Exam 9: Managing Cloud Capacity and Performance

Teri logs into the cloud service provider's portal and reviews the reports that are available as part of her monthly analysis. She sees that one of the web applications currently using four web servers is experiencing an increase in traffic after a recent marketing campaign by the company, and she decides to add another two virtual machines to act as more web servers to help ease the load on the existing ones. Which of the following describes the procedure Teri performed?

Jacob needs to come up with a plan so that if a natural disaster was to strike their primary data center, another data center could be brought online within two days. Which of the following solutions should he recommend?

Fictional Corp has multiple branch offices all over the world with servers located in them so that the web applications they offer to their local users are as fast as possible. They also have applications installed on them that are offered to their customers for the same reason. Which of the following terms might describe these branch offices and the infrastructure Fictional Corp is using?

Sam is reviewing the agreements that Cheers Inc. has with their chosen cloud service provider. One of those agreements states that the RTO is 2 hours and that the system will maintain a 99.9% uptime. Which of the following describes the guarantee that Sam is currently reviewing?

Sandra gets a text message at 9 pm while she is at home that there is a problem with one of the servers she is responsible for. The message indicates that it is a major issue. She hurriedly grabs her laptop and logs into the VPN to check on the problem and start troubleshooting, but finds that the system appears to be running just fine. Which of the following might describe this situation?

Carrie's company did not have a sufficient disaster recovery plan in place and has just had two servers fail at the same time. Their backups are a day old, but only includes the data being used by the applications that were on the servers. Which of the following describes the restoration process that she will have to pursue?

Fictional Corp uses a cloud service provider that offers the capability to spin up new virtual machines from existing images. Which of the following is the term that describes that service?

Grant is reviewing his company's BCP as part of an annual review. One of the pieces of information that he finds missing is how long on average it takes to recover systems after a failure. Which of the following terms might describe the information he may want to add to the BCP?

Niles is analyzing a server and finds a problem with one of the applications. He didn't receive any notifications and thinks that perhaps it got lost in his spam folder or something else happened. After scouring the logs, he doesn't see any notifications or alerts in the system at all. Which of the following describes this situation?

Summer is analyzing one of the company's database servers and sees that it is currently using 90 percent of its allocated disk space. Which of the following could she do without creating another server to split the load with?

Trish has been analyzing the company's resources on the cloud service provider her company uses. She sees that a cluster is running at near capacity and decides to add another virtual machine to the cluster. Which of the following would describe this scenario?

Fictional Corp has a datacenter located next to a major river. Until now, the area has never flooded before, according to records that exist, but it has now been hit with what is being called a 1000-year flood. A week later the water has receded and employees are able to get back into the building. Which of the following documents should be referenced to determine how to proceed?

Fictional Corp is a large company that provides critical SaaS applications for the medical industry. Even minimal downtime can cause quite a few problems for their clients. Which of the following does Fictional Corp most likely use as part of its business continuity plan?

Fatima is implementing a new monitoring system that is looking for detectable changes in a cloud resource's state. Which of the following describes these changes of state?

Fictional Corp has chosen to use AWS as its cloud service provider. One of the key benefits that it liked about the platform was a service that allows technicians to monitor metrics across AWS services by collating data in one or more dashboards, tracking events, or generating alerts. Which of the following AWS services were they impressed by?

Piper needs a storage solution for snapshots of the virtual machines and databases within her company's cloud infrastructure. These snapshots should rarely be needed. Which of the following solutions should she use?

Bob pulls up the company's dashboard and sees that one of the virtual machines is running low on storage space. He logs into the cloud provider's portal and increases the size of the virtual disk so that it will not run out unexpectedly and start causing errors. Which of the following processes has Bob just performed?

Seth is trying to determine whether his organization has enough spare parts on hand in case of component failure within their private cloud. One of the components that he is analyzing the inventory for is hard drives and finds that on average the model they use lasts three years before they fail. Which of the following terms describes this concept?

Trey is designing a system that should maintain a 99.999% uptime by implementing multiple data centers located in different geographical regions with multiple Internet connections at each data center. Within the data centers there are redundant routers, switches, and even multiple private clouds. Which of the following is Trey designing for?

Jack gets an alert that one of his web servers is receiving more requests than it can handle given its current resources. He has decided to implement vertical scaling to resolve the issue. Which of the following could he do to meet his objective?