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

A VM was deleted by mistake today at 11:05 a.m. Below are the backups currently available for the VM: Crash-consistent restore is acceptable. Which of the following backups should be chosen?

A company changed its policy to have seven-year data retention in the public cloud. Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective way to meet retention requirements?

A communications service operator is planning to start migrating its complex network infrastructure to cloud by NFV, including a pool of media gateway servers, routers, and firewalls. The network elements consist of two controller cards, two redundant drives, and redundant ASIC boards. Which of the following virtualization requirements outlines the correct deployment plan?

It is taking an unusually long time for a financial division to run monthly reports on its SaaS-based, multitenant application. The cloud provider has grown exponentially, and more financial industry clients have moved their processing to the SaaS provider. Which of the following is the MOST probable cause of the issue?

Cloud developers are experiencing a delay caused by the static code review before each deployment. The security operator and developer must address the issue without cutting corners with security testing. Which of the following would BEST address the delay issue?

A large finance firm processes three times as many transactions in December of each year. The transactions are processed in a private cloud. Management wants to avoid adding permanent resources to accommodate the single month increase. Which of the following is the BEST way to meet the need?

Several state and local law enforcement agencies have decided to share information about traffic violations within their state by using a new search application. The state has policies around limiting the exposure of PII, and each local agency must comply with these policies. Which of the following cloud architecture models would be the BEST approach?

A cloud systems administrator manually archives security logs. Every time the administrator goes on vacation, users are unable to browse company websites. Which of the following is the BEST way to resolve this issue?

An engineer is responsible for managing a private cloud environment at a software company. Company developers perform all programming in the cloud environment. There are two departments working on a highly classified product that now requires dedicated resources, which cannot be viewed or accessed by other departments in the cloud environment. Which of the following should the engineer perform to ensure the requirements are met? (Choose three.)

A small clinic is moving its health and accounting systems to a SaaS solution. The clinic holds patient- and business-sensitive information. Which of the following is the company expected to do to protect its data?

An engineer is configuring the monitoring for a new application server. During the day, the CPU on the server is baselined at approximately 30% utilization. At midnight, a batch job is scheduled to run that will drive the CPU utilization up to 75% for approximately an hour. Any time the CPU utilization is at 40% or higher for longer than ten minutes, administrators will receive an alert. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure administrators do not experience message fatigue due to false alerts?

A cloud implementation engineer successfully created a new VM. However, the engineer notices the new VM is not accessible from another network. A ping test works from another VM on the same subnet. Which of the following is the MOST likely problem?

The CSA needs to install a patch on 58 virtual server instances during the Friday evening maintenance window. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to get the patches installed?

Company A has just implemented a SaaS-based cloud storage solution. The SaaS solution provides services for both commercial and personal use. The IT department has been tasked to migrate all the on-premises file shares to the SaaS solution with the username being the corporate email address. The IT department is currently using am IAM solution to provision the accounts in the SaaS solution. Upon execution of the account creation process, the IT department is receiving multiple "unable to create account" alerts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A company wants to set up a new department using private cloud resources. The new department needs access to sales and financial data, but it should be prohibited from accessing human resources data. Which of the following is the BEST option to configure on the virtual (software-defined) network to meet these requirements?

A cloud application has been in production for six months without any issues. Shortly after increasing the number of users assigned to the application, however, users start reporting errors. The administrator does not see any resource thresholds being exceeded in the cloud dashboard. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the errors?

All the virtual server instances within an organization's private cloud environment are having trouble logging into the Kerberos realm. Upon investigation, the CSA notices the time stamps are different on the server virtual instances. Which of the following should be the CSA's NEXT step to resolve this issue?

A firm responsible for ticket sales notices its local web servers are unable to handle the traffic, which often causes timeout errors and results in lost revenue. The firm wants to obtain additional cloud-based server resources only during peak times. Due to budget constraints, the firm wants to purchase only the exact amount required during peak times. Which of the following steps should be performed to BEST meet the budget requirement?

A cloud administrator for a customer's environment must ensure the availability of critical applications. The cloud provider hosting the infrastructure lost power, and the environment was down for four hours. Which of the following solutions is MOST suitable for ensuring availability of critical applications?

A technician receives a report of system utilization: Which of the following additional resources should the technician add FIRST given the trend data shown above?