NEW QUESTION 1
A business is demanding faster IT services turnaround from its IT groups. The current lead time
between request and delivery is three weeks for a task that would take a competitor two days. An architect is asked to develop a solution to reduce the lead time of the request while ensuring adherence to the company policies. Which of the following is the BEST approach to achieve the stated objective?

• A. Document the desired state, complete a root cause analysis, and execute the flow.
• B. Revise the schedule, implement a waterfall methodology, and flatten the network.
• C. Identify deficiencies, optimize change management, and automate the workflow.
• D. Follow the company policies, execute the flow, and document results.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2
A system administrator found that a user repeatedly violates acceptable use policies by consuming
more disk space than the user is authorized to consume. Which of the following tools should the administrator use to enforce the acceptable use policy?

• A. Quotas
• B. Resource pools
• C. LUN masking
• D. Reservations

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 3
The CSA needs to install a patch on 58 virtual server instances during the Friday evening maintenance
window. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to get the patches installed?

• A. Use the patch management tool to automate and orchestrate the patch installation.
• B. Use a security vulnerability scanning tool to apply the patch automatically.
• C. Schedule the patch to install from a remote file server upon server reboot.
• D. Connect the server instances to the Internet to download the patch automatically.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
A new contract requires software to be developed, tested, and implemented within a month. Which of the following levels of service would allow rapid provisioning and deployment?

• A. Cloud bursting
• B. PaaS
• C. CaaS
• D. BPaaS

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
An administrator is asked to securely upload a configuration file to a web server in a cloud. Which of
the following protocols should be used in this scenario?

• A. SFTP
• B. SSL
• C. TLS
• D. HTTP

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
A cloud administrator is tasked with ensuring redundancy and high availability of an IaaS cloud platform environment. The administrator is given the following requirements:
Two web servers must share the same configurations and service client connections evenly. Two database servers must share data and configurations, with only one being used at a time.
Given the above, which of the following should the administrator propose to BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

• A. The web server should be configured with a round-robin DNS with a CNAME record.
• B. The web server should be configured with a load balancer with a virtual IP address.
• C. The database server should be configured as an active-active cluster.
• D. The database server should be configured as an active-passive cluster.
• E. The availability aspect of the request does not currently exist in the IaaS cloud platform.
• F. The redundancy aspect of the request does not currently exist in the IaaS cloud platform.

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 7
A small clinic is moving its health and accounting systems to a SaaS solution. The clinic holds patient-
and business-sensitive information. Which of the following is the company expected to do to protect its data?

• A. Document, configure, and enforce strong account management policies.
• B. Disable and document unneeded ports and protocols on the SaaS servers.
• C. Install antivirus and disable unneeded services on all SaaS servers.
• D. Harden the underlying infrastructure: servers, firewalls, and load balancers.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8
A system administrator is tasked to harden a server so that it is not accessible using HTTP. Which of
the following tools or techniques should the administrator use to accomplish this? (Select two.)

• A. Change default passwords on the server
• B. Antivirus software
• C. Encryption software
• D. Disable port 80
• E. Disable port 443
• F. Firewall
• G. Patch management server

Answer: CD

NEW QUESTION 9
In a mission critical environment, performing maintenance operations on a host FIRST requires which
of the following?

• A. Shutting down the host.
• B. Migrating all VMs off the host.
• C. Shutting down the VMs on the host.
• D. Pausing the VMs on the host

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
A small business owner needs to establish a secure logon to the company database server to troubleshoot an issue while on vacation. Which of the following will allow secure access to manage the server from a remote location?

• A. SFTP
• B. Telnet
• C. SSH
• D. RSH

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
An administrator is testing a new web server from outside of the corporate firewall. The administrator performs a test from a single PC and the web server responds accordingly. The administrator then provisions several virtual machines on a network behind NAT and uses them to perform the same operation on the web server at the same time, but thereafter soon discovers that none of the machines can reach the web server. Which of the following could be responsible?

• A. IPS
• B. Blacklisting
• C. IDS
• D. Whitelisting
• E. Firewall

Answer: E

NEW QUESTION 12
Which of the following describes connecting a physical Ethernet adapter to a virtual Ethernet adapter?

• A. Resource pooling
• B. Virtual switching
• C. Bridging
• D. Resource allocation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
A consultant is helping a large company migrate its development environment to a public cloud
provider. The developers are working on a VDI solution. The development tools that employees utilize require greater control of the OS environment. Which of the following cloud types should the consultant implement?

• A. SaaS
• B. PaaS
• C. Bare metal service
• D. IaaS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
A company is seeking a new backup solution for its virtualized file servers that fits the following characteristics:
The files stored on the servers are extremely large. Existing files receive multiple small changes per day. New files are only created once per month.
All backups are being sent to a cloud repository.
Which of the following would BEST minimize backup size?

• A. Local snapshots
• B. Differential backups
• C. File-based replication
• D. Change block tracking

Answer: B

Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/tips-tricks-better-business-backup-and-recovery-world- backup-day

NEW QUESTION 15
A software company recently moved all of its development testing to a public cloud environment.
The company primarily uses IaaS to deploy and test its code. The company needs the software developers to be more agile and efficient when testing application code. Which of the following backup types should the developers use to BEST ensure the speedy recovery of a system if it is damaged?

• A. Snapshots
• B. Full
• C. Incremental
• D. Differential

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 16
After scheduled network maintenance, users report that an externally hosted web application is
particularly slow to load. Small items on the page load such as text documents and markup, but larger multimedia files do not load. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the reported issues?

• A. Incorrect MTU in the network segment
• B. Misconfiguration of QoS settings
• C. Incorrect VLAN for the affected PCs
• D. Excessive latency on the local LAN segment

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 17
Which of the following storage technologies is IP-based?

• A. SCSI
• B. DAS
• C. FCP
• D. NAS

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 18
A college has implemented a private cloud for students and faculty. The college is required by their accrediting body to ensure that the cloud meets certain confidentiality and privacy requirements. Which of the following represents the LEAST intrusive testing method for the college to use, while ensuring separation of duties during the testing?

• A. A vulnerability assessment should be conducted by the MIS department.
• B. A penetration test should be conducted by an accredited third party.
• C. A penetration test should be conducted by the MIS department.
• D. A vulnerability assessment should be conducted by an accredited third party.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 19
A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted
within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders. A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes
for server template: x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

Given an expected increase in workload, which of the following is the BEST solution to improve application performance?

• A. Change the server template size for Inxpc003 to 2x-large.
• B. Provision additional Inxpc servers using the 2x-large template.
• C. Add memory to Inxpc002, Inxpc003, and Inxpc003.
• D. Change the role of Inxw001 from web to application.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 20
A cloud provider is evaluating an insider threat. A resource from the company operations team has
access to the servers’ virtual disks. This poses a risk that someone could copy and move the virtual server image and have access to the data. Which of the following solutions would help mitigate this problem?

• A. Tokenization
• B. Encryption
• C. Virtual firewall
• D. Hashing

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 21
A manufacturing company's current security policy mandates PII is not stored in the SaaS solution.
Which of the following configuration controls should be used to block sensitive information from being stored in the SaaS solution?

• A. Implement file-level encryption.
• B. Implement a network ACL.
• C. Implement an IPS.
• D. Implement content filtering.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 22
Every quarter, technicians perform a UPS and generator test at the datacenter. During the test, the
diesel generators did not function correctly resulting in a datacenter black out. After the engineers restore power, they quickly turn on each device and go home for the day. The next morning, clients start reporting they are not receiving email. After investigation, the engineers find that not all VMs are online and it is determined that some VMs did not start up in a correct sequence. Which of the following policies might need to be reviewed to help remediate the above scenario?

• A. Monitoring policy
• B. Change management policy
• C. Service level agreement policy
• D. Boot sequence policy

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 23
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