A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance has been slow since the images were upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. This VDI environment is used to run simple tasks, such as Microsoft Office. The administrator investigates the virtual machines and finds the following settings:
✑ 4 vCPU
✑ 16GB RAM
✑ 10Gb networking
✑ 256MB frame buffer
Which of the following MOST likely needs to be upgraded?

A. vRAM

B. vCPU

C. vGPU

D. vNIC

A local bank has all of its infrastructure in the cloud. An update was applied to the main database server at 5:00 a.m. on Monday morning, and the database was then corrupted and unusable. It had to be restored from backup. The last backup was taken the night before at 10:00 p.m. The database was then restored successfully, but seven hours' worth of data was lost, which is deemed unacceptable. Which of the following needs to be updated in the DR plan?

A. Recovery point objective

B. Statement of work

C. Service-level agreement

D. Recovery time objective

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

A systems administrator notices that a piece of networking equipment is about to reach its end of support. Which of the following actions should the administrator recommend?

A. Update the firmware.

B. Migrate the equipment to the cloud.

C. Update the OS.

D. Replace the equipment.

After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)

A. Identify the resources that are accessible to the affected IAM user.

B. Remove the published plain-text password.

C. Notify users that a data breach has occurred.

D. Change the affected IAM user’s password.

E. Delete the affected IAM user.

A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance. Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

A. The network environment

B. Container resources

C. Client devices

D. Server resources

An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall.
The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%. Which of the following should be deployed?

A. Two load balancers behind a single firewall

B. Firewalls in a blue-green configuration

C. Two firewalls in a HA configuration

D. A web application firewall

An organization’s executives would like to allow access to devices that meet the corporate security compliance levels. Which of the following criteria are most important for the organization to consider? (Choose two.)

A. Serial number

B. Firmware

C. Antivirus version and definition

D. OS patch level

E. CPU architecture

F. Manufacturer

An organization will be deploying a web application in a public cloud with two web servers, two database servers, and a load balancer that is accessible over a single public IP. Taking into account the gateway for this subnet and the potential to add two more web servers, which of the following will meet the minimum IP requirement?

A. 192.168.1.0/26

B. 192.168.1.0/27

C. 192.168.1.0/28

D. 192.168.1.0/29

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

A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment. Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

A. Set up affinity rules to keep web and database servers on the same hypervisor.

B. Enable jumbo frames on the gateway.

C. Move the web and database servers onto the same VXLAN.

D. Move the servers onto thick-provisioned storage.

A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department's database servers. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

A. Capacity planning

B. Change management

C. Backups

D. Patching

An organization is hosting a DNS domain with private and public IP ranges. Which of the following should be implemented to achieve ease of management?

A. Network peering

B. A CDN solution

C. A SDN solution

D. An IPAM solution

A disaster situation has occurred, and the entire team needs to be informed about the situation. Which of the following documents will help the administrator find the details of the relevant team members for escalation?

A. Chain of custody

B. Root cause analysis

C. Playbook

D. Call tree

A systems administrator is securing a new email system for a large corporation. The administrator wants to ensure private corporate information is not emailed to external users. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

A. DLP

B. EDR

C. DNSSEC

D. SPF

A cloud administrator needs to reduce the cost of cloud services by using the company's off-peak period. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this with minimal effort?

A. Create a separate subscription.

B. Create tags.

C. Create an auto-shutdown group.

D. Create an auto-scaling group.

A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

A. Account mismatches

B. IP address changes

C. API version incompatibility

D. Server name changes

A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator check
FIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?

A. GPU

B. CPU

C. Storage

D. Memory

A company would like to migrate its current on-premises workloads to the public cloud. The current platform requires at least 80 instances running at all times to work properly. The company wants the workload to be highly available, even if the cloud provider loses one region due to a catastrophe, and the costs to be kept to a minimum. Which of the following strategies should the company implement?

A. Create /25 subnets in two regions and run 80 instances on each one.

B. Create /26 subnets in two regions and run 40 instances on each one.

C. Create /26 subnets in three regions and run 40 instances on each one.

D. Create /26 subnets in three regions and run 80 instances on each one.

A systems administrator is helping to develop a disaster recovery solution. The solution must ensure all production capabilities are available within two hours. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?

A. A hot site

B. A warm site

C. A backup site

D. A cold site

A systems administrator has received an email from the virtualized environment's alarms indicating the memory was reaching full utilization. When logging in, the administrator notices that one out of a five-host cluster has a utilization of 500GB out of 512GB of RAM. The baseline utilization has been 300GB for that host.
Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

A. Storage array

B. Running applications

C. VM integrity

D. Allocated guest resources

An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs. Which of the following should be verified NEXT?

A. Application

B. SAN

C. VM GPU settings

D. Network

A systems administrator is troubleshooting issues with audio lag during phone conferences. When looking at the core switch, the administrator notices its buffers are consistently full, and packets are being dropped due to the large number being sent and received. There is no room in the budget for new hardware, but it is critical that the audio lag be fixed immediately. Which of the following will most likely resolve the issue?

A. Enable compression of audio traffic.

B. Configure QoS rules for VoIP traffic.

C. Verify that the gateway uplink is not saturated

D. Add an exception to IPS for voice traffic.

A company has an in-house-developed application. The administrator wants to utilize cloud services for additional peak usage workloads. The application has a very unique stack of dependencies. Which of the following cloud service subscription types would BEST meet these requirements?

A. PaaS

B. SaaS

C. DBaaS

D. IaaS

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

An administrator receives a ticket indicating the accounting application is not working. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

A. DHCP

B. Service-level agreement

C. DNS

D. System logs

A systems administrator is implementing a new file storage service that has been deployed in the company’s private cloud instance. The key requirement is fast read/write times for the targeted users, and the budget for this project is not a concern. Which of the following storage types should the administrator deploy?

A. Spinning disks

B. NVMe

C. SSD

D. Hybrid

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

A systems administrator must ensure confidential company information is not leaked to competitors. Which of the following services will BEST accomplish this goal?

A. CASB

B. IDS

C. FIM

D. EDR

E. DLP

A cloud administrator would like to maintain file integrity checks through hashing on a cloud object store. Which of the following is MOST suitable from a performance perspective?

A. SHA-256

B. SHA-512

C. MD5

D. AES

A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled. Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?

A. Performance testing

B. Usability testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Regression testing

A systems administrator is building a new visualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

A. a storage area network.

B. a network file system.

C. hyperconverged storage.

D. thick-provisioned disks.

A DevOps administrator is designing a new machine-learning platform. The application needs to be portable between public and private clouds and should be kept as small as possible. Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?

A. Virtual machines

B. Software as a service

C. Serverless computing

D. Containers

A cloud administrator is working in a secure government environment. The administrator needs to implement corrective action due to recently identified security issue on the OS of a VM that is running a facility-management application in a cloud environment. The administrator needs to consult the application vendor, so it might take some time to resolve the issue. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take while working on the resolution?

A. Shut down the server.

B. Upgrade the OS

C. Update the risk register.

D. Raise a problem ticket.

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power. Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

A. Server power

B. Rack power

C. Switch power

D. SAN power

A cloud administrator is planning to migrate a globally accessed application to the cloud. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement to BEST reduce latency for all users?

A. Regions

B. Auto-scaling

C. Clustering

D. Cloud bursting

A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such data. Which of the following should the systems administrator implement?

A. DLP

B. WAF

C. FIM

D. ADC

A company is switching from one cloud provider to another and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration to ensure a seamless migration?

A. The cost of the environment

B. The I/O of the storage

C. Feature compatibility

D. Network utilization

A piece of software applies licensing fees on a socket-based model. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when attempting to calculate the licensing costs for this software?

A. The amount of memory in the server

B. The number of CPUs in the server

C. The type of cloud in which the software is deployed

D. The number of customers who will be using the software

After initial stress testing showed that a platform performed well with the specification of a single 32 vCPU node, which of the following will provide the desired service with the LOWEST cost and downtime?

A. One 32 vCPU node with CDN caching

B. Two 8 vCPU nodes with load balancing

C. Three to six 8 vCPU nodes autoscaling group

D. Four 8 vCPU nodes with DNS round robin

A web-application company recently released some new marketing promotions without notifying the IT staff. The systems administrator has since been noticing twice the normal traffic consumption every two hours for the last three hours in the container environment. Which of the following should the company implement to accommodate the new traffic?

A. A firewall

B. Switches

C. Ballooning

D. Autoscaling

A systems administrator needs to configure a set of policies to protect the data to comply with mandatory regulations. Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure DLP efficiency prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

A. Integrity

B. Versioning

C. Classification

D. Segmentation

A cloud administrator wants to have a central repository for all the logs in the company's private cloud. Which of the following should be implemented to BEST meet this requirement?

A. SNMP

B. Log scrubbing

C. CMDB

D. A syslog server

A cloud architect is reviewing the design for a new cloud-based ERP solution. The solution consists of eight servers with a single network interface. The allocated
IP range is 172.16.0.0/28. One of the requirements of the solution is that it must be able to handle the potential addition of 16 new servers to the environment.
Because of the complexity of the firewall and related ACL requirements, these new servers will need to be in the same network range. Which of the following changes would allow for the potential server addition?

A. Change the IP address range to use a 10.0.0.0 address.

B. Change the server template to add network interfaces.

C. Change the subnet mask to use a 255.255.255.128 range.

D. Change the server scaling configuration to increase the maximum limit.

A cloud engineer is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. There is currently one virtual network that is used to host the servers in the cloud environment. The environment is rapidly growing, and the network does not have any more available IP addresses. Which of the following should the engineer do to accommodate additional servers in this environment?

A. Create a VPC and peer the networks.

B. Implement dynamic routing.

C. Enable DHCP on the networks.

D. Obtain a new IPAM subscription.

An organization’s two-node, hybrid container cluster is experiencing failures during horizontal scaling to the cloud cluster instance. The on-premises IP range is 192.168.0.0/16, and the cloud environment is 10.168.0.0/16. Overlapping or stretched VLANs are not permitted, and a node is deployed in each location. The cloud monitoring agent reports a healthy status for the second instance, but when pining the clusters from on premises, the following output is received:
 
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the scaling failure?

A. Incorrect DNS entry

B. Offline cluster node

C. Incorrect proxy entry

D. Incorrect cluster IP

E. Incorrect IP route

Which of the following will provide a systems administrator with the MOST information about potential attacks on a cloud IaaS instance?

A. Network flows

B. FIM

C. Software firewall

D. HIDS

A systems administrator wants the VMs on the hypervisor to share CPU resources on the same core when feasible. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

A. Configure CPU passthrough.

B. Oversubscribe CPU resources.

C. Switch from a Type 1 to a Type 2 hypervisor.

D. Increase instructions per cycle.

E. Enable simultaneous multithreading.

A systems administrator wants to verify the word "qwerty" has not been used as a password on any of the administrative web consoles in a network. Which of the following will achieve this goal?

A. A service availability scan

B. An agent-based vulnerability scan

C. A default and common credentialed scan

D. A network port scan

A web server has been deployed in a public IaaS provider and has been assigned the public IP address of 72.135.10.100. Users are now reporting that when they browse to the website, they receive a message indicating the service is unavailable. The cloud administrator logs into the server, runs a netstat command, and notices the following relevant output:
 
Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take to resolve the issue?

A. Assign a new IP address of 192.168.100.10 to the web server.

B. Modify the firewall on 72.135.10.100 to allow only UDP.

C. Configure the WAF to filter requests from 17.3.130.3.

D. Update the gateway on the web server to use 72.135.10.1.