Question 1
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.
A. Update the PSK (Pre-shared key) in Router 2.
B. Update the A record on the DNS from 2.2.2.2 to 1.1.1.1.
C. Promote deny All to allow All in Firewall 1 and Firewall 2.
D. Change the Address Space on Router 2.
E. Change internal IP Address of Router 1.
F. Reverse the Weight property in the two CNAME records on the DNS.
G. Add the Application Server at on-premises to the Load Balancer.
Question 2
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?
A. Set up replication.
B. Copy the data across both sites.
C. Restore incremental backups.
D. Restore full backups.
Question 3
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?
A. Virtual GPU
B. External GPU
C. Passthrough GPU
D. Shared GPU
Question 4
Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?
A. PaaS
B. IaaS
C. CaaS
D. SaaS
Question 5
A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator checkFIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?
A. GPU
B. CPU
C. Storage
D. Memory
Question 6
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?
A. An SLA document
B. A DR plan
C. SOC procedures
D. A risk register
Question 7
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?
A. Create a VPC and peer the networks.
B. Implement dynamic routing.
C. Enable DHCP on the networks.
D. Obtain a new IPAM subscription.
Question 8
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?
A. V2V
B. V2P
C. P2P
D. P2V
Question 9
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 to company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?
A. Configure auto-scaling within the private cloud.
B. Set up cloud bursting for the additional resources.
C. Migrate all workloads to a public cloud provider.
D. Add more capacity to the private cloud.
Question 10
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?
A. Discretionary-based
B. Attribute-based
C. Mandatory-based
D. Role-based
