EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: An organization provides integration services for finance companies that use web services. A new company that sends and receives more than 100,000 transactions per second has been integrated using the web service.
The other integrated companies are now reporting slowness with regard to the integration service. Which of the following is the cause of the issue?

Question5: An organization has a web-server farm. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to obtain efficient distribution of requests to theservers?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A systems administrator has migrated an internal application to a public cloud. The new web server is running under a TLS connection and has the same TLS certificate as the internal application that is deployed.
However, the IT department reports that only internal users who are using new versions of the OSs are able to load the application home page.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A cloud administrator needs to coordinate and automate the management of a company's secrets and keys for all its cloud services with minimal effort and low cost. Which of the following is the BEST option to achieve the goal?

Question12: An environment has a dual-stack infrastructure in an active-active configuration in two separate data centers.
Which of the following best describes replication between the two sites?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: A company is planning to migrate applications to a public cloud, and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) would like to know the cost per business unit for the applications in the cloud. Before the migration, which of the following should the administrator implement FIRST to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A cloud engineer is responsible for a legacy web application that runs on an on-premises VM environment.
The VM environment is approaching end of life. The engineer needs to migrate the web application to the cloud as quickly as possible because the VM environment has the following limitations:
* The VM environment has a single IOGB disk.
* The VM environment still uses 10Mbps, which leaves a 100Mbps WAN connection underutilized.
* No installation media is available.
Which of the following is the best way to migrate the web application to the cloud?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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:

Question23: A company recently subscribed to a SaaS collaboration service for its business users. The company also has an on-premises collaboration solution and would like users to have a seamless experience regardless of the collaboration solution being used.
Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question24: A web-application company recently released some new marketing promotions without notifying the IT staff.
The systems administrator has since been noticing twice the normal traffic consumption every two hours for the last three hours in the container environment. Which of the following should the company implement to accommodate the new traffic?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: A systems administrator is configuring a DNS server. Which of the following steps should a technician take to ensure confidentiality between the DNS server and an upstream DNS provider?

Question28: A technician deployed a VM with NL-SAS storage to host a critical application. Two weeks later, users have begun to report high application latency. Which of the following is the best action to correct the latency issue?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A systems administrator needs to modify the replication factors of an automated application container from 3 to 5. Which of the following file types should the systems administrator modify on the master controller?

Question31: A systems administrator is about to deploy a new VM to a cloud environment. Which of the following will the administrator MOST likely use to select an address for the VM?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: Which of the following is relevant to capacity planning in a SaaS environment?

Question36: 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?

Question37: Which of the following definitions of serverless computing BEST explains how it is different from using VMs?

Question38: 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?

Question39: An organization recently deployed a private cloud on a cluster of systems that delivers compute, network, and storage resources in a single hardware, managed by an intelligent software. Which of the following BEST describes this type of deployment?

Question40: 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?

Question41: A systems administrator must ensure confidential company information is not leaked to competitors. Which of the following services will BEST accomplish this goal?

Question42: A VDI administrator is deploying 512 desktops for remote workers. Which of the following would meet the minimum number of IP addresses needed for the desktops?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A local bank has all of its infrastructure in the cloud. An update was applied to the main database server at
5:00 a.m. on Monday morning, and the database was then corrupted and unusable. It had to be restored from backup. The last backup was taken the night before at 10:00 p.m. The database was then restored successfully, but seven hours' worth of data was lost, which is deemed unacceptable. Which of the following needs to be updated in the DR plan?

Question45: A systems administrator is configuring updates on a system. Which of the following update branches should the administrator choose to ensure the system receives updates that are maintained for at least four years?

Question46: In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following enables CSPs to offer unlimited capacity to customers?

Question50: Which of the following will provide a systems administrator with the MOST information about potential attacks on a cloud IaaS instance?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Question53: A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?

Question54: 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?

Question55: A cloud administrator is troubleshooting an issue regarding users at one location who are reporting that their API access tokens have become invalid. The users are issued tokens based on their credentials in a federated cluster. Which of the following should the administrator check to determine the cause of this issue?

Question56: 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:

Question57: Which of the following cloud deployment models allows a company to have full control over its IT infrastructure?

Question58: A cloud administrator is supporting an application that has several reliability issues. The administrator needs visibility into the performance characteristics of the application. Which of the following will MOST likely be used in a reporting dashboard?

Question59: 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?

Question60: A cloud administrator is choosing a backup schedule for a new application platform that creates many small files. The backup process impacts the performance of the application, and backup times should be minimized during weekdays. Which of the following backup types best meets the weekday requirements?

Question61: 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?

Question62: 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.

Question63: Which of the following provides groups of compute units that can horizontally scale according to a workload?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A company has deployed a new cloud solution and is required to meet security compliance.
Which of the following will MOST likely be executed in the cloud solution to meet security requirements?

Question66: An application deployment team has observed delays in deployments and has asked the cloud administrator to evaluate the issue. Below is the result of a latency test that was conducted by the cloud administrator from offices located in the following regions:
* Asia-Pacific (APAC)
* Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
* Americas
Tests were conducted from each location, and the results are shown below:

Which of the following locations needs to be investigated further?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: A systems administrator deployed a new application release to the green stack of a blue-green infrastructure model and made the green stack primary. Immediately afterward, users began reporting application issues. The systems administrator must take action to bring the service online as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the FASTEST way to restore the service?

Question72: 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?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances. Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective?

Question76: 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?

Question77: An organization is deploying development, quality assurance, and production environments with equal numbers of IP addresses to the cloud. The IP address range provided is 10.168.0.0/24, and it needs to be terminated on a firewall. Which of the following IP subnets and firewall IPS should be used for one of the environments?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: During a security incident, an laaS compute instance is detected to send traffic to a host related to cryptocurrency mining. The security analyst handling the incident determines the scope of the incident is limited to that particular instance. Which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: A DevOps team needs to provide a solution that offers isolation, portability, and scalability Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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?

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: Due to a policy change, a few of a customer's application VMs have been migrated to synchronously replicated storage. The customer now reports that performance is lower. The systems administrator checks the resource usage and discovers CPU utilization is at 60% and available memory is at 30%.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question100: 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?

Question101: An organization has the following requirements that need to be met when implementing cloud services:
SSO to cloud infrastructure
On-premises directory service
RBAC for IT staff
Which of the following cloud models would meet these requirements?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: 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?

Question107: A company uses multiple SaaS-based cloud applications. All the applications require authentication upon access. An administrator has been asked to address this issue and enhance security. Which of the following technologies would be the BEST solution?

Question108: A systems administrator has received an email from the virtualized environment's alarms indicating the memory was reaching full utilization. When logging in, the administrator notices that one out of a five-host cluster has a utilization of 500GB out of 512GB of RAM. The baseline utilization has been 300GB for that host. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

Question109: A disaster situation has occurred, and the entire team needs to be informed about the situation. Which of the following documents will help the administrator find the details of the relevant team members for escalation?

Question110: 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?

Question111: After announcing a big sales promotion, an e-commerce company starts to experience a slow response on its platform that is hosted in a public cloud. When checking the resources involved, the systems administrator sees the following consumption:

Considering all VMs were built from the same templates, which of the following actions should the administrator perform FIRST to speed up the response of the e-commerce platform?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: 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?

Question115: 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?

Question116: After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)

Question117: A systems administrator is trying to connect to a remote KVM host. The command line appears as follows:

After logging in to the remote server, the administrator verifies the daemon is running. Which of the following should the administrator try NEXT?

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: A development team recently completed testing changes to a company's web-based CMS in the sandbox environment. The cloud administrator deployed these CMS application changes to the staging environment as part of the next phase in the release life cycle. The deployment was successful, but after deploying the CMS application, the web page displays an error message stating the application is unavailable. After reviewing the application logs, the administrator sees an error message that the CMS is unable to connect to the database.
Which of the following is the BEST action for the cloud administrator to perform to resolve the issue?

Question124: 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?

Question125: 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?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance.
Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: An organization is hosting its dedicated email infrastructure with unlimited mailbox creation capability. The management team would like to migrate to a SaaS-based solution. Which of the following must be considered before the migration?

Question131: 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?

Question132: A cloud administrator is performing automated deployment of cloud infrastructure for clients. The administrator notices discrepancies from the baseline in the configuration of infrastructure that was deployed to a new client. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

Question133: Which of the following will mitigate the risk of users who have access to an instance modifying the system configurations?

Question134: Users of an enterprise application, which is configured to use SSO, are experiencing slow connection times.
Which of the following should be done to troubleshoot the issue?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances. Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: A cloud administrator has built a new private cloud environment and needs to monitor all computer, storage, and network components of the environment.
Which of the following protocols would be MOST useful for this task?

Question140: A cloud administrator checked out the deployment scripts used to deploy the sandbox environment to a public cloud provider. The administrator modified the script to add an application load balancer in front of the web- based front-end application. The administrator next used the script to recreate a new sandbox environment successfully, and the application was then using the new load balancer.
The following week, a new update was required to add more front-end servers to the sandbox environment. A second administrator made the necessary changes and checked out the deployment scripts. The second administrator then ran the script, but the application load balancer was missing from the new deployment.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

Question141: 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:

Question142: A systems administrator is securing a new email system for a large corporation. The administrator wants to ensure private corporate information is not emailed to external users. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

Question143: 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?

Question144: 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?