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1. 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?

2. 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?

3. A systems administrator is deploying a solution that requires a virtual network in a private cloud environment. The solution design requires the virtual network to transport multiple payload types.

Which of the following network virtualization options would BEST satisfy the requirement?

4. 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?

5. A cloud architect is deploying a web application that contains many large images and will be accessed on two continents.

Which of the following will MOST improve the user experience while keeping costs low?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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?

16. 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.)

17. 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?

18. A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a VDI environment that provides end users with access to limited applications.

Which of the following should the administrator make changes to when a new application needs to be provided?

19. A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.

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

20. A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances.

Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective?

21. A systems administrator needs to configure a set of policies to protect the data to comply with mandatory regulations.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure DLP efficiently prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

22. A cloud engineer has deployed a virtual storage appliance into a public cloud environment. The storage appliance has a NAT to a public IP address. An administrator later notices there are some strange files on the storage appliance and a large spike in network traffic on the machine.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

23. A web server has been deployed in a public IaaS provider and has been assigned the public IP address of 72.135.10.100. Users are now reporting that when they browse to the website, they receive a message indicating the service is unavailable.

The cloud administrator logs into the server, runs a netstat command, and notices the following relevant output:





Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take to resolve the issue?

24. 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?

25. A cloud administrator is configuring several security appliances hosted in the private laaS environment to forward the logs to a central log aggregation solution using syslog.

Which of the following firewall rules should the administrator add to allow the web servers to connect to the central log collector?

26. Which of the following should be considered for capacity planning?

27. 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?

A. Rightsizing

B. Bandwidth increase

C. Cluster placement

D. Storage tiers

28. A cloud engineer, who manages workloads in a public cloud environment, uses autoscaling to maintain availability of a critical application.

During a recent burst in demands, the engineer received the following error alert:

LimitedlnstanceCapacity

Which of the following is MOST likely cause of the error?

29. 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?

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

31. 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?

32. 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?

33. A systems administrator must ensure confidential company information is not leaked to competitors.

Which of the following services will BEST accomplish this goal?

34. A company is using a hybrid cloud environment. The private cloud is hosting the business applications, and the cloud services are being used to replicate for availability purposes.

The cloud services are also being used to accommodate the additional resource requirements to provide continued services.

Which of the following scalability models is the company utilizing?

35. 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?

36. Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

37. A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department’s database servers.

Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

38. 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?

39. 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).

40. 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?

41. 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?

42. 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.)

43. 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?

44. 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?

45. 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?

46. 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?

47. 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?

48. 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?

49. A cloud security analyst is implementing a vulnerability scan of the web server in the DMZ, which is running in an IaaS compute instance.

The default inbound firewall settings are as follows:





Which of the following will provide the analyst with the MOST accurate report?

50. 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?

51. 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?

52. 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?

53. 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?

54. A cloud administrator needs to verify domain ownership with a third party. The third party has provided a secret that must be added to the DNS server.

Which of the following DNS records does the administrator need to update to include the secret?

55. A systems administrator is configuring a cloud solution for a vulnerability assessment to test the company's resources that are hosted in a public cloud. The solution must test the company's resources from an external user's perspective.

Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

56. 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?

57. 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?

58. 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?

59. An integration application that communicates between different application and database servers is currently hosted on a physical machine. A P2V migration needs to be done to reduce the hardware footprint.

Which of the following should be considered to maintain the same level of network throughput and latency in the virtual server?

60. 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?

61. 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?

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

63. A systems administrator is creating a playbook to run tasks against a server on a set schedule.

Which of the following authentication techniques should the systems administrator use within the playbook?

64. 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?

65. After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

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

Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

67. 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?

68. 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?

69. 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?

70. 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?

71. 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?

72. 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?

73. 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?

74. 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?

75. 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?

76. 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?

77. 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?

78. 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?

79. 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?

80. A company wants to implement business continuity, and the cloud solution architect needs to design the correct solution.

Which of the following will provide the data to measure business continuity? (Choose two.)

81. 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?

82. 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?

83. 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?

84. 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?

85. 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?

86. A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances.

Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?

87. A systems administrator is performing an OS upgrade on a production VM.

Which of the following actions should the administrator take before the upgrade to ensure the FASTEST recovery of the system in case the upgrade fails in an unrecoverable way?

88. 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?

89. A storage administrator is reviewing the storage consumption of a SAN appliance that is running a VDI environment.

Which of the following features should the administrator implement to BEST reduce the storage consumption of the SAN?

90. 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?

91. A systems administrator is working within a private cloud environment. Over time. random 4K read/write speeds on all VMS in the environment slow down until the VMS are completely unusable, with disk speeds of less than 1MBps.

The administrator has gathered the information below:

• There is no correlation between the slowdown and VM/hypervisor resource utilization.

• The network is rated to 40Gbps and utilization is between 1―5%.

• The hypervisors use hundreds of NFSv3 mounts to the same storage appliance, one per VM.

• The VMS on each hypervisor become unresponsive after two weeks of uptime.

• The unresponsiveness is resolved by moving slow VMS onto a rebooted hypervisor.

Which of the following solutions will MOST likely resolve this issue?

92. 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?

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

94. 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?

95. 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?

96. An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking of costs for each business are inaccurate.

Which of the following is the BEST method for resolving this issue?

97. 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?

98. 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?

99. 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?

100. 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?

101. 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?

102. An enterprise is considering a cost model for a DBaaS.

Which of the following is BEST for a cloud solution?