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

An application server, which uses a SaaS fax provider, is determined to cost too much money. An upgrade to the application allows for use of a physical fax card so the company only has to pay for a phone line. This is a production application; therefore, downtime must be minimized. Which of the following types of migration is MOST efficient in facilitating this application upgrade?

An organization is replacing its internal human resources system with a SaaS-based application. The solution is multi-tenant, and the organization wants to ensure ubiquitous access while preventing password replay attacks. Which of the following would BEST help to mitigate the risk?

A healthcare provider determines a Europe-based SaaS electronic medical record system will meet all functional requirements. The healthcare provider plans to sign a contract to use the system starting in the next calendar year. Which of the following should be reviewed prior to signing the contract?

A cloud service company is proposing a solution to a major sporting venue. The solution offers 99.999% availability during special events, which is proven through specialized testing. Which of the following techniques should be applied to confirm the high availability claimed by the company? (Choose two.)

A company has a private cloud NAC solution in place to prevent unauthorized/non-company assets from connecting to the internal network. A cloud systems administrator cannot add a new physical server to the existing functioning cluster. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

After scheduled network maintenance, users report that an externally hosted web application is particularly slow to load. Small items on the page load such as text documents and markup, but larger multimedia files do not load. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the reported issues?

The access control department creates a process to grant elevated administrator privileges for only a certain amount of time for a specific administrator task in an IaaS-hosted VM resource. Which of the following access control method is used?

An organization just went through a substantial audit, and the top findings were orphaned and inactive privileged accounts. Given the scenario, which of the following would be the BEST method for addressing these findings?

A cloud administrator is managing two private cloud environments. In cloud A, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of five minutes and RTO of one hour. In cloud B, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of one hour and RTO of 24 hours. A new customer's application requires that, in case of a disaster, no more than 15 minutes of data can be lost, and it should be fully recovered within one day. Which of the following would be the BEST approach to this application?

The InfoSec team has directed compliance database activity monitoring without agents on a hosted database server in the public IaaS. Which of the following configurations is needed to ensure this requirement is achieved?

A cloud administrator is integrating account logins with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter for marketing and to increase market presence using social media platforms. Given this scenario, which of the following components are needed to match these requirements? (Select TWO).

Government agencies currently operate their own websites, each with its own directory services. There is a mandate to minimize IT administration. Which of the following should the cloud services architect choose to BEST meet this mandate?

A development team released a new version of an application and wants to deploy it to the cloud environment with a faster rollback and minimal downtime. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to achieve this goal?

At 2:00 a.m each day, the database team runs a batch job to import the sales data for the day, index it, and generate sales reports for the next day. The team has informed the cloud administrator that sales data is expected to increase in the next month and will take longer to complete. The current environment uses several batch servers that process chunks of data individually. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take to handle the increased load?

Of ten newly deployed VMs from a single template, the cloud administrator notices one VM has direct root access enabled and automatic configuration control disabled. These settings do not comply with the company's policies for production VMs. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

A company has an internal SLA for CPU and RAM oversubscription that should stay below 120%. Storage utilization should stay below 90% with oversubscription below 160%. Given the following: Which of the following should be done to meet the SLA?

Company A acquires Company B. The resources need to be added accordingly to the SaaS environment. Which of the following resources should be changed by the tenant?

A VM was successfully tested in a lab environment. As part of the deployment preparation, the image needs to be backed up for use in the multi-rollout accompanied by orchestration templates. Which of the following should be used to create the image?

A company is implementing a launchpad within an existing application that will point to an existing SaaS provider. One of the requirements is the user should not have to log on multiple times. SSO is in place. When the launchpad is used, the user is redirected to SaaS providers as designed, but is asked for login credentials. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

An administrator needs to deploy a new release of an application in a way that allows a quick rollback to the previous version of the application. Which of the following is the BEST strategy to apply?