261-270 Flashcards
Which of the following are advantages of a public cloud? (Choose two.)
A. Full control of hardware
B. Reduced monthly costs
C. Decreased network latency
D. Pay as you use
E. Availability of self-service
F. More secure data
B. Reduced monthly costs
D. Pay as you use
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?
A. Email archiving
B. Version control
C. Legal hold
D. File integrity monitoring
C. Legal hold
A cloud administrator deployed new hosts in a private cloud. After a few months elapsed, some of the hypervisor features did not seem to be working. Which of the following was MOST likely causing the issue?
A. Incorrect permissions
B. Missing license
C. Incorrect tags
D. Oversubscription
B. Missing license
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?
A. Round-robin methods
B. Live migration
C. Anti-affinity rule
D. Priority queues
C. Anti-affinity rule
A cloud engineer recently used a deployment script template to implement changes on a cloud-hosted web application. The web application communicates with a managed database on the back end. The engineer later notices the web application is no longer receiving data from the managed database. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A. Misconfiguration in the user permissions
B. Misconfiguration in the routing traffic
C. Misconfiguration in the network ACL
D. Misconfiguration in the firewall
D. Misconfiguration in the firewall
Based on the shared responsibility model, which of the following solutions passes the responsibility of patching the OS to the customer?
A. PaaS
B. DBaaS
C. IaaS
D. SaaS
C. IaaS
An engineer is investigating potential performance issues in a hypervisor platform. When comparing the allocated versus actual resources, the engineer notices the platform is oversubscribed. Which of the following is MOST likely the immediate cause of the performance issues?
A. Dynamic allocation
B. Oversubscription
C. Ballooning
D. Transparent page sharing
B. Oversubscription
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?
A. Identify the changes to the file-sharing service and document.
B. Acquire a third-party DLP solution to implement and manage access.
C. Test the current access permissions to the file-sharing service.
D. Define and configure the proper permissions for the file-sharing service.
D. Define and configure the proper permissions for the file-sharing service.
A company is using an IaC deployment model to a public cloud IaaS. The automation runs partially and then fails to build a VM in the IaaS environment. Upon further assessment, the connectivity to the IaaS is confirmed. Which of the following are the MOST likely causes of the failure? (Choose two.)
A. Insufficient account balance
B. Network settings
C. Resource tagging
D. API request limits
E. Administrator access
F. Inadequate storage
B. Network settings
E. Administrator access
A cloud administrator is investigating slow VM performance. The administrator has checked the physical server performance and has identified the host is under stress due to a peak usage workload. Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should complete?
A. Perform a root cause analysis.
B. Migrate the VM to a different host.
C. Document the findings.
D. Perform a system restart.
A. Perform a root cause analysis.
