A company’s current billing agreement is static. If the company were to migrate to an entirely IaaS-based setup, which of the following billing concepts would the company be adopting?

A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?

A cloud administrator needs to ensure as much uptime as possible for an application. The application has two database servers. If both servers go down simultaneously, the application will go down. Which of the following must the administrator configure to ensure the CSP does not bring both servers down for maintenance at the same time?

For which of the following reasons is the infrastructure as code technique used?

The Chief Financial Officer for a company that operates a popular SaaS application has noticed compute costs from the CSP are extremely high but storage costs are relatively low. Which of the following does the company MOST likely operate?

A small online retailer is looking for a solution to handle the high load on its servers during the holiday season. The retailer is not currently ready to move its IT operations completely to the cloud.

Which of the following will BEST fit these requirements?

A cloud service provider is marketing its new PaaS offering to potential clients. Which of the following companies would MOST likely be interested?

A company would like to improve its current DR plan with an emphasis on high availability. Which of the following metrics should the company focus on?

Which of the following activities in a cloud environment requires a defined scope and formal authorization from the CSP?

In a DevOps environment there is a requirement to start building application solutions in an efficient manner without any dependent components. Which of the following should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?

A startup company wants to use a CRM application to manage its sales and support organizations. The company does not have any IT staff. Which of the following cloud computing models is MOST appropriate for this company to use?

A company wants to ensure its existing functionalities are not compromised by the addition of a new functionality.

Which of the following is the BEST testing technique?

Which of the following techniques helps an organization determine benchmarks for application performance within a set of resources?

A company has a perpetual license for a database application. Which of the following is the MOST cost- effective option when moving to the cloud?

Which of the following allows for the management of network policies from a central portal while maintaining a hardware-agnostic approach?

Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead?

A business analyst at a large multinational organization has been tasked with checking to ensure an application adheres to GDPR rules. Which of the following topics would be BEST for the analyst to research?

Which of the following describes the contractually allowed downtime for a cloud-hosted application?

When selecting a cloud provider, which of the following is MOST likely to be a financial consideration?

A company is considering moving all of its VMs to reserved instances, which would save 20% on each instance. The instances the company would move are shown below:

Which of the following is the amount the company would save annually be converting all of these VMs to reserved instances?

Which of the following explains why a cloud provider would establish and publish a format data sanitization policy for its clients?

A large database needs to be hosted in a cloud environment with little to no downtime while minimizing any loss of content. Which of the following will BEST facilitate these requirements?

Which of the following cloud characteristics BEST describes the ability to add resources upon request?

A company hired a DevOps engineer to move business systems to the cloud. The current systems administrator does not have scripting experience and has been deploying servers manually. Which of the following would BEST optimize this process?

Which of the following is a security advantage of using CDNs?

A systems administrator is reviewing a disaster recovery option that requires little to no downtime in the event of a natural disaster.

Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

Which of the following policies is MOST critical for being in compliance with regulatory agencies?

A company requires 24 hours' notice when a database is taken offline for planned maintenance. Which of the following policies provides the BEST guidance about notifying users?

A business analyst is comparing utilization for a company’s cloud servers on a financial expenditures report. The usage report is as follows:

Which of the following instances represents the highest utilization?

After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management.

Which of the following should be presented to management?

Which of the following documents has the sole purpose of outlining a professional services engagement that

governs a proposed cloud migration?

A software developer wants to ensure a packaged application can be deployed in different environments without modifying anything but the application settings. The developer creates an image and provides instructions for the systems administrator to use for deployment. This is an example of:

Which of the following is the BEST approach to optimize data security in an IaaS migration of data to the cloud?

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?

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?

Which of the following describes the process of moving an application from an isolated data center to reduce latency and ensure close proximity to end users?

Which of the following services would restrict connectivity to cloud resources?

Which of the following cloud characteristics helps transform from a typical capital expenditure model to an operating expenditure model?

Which of the following would be expected from a security consultant who has been hired to investigate a data breach of a private cloud instance?

A cloud systems administrator needs to log in to a remote Linux server that is hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following protocols will the administrator MOST likely use?

A cloud administrator wants to ensure nodes are added automatically when the load on a web cluster increases. Which of the following should be implemented?

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?

Which of the following policies dictates when to grant certain read/write permissions?

A company is planning to integrate the processes of several applications and assign a manager to oversee the technical coordination to improve efficiency. Which of the following would be BEST for coordinating the processes?

A business analyst is writing a disaster recovery strategy. Which of the following should the analyst include in the document? (Select THREE).

Which of the following would help a company avoid failure of a cloud project due to a lack of adherence of the company’s operations and business processes to a cloud solution?

Which of the following are examples of capital expenditures? (Select TWO).

A cloud developer chooses to use private key encryption for all traffic in a new application. Which of the following security concerns does this BEST describe?

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?

Which of the following is a scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that a computer system integrates to improve performance of a specific task effectively based on information?

A company is evaluating the capital expenditure necessary to modernize its on-premises datacenter. Management has directed that 50% of capital expenditure be reallocated to operating expenditure. Which of the following cloud characteristics applies?

A business analyst is reviewing a software upgrade plan. The plan mentions the term “hash” value. Which of the following BEST represents what this term implies?

A company decommissioned its testing environment. Which of the following should the company do FIRST to avoid charges?

Which of the following is a limitation of the SaaS cloud model?

Which of the following cloud migration methods would take full advantage of the cloud computing model?

Due to local natural disaster concerns, a cloud customer is transferring all of its cold storage data to servers in a safer geographic region. Which of the following risk response techniques is the cloud customer employing?

Which of the following are the appropriate responses to risks?

A company with critical resources in the cloud needs to ensure data is available in multiple datacenters around the world.

Which of the following BEST meets the company's needs?

A company with a variable number of employees would make good use of the cloud model because of:

A requirement states that an application must be restored within six hours. Which of the following should be included in the SLA to satisfy this requirement?

A company is in its second year of a three-year agreement with a cloud vendor. After the initial phase of the cloud migration, resource consumption has stabilized.

Which of the following would help the company reduce the cost of infrastructure?

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

An IT company is planning to migrate its current infrastructure to the cloud due to support no longer being available and dependence on some legacy databases. Which of the following would be the BEST migration approach?

A company's SaaS provider recently changed its licensing model, and a business analyst is required to do an overall cost analysis for a three-year contract renewal. Which of the following will provide the entire financial forecast over the renewal period?