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

A service engineer is trying to determine why one of the company's SaaS solution is no longer available. The internal systems are responding and other online applications using the same SaaS solution are responding as expected. Which of the following is the MOST common cause of the availability issue?

A company has implemented a dual-region (Region 1 and Region 2) cloud strategy from its current CSP. Both regions have the same data in them. Region 2 is experiencing an outage. Which of the following is the BEST way to provide service to users in Region 2 during the outage while allowing access to the data?

Which of the following would be appropriate when considering inbound access security for a web-based SaaS solution?

A security and risk team requires a weekly report to detect VM file system changes and validate the integrity of the OS. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this requirement?

A new SaaS timecard application that is being tested will be used by all employees at a large corporation. The following process was used to test the application: 1. Three users from each site used the application for three weeks. 2. The new application was used side by side with the existing application. 3. The outputs of the old and new applications were compared side by side. Which of the following requirements did the testing plan confirm? (Select two.)

The on-premises database server is experiencing high memory and CPU utilization over the course of a month. The current on-premises infrastructure is at capacity with no ability to scale up. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has asked the CSA to provide a solution without any capital expenditure. Which of the following is the BEST solution to resolve the issue?

Email users report that it takes more than one minute to open emails, including those without attachments. There are three email instances in three different regions hosted by the same CSP. Other applications hosted by the same CSP have no reported issues. Which of the following solutions BEST resolves the issue?

Which of the following solutions BEST complies with laws requiring secure data-at-rest for a critical application while keeping in mind the need for reduced costs?

A company uses its own private cloud, which has few available resources. Mission-critical systems and other information systems are running on it. A new system will be deployed on the private cloud. The following tests are included in the test plan: Load test (2h) Backup/restore test (6h) Functional test (8h) Failover test (1h) The work schedule of the existing system is shown below. To minimize the effect to the existing system, which of the following schedules is MOST suitable for the load test?

A cloud administrator is deploying a memory-intensive, three-tier web application with a database back end to one server in an IaaS cloud platform. The minimum application memory requirements are as follows: RAM for Web Service Role: 1024MB RAM for Application Service Role: 2048MB RAM for Database Service Role: 4192MB Configuration requirements state that web content should be separated from the operating system on another drive. Given this scenario, which of the following is the minimum amount of RAM required in GB and what is the most optimal logical volume design to BEST meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A manufacturing company has the following DR requirements for its IaaS environment: RPO of 24 hours RTO of 8 hours The company experiences a disaster and has a two-site hot/cold configuration. Which of the following is the BEST way for the company to recover?

Joe, a developer, has a virtualization environment consisting of four hosts. Joe needs to configure the environment to be able to place new VMs automatically to the recommended host with more resources. Which of the following must be enabled on the environment to achieve this?

A file server is being migrated from physical hardware into a private cloud. Baselining of the server shows the disks average 90% full at all times. The contents of the file server consist mostly of compressed audio files. Multiple copies of the same files are often saved in different locations on the same disk. Which of the following storage technologies is MOST likely to help minimize storage utilization when moving this server to the private cloud?

A CSA needs to apply new OS security patches to the application cluster server farm in a public cloud provider. The CSA wants to ensure the security patch and configuration are consistent for all members of the server farm. Which of the following deployment practices is the BEST approach to do this?

A SaaS customer reports that no one can access the application portal. After some troubleshooting, the cloud administrator finds a problem and provides a remedy by restarting the cluster. After documenting the solution, the support case is closed. Multiple tenants lose access to their hosts the following day. Which of the following troubleshooting steps did the administrator miss?

A cloud administrator works for an online gaming company that is hosting its multiplayer servers in a public IaaS cloud. The following metrics are reported during a controlled beta test: RAM usage                80% Bandwidth usage        50% Average ping              800ms The beta test shows poor performance for gamers. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement FIRST to improve the gamers' experience?

A cloud service administrator is consuming PaaS services and is performing baseline configuration tests. Which of the following is part of the PaaS consumer's responsibility with respect to the baseline confirmation tests?

A Big Data analytics company wants to ensure its data is protected at rest. Which of the following is the BEST hardware-based solution?

Joe, a cloud administrator, is no longer able to SSH to his cloud management console after he returns from a two-week vacation. A coworker was able to connect from the management station with no issue. During the last two weeks, the desktop team replaced all administrator machines with newer ones. Which of the following must Joe do FIRST to troubleshoot his access?

Below is the output from a troubleshooting activity: SaaS application is unavailable to a set of users at a single site. WAN connectivity was considered to be the cause of the problem. Upon testing, it seemed the WAN connectivity was up, but the default gateway was unreachable from the internal users. The faulty switch was replaced to bring up the connectivity. The incident was documented. Based on the methodology, which of the following steps was overlooked during the activity?