Exam 3: Migration to the Cloud

Bob has received a change request that now needs to be analyzed at the next regular meeting to determine whether or not the change should be implemented. Which of the following teams is responsible for reviewing this change and either giving it their approval or denying it?

A large e-commerce platform sells and ships millions of dollars' worth of goods every day. Which of the following concepts is most likely the most important thing for them to consider in the design of their IT infrastructure?

A social video sharing platform has grown quite popular in the United States and has decided to expand to Europe. They want to open a second data center there as part of their expansion. Which of the following is perhaps one of the biggest pieces of the expansion that they want to consider a part of the data storage strategies?

Jan has just migrated a virtual machine from the company's private cloud to the cloud service provider his company uses. He wants to see how the system responds as well as compare the original and new baselines. What type of testing should he perform?

Robert has just finished implementing a change that was approved by the change advisory board. After the change has been implemented, which of the following is the next step that should be performed?

Fictional Corp has previously had a release schedule where changes were released into production on the first and third Saturday every month. However, it has been suggested that it would be more efficient to push the changes to production as soon as the code has passed testing. Which of the following methodologies is being suggested?

A large Fortune 500 company has a data center full of servers and wants to move 5 petabytes worth of data to a cloud service provider. Having run some calculations, it could take years to move all of this data to a cloud service provider. Which of the following does the company most likely need to consider in order to complete this migration in a timely manner?

One of the sales managers has approached the development team to ask for some changes to one of the web applications that his team uses. He made some great suggestions, but the development team manager told him they can't just make those changes without going through the formalized process. Which of the following should the development manager ask the sales manager for?

Fictional Corp has been using their current cloud service provider for the past year. They have been mostly happy with the service provided up until about a month ago when various virtual machines started becoming unavailable for hours at a time. The CSP has a guarantee of a 99.999 percent uptime, which means they should only have about 5.26 minutes of downtime per year. Which of the following defines the guarantee the CSP is not meeting?

Kevin has created a web application that will reside on the cloud service provider's platform that his company uses. However, the database for the application must reside on the company's private cloud in their data center. Which of the following might be a primary concern when running connectivity tests?

Fictional Corp is in the process of migrating applications and data from their on-premises physical servers to a cloud service provider. They have migrated the application code successfully, but now must move the underlying database servers. Which of the following might be the biggest concern with migrating the database servers?

Fictional Corp is trying to choose a cloud service provider. There are many things to consider, and they have narrowed the choices down to two CSPs that could meet their technical needs. Which of the following might they also consider doing before signing any contracts or creating an account on those platforms?

Jeff has just been hired by Fictional Corp as a systems administrator. He is told that one of his responsibilities is going to be the backup processes used for on-premises systems in the company's data center. He is told about documentation that he should use to make sure that everything is done correctly. What type of documentation was he referred to?

Niles manages his company's private cloud. His manager wants to start taking advantage of the benefits that resources of a cloud service provider can offer. However, upon starting to try and get his company's local Active Directory to authenticate users on the public cloud resources, he can't seem to get it working. Which of the following is the most likely issue?

Ward has been hired by Fictional Corp to manage the IT infrastructure group. One of the first questions he asks is how they keep track of all of the information about their servers, operating systems, networking gear, and applications. He is answered that some people have some of the information in spreadsheets, but that there appear to be different versions of that spreadsheet floating around. Which of the following might he decide to implement?

Jason is working on a Saturday afternoon and has determined that a newly discovered vulnerability affects a group of servers that contain critical data for the company. The operating system manufacturer has released a fix overnight, but the company's change management processes require approval before patching any of the systems. Which group could possibly give Jason an approval on a weekend outside of their normally scheduled meetings?

Frasier is comparing the logs from the firewall to the logs on the web server after a security incident. He is trying to correlate the events, but it appears that the traffic took several minutes to reach the web server from the firewall for each of the various attempts. Which of the following could be the issue?

Gary is creating a new virtual machine that needs to be closely monitored during its first few months of activity as the application that it is hosting is brand new and he's not sure what to expect out of it. Which of the following should he ensure is done to make sure that logs are collected in as much detail as possible?

Widgets Inc. is a startup and looking to manage their own hardware and software. They know that procuring real estate to build their own data center can take a few months and do not have that kind of time built into their schedule. Which of the following would allow them to build their own private cloud on their own hardware with the potential to migrate into their own data center later if need be?

A large international organization currently has a single support desk that operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. However, they have realized that for disaster planning purposes, it would be a good idea to have multiple support desks in different locations so that if one went down the others could take over for it. Normal operations, though, would mean that they didn't have to staff any of the operations overnight. Which of the following has the company decided to use as the new model for their support desk?