Exam 6: CompTIA CySA+ Certification Exam (CS0-002)

A cloud administrator configures a new web server for the site https://companyname.com. The administrator installs a wildcard SSL certificate for *.companyname.com. When users attempt to access the site, a certificate error is received. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

A cloud technology vendor has released an update to its product. A company providing cloud services need to quickly adopt the update to provide support to its customers. Which of the following is the MOST efficient action to complete this task?

A private cloud is using the iSCSI protocol for connection from storage to hypervisors. This connection is not encrypted currently, and the systems administrator is tasked with enabling on-the-fly encryption. Which of the following technologies should the administrator use?

The risk and compliance team mandates that all PII should be sent via secure and encrypted channels via webmail. As the SaaS administrator, which of the following is the BEST method for implementing data governance?

A company moved its on-premises applications to several SaaS providers. As a result, the security team is concerned about accounts being compromised. Which of the following should the security team implement to reduce this risk?

A pharmaceutical company is migrating its systems and infrastructure to the cloud. Due to security restrictions and regulatory policies, the company Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is concerned about moving this information to the cloud. Based on the CEO's concern, which of the following should the company do First?

A CSA needs to migrate 200TB of on-premises SAN data to a private cloud located in the same region. Which of the following should the CSA analyze? (Choose two.)

A company hosts its server in a public IaaS cloud. The company's management decides to migrate the servers to a different geographical region that is closer to the user base. A cloud administrator creates a new environment in that geographical region. Which of the following is the BEST way to migrate the VM from the original geographic region to the new region?

The administrator at a SaaS provider wants to improve security of the systems hosting the SaaS application. The administrator has created a script that monitors malware research sites and automatically creates and uploads signatures when new vulnerabilities are announced. To which of the following security services is the script MOST likely to upload these signatures?

A company is using storage-as-a-service from an IaaS provider for application services. The company has a mandate to protect personal information being stored on the cloud. The service provided includes encryption for in-transit data and requires a security solution for data-at-rest. Which of the following should be deployed to secure the personal information?

A company's cloud administrator receives an advisory notice from the CSP. The CSP runs quarterly tests on its platform and customer's environments. The cloud administrator reads the notice and sees the company's environment is at risk of buffer over-read exploits. Which of the following tests is the CSP MOST likely running on a quarterly basis?

Ann, a cloud administrator, is reporting on how the organization has adhered to its marketing of 99.99999% system availability SLA. Given this scenario, which of the following should Ann include in her report?

A user has submitted a ticket to request additional VMs due to long wait times for online ordering. Given the snapshot of the resources in the table below: Which of the following is the BEST option for the administrator to resolve the ticket?

Ann, the lead product developer for a company, just hired three new developers. Ann asked the cloud administrator to give these developers access to the fileshares in the public cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take?

Which of the following provides the BEST approach for deploying multiple new firewalls into an IaaS cloud environment with minimal errors?

A company recently decided to move some of its servers to a public cloud. The engineer has been invited to attend requirement sessions for moving servers to the cloud. The engineer is tasked with ensuring the servers that are being moved to the cloud are still in compliance, as they were on-premises. Which of the following should the engineer request during the requirement sessions?

A new version of an e-commerce application was deployed using a standard template configuration of 4 vCPU and 8GB of RAM. The administrator has configured the application to automatically add 4 GB of RAM after 80% utilization of continuous use over a period of time. Which of the following testing techniques should be used to test this scenario?

A customer wants a cloud systems administrator to adjust the backup schedule after month-end to ensure the data can be restored as fast as possible while minimizing the time needed to perform the backup. Which of the following backup types should be scheduled?

An administrator is using a script to create ten new VMs in a public cloud. The script runs and returns no errors. The administrator confirms that all ten VMs show up in the dashboard, but only the first eight reply to pings. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A cloud engineer is migrating an application running on an on-premises server to a SaaS solution. The cloud engineer has validated the SaaS solution, as well as created and tested a migration plan. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do before performing the migration? (Choose two.)