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?

A systems administrator is planning a penetration test for company resources that are hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following must the systems administrator do FIRST?

Which of the following definitions of serverless computing BEST explains how it is different from using VMs?

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 DevOps administrator is building a new application slack in a private cloud. This application will store sensitive information and be accessible from the internet. Which of the following would be MOST useful in maintaining confidentiality?

A company is deploying a public cloud solution for an existing application using lift and shift. The requirements for the applications are scalability and external access. Which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).

A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a cloud-based content management solution. According to the security policy, any data that is hosted in the cloud must be protected against data exfiltration. Which of the following solutions should the administrator implement?

A technician just received the lessons learned from some recent data that was lost due to an on-premises file-server crash. The action point is to change the backup strategy to minimize manual intervention. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the technician to implement?

Which of the following actions should a systems administrator perform during the containment phase of a security incident in the cloud?

A systems administrator needs to migrate email services to the cloud model that requires the least amount of administrative effort. Which of the following should the administrator select?

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

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 systems administrator is planning the storage requirements for a two-disk mirror of a server OS disk partition. Which of the following is the amount of disk space available in the mirrored volume?

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?

A company has two primary offices, one in the United States and one in Europe. The company uses a public laaS service that has a global data center presence to host its marketing materials. The marketing team, which is primarily based in Europe, has reported latency issues when retrieving these materials. Which of the following is the BEST option to reduce the latency issues?

A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of the OS.

Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?

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?

An organization is using multiple SaaS-based business applications, and the systems administrator is unable to monitor and control the use of these subscriptions. The administrator needs to implement a solution that will help the organization apply security policies and monitor each individual SaaS subscription. Which of the following should be deployed to achieve these requirements?

An organization is implementing a new requirement to facilitate users with faster downloads of corporate application content. At the same time, the organization is also expanding cloud regions.

Which of the following would be suitable to optimize the network for this requirement?

A cloud administrator is designing a multiregion network within an IaaS provider. The business requirements for configuring the network are as follows:

Use private networking in and between the multisites for data replication.

Use low latency to avoid performance issues.

Which of the following solutions should the network administrator use within the IaaS provider to connect multiregions?

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?

An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.

Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?

A cloud engineer is responsible for managing two cloud environments from different MSPs. The security department would like to inspect all traffic from the two cloud environments.

Which of the following network topology solutions should the cloud engineer implement to reduce long-term maintenance?

The QA team is testing a newly implemented clinical trial management (CTM) SaaS application that uses a business intelligence application for reporting. The UAT users were instructed to use HTTP and HTTPS.

Refer to the application dataflow:

1A – The end user accesses the application through a web browser to enter and view clinical data.

2A – The CTM application server reads/writes data to/from the database server.

1B – The end user accesses the application through a web browser to run reports on clinical data.

2B – The CTM application server makes a SOAP call on a non-privileged port to the BI application server.

3B – The BI application server gets the data from the database server and presents it to the CTM application server.

When UAT users try to access the application using https://ctm.app.com or http://ctm.app.com, they get a message stating: “Browser cannot display the webpage.” The QA team has raised a ticket to troubleshoot the issue.

INSTRUCTIONS

You are a cloud engineer who is tasked with reviewing the firewall rules as well as virtual network settings.

You should ensure the firewall rules are allowing only the traffic based on the dataflow.

You have already verified the external DNS resolution and NAT are working.

Verify and appropriately configure the VLAN assignments and ACLs. Drag and drop the appropriate VLANs to each tier from the VLAN Tags table. Click on each Firewall to change ACLs as needed.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

A company is currently running a website on site. However, because of a business requirement to reduce current RTO from 12 hours to one hour, and the RPO from one day to eight hours, the company is considering operating in a hybrid environment. The website uses mostly static files and a small relational database. Which of the following should the cloud architect implement to achieve the objective at the LOWEST cost possible?

An administrator manages a file server that has a lot of users accessing and creating many files. As a result, the storage consumption is growing quickly. Which of the following would BEST control storage usage?

A cloud administrator is assigned to establish a connection between the on-premises data center and the new CSP infrastructure. The connection between the two locations must be secure at all times and provide service for all users inside the organization. Low latency is also required to improve performance during data transfer operations. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

A cloud administrator notices an e-commerce website was recently warned that the connection is not private. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

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 systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.

Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

A company wants to move to a multicloud environment and utilize the technology that provides the most portability. Which of the following technology solutions would BEST meet the company's needs?

A cloud administrator has finished setting up an application that will use RDP to connect. During testing, users experience a connection timeout error.

Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

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?

An IT administrator is implementing security controls on an OS. Which of the following will provide the best protection against a brute-force attack? (Select two).

A cloud security engineer needs to ensure authentication to the cloud pro-vider console is secure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this ob-jective?

A company needs to rehost its ERP system to complete a datacenter migration to the public cloud. The company has already migrated other systems and configured VPN connections.

Which of the following MOST likely needs to be analyzed before rehosting the ERP?

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?

A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider’s environment that do not belong to the company.

Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

A highly regulated business is required to work remotely, and the risk tolerance is very low. You are tasked with providing an identity solution to the company cloud that includes the following:

secure connectivity that minimizes user login

tracks user activity and monitors for anomalous activity

requires secondary authentication

INSTRUCTIONS

Select controls and servers for the proper control points.

A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance is very slow at the start of the workday, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Choose two.)

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 resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would all ow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

A large pharmaceutical company needs to ensure it is in compliance with the following requirements:

• An application must run on its own virtual machine.

• The hardware the application is hosted on does not change.

Which of the following will BEST ensure compliance?

A systems administrator is responding to an outage in a cloud environment that was caused by a network-based flooding attack. Which of the following should the administrator configure to mitigate the attack?

An organization’s web server farm, which is hosted in the cloud with DNS load balancing, is experiencing a spike in network traffic. This has caused an outage of the organization’s web server infrastructure.

Which of the following should be implemented to prevent this in the future as a mitigation method?

A systems administrator has finished installing monthly updates to servers in a cloud environment. The administrator notices certain portions of the playbooks are no longer functioning. Executing the playbook commands manually on a server does not work as well. There are no other reports of issues.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

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 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 systems administrator is configuring network management but is concerned about confidentiality. Which of the following should the administrator configure to address this concern?

An organization suffered a critical failure of its primary datacenter and made the decision to switch to the DR site. After one week of using the DR site, the primary datacenter is now ready to resume operations.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to bring the block storage in the primary datacenter up to date with the DR site?

A systems administrator has migrated a web application to the cloud with a synchronous uplink speed of 100Mbps. After the migration, the administrator receives reports of slow connectivity to the web application. The administrator logs into the firewall and notices the WAN port is transmitting at a constant 12.5MBps. Which of the following BEST explains the reason for the issue?

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 company is considering consolidating a number of physical machines into a virtual infrastructure that will be located at its main office. The company has the following requirements:

High-performance VMs

More secure

Has system independence

Which of the following is the BEST platform for the company to use?

A company is planning to migrate applications to a public cloud, and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) would like to know the cost per business unit for the applications in the cloud. Before the migration, which of the following should the administrator implement FIRST to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit?

A systems administrator is deploying a new virtualized environment. The setup is a three-server cluster with 12 VMs running on each server. While executing a vertical-scaling test of the vCPU on the VMs, the administrator gets an error. Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

A cloud administrator has deployed several VM instances that are running the same applications on VDI nodes. Users are reporting that a role instance is looping between STARTED, INITIALIZING, BUSY, and stop. Upon investigation, the cloud administrator can see the status changing every few minutes. Which of the following should be done to resolve the issue?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance is very slow at the start of the workday, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Select TWO).

A cloud solutions architect has received guidance to migrate an application from on premises to a public cloud. Which of the following requirements will help predict the operational expenditures in the cloud?

A production engineer is configuring a new application, which is running in containers, that requires access to a database. Which of the following methods will allow the application to authenticate to the database in the MOST secure way?

A systems administrator deployed a new application release to the green stack of a blue-green infrastructure model and made the green stack primary. Immediately afterward, users began reporting application issues. The systems administrator must take action to bring the service online as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the FASTEST way to restore the service?

A systems administrator is concerned about having two virtual database servers on the same host. Which of the following should be configured?

A startup online gaming company is designing the optimal graphical user experience for multiplayer scenarios. However, online players have reported latency issues. Which of the following should the company configure as a remediation?

A systems administrator is working on the backup schedule for a critical business application that is running in a private cloud. Which of the following would help the administrator schedule the frequency of the backup job?

An organization recently deployed a private cloud on a cluster of systems that delivers compute, network, and storage resources in a single hardware, managed by an intelligent software. Which of the following BEST describes this type of deployment?

An enterprise recently upgraded the memory of its on-premises VMs from 8GB to 16GB. However, users are not experiencing any performance benefit. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

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?

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 product-based company wants to transition to a method that provides the capability to enhance the product seamlessly and keep the development iterations to a shorter time frame. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

A cloud administrator implemented SSO and received a business requirement to increase security when users access the cloud environment. Which of the following should be implemented NEXT to improve the company's security posture?

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?

Over the last couple of years, the growth of a company has required a more complex DNS and DHCP environment. Which of the following should a systems administration team implement as an appropriate solution to simplify management?

A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a VDI environment that provides end users with access to limited applications. Which of the following should the administrator make changes to when a new application needs to be provided?

A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations.

Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?

An organization is implementing a new requirement to facilitate faster downloads for users of corporate application content. At the same time, the organization is also expanding cloud regions. Which of the following would be suitable to optimize the network for this requirement?

A cloud administrator receives an email stating the following:

"Clients are receiving emails from our web application with non-encrypted links."

The administrator notices that links generated from the web application are opening in http://. Which of the following should be configured to redirect the traffic to https://?

Following the deployment of a new VM, a cloud engineer notices the backup platform has not added the machine to the appropriate job. The backup platform uses a text-based variable for job configuration. This variable is based on the RPO requirements for the workload. Which of the following did the cloud engineer forget to configure when deploying the virtual machine?

Tags

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?

A company is moving its entire infrastructure to the cloud. The infrastructure consists of:

100 virtual desktops

10 database servers

10 web servers

15 application servers

15 development servers

7 VDI servers

Each server, except for web, application, and database servers, needs to be on an isolated subnet. The CSP has allocated a /24 subnet. Which of the following would best divide the IP space to meet these requirements?

Options:

A systems administrator is configuring a cloud solution for a vulnerability assessment to test the company's resources that are hosted in a public cloud. The solution must test the company's resources from an external user's perspective. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

A systems administrator is building a standardized OS template for the deployment of a web service. The image is intended for various autoscaling groups. Which of the following should be included in the image as best practice?

A company uses multiple SaaS-based cloud applications. All the applications require authentication upon access. An administrator has been asked to address this issue and enhance security. Which of the following technologies would be the BEST solution?

A cloud engineer receives an alert that a newly provisioned server is running a non-supported Linux version. The automation scripts are performing as expected on the server. Which of the following should the engineer check first?

A cloud administrator is performing automated deployment of cloud infrastructure for clients. The administrator notices discrepancies from the baseline in the configuration of infrastructure that was deployed to a new client. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

A cloud administrator must ensure all servers are in compliance with the company's security policy Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting a VDI deployment that is used to run high-frame-rate rendering. Users are reporting frequent application crashes. After running a benchmark, the administrator discovers the following:

Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

A company's marketing department is running a rendering application on virtual desktops. Currently, the application runs slowly, and it takes a long time to refresh the screen. The virtualization administrator is tasked with resolving this issue. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

A systems administrator wants to repurpose and implement a legacy tool that has been used in the past as a multicloud monitoring system. Which of the following will be the most probable challenges in the future caused by this implementation? (Select two).

A company has a web application that is accessed around the world. An administrator has been notified of performance issues regarding the application. Which of the following will BEST improve performance?

A cloud security engineer needs to design an IDS/IPS solution for a web application in a single virtual private network. The engineer is considering implementing IPS protection for traffic coming from the internet. Which of the following should the engineer consider to meet this requirement?

A cloud engineer is troubleshooting poor performance on a corporate website configured behind a cloud application load balancer. The following output was collected on the cloud console:

CDN status: Configured and content replicated to edge locations.

WAF status: 10 rules applied; 8,787,638 hits / 37,634 blocks.

Listening on ports: 80/443.

Forwarding traffic to instances: 5 (2 healthy).

Autoscaling events: 25.

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

A systems administrator is working within a private cloud environment. Over time. random 4K read/write speeds on all VMS in the environment slow down until the VMS are completely unusable, with disk speeds of less than 1MBps. The administrator has gathered the information below:

• There is no correlation between the slowdown and VM/hypervisor resource utilization.

• The network is rated to 40Gbps and utilization is between 1—5%.

• The hypervisors use hundreds of NFSv3 mounts to the same storage appliance, one per VM.

• The VMS on each hypervisor become unresponsive after two weeks of uptime.

• The unresponsiveness is resolved by moving slow VMS onto a rebooted hypervisor.

Which of the following solutions will MOST likely resolve this issue?

A cloud engineer is configuring automated backups for a database. The engineer wants to ensure that backups can be restored quickly and consistently to meet the SLA. Which of the following backup methods would be the most appropriate?

A cloud solutions architect has an environment that must only be accessed during work hours. Which of the following processes should be automated to BEST reduce cost?

A cloud administrator has deployed a website and needs to improve the site security to meet requirements. The website architecture is designed to have a DBaaS in the back end and autoscaling instances in the front end using a load balancer to distribute the request. Which of the following will the cloud administrator most likely use?

Which of the following should be enabled to reduce cloud compute costs when planning hardware capacity?

A company is migrating a large fleet of on-premises servers into the public cloud. The number of servers is estimated to be between 800 and 900. The systems administrator is doing the network planning. Which of the following subnets should the administrator use? (Select two).

A systems administrator wants to have near-real-time information on the volume of data being exchanged between an application server and its clients on the Internet.

Which of the following should the systems administrator implement to achieve this objective?

Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.

Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

A cloud administrator needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the expense of the company’s cloud resources.

Which of the following is the BEST option to execute this task with minimal effort?

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 efficiently prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

In an existing IaaS instance, it is required to deploy a single application that has different versions.

Which of the following should be recommended to meet this requirement?

A cloud architect is designing the VPCs for a new hybrid cloud deployment. The business requires the following:

High availability

Horizontal auto-scaling

60 nodes peak capacity per region

Five reserved network IP addresses per subnet

/24 range

Which of the following would BEST meet the above requirements?

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 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?

An organization deployed an application using a cloud provider's internal managed certificates. Developers are unable to retrieve data when calling the API from any machine.

The following error message is in the log:

12-04-2023-10:05:25, SSL Negotiation Error

12-04-2023-10:05:28,Invalid Certificate

12-04-2023-10:05:29, TLS Handshake Failed

12-04-2023-10:05:30,Connection Closed

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the error?

A data architect is planning a new deployment of data storage virtualization before a cloud migration to a public cloud. The requirement is to provide deduplication and backup policy management that is separate from the data VMs. Which of the following would be best to utilize to provision storage?

A media company has made the decision to migrate a physical, internal file server to the cloud and use a web- based interface to access and manage the files. The users must be able to use their current corporate logins.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to achieve this goal?

A systems administrator received an email from a cloud provider stating that storage is 80% full on the volume that stores VDI desktops. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to mitigate the situation?

A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a highly available web application running within three containers behind a Layer 7 load balancer with a WAF inspecting all traffic. The application frequently asks the users to log in again even when the session timeout has not been reached. Which of the following should the cloud administrator configure to solve this issue?

A company is comparing an application environment to be hosted on site versus a SaaS model of the same application. Which of the following SaaS-based licensing models should the administrator consider?

A cloud administrator is configuring several security appliances hosted in the private laaS environment to forward the logs to a central log aggregation solution using syslog. Which of the following firewall rules should the administrator add to allow the web servers to connect to the central log collector?

Audit and system logs are being forwarded to a syslog solution. An administrator observes that two application servers have not generated any logs for a period of three days, while others continue to send logs normally. Which of the following BEST explains what is occurring?

A company is using laaS services from two different providers: one for its primary site, and the other for a secondary site. The primary site is completely inaccessible, and the management team has decided to run through the BCP procedures. Which of the following will provide the complete asset information?

A systems administrator has verified that a physical switchport that is connected to a virtualization host is using all available bandwidth. Which of the following would best address this issue?

An integration application that communicates between different application and database servers is currently hosted on a physical machine. A P2V migration needs to be done to reduce the hardware footprint. Which of the following should be considered to maintain the same level of network throughput and latency in the virtual server?

A cloud administrator needs to deploy a security virtual appliance in a private cloud environment, but this appliance will not be part of the standard catalog of items for other users to request. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this task?

A systems administrator needs to convert ten physical servers to virtual.

Which of the following would be the MOST efficient conversion method for the administrator to use?

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

A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements.

Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information:

The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%.

The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server.

A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address.

The server is a member of the same security group as the others.

The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:

Allow HTTPS/HTTP.

Disable FTP and SMB traffic.

Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?

A database analyst reports it takes two hours to perform a scheduled job after onboarding 10,000 new users to the system. The analyst made no changes to the scheduled job before or after onboarding the users. The database is hosted in an IaaS instance on a cloud provider. Which of the following should the cloud administrator evaluate to troubleshoot the performance of the job?

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?

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?

An administrator is securing a private cloud environment and wants to ensure only approved systems can connect to switches. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

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 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 company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly.

Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a VDI environment. The administrator determines the issue is GPU related and then increases the frame buffer on the virtual machines. Testing confirms the issue is solved, and everything is now working correctly. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT?

A development team recently completed testing changes to a company's web-based CMS in the sandbox environment. The cloud administrator deployed these CMS application changes to the staging environment as part of the next phase in the release life cycle. The deployment was successful, but after deploying the CMS application, the web page displays an error message stating the application is unavailable. After reviewing the application logs, the administrator sees an error message that the CMS is unable to connect to the database. Which of the following is the BEST action for the cloud administrator to perform to resolve the issue?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue with a virtual database server. The administrator has identified the issue as being disk related and believes the cause is a lack of IOPS on the existing spinning disk storage. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT to resolve this issue?

A system administrator has provisioned a new web server. Which of the following, in combination, form the best practice to secure the server's OS? (Choose three.)

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 cloud administrator is managing an organization's infrastructure in a public cloud. All servers are currently located in a single virtual network with a single firewall that all traffic must pass through. Per security requirements, production, QA, and development servers should not be able to communicate directly with each other. Which of the following should an administrator perform to comply with the security requirement?

A technician is trying to delete six decommissioned VMs. Four VMs were deleted without issue. However, two of the VMs cannot be deleted due to an error. Which of the following would MOST likely enable the technician to delete the VMs?