the following will BEST ensure encryption in transit for data transfers?

Question49: An organization has a public-facing API that is hosted on a cloud provider. The API performs slowly at times.
Which of the following technologies should the cloud administrator apply to provide speed acceleration and a secure connection?

Question50: In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?

Question51: 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?

Question52: An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team.
Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?

Question53: A systems administrator is using a configuration management tool to perform maintenance tasks in a system.
The tool is leveraging the target system's API to perform these maintenance tasks. After a number of features and security updates are applied to the target system, the configuration management tool no longer works as expected. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question54: During a security incident on an laaS platform, which of the following actions will a systems administrator most likely take as part of the containment procedure?

Question55: A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a second hard drive failed.
Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?

Question56: A cloud administrator is planning to migrate a globally accessed application to the cloud.
Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement to BEST reduce latency for all users?

Question57: 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?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance.
Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

Question60: An organization has a web-server farm. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to obtain efficient distribution of requests to theservers?

Question61: A systems administrator is using VMs to deploy a new solution that contains a number of application VMs.
Which of the following would provide high availability to the application environment in case of hypervisor failure?

Question62: A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal.
Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?

Question63: Over the last couple of years, the growth of a company has required a more complex DNS and DHCP environment. Which of the following should a systems administration team implement as an appropriate solution to simplify management?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A systems administrator for an e-commerce company will be migrating the company's main website to a cloud provider. The principal requirement is that the website must be highly available.
Which of the following will BEST address this requirement?

Question71: A DevOps administrator is building a new application slack in a private cloud. This application will store sensitive information and be accessible from the internet. Which of the following would be MOST useful in maintaining confidentiality?

Question72: An administrator is securing a private cloud environment and wants to ensure only approved systems can connect to switches. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: A systems administrator is working in a globally distributed cloud environment. After a file server VM was moved to another region, all users began reporting slowness when saving files. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the administrator should check while troubleshooting?

Question76: A company is migrating workloads from on premises to the cloud and would like to establish a connection between the entire data center and the cloud environment. Which of the following VPN configurations would accomplish this task?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking of costs for each business are inaccurate.
Which of the following is the BEST method for resolving this issue?

Question80: 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?

Question81: A user reports a poor-quality remote VDI session. Which of the following should the help desk technician do FIRST to troubleshoot the issue?

Question82: A cloud administrator needs to implement a new system within the current CSR The system requires a storage service to allocate a large number of digital files and images. The storage service must keep files for distributed access and serve images directly to the user's browser. Which of the following solutions would best meet these requirements?

Question83: A corporation is evaluating an offer from a CSP to take advantage of volume discounts on a shared platform.
The finance department is concerned about cost allocation transparency, as the current structure splits projects into dedicated billing accounts. Which of the following can be used to address this concern?

Question84: Company A has acquired Company B and is in the process of integrating their cloud resources. Company B needs access to Company A's cloud resources while retaining its IAM solution.
Which of the following should be implemented?

Question85: A systems administrator is working within a private cloud environment. Over time. random 4K read/write speeds on all VMS in the environment slow down until the VMS are completely unusable, with disk speeds of less than 1MBps. The administrator has gathered the information below:
* There is no correlation between the slowdown and VM/hypervisor resource utilization.
* The network is rated to 40Gbps and utilization is between 1-5%.
* The hypervisors use hundreds of NFSv3 mounts to the same storage appliance, one per VM.
* The VMS on each hypervisor become unresponsive after two weeks of uptime.
* The unresponsiveness is resolved by moving slow VMS onto a rebooted hypervisor.
Which of the following solutions will MOST likely resolve this issue?

Question86: Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

Question87: A company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly.
Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?

Question88: Which of the following should a cloud architect consider for a containerized cluster in a cloud environment?

Question89: A cloud administrator needs to deploy a security virtual appliance in a private cloud environment, but this appliance will not be part of the standard catalog of items for other users to request. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this task?

Question90: A systems administrator is configuring a cloud solution for a vulnerability assessment to test the company's resources that are hosted in a public cloud. The solution must test the company's resources from an external user's perspective. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

Question91: A piece of software applies licensing fees on a socket-based model. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when attempting to calculate the licensing costs for this software?

Question92: A company has a web application that is accessed around the world. An administrator has been notified of performance issues regarding the application. Which of the following will BEST improve performance?

Question93: The security team for a large corporation is investigating a data breach. The team members are all trying to do the same tasks but are interfering with each other's work.
Which of the following did the team MOST likely forget to implement?

Question94: An organization is conducting a performance test of a public application. The following actions have already been completed:
* The baseline performance has been established.
* A load test has passed.
* A benchmark report has been generated.
Which of the following needs to be done to conclude the performance test?

Question95: Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

Question96: An organization's two-node, hybrid container cluster is experiencing failures during horizontal scaling to the cloud cluster instance. The on-premises IP range is 192.168.0.0/16, and the cloud environment is
10.168.0.0/16. Overlapping or stretched VLANs are not permitted, and a node is deployed in each location.
The cloud monitoring agent reports a healthy status for the second instance, but when pinging the clusters from on premises, the following output is received:
pinging cluster1. comptia. containers.com C192.168.100 reply
pinging cluster2. comptia. containers.com [192.16B .100 .128] request timed out Which of the following is the most likely reason for the scaling failure?

Question97: A web consultancy group currently works in an isolated development environment. The group uses this environment for the creation of the final solution, but also for showcasing it to customers, before commissioning the sites in production. Recently, customers of newly commissioned sites have reported they are not receiving the final product shown by the group, and the website is performing in unexpected ways.
Which of the following additional environments should the group adopt and include in its process?

Question98: A systems administrator is helping to develop a disaster recovery solution. The solution must ensure all production capabilities are available within two hours. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?

Question99: A cloud administrator is building a new VM for a network security appliance. The security appliance installer says the CPU clock speed does not meet the requirements.
Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Question100: 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?

Question101: A systems administrator receives a ticket stating the following:
"The programming team received an error during the process deploying applications to the container platform.
The error after the containerized applications were created"
Which the following should the administrator Check FIRST?

Question102: A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Question103: A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

Question104: A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

Question105: A cloud engineer is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. There is currently one virtual network that is used to host the servers in the cloud environment. The environment is rapidly growing, and the network does not have any more available IP addresses. Which of the following should the engineer do to accommodate additional servers in this environment?

Question106: An organization is developing a new solution for hosting an external website. The systems administrator needs the ability to manage the OS. Which of the following methods would be MOST suitable to achieve this objective?

Question107: 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?

Question108: The Chief Information Officer of a financial services company wants to ensure stringent security measures are maintained while migrating customer financial information from a private cloud to the public cloud. The cloud engineer must deploy automated validation and verification checks to prevent unauthorized disclosure of financial information. Which of the following should be configured during the migration?

Question109: 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?

Question110: A systems administrator needs to configure an email client to ensure data integrity of the email messages.
Which of the following provides the BEST mechanism to achieve this goal?

Question111: A cloud administrator has finished setting up an application that will use RDP to connect. During testing, users experience a connection timeout error.
Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Question112: A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?

Question113: An administrator has been informed that some requests are taking a longer time to respond than other requests of the same type. The cloud consumer is using multiple network service providers and is performing link load balancing for bandwidth aggregation. Which of the following commands will help the administrator understand the possible latency issues?

Question114: A cloud administrator is working in a secure government environment. The administrator needs to implement corrective action due to recently identified security issue on the OS of a VM that is running a facility-management application in a cloud environment. The administrator needs to consult the application vendor, so it might take some time to resolve the issue. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take while working on the resolution?

Question115: A company has two primary offices, one in the United States and one in Europe. The company uses a public laaS service that has a global data center presence to host its marketing materials. The marketing team, which is primarily based in Europe, has reported latency issues when retrieving these materials. Which of the following is the BEST option to reduce the latency issues?

Question116: A systems administrator has migrated a web application to the cloud with a synchronous uplink speed of
100Mbps. After the migration, the administrator receives reports of slow connectivity to the web application.
The administrator logs into the firewall and notices the WAN port is transmitting at a constant 12.5MBps.
Which of the following BEST explains the reason for the issue?

Question117: A cloud administrator set up a link between the private and public cloud through a VPN tunnel. As part of the migration, a large set of files will be copied. Which of the following network ports are required from a security perspective?

Question118: A company that requires full administrative control at the OS level is considering the use of public cloud services. Which of the following service models would BEST fit the company's requirements?

Question119: A highly regulated business is required to work remotely, and the risk tolerance is very low. You are tasked with providing an identity solution to the company cloud that includes the following:
secure connectivity that minimizes user login
tracks user activity and monitors for anomalous activity
requires secondary authentication
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Select controls and servers for the proper control points.

Question120: A cloud engineer recently set up a container image repository. The engineer wants to ensure that downloaded images are not modified in transit. Which of the following is the best method to achieve this goal?

Question121: A cloud administrator deployed new hosts in a private cloud. After a few months elapsed, some of the hypervisor features did not seem to be working. Which of the following was MOST likely causing the issue?

Question122: A systems administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue with a virtual database server. The administrator has identified the issue as being disk related and believes the cause is a lack of IOPS on the existing spinning disk storage. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT to resolve this issue?

Question123: A systems administrator must ensure confidential company information is not leaked to competitors. Which of the following services will BEST accomplish this goal?

Question124: Which of the following actions should a systems administrator perform during the containment phase of a security incident in the cloud?

Question125: A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service.
Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?

Question126: 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?

Question127: Following the deployment of a new VM, a cloud engineer notices the backup platform has not added the machine to the appropriate job. The backup platform uses a text-based variable for job configuration. This variable is based on the RPO requirements for the workload. Which of the following did the cloud engineer forget to configure when deploying the virtual machine?
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Question128: A global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event.
Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content.
Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?

Question129: A technician is trying to delete six decommissioned VMs. Four VMs were deleted without issue. However, two of the VMs cannot be deleted due to an error. Which of the following would MOST likely enable the technician to delete the VMs?

Question130: All of a company's servers are currently hosted in one cloud MSP. The company created a new cloud environment with a different MSP. A cloud engineer is now tasked with preparing for server migrations and establishing connectivity between clouds. Which of the following should the engineer perform FIRST?

Question131: A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider's environment that do not belong to the company.
Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

Question132: A cloud administrator is having difficulty correlating logs for multiple servers. Upon inspection, the administrator finds that the time-zone settings are mismatched throughout the deployment. Which of the following solutions can help maintain time synchronization between all the resources?

Question133: A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power.
Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A systems administrator is setting up a backup solution to follow the 3-2-1 policy. Currently, the solution is set to back up from the servers to an on-site storage server. Which of the following should the administrator configure to comply with the 3-2-1 policy?

Question136: A systems administrator is attempting to gather information about services and resource utilization on VMS in a cloud environment. Which of the following will BEST accomplish this objective?

Question137: A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances. Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?

Question138: A systems administrator is provisioning VMs in a cloud environment and has been told to select an OS build with the furthest end-of-life date.
Which of the following OS builds would be BEST for the systems administrator to use?

Question139: A security team is conducting an audit of the security group configurations for the Linux servers that are hosted in a public laaS. The team identifies the following rule as a potential

A cloud administrator, who is working remotely, logs in to the cloud management console and modifies the rule to set the source to "My IR" Shortly after deploying the rule, an internal developer receives the following error message when attempting to log in to the server using SSH: Network error: connection timed out.
However, the administrator is able to connect successfully to the same server using SSH. Which of the following is the BEST option for both the developer and the administrator to access the server from their locations?

Question140: A cloud security analyst needs to ensure the web servers in the public subnet allow only secure communications and must remediate any possible issue. The stateful configuration for the public web servers is as follows:

Which Of the following actions Should the analyst take to accomplish the Objective?

Question141: A Cloud administrator needs to reduce storage costs. Which of the following would BEST help the administrator reach that goal?

Question142: A cloud engineer, who manages workloads in a public cloud environment, uses autoscaling to maintain availability of a critical application. During a recent burst in demands, the engineer received the following error alert:
LimitedlnstanceCapacity
Which of the following is MOST likely cause of the error?

Question143: A cloud administrator is reviewing the annual contracts for all hosted solutions. Upon review of the contract for the hosted mail solution, the administrator notes the monthly subscription rate has increased every year.
The provider has been in place for ten years, and there is a large amount of data being hosted. Which of the following is a barrier to switching providers?

Question144: A systems administrator is concerned about having two virtual database servers on the same host. Which of the following should be configured?

Question145: A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

Question146: 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?

Question147: A cloud engineer recently used a deployment script template to implement changes on a cloud-hosted web application. The web application communicates with a managed database on the back end. The engineer later notices the web application is no longer receiving data from the managed database. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question148: A cloud solutions architect has an environment that must only be accessed during work hours. Which of the following processes should be automated to BEST reduce cost?

Question149: 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?

Question150: A systems administrator is configuring network management but is concerned about confidentiality. Which of the following should the administrator configure to address this concern?

Question151: A cloud administrator has received a physical disk that was analyzed by the incident response team. Which of the following documents should the cloud administrator update?

Question152: A systems administrator is responding to an outage in a cloud environment that was caused by a network-based flooding attack. Which of the following should the administrator configure to mitigate the attack?

Question153: Different healthcare organizations have agreed to collaborate and build a cloud infrastructure that should minimize compliance costs and provide a high degree of security and privacy, as per regulatory requirements.
This is an example of a:

Question154: An organization purchased new servers with GPUs for render farms. The servers have limited CPU resources.
Which of the following GPU configurations will be the MOST optimal for virtualizing this environment?

Question155: 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?

Question156: To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

Question157: A cloud administrator has deployed a new VM. The VM cannot access the Internet or the VMs on any other subnet. The administrator runs a network command and sees the following output:

The new VM can access another VM at 172.16.31.39. The administrator has verified the IP address is correct.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issue?

Question158: A company is performing a DR drill and is looking to validate its documentation. Which of the following metrics will determine the service recovery duration?

Question159: 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?