Exam 9: Managing Cloud Capacity and Performance

Syed is implementing an event monitoring system that will be able to look at all events and determine if there is a pattern established by the different events that occur. Which of the following would be a feature of this monitoring system?

Alex is working on new corporate guidelines that prioritizes services for business continuity protection and how much money should be invested in protecting those resources. These guidelines support the standards defined by the service level agreement. Which of the following is the document described in this scenario?

Sheri has been asked to create or find a commercial off-the-shelf software that can give her company's technicians a quick overview of critical services and draw attention to issues that might indicate problems. Which of the following systems is she being asked to implement?

Fictional Corp has guidelines in place that the business continuity processes should be reviewed at least once per year. As part of the review, members of the various teams responsible for carrying out certain activities meet in a conference room to discuss the business continuity plan and the disaster recovery plan and look for any gaps that may exist. Which of the following is the type of review that they are doing?

Jennifer is analyzing her company's backup plan as part of business continuity planning. She finds that the cloud service provider that her company uses offers a service that would allow her team to spin up VMs from existing images in order to bring systems back online quickly. Which of the following would describe this offering from this CSP?

Benji's manager tells him that the company is considering some changes to the backup policy because management has decided that it cannot lose any more than 2 hours' worth of data. Which of the following policies, or goals, is the manager describing?

Quincy has been working for an organization that implemented a business continuity plan in order to plan for how to continue doing business in the case of some form of a disaster. He then goes to work for another organization and finds that they call this plan something else. Which of the following terms might this other organization use?

Fictional Corp uses a technology to gather all of the log files onto a centralized server. They then use a tool that will analyze these log files and look for correlation of events. Which of the following describes the type of tool that performs this analysis?

Fictional Corp currently has an alerting system set up to e-mail notifications to administrators. However, it has been pointed out that it may take a while for an administrator to see one of those e-mails, so they would like to have notifications sent to their mobile phones instead. Which of the following settings should they look for in the configuration of their alerting system?

Fictional Corp's primary datacenter is located in an area that sees seasonal hurricanes every year. One particularly bad hurricane hits the area and knocks out power for the area. The generator only has 6 hours of runtime after the power goes out. Which of the following documents should they immediately reference to determine how to keep things running after the generator is out of fuel?

Wayne is looking for an application that can collect health, performance, security, and availability information on network resources. Which of the following types of technologies should he begin researching?

Mason is doing an annual review of his company's disaster recovery procedures. Currently, the organization stores all of the backups for its on-premises data center on a cloud service provider in cold storage. However, the company has seen rapid growth over the past couple of years and he's concerned that this could be a problem. Which of the following might be the concern?

Patricia's manager informs her that the company has leased a new office space that they do not plan on using except in case of an emergency. The power is already on for the building, but she needs to locate an Internet connection for the building and arrange for a minimal level of service that can be quickly increased to faster speeds in the event that they need to use it as a data center. Which of the following describes the type of facility that Patricia's company is setting up?

Jed has just spent some time analyzing some of the applications on the cloud service provider his company uses. He found that one of the applications was using a lot of resources between the servers that it was deployed on and implemented horizontal scaling to resolve the issue. Which of the following did Jed do?

James is looking at his company's dashboard that is laid out with a number of metrics and goals that are measured for the company's cloud deployment. Which of the following is a common term used for a metric that the company may measure and report on?

Eddie has been analyzing one of the clusters hosted in their on-premises data center. He sees that several of the servers are consistently sitting idle. Which of the following techniques might she want to do?

Fictional Corp has decided to use a cloud service provider rather than continue to build out the standard infrastructure they had been creating and using in their on-premises data center. The primary deciding factor is that the cloud services can add or remove resources from servers or add or remove virtual machines without any human intervention. Which of the following features is the reason why Fictional Corp chose to use a cloud service provider?

Zoie is using AWS as her company's chosen cloud service provider. She is interested in one of their service offerings that allows you to design the backup resources you need and leave them in a stopped state so you're not charged as much as what you would pay for running services. Which of the following is the method that this describes?

Fictional Corp implements multiple methods of keeping attackers out of its network and systems. Some of these systems may simply report on the intrusions while others will attempt to stop them while in progress. Which of the following describes the concept that Fictional Corp has implemented?

Taryn is creating the service design package for a new application. As part of the initial design, she needs to consider company policies and guidelines. One of those guidelines states that the category of service she's designing should not take any more than 4 hours to restore. Which of the following describes the guidelines she needs to take into account?