Q119. A company has purchased two new servers to host several virtualized database servers. Each server has two 3GHz quad-core processors each, 64GB RAM each, 200GB DAS, and two
10GbE NICs each. Which of the following is the MOST likely bottleneck for these systems?

Q120. 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?

Q121. An organization is running a database application on a SATA disk, and a customer is experiencing slow performance most of the time.
Which of the following should be implemented to improve application performance?

Q122. A cloud security analyst needs to ensure the web servers in the public subnet allow only secure communications and must remediate any possible issue. The stateful configuration for the public web servers is as follows:

Which of the following actions should the analyst take to accomplish the objective?

Q123. A systems administrator is trying to connect to a remote KVM host. The command line appears as follows:

After logging in to the remote server, the administrator verifies the daemon is running. Which of the following should the administrator try NEXT?

Q124. 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?

Q125. An administrator has been informed that some requests are taking a longer time to respond than other requests of the same type. The cloud consumer is using multiple network service providers and is performing link load balancing for bandwidth aggregation. Which of the following commands will help the administrator understand the possible latency issues?

Q126. A technician is working with an American company that is using cloud services to provide video-based training for its customers. Recently, due to a surge in demand, customers in Europe are experiencing latency.
Which of the following services should the technician deploy to eliminate the latency issue?

Q127. In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?

Q128. A systems administrator is creating a playbook to run tasks against a server on a set schedule.
Which of the following authentication techniques should the systems administrator use within the playbook?

Q129. A software solution must be deployed based on the most granular access level. Which of the following methods should be used to meet the requirements?

Q130. After announcing a big sales promotion, an e-commerce company starts to experience a slow response on its platform that is hosted in a public cloud. When checking the resources involved, the systems administrator sees the following consumption:

Considering all VMs were built from the same templates, which of the following actions should the administrator perform FIRST to speed up the response of the e-commerce platform?

Q131. A company is performing a DR drill and is looking to validate its documentation. Which of the following metrics will determine the service recovery duration?

Q132. A systems administrator for an e-commerce company will be migrating the company’s main website to a cloud provider. The principal requirement is that the website must be highly available. Which of the following will BEST address this requirement?

Q133. A company is deploying a new instant messaging app to allow for communications with external vendors. Each entity will host its own version of the application, but users must be able to talk between the companies. Which of the following security techniques would MOST likely be used to allow this to happen?

Q134. In an IaaS platform, which of the following actions would a systems administrator take FIRST to identify the scope of an incident?

Q135. Which of the following access control types would give a system administrator the ability to assign access according to least privilege?

Q136. A systems administrator is performing an OS upgrade on a production VM. Which of the following actions should the administrator take before the upgrade to ensure the FASTEST recovery of the system in case the upgrade fails in an unrecoverable way?

Q137. A cloud security analyst is implementing a vulnerability scan of the web server in the DMZ, which is running in an IaaS compute instance. The default inbound firewall settings are as follows:

Which of the following will provide the analyst with the MOST accurate report?

Q138. A global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event. Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content.
Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?

Q139. A company recently subscribed to a SaaS collaboration service for its business users. The company also has an on-premises collaboration solution and would like users to have a seamless experience regardless of the collaboration solution being used. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Q140. A systems administrator notices several VMS are constantly ballooning, while the memory usage of several other VMS is significantly lower than their resource allocation. Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Q141. A cloud provider wants to make sure consumers are utilizing its IaaS platform but prevent them from installing a hypervisor on the server. Which of the following will help the cloud provider secure the environment and limit consumers’ activity?

Q142. A systems administrator is planning to migrate to a cloud solution with volume-based licensing. Which of the following is most important when considering licensing costs?

Q143. A company has entered into a business relationship with another organization and needs to provide access to internal resources through directory services. Which of the following should a systems administrator implement?