EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: An IT professional is selecting the appropriate cloud storage solution for an application that has the following requirements:
. The owner of the objects should be the object writer.
The storage system must enforce TLS encryption.
Which of the following should the IT professional configure?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: Which of the following would be the BEST option for discussion of what individuals should do in an incident response or disaster recovery scenario?

Question7: 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

Question8: 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?

Question9: When designing a three-node. load-balanced application, a systems administrator must ensure each node runs on a different physical server for HA purposes. Which of the following does the systems administrator need to configure?

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

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: A cloud administrator received a request to provision a set of cloud resources in an effort to switch to infrastructure as code to automate and optimize operations. The administrator decides to try to run some tests with the following definition:

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question15: A company needs to access the cloud administration console using its corporate identity. Which of the following actions would MOST likely meet the requirements?

Question16: A cloud engineer needs to perform a database migration_ The database has a restricted SLA and cannot be offline for more than ten minutes per month The database stores 800GB of data, and the network bandwidth to the CSP is 100MBps. Which of the following is the BEST option to perform the migration?

Question17: Users currently access SaaS email with five-character passwords that use only letters and numbers. An administrator needs to make access more secure without changing the password policy. Which of the following will provide a more secure way of accessing email at the lowest cost?

Question18: A systems administrator is deploying a new storage array for backups. The array provides 1PB of raw disk space and uses 14TB nearline SAS drives. The solution must tolerate at least two failed drives in a single RAID set.
Which of the following RAID levels satisfies this requirement?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: A systems administrator is writing a script for provisioning nodes in the environment. Which of the following would be best for the administrator to use to provision the authentication credentials to the script?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service.
Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?

Question27: A systems administrator is troubleshooting a VDI deployment that is used to run high-frame-rate rendering.
Users are reporting frequent application crashes. After running a benchmark, the administrator discovers the following:

Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A cloud administrator configured a local cloud-resource pool lo offer 64GB of memory, 64 cores, and 640GB of storage. Thirty-two machines with identical resource allocations are started. but one machine is unable to handle requests. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A systems administrator has a redundant backup system in place. Which of the following should the systems administrator perform to maintain efficient operation and comply with the global standard in the corporate backup policies?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: An organization is hosting a DNS domain with private and public IP ranges.
Which of the following should be implemented to achieve ease of management?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A systems administrator recently deployed a VDI solution in a cloud environment; however, users are now experiencing poor rendering performance when trying to display 3-D content on their virtual desktops, especially at peak times.
Which of the following actions will MOST likely solve this issue?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Question45: 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?

Question46: The human resources department was charged for a cloud service that belongs to another department. All other cloud costs seem to be correct.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error?

Question47: A cloud administrator must ensure all servers are in compliance with the company's security policy Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A systems administrator is planning to deploy a database cluster in a virtualization environment. The administrator needs to ensure the database nodes do not exist on the same physical host. Which of the following would best meet this requirement?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A systems administrator is implementing a new version of a company's primary human-resources application.
An upgrade will be performed on the production server, as there is no development environment. The administrator needs to have a plan in case something goes wrong with the upgrade. Which of the following will work best to ensure a quick rollback in case an issue arises?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A security analyst is investigating incidents in which attackers are able to access sensitive data from a corporate application's database. The attacks occur periodically and usually after the release of a new application's version. The following log confirms the compromise:
<date> USER: WebApp access-key accepted
<date> WebApp user assumed DBA role
<date> GetData API call executed
The following actions are made after every incident occurrence:
* Validation of firewall rules
* Scripted rebuild of the database and web instances
* Application deployment from a cloud code repository
Which of the following actions will MOST likely prevent future compromises?

Question58: An enterprise is considering a cost model for a DBaaS. Which of the following is BEST for a cloud solution?

Question59: A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?

Question60: A cloud administrator is designing a multiregion network within an IaaS provider. The business requirements for configuring the network are as follows:
* Use private networking in and between the multisites for data replication.
* Use low latency to avoid performance issues.
Which of the following solutions should the network administrator use within the IaaS provider to connect multiregions?

Question61: 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?

Question62: A company would like to move all its on-premises platforms to the cloud. The company has enough skilled Linux and web-server engineers but only a couple of skilled database administrators. It also has little expertise in managing email services. Which of the following solutions would BEST match the skill sets of available personnel?

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: An organization hosts an ERP database in on-premises infrastructure.
A recommendation has been made to migrate the ERP solution to reduce operational overhead in the maintenance of the data center.
Which of the following should be considered when migrating this on-premises database to DBaaS?

Question66: Which of the following strategies will mitigate the risk of a zero-day vulnerability MOST efficiently?

Question67: Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

Question68: A company is using laaS services from two different providers: one for its primary site, and the other for a secondary site. The primary site is completely inaccessible, and the management team has decided to run through the BCP procedures. Which of the following will provide the complete asset information?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: Which of the following actions should a systems administrator perform during the containment phase of a security incident in the cloud?

Question74: 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?

Question75: A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a cloud-based content management solution. According to the security policy, any data that is hosted in the cloud must be protected against data exfiltration. Which of the following solutions should the administrator implement?

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: A systems administrator is deploying a new virtualized environment. The setup is a three-server cluster with
12 VMs running on each server. While executing a vertical-scaling test of the vCPU on the VMs, the administrator gets an error. Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

Question81: A cloud architect is reviewing four deployment options for a new application that will be hosted by a public cloud provider. The application must meet an SLA that allows for no more than five hours of downtime annually. The cloud architect is reviewing the SLAs for the services each option will use:

Based on the information above, which of the following minimally complies with the SLA requirements?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: A systems administrator is configuring a storage system for maximum performance and redundancy. Which of the following storage technologies should the administrator use to achieve this?

Question86: After analyzing a web server's logs, a systems administrator sees that users are connecting to the company's application through HTTP instead of HTTPS. The administrator then configures a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS on the web server, and the application responds with a connection time-out message.
Which of the following should the administrator verify NEXT?

Question87: 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?

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A company has a large environment with multiple VPCs across three regions in a public cloud. The company is concerned about connectivity within the regions. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement?

Question93: Which of the following provides groups of compute units that can horizontally scale according to a workload?

Question94: A cloud administrator is setting up a new coworker for API access to a public cloud environment. The administrator creates a new user and gives the coworker access to a collection of automation scripts. When the coworker attempts to use a deployment script, a 403 error is returned. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

Question95: 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?

Question96: 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?

Question97: A large pharmaceutical company needs to ensure it is in compliance with the following requirements:
* An application must run on its own virtual machine.
* The hardware the application is hosted on does not change.
Which of the following will BEST ensure compliance?

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A cloud administrator needs to reduce storage costs. Which of the following would best help the administrator reach that goal?

Question101: A cloud service provider is designing an online streaming service that requires an uptime of 99.9%. Which of the following will best meet the uptime requirement?

Question102: A cloud engineer is performing updates to an application and needs to gracefully stop any new transactions from processing before the updates can be applied. Which of the following steps should the engineer take?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: A systems administrator is planning to deploy a database cluster in a virtualization environment. The administrator needs to ensure the database nodes do not exist on the same physical host. Which of the following would best meet this requirement?

Question107: An organization is running a database application on a SATA disk, and a customer is experiencing slow performance most of the time.
Which of the following should be implemented to improve application performance?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances. Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective?

Question115: Which of the following should a cloud architect consider for a containerized cluster in a cloud environment?

Question116: A cloud administrator is looking at the company's cloud services bill for the previous month. The administrator notices on the billing dashboard that certain resources are not being billed to any particular department. Which of the following actions will help correct this billing issue?

Question117: While investigating network traffic, a cloud administrator discovers the monthly billing has increased substantially. Upon further review, it appears the servers have been compromised, and sensitive files have been exfiltrated. Which of the following can be implemented to maintain data confidentiality?

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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?
* Tags

Question125: Which of the following enables CSPs to offer unlimited capacity to customers?

Question126: 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?

Question127: 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?

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 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?

Question130: An organization will be deploying a web application in a public cloud with two web servers, two database servers, and a load balancer that is accessible over a single public IP.
Taking into account the gateway for this subnet and the potential to add two more web servers, which of the following will meet the minimum IP requirement?

Question131: A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances. Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A systems administrator wants to be notified every time an application's configuration files are updated.
Which of the following should the administrator implement to achieve the objective?

Question137: A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance.
Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

Question138: A cloud engineer is migrating a customer's web servers from a hypervisor platform to a CSP environment. The engineer needs to decouple the infrastructure and components during the migration to reduce the single points of failure. Which of the following storage options should the cloud engineer migrate the content to in order to improve availability?

Question139: A systems administrator is troubleshooting issues with audio lag during phone conferences. When looking at the core switch, the administrator notices its buffers are consistently full, and packets are being dropped due to the large number being sent and received. There is no room in the budget for new hardware, but it is critical that the audio lag be fixed immediately. Which of the following will most likely resolve the issue?

Question140: 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?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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:

Question143: A cloud administrator would like to maintain file integrity checks through hashing on a cloud object store.
Which of the following is MOST suitable from a performance perspective?

Question144: 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?

Question145: A company's marketing department is running a rendering application on virtual desktops. Currently, the application runs slowly, and it takes a long time to refresh the screen. The virtualization administrator is tasked with resolving this issue. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question146: 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?

Question147: A systems administrator disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1, as well as RC4, 3DES, and AES-128 ciphers for TLS 1.2, on a web server. A client now reports being unable to access the web server, but the administrator verifies that the server is online, the web service is running, and other users can reach the server as well.
Which of the following should the administrator recommend the user do FIRST?

Question148: A cloud administrator has been using a custom VM deployment script. After three months of use, the script no longer joins the LDAP domain. The cloud administrator verifies the account has the correct permissions.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the failure?

Question149: 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?

Question150: 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?

Question151: 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?

Question152: 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?

Question153: 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?

Question154: A systems administrator has been notified of possible illegal activities taking place on the network and has been directed to ensure any relevant emails are preserved for court use.
Which of the following is this MOST likely an example of?

Question155: 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?

Question156: A systems administrator is deploying a new version of a website. The website is deployed in the cloud using a VM cluster. The administrator must then deploy the new version into one VM first. After a period of time, if there are no issues detected, a second VM will be updated. This process must continue until all the VMS are updated. Which of the following upgrade methods is being implemented?

Question157: A systems administrator has verified that a physical switchport that is connected to a virtualization host is using all available bandwidth. Which of the following would best address this issue?

Question158: After an infrastructure-as-code cloud migration to an laaS environment, the cloud engineer discovers that configurations on DB servers have drifted from the corporate standard baselines. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do to best ensure configurations are restored to the baselines?

Question159: 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?

Question160: A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.
Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

Question161: 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?

Question162: 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?

Question163: 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?

Question164: 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?

Question165: A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud.
However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests.
Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Question166: 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?

Question167: A database analyst reports it takes two hours to perform a scheduled job after onboarding 10,000 new users to the system. The analyst made no changes to the scheduled job before or after onboarding the users. The database is hosted in an IaaS instance on a cloud provider. Which of the following should the cloud administrator evaluate to troubleshoot the performance of the job?

Question168: A business is looking at extending the platform for an internally developed application using microservices from various cloud vendors. The cloud architect is responsible for reviewing the proposed solution design, which covers critical requirements for the business to fulfill its requirements. Which of the following is the most likely requirement the cloud architect needs to fulfill?

Question169: An organization is required to set a custom registry key on the guest operating system.
Which of the following should the organization implement to facilitate this requirement?

Question170: 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?

Question171: 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?

Question172: A cloud administrator is reviewing the current private cloud and public laaS environment, and is building an optimization plan. Portability is of great concern for the administrator so resources can be easily moved from one environment to another.
Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question173: 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?

Question174: 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?

Question175: 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?

Question176: A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a highly available web application running within three containers behind a Layer 7 load balancer with a WAF inspecting all traffic. The application frequently asks the users to log in again even when the session timeout has not been reached. Which of the following should the cloud administrator configure to solve this issue?

Question177: 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?

Question178: 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?

Question179: A systems administrator is planning a penetration test for company resources that are hosted in a public cloud.
Which of the following must the systems administrator do FIRST?

Question180: 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?

Question181: 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?

Question182: 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?

Question183: 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?

Question184: 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?

Question185: 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?