NEW QUESTION 1
An organization plans to keep three of its cloud servers online for another nine months and a fourth server online for a year. The current pricing is $200 per month per server. The cloud provider announced the sale price of $1,500 per year per reserved instance.
Which of the following represents the cost savings by converting all four of the cloud servers to reserved instances?

• A. $900
• B. $1,800
• C. $2,400
• D. $3,600

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 2
Which of the following can be used by a client’s finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments?

• A. Reserved instances
• B. Service level agreement
• C. Resource tagging
• D. RFI from the CSP

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 3
Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?

• A. Vendor lock-in
• B. Data portability
• C. Network connectivity
• D. Data sovereignty

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
A project manager must inform the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the additional resources necessary to migrate services to the cloud successfully.
Which of the following cloud assessments would be MOST appropriate to use for the recommendation?

• A. Feasibility study
• B. Gap analysis
• C. Future requirements
• D. Baseline report

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
A company wants to process a batch job in a faster, cost-effective manner. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

• A. Implement right-sizing.
• B. Increase CPU usage.
• C. Utilize spot instances.
• D. Add storage.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM.
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

• A. Availability
• B. Elasticity
• C. Pay-as-you-go
• D. Self-service

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 7
Which of the following is a cloud service model that organizations use when their third-party ERP tool is provided as a complete service?

• A. Public cloud
• B. SaaS
• C. Hybrid cloud
• D. IaaS

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8
Following a risk assessment, a company decides to adopt a multicloud strategy for its IT applications.
Which of the following is the company trying to avoid as part of its risk mitigation strategy?

• A. Geo-redundancy
• B. Vendor lock-in
• C. High availability
• D. Data sovereignty

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 9
A company is discontinuing its use of a cloud provider. Which of the following should the provider do to ensure there is no sensitive data stored in the
company's cloud?

• A. Replicate the data.
• B. Encrypt the data.
• C. Lock in the data.
• D. Sanitize the data.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images?

• A. Object
• B. Cold
• C. File
• D. Block

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two).

• A. Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios.
• B. Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services.
• C. Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads.
• D. Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.
• E. Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch.
• F. Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 12
A mobile application development team requires frequent software updates for a major launch of a customer-facing application. The business requirement is to be first-to-market on a new feature that leverages third-partyhosted services.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to use for speed and efficiency?

• A. Proprietary code solution
• B. Application programming interface
• C. Regression testing
• D. Production load testing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 13
A business analysis team is reviewing a report to try to determine the costs for a cloud application. The report does not allow separating costs by application.
Which of the following should the team use to BEST report on the costs of the specific cloud application?

• A. Right-sizing
• B. Content management
• C. Optimization
• D. Resource tagging

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
An incident response team requires documentation for an email phishing campaign against a company's email server. Which of the following is the BEST resource to use to start the investigation?

• A. Audit and system logs
• B. Change management procedures
• C. Departmental policies
• D. Standard operating procedures

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
A report identified that several of a company's SaaS applications are against corporate policy.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

• A. Shadow IT
• B. Sensitive data
• C. Encryption
• D. Vendor lock-in

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 16
A developer is leveraging a public cloud service provider to provision servers using the templates created by the company's cloud engineer.
Which of the following does this BEST describe?

• A. Subscription services
• B. Containerization
• C. User self-service
• D. Autonomous environments

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17
A company is moving to the cloud and wants to enhance the provisioning of compute, storage, security, and networking. Which of the following will be leveraged?

• A. Infrastructure as code
• B. Infrastructure templates
• C. Infrastructure orchestration
• D. Infrastructure automation

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18
A company is required to move its human resources application to the cloud to reduce capital expenses. The IT team does a feasibility analysis and learns the application requires legacy infrastructure and cannot be moved to the cloud.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate cloud migration approach for the company?

• A. Lift and shift
• B. Hybrid
• C. Rip and replace
• D. In-place upgrade

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 19
Which of the following are the main advantages of using ML/AI for data analytics in the cloud as opposed to on premises? (Choose two.)

• A. Cloud providers offer enhanced technical support.
• B. Elasticity allows access to a large pool of compute resources.
• C. The shared responsibility model offers greater security.
• D. AI enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster.
• E. A pay-as-you-go approach allows the company to save money.
• F. ML enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster.

Answer: BE

NEW QUESTION 20
Which of the following would BEST provide access to a Windows VDI?

• A. RDP
• B. VPN
• C. SSH
• D. HTTPS

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 21
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