NEW QUESTION 1
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating the company’s security management program. The CISO needs to locate all the assets with identified deviations and mitigation measures. Which of the following would help the CISO with these requirements?

• A. An SLA document
• B. ADR plan
• C. SOC procedures
• D. A risk register

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities.
Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

• A. Usability testing
• B. Regression testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Penetration testing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

• A. API request limit
• B. Incorrect billing account
• C. Misconfigured auto-scaling
• D. Bandwidth limitation

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
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?

• A. Incident type categories
• B. A calling tree
• C. Change management
• D. Roles and responsibilities

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5
A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?

• A. Performance testing
• B. Penetration testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Regression testing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

• A. Access controls
• B. Federation
• C. Multifactor authentication
• D. Certificate authentication

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
A company has a cloud infrastructure service, and the cloud architect needs to set up a DR site. Which of the following should be configured in between the cloud environment and the DR site?

• A. Failback
• B. Playbook
• C. Zoning
• D. Replication

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
A vendor is installing a new retail store management application for a customer. The application license ensures software costs are low when the application is not being used, but costs go up when use is higher.
Which of the following licensing models is MOST likely being used?

• A. Socket-based
• B. Core-based
• C. Subscription
• D. Volume-based

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
Company A has acquired Company B and is in the process of integrating their cloud resources. Company B needs access to Company A’s cloud resources while retaining its IAM solution.
Which of the following should be implemented?

• A. Multifactor authentication
• B. Single sign-on
• C. Identity federation
• D. Directory service

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10
The human resources department was charged for a cloud service that belongs to another department. All other cloud costs seem to be correct.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error?

• A. Misconfigured templates
• B. Misconfigured chargeback
• C. Incorrect security groups
• D. Misconfigured tags

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
A private IaaS administrator is receiving reports that all newly provisioned Linux VMs are running an earlier version of the OS than they should be. The administrator reviews the automation scripts to troubleshoot the issue and determines the scripts ran successfully. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

• A. API version incompatibility
• B. Misconfigured script account
• C. Wrong template selection
• D. Incorrect provisioning script indentation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12
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?

• A. The driver
• B. The memory
• C. The cluster placement
• D. The CPU

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
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?

• A. A missing static route
• B. A duplicate IP on the network
• C. Firewall issues
• D. The wrong gateway

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14
An update is being deployed to a web application, and a systems administrator notices the cloud SQL database has stopped running. The VM is responding to pings, and there were not any configuration changes scheduled for the VM. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

• A. Logs on the VM
• B. Firewall on the VM
• C. Memory on the VM
• D. vGPU performance on the VM

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
A systems administrator needs to configure monitoring for a private cloud environment. The administrator has decided to use SNMP for this task.
Which of the following ports should the administrator open on the monitoring server’s firewall?

• A. 53
• B. 123
• C. 139
• D. 161

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure?

• A. Deduplication
• B. Thin provisioning
• C. Software-defined storage
• D. iSCSI storage

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 17
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?

• A. Back up to long-term storage every night
• B. Back up to object storage every three hours
• C. Back up to long-term storage every four hours
• D. Back up to object storage every hour

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18
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?

• A. Conduct a V2V migration
• B. Perform a storage live migration
• C. Rsync the data between arrays
• D. Use a storage vendor migration appliance

Answer: D

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