Cloud+3

Question 1

1.Jeff has a dashboard application that can give him an at-a-glance look at the various virtual machines on his cloud infrastructure. He notices that one of the systems is showing memory usage at 95 percent. Which of the following types of testing has possibly been overlooked for that system?
	a.	Performance testing
	b.	Load testing
	c.	Security testing
	d.	Functionality testing

Answer 1

B

Question 2

2.Frasier is comparing the logs from the firewall to the logs on the web server after a security incident. He is trying to correlate the events, but it appears that the traffic took several minutes to reach the web server from the firewall for each of the various attempts. Which of the following could be the issue?
	a.	Licensing outage
	b.	CSP outage
	c.	Platform integration issue
	d.	Time synchronization

Answer 2

D

Question 3

3.A large international organization currently has a single support desk that operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. However, they have realized that for disaster planning purposes, it would be a good idea to have multiple support desks in different locations so that if one went down the others could take over for it. Normal operations, though, would mean that they didn’t have to staff any of the operations overnight. Which of the following has the company decided to use as the new model for their support desk?
	a.	Centralized
	b.	FTS
	c.	Unified
	d.	Streamlined

Answer 3

B

Question 4

4.Fictional Corp has recently implemented a change management process where a group of employees, through regular meetings, must approve or deny the changes that are proposed through a formalized process. What is the name of the team of employees that is responsible for approving or denying the requested changes?
	a.	CAB
	b.	ECAB
	c.	CMDB
	d.	CASB

Answer 4

A

Question 5

5.Kathryn has been tasked with migrating several on-premises applications that currently reside on servers in the company’s data center to a cloud service provider. As part of the process she has taken images from the local systems and put them onto the CSP’s platform and now wants to run some tests to determine how well the environment auto-scales as demand increases. Which of the following best describes the type of testing she is performing at this stage of the migration?
	a.	Performance testing
	b.	Load testing
	c.	Vulnerability testing
	d.	Penetration testing

Answer 5

B

Question 6

6.A social video sharing platform has grown quite popular in the United States and has decided to expand to Europe. They want to open a second data center there as part of their expansion. Which of the following is perhaps one of the biggest pieces of the expansion that they want to consider a part of the data storage strategies?
	a.	Legal restrictions
	b.	Baselines
	c.	Business continuity
	d.	Cloud architecture

Answer 6

A

Question 7

7.Thomas has been tasked with implementing automation wherever possible. He starts to work on the first system where he knows automation would greatly benefit the company. What is one of the first things he should do before implementing the automation?
	a.	Design a workflow
	b.	Create a change request
	c.	Create a backup of the system
	d.	Update the patches on the system

Answer 7

A

Question 8

8.The Chief Technology Officer of an organization just got back from a technology conference where he learned about a set of best practices that many other organizations have put into place to help them be more efficient with their operations. Some of the topics covered by these best practices include change management and systems that store maintenance and configuration information for systems. He has determined that he wants everyone in his organization trained and up to speed on at least the foundational level of knowledge of these practices. What is the topic that the managers in IT should begin looking for training on?
	a.	CMDB
	b.	ITIL
	c.	PCI DSS
	d.	HIPAA

Answer 8

B

Question 9

9.Fictional Corp has grown exponentially over the first few years of its existence. Until now it had been using commercial off-the-shelf software. They’ve decided to create a development team and need to decide what the best method of development management is. Which of the following are the two most common methods that they might choose from?
	a.	Flexible
	b.	Agile
	c.	Stream
	d.	Waterfall

Answer 9

B

Question 10

10.Fictional Corp uses a process to provide oversight to the development, maintenance, and retirement of programs that the company creates and uses internally. Which of the following would best describe this oversight and process?
	a.	Waterfall management
	b.	Agile management
	c.	Application life cycle management
	d.	Gantt management

Answer 10

C

Question 11

11.One of the sales managers has approached the development team to ask for some changes to one of the web applications that his team uses. He made some great suggestions, but the development team manager told him they can’t just make those changes without going through the formalized process. Which of the following should the development manager ask the sales manager for?
	a.	Business justification
	b.	ROI
	c.	Change request
	d.	CAB

Answer 11

C

Question 12

12.George has completed the implementation of a new change to one of the virtual machines on the CSP they use that runs a few of the company’s applications. He went back through and compared the results to the original approved request and determined that the change was successful. What is the next step that George should perform?
	a.	Change documentation
	b.	Change review
	c.	Change assessment
	d.	Change request

Answer 12

A

Question 13

13.Kevin has created a web application that will reside on the cloud service provider’s platform that his company uses. However, the database for the application must reside on the company’s private cloud in their data center. Which of the following might be a primary concern when running connectivity tests?
a. Speed of the network card in the database server
b. Latency
c. QoS deprioritizing database traffic
d. Incorrect duplex settings

Answer 13

B

Question 14

14.Fictional Corp has been using their current cloud service provider for the past year. They have been mostly happy with the service provided up until about a month ago when various virtual machines started becoming unavailable for hours at a time. The CSP has a guarantee of a 99.999 percent uptime, which means they should only have about 5.26 minutes of downtime per year. Which of the following defines the guarantee the CSP is not meeting?
	a.	BIA
	b.	SDP
	c.	DRP
	d.	SLA

Answer 14

D

Question 15

15.A large Fortune 500 company has a data center full of servers and wants to move 5 petabytes worth of data to a cloud service provider. Having run some calculations, it could take years to move all of this data to a cloud service provider. Which of the following does the company most likely need to consider in order to complete this migration in a timely manner?
	a.	Internet exchange point
	b.	Point of presence
	c.	Colocation facility
	d.	Offline transfer

Answer 15

D

Question 16

16.Fictional Corp has decided to outsource the development of a cloud application that it wants to have developed for its sales department to use. Which of the following might the company use to solicit bids for the project?
	a.	RFC
	b.	RFI
	c.	RFP
	d.	RFD

Answer 16

C

Question 17

17.Bob has received a change request that now needs to be analyzed at the next regular meeting to determine whether or not the change should be implemented. Which of the following teams is responsible for reviewing this change and either giving it their approval or denying it?
	a.	CMDB
	b.	CAB
	c.	SOP
	d.	ITIL

Answer 17

B

Question 18

18.A large e-commerce platform sells and ships millions of dollars’ worth of goods every day. Which of the following concepts is most likely the most important thing for them to consider in the design of their IT infrastructure?
	a.	Collecting thorough baselines
	b.	Minimizing downtime
	c.	SOPs
	d.	KPIs

Answer 18

B

Question 19

19.Jason is working on a Saturday afternoon and has determined that a newly discovered vulnerability affects a group of servers that contain critical data for the company. The operating system manufacturer has released a fix overnight, but the company’s change management processes require approval before patching any of the systems. Which group could possibly give Jason an approval on a weekend outside of their normally scheduled meetings?
	a.	CAB
	b.	CMDB
	c.	ECAB
	d.	CASB

Answer 19

C

Question 20

20.Daphne is trying to log into her company’s cloud-based emailsystem, but is getting an error message. Upon logging into the administrative portal, it appears the credit card on file has expired. Which of the following seems to be the issue?
	a.	Time synchronization issue
	b.	Licensing outage
	c.	CSP outage
	d.	Template misconfiguration

Answer 20

B

Question 21

21.Widgets Inc. is a startup and looking to manage their own hardware and software. They know that procuring real estate to build their own data center can take a few months and do not have that kind of time built into their schedule. Which of the following would allow them to build their own private cloud on their own hardware with the potential to migrate into their own data center later if need be?
	a.	Public cloud
	b.	POP
	c.	Colocation
	d.	IXP

Answer 21

C

Question 22

22.Jeff has just been hired by Fictional Corp as a systems administrator. He is told that one of his responsibilities is going to be the backup processes used for on-premises systems in the company’s data center. He is told about documentation that he should use to make sure that everything is done correctly. What type of documentation was he referred to?
	a.	Baselines
	b.	CMDB
	c.	SOPs
	d.	KPIs

Answer 22

C

Question 23

23.Allen has been tasked with the design, development, and optimization of automation processes. Which of the following is the term that could be used to describe his current set of tasks?
	a.	Replication
	b.	Configuration management
	c.	Orchestration
	d.	Migration

Answer 23

C

Question 24

24.Bill is trying to create a new web application to replace an existing system that is becoming outdated. The old application has been modified a number of times and the code has become rather convoluted over time, so he has decided to start over. However, the application that it is replacing needs to be usable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year with as little downtime as possible. Which of the following would be the type of system Bill is trying to create by adding in redundancy wherever he can?
	a.	High availability
	b.	Low latency
	c.	High Quality of Service
	d.	No delay

Answer 24

A

Question 25

25.Robert has just finished implementing a change that was approved by the change advisory board. After the change has been implemented, which of the following is the next step that should be performed?
	a.	Change assessment
	b.	Change implementation
	c.	Change request
	d.	Change review

Answer 25

D

Question 26

26.Fictional Corp wants to examine systems within their data center to determine how they operate under normal conditions and determine what resources would be necessary to be provisioned on a cloud service provider if they were to make that transition. Which of the following describes the records that Fictional Corp is looking to review?
	a.	SOPs
	b.	Baselines
	c.	CMDB
	d.	ITIL

Answer 26

B

Question 27

27.Faith has been tasked with migrating as many systems as possible to the cloud. She has a list of the systems that the IT department is aware of, but has heard employees talking about other systems that are not on her list. Which of the following might describe the systems that she still needs to gather information about?
	a.	Dark resources
	b.	Unknown infrastructure
	c.	Unauthorized technology
	d.	Shadow IT

Answer 27

D

Question 28

28.Ward has been hired by Fictional Corp to manage the IT infrastructure group. One of the first questions he asks is how they keep track of all of the information about their servers, operating systems, networking gear, and applications. He is answered that some people have some of the information in spreadsheets, but that there appear to be different versions of that spreadsheet floating around. Which of the following might he decide to implement?
	a.	Baselines
	b.	KPIs
	c.	CMDB
	d.	CMS

Answer 28

C

Question 29

29.Cara has requested some modifications to one of the cloud applications that the company developed internally. She pulled up the internal tracking application and sees that it has just gone through the change assessment phase. What is the next phase of the change management process that it should be in now?
	a.	Change review
	b.	Change implementation
	c.	Change documentation
	d.	Change request

Answer 29

B

Question 30

30.Fictional Corp has several scripts that can be copied and pasted into their cloud service provider’s platform to create new virtual machines with certain specifications. After one of the administrators runs one of the scripts, she goes through and verifies that everything was set up correctly, only to find that certain things were not set up correctly. Which of the following is the most likely issue?
	a.	Resource contention
	b.	Template misconfiguration
	c.	CSP outage
	d.	Platform integration issue

Answer 30

B

Question 31

31.Martin has been asked to look for weaknesses within the company’s cloud infrastructure and create a report to be delivered to upper management. He is not to actually try and exploit any of the weaknesses found to determine to what extent they might compromise the system. Which of the following has Martin been asked to do?
	a.	Performance testing
	b.	Vulnerability testing
	c.	Load testing
	d.	Penetration testing

Answer 31

B

Question 32

32.Fictional Corp is trying to choose a cloud service provider. There are many things to consider, and they have narrowed the choices down to two CSPs that could meet their technical needs. Which of the following might they also consider doing before signing any contracts or creating an account on those platforms?
a. Verify that the CSPs’ backups are secure
b. Ensure that each CSP adheres to PCI DSS standards
c. Have the various agreements reviewed by the legal department
d. Ask to be able to do a security audit of the potential CSP choices they are evaluating

Answer 32

C

Question 33

33.Fictional Corp currently has a data center that is not taking advantage of any virtualization technologies. They have decided that it is time to start looking at migrating to the cloud and depending less on their own data center. However, they have read that even the major cloud providers occasionally have outages that prevent them from meeting the 99.999 percent uptime that Fictional Corp needs, even if that isn’t specified in the SLA of the major providers. Which of the following cloud solutions might best fit Fictional Corp’s needs? (Choose two)
	a.	Public cloud
	b.	Private cloud
	c.	Hybrid cloud
	d.	Multi-cloud

Answer 33

C

Question 34

34.Frank has just been hired as the new development manager at Widget Co. He was hired because he proposed that he could implement new methods such as one where new changes are deployed in small increments every 24 hours. Some of the team members don’t quite understand it though, so he recommended they go read up on it. What search term would help them find the information they need to learn more about this method?
	a.	Continuous integration
	b.	Continuous delivery
	c.	Continuous deployment
	d.	Continuous feedback

Answer 34

B

Question 35

35.Gary is creating a new virtual machine that needs to be closely monitored during its first few months of activity as the application that it is hosting is brand new and he’s not sure what to expect out of it. Which of the following should he ensure is done to make sure that logs are collected in as much detail as possible?
a. Update the patches for the operating system
b. Enable auditing
c. Disable unnecessary services
d. Make sure the firewall is configured to only allow traffic on the necessary ports for both inbound and outbound traffic

Answer 35

B

Question 36

36.Fictional Corp is in the process of migrating applications and data from their on-premises physical servers to a cloud service provider. They have migrated the application code successfully, but now must move the underlying database servers. Which of the following might be the biggest concern with migrating the database servers?
	a.	Proper functionality
	b.	Data integrity
	c.	Connectivity
	d.	Availability

Answer 36

B

Question 37

37.Cato has received an email stating that the change that he requested has been completed and the tracking ticket associated with the change has been closed. Cato pulls up the cloud application to see the new features that he had requested but is disappointed to see that they aren’t quite what had been described in the change request. Which of the following steps, or phases, of the change management process were omitted?
	a.	Change review
	b.	Change assessment
	c.	Change implementation
	d.	Change documentation

Answer 37

A

Question 38

38.Jan has just migrated a virtual machine from the company’s private cloud to the cloud service provider his company uses. He wants to see how the system responds as well as compare the original and new baselines. What type of testing should he perform?
	a.	Performance testing
	b.	Load testing
	c.	Security testing
	d.	Functionality testing

Answer 38

A

Question 39

39.Niles manages his company’s private cloud. His manager wants to start taking advantage of the benefits that resources of a cloud service provider can offer. However, upon starting to try and get his company’s local Active Directory to authenticate users on the public cloud resources, he can’t seem to get it working. Which of the following is the most likely issue?
	a.	Licensing outage
	b.	Time synchronization issue
	c.	Resource contention
	d.	Platform integration issue

Answer 39

D

Question 40

40.Fictional Corp has previously had a release schedule where changes were released into production on the first and third Saturday every month. However, it has been suggested that it would be more efficient to push the changes to production as soon as the code has passed testing. Which of the following methodologies is being suggested?
	a.	Continuous integration
	b.	Continuous deployment
	c.	Continuous delivery
	d.	Continuous migration

Answer 40

B