Exam 10: Cloud Automation

Katy wants to make a few automated API calls from a new application that she is developing. Which of the following might be a valid structure for the data that she needs to send to the API endpoint?

Jose just returned from a security conference where he learned about a technology that he can implement on his network that will detect security breaches on his network, log the event, and alert the administrator. He also wants it to automatically stop the breach. Which of the following technologies could he implement?

Reina has configured an orchestration model for her company's infrastructure that requires servers to connect to the centralized server once an hour to determine if there should be any configuration changes made. Which of the following is she using?

Sigmund has created a new web application server for the psychology department at the university he works for. He wants to install a tool on the server that will detect any security breaches, alert the administrative team, log the event, and attempt to stop the security breach before the attacker is able to gain further access or cause any damage. Which of the following types of tools might he install?

Startup Inc. has chosen the Azure platform as its cloud service provider. Which of the following tools might they use for configuration management, update management, and process automation?

Dave manages a large network and has researched a bunch of automation tools. He decides on one that requires the installation of an agent, called a minion, on the nodes to be automated, which are then called minions. Which of the following automation tools did Dave choose?

Fictional Corp has chosen AWS as its primary cloud service provider. Which of the following automation tools could they use to help with configuring and managing EC2 instances?

Adele is looking at the options for automation tools and needs to choose one that does not require the installation of an agent. Which of the following tools might she choose?

Garrett has developed an application and is ready for the user acceptance team to go through and verify that everything is functional and working as it should while reporting any bugs they may identify. Which of the following environments should he copy the application to for them to begin their work?

Serena wants to implement as much automation in her organization as possible. One of her next tasks is to create a process where the system can duplicate a virtual machine on the fly. Which of the following terms might describe this automation process?

Regan has been asked to apply updates to one of the company's web application server farms. He does not want to update all of the servers at once in case there is some sort of an issue that causes a crash or failure. He decides to direct traffic away from a few servers and update those first. Once he has tested that everything is working successfully, he'll allow them to handle traffic again and then do another small group of servers. He'll continue repeating this process until all servers have been updated. Which of the following describes the deployment method that he has chosen?

Fictional Corp has decided that it wants to automate as much of the infrastructure as possible. As well, it has decided to outsource some of the monitoring capabilities. Which of the following might they outsource some of these tasks to?

Omar needs to install an update to the web servers so that the development team can use some of the new libraries and functions for the .NET application they are modifying. However, upon trying to install the latest .NET framework, an error is displayed stating that another update must be installed first. Which of the following technical terms describes why the .NET framework cannot be installed yet?

Amber has been researching automation tools and believes that Puppet is the best option for her company to use. She is currently testing the open-source version but is considering asking for budget to be allocated so that she can implement the enterprise version. How many nodes can she run the enterprise version on before needing to start paying for the product?

Tomas is going to be deploying a new cloud-based point-of-sale application for the organization that will be run within web browsers on computers located in his company's retail stores. He knows that the system must experience as little downtime as possible. Which of the following technologies might he choose to implement?

Cecil is interested in using more of the tools available from the cloud service provider his company has chosen to use, AWS. He sees that they have various security tools available including a threat detection tool that relies on machine learning, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence to identify threats and trigger events or functions. Which of the following is the tool that he may be interested in implementing?

Wyatt notices a message on the dashboard that one of the servers is no longer reachable by the automation system. He remotes into the server by name and is able to connect just fine. He pings the server by name from his workstation and it comes back with a different IP address than what is in the automation system. Which of the following is a possible reason why?

Olina is fairly new at Fictional Corp and is used to working at much smaller companies. Most of her former jobs have all been manual work. However, she has been told that because of its size, her new company prefers to implement technologies that can perform various processes and procedures without human intervention so that humans can spend their time monitoring the systems for errors and fixing problems when something goes wrong. Which of the following describes what Fictional Corp has implemented to much more of an extent than her previous company?

Ronan has just received notification of a critical update that is available for one of the operating systems that his company uses. He downloads it from the OS developer's website and patches a couple of the systems. He then allows a small amount of traffic to those servers so he can verify that there are no new error messages or issues with the deployment. Once he's verified that they have updated successfully, he issues the patch to the rest of the servers running that operating system. Which of the following types of deployments has he just performed?

Gisella has just returned from a security conference where she won a free year of protection and support for her company with a device that will detect intrusions on her network, alert the administrators, and log the events. Unfortunately, it will not try to stop the intrusion. Which of the following has she won?