Question 31
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?
A. Service-level agreement
B. Vendor lock-in
C. Memorandum of understanding
D. Encrypted data
Question 32
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 this?
A. Deduplication
B. Thin provisioning
C. Software-defined storage
D. iSCSI storage
Question 33
After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)
A. Identify the resources that are accessible to the affected IAM user.
B. Remove the published plain-text password.
C. Notify users that a data breach has occurred.
D. Change the affected IAM user's password.
E. Delete the affected IAM user.
Question 34
A cloud administrator has deployed a new VM. The VM cannot access the Internet or the VMs on any other subnet. The administrator runs a network command and sees the following output:
The new VM can access another VM at 172.16.31.39. The administrator has verified the IP address is correct. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issue?
A. A missing static route
B. A duplicate IP on the network
C. Firewall issues
D. The wrong gateway
Question 35
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?
A. The cost of the environment
B. The I/O of the storage
C. Feature compatibility
D. Network utilization
Question 36
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 to do FIRST?
A. Disable antivirus/anti-malware software.
B. Turn off the software firewall.
C. Establish a VPN tunnel between the computer and the web server.
D. Update the web browser to the latest version.
Question 37
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?
A. Checking user passwords
B. Configuring QoS rules
C. Enforcing TLS authentication
D. Opening TCP port 3389
Question 38
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?
A. Initiate a failover.
B. Restore backups.
C. Configure the network.
D. Perform a failback.
Question 39
An IaaS application has a two-hour RTO and 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?
A. Back up to long-term storage every night.
B. Back up to object storage every three hours.
C. Back up to long-term storage every four hours.
D. Back up to object storage every hour.
Question 40
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?
A. vRAM
B. vCPU
C. vGPU
D. vNIC
