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1. A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such data.

Which of the following should the systems administrator implement?

2. A web application has been configured to use autoscaling for provisioning and deprovisioning more VMs according to the workload. The systems administrator deployed a new CI/CD tool to automate new releases of the web application. During the night, a script was deployed and configured to be executed by the VMs during bootstrapping. Now. the autoscaling configuration is creating a new VM ever five minutes.

Which of the following actions will MOS I like y resolve the issue?

3. A security audit related to confidentiality controls found the following transactions occurring in the system:

GET http://gateway.securetransaction.com/privileged/api/v1/changeResource?id=123&user=277

Which of the following solutions will solve the audit finding?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. A cloud administrator has created a new asynchronous workflow lo deploy VMs to the cloud in bulk. When the workflow is tested for a single VM, it completes successfully. However, if the workflow is used to create 50 VMs at once, the job fails.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Choose two.)

7. A cloud architect wants to minimize the risk of having systems administrators in an IaaS compute instance perform application code changes. The development group should be the only group allowed to modify files in the directory.

Which of the following will accomplish the desired objective?

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

9. A systems administrator wants to restrict access to a set of sensitive files to a specific group of users.

Which of the following will achieve the objective?

10. 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?

11. A systems administrator is performing upgrades to all the hypervisors in the environment.

Which of the following components of the hypervisors should be upgraded? (Choose two.)

12. A technician just received the lessons learned from some recent data that was lost due to an on-premises file-server crash. The action point is to change the backup strategy to minimize manual intervention.

Which of the following is the BEST approach for the technician to implement?

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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?

16. A company needs a solution to find content in images.

Which of the following technologies, when used in conjunction with cloud services, would facilitate the BEST solution?

17. 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?

18. A SAN that holds VM files is running out of storage space.

Which of the following will BEST increase the amount of effective storage on the SAN?

19. 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?

20. A company has an in-house-developed application. The administrator wants to utilize cloud services for additional peak usage workloads. The application has a very unique stack of dependencies.

Which of the following cloud service subscription types would BEST meet these requirements?

21. 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?

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

Which of the following strategies should the company implement?

23. 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?

24. 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?

25. 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?

26. 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?

27. A DevOps administrator is designing a new machine-learning platform. The application needs to be portable between public and private clouds and should be kept as small as possible.

Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?

28. Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

29. A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter.

The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below:

The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions.

Which of the following solutions would help the company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

30. A company is preparing a hypervisor environment to implement a database cluster. One of the requirements is to share the disks between the nodes of the cluster to access the same LUN.

Which of the following protocols should the company use? (Choose two.)

31. A cloud administrator needs to establish a secure connection between two different locations.

Which of the following is the BEST option to implement the secure connection?

32. 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?

33. 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?

34. 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?

35. 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?

36. 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?

37. 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?

38. 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?

39. 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?

40. 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?

41. A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements.

Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

42. 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?

43. A cloud administrator is reviewing the authentication and authorization mechanism implemented within the cloud environment. Upon review, the administrator discovers the sales group is part of the finance group, and the sales team members can access the financial application. Single sign-on is also implemented, which makes access much easier.

Which of the following access control rules should be changed?

44. 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?

45. 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?

46. 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?

47. 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?

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

49. A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud.

Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

50. 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?

51. An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall. The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%.

Which of the following should be deployed?

52. A cloud architect is designing the VPCs for a new hybrid cloud deployment.

The business requires the following:

✑ High availability

✑ Horizontal auto-scaling

✑ 60 nodes peak capacity per region

✑ Five reserved network IP addresses per subnet

✑ /24 range

Which of the following would BEST meet the above requirements?

53. 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?

54. 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?

55. 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?

56. 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?

57. A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

58. 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?

59. A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance has been slow since the images were upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

This VDI environment is used to run simple tasks, such as Microsoft Office.

The administrator investigates the virtual machines and finds the following settings:

✑ 4 vCPU

✑ 16GB RAM

✑ 10Gb networking

✑ 256MB frame buffer

Which of the following MOST likely needs to be upgraded?

60. 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?

61. 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?

62. A company is deploying a public cloud solution for an existing application using lift and shift. The requirements for the applications are scalability and external access.

Which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).

63. 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?

64. A system administrator has provisioned a new web server.

Which of the following, in combination, form the best practice to secure the server's OS? (Choose three.)

65. A piece of software applies licensing fees on a socket-based model.

Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when attempting to calculate the licensing costs for this software?

66. 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?

67. 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?

68. 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?

69. A cloud administrator needs to reduce the cost of cloud services by using the company's off-peak period.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this with minimal effort?

70. 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:

71. 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?

72. 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?

73. 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?

74. A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.

Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

75. 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?

76. 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?

77. A cloud administrator is setting up a DR site on a different zone of the same CSP. The application servers are replicated using the VM replication, and the database replication is set up using log shipping. Upon testing the DR site, the application servers are unable to access the database servers. The administrator has verified the systems are running and are accessible from the CSP portal.

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

78. 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?

79. 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:

80. 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?

81. A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.

Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?

82. 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?

83. A systems administrator needs to convert ten physical servers to virtual.

Which of the following would be the MOST efficient conversion method for the administrator to use?

84. 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?

85. A systems administrator is analyzing a report of slow performance in a cloud application. This application is working behind a network load balancer with two VMs, and each VM has its own digital certificate configured. Currently, each VM is consuming 85% CPU on average. Due to cost restrictions, the administrator cannot scale vertically or horizontally in the environment.

Which of the following actions should the administrator take to decrease the CPU utilization? (Choose two.)

86. 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?

87. 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?

88. 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?

89. 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?

90. 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?

91. A systems administrator needs to configure monitoring for a private cloud environment. The administrator has decided to use SNMP for this task.

Which of the following ports should the administrator open on the monitoring server’s firewall?

92. 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?

93. 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?

94. 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?

95. 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?

96. 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?

97. 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?

98. A storage array that is used exclusively for datastores is being decommissioned, and a new array has been installed. Now the private cloud administrator needs to migrate the data.

Which of the following migration methods would be the BEST to use?

99. 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?

100. 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?