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

When designing a new private cloud platform, a cloud engineer wants to make sure the new hypervisor can be configured as fast as possible by cloning the OS from the other hypervisor. The engineer does not want to use local drives for the hypervisors. Which of the following storage types would BEST suit the engineer's needs?

A company has deployed a four-node cluster in a COLO environment with server configurations listed below. The company wants to ensure there is 50% overhead for failover and redundancy. There are currently eight VMs running within the cluster with four vCPUs x32GB each. The company wants to better utilize its resources within the cluster without compromising failover and redundancy. Given the information above, which of the following should a cloud administrator do to BEST accommodate failover and redundancy requirements?

A company wants to deploy new compute resources efficiently through automation. Which of the following is a key success factor to achieve automation?

A law firm wants to limit log retention to the minimum required by law and regulation. Which of the following is the engineer most likely to do FIRST?

A real-time video-streaming company is determining the best cloud provider for high network performance, availability, and reliability requirements for the company's all-in cloud strategy. The new service should survive any regional disruption without any customer downtime. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

A Type 1 hypervisor has the following specifications: RAM        128GB CPU        4 socket quad-core Storage    16TB Each VM must have 8GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 512GB storage. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of VMs that can be hosted on this hypervisor?

Due to a competitor's unlimited data plan, a service provider is struggling and wants to transform its business services to be more hosting oriented. A cloud architect is tasked to review current cloud resource capacity and provide recommendations and a plan for better resource utilization. Given the following report: Which of the following is the BEST option for the architect to suggest?

After deploying multiple copies of database servers, data scrambling is started on them to anonymize user data. A few minutes later, the systems administrator receives multiple complaints regarding the performance of other VMs. CPU and memory have been eliminated as possible bottlenecks. Which of the following should be verified NEXT as a possible bottleneck?

A company has an SLA of 15ms for storage latency. Given the above metrics, which of the following is the MOST appropriate change to the environment?

A cloud administrator is looking at business requirements that specify the data available at the disaster recovery site must not be more than 24 hours old. Which of the following metrics correctly relates to these requirements?

A production IaaS database server contains PCI data and is a critical business capability. The CAB approved a normal code change release for QA and PROD to occur 30 minutes apart and to last a maximum of one hour. The cloud DBA team is 45 minutes behind schedule, so they miss the start time on QA. As the cloud DBA, which of the following is the BEST course of action to apply the code change?

A new startup company is growing and wants to deploy a human resources management system on a private cloud that is only accessible to the human resources department. Which of the following is the BEST method of access control?

A rural manufacturing company wants to move all IT services, including the industrial control systems, to the cloud. Given this scenario, which of the following cloud services elements would be a challenge to the deployment?

A private cloud customer is considering using the public cloud to accommodate the peak utilization workload. Which of the following would be considered the ideal scaling solution?

A company has been migrating a significant number of its on-premises applications to various SaaS providers. The IT department has noticed the following: User account management has become challenging. User account compromises have increased. Accessing various SaaS applications is challenging. Which of the following should the IT security department implement to BEST resolve the issue? (Choose three.)

A cloud administrator is securing an application hosted by an IaaS provider. The operating system on the VM has been updated. Which of the following should the administrator use to BEST secure the VM from attacks against vulnerable services regardless of operating system?

A cloud administrator is configuring a bastion host. The bastion host will be used to administer systems in the cloud remotely from the administrator's on-premises desktop. The administrator is given the following requirements: Ensure port 22 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Ensure port 3389 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Harden these services with PKI (where applicable). Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator utilize to BEST address these requirements? (Choose three.)

A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking into account the values provided by the users as input. The scripts need to be run automatically as part of the provisioning process and reused later for other purposes. Which of the following would help the provider do this?

A systems administrator needs to deploy a database that saves a unique ID/hash at the beginning of each block into a private cloud. The administrator needs to maximize storage savings. The administrator has multiple storage policies set. Which of the following would be the BEST option for this deployment?

An upgrade to a web application, which supports 400 users at four sites, is being tested. The application runs on four servers behind a load balancer. The following test plan is proposed: Have 50 users from site A connect to server 1 Have 50 users from site B connect to server 2 Have 50 users from site C connect to server 3 Have 50 users from site D connect to server 4 Which of the following parameters is being properly tested by this plan?