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

There has been a change in requirements for two countries where PCI virtual instances exist. As such three virtual instances need to be added in both countries' PCI environments, and two instances need to be removed. Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure compliance is met in those two countries?

An administrator is implementing a new SaaS application. The administrator has been directed to enhance the user authentication experience. Which of the following technologies BEST meets this requirement?

A customer has indicated that bi-weekly full backups are taking too long to complete. Which of the following would be the BEST action if minimizing restore time is very important to the customer?

A company is migrating some of its consumer-facing services to a cloud provider. The company has been getting more customers since its competitors have gone bankrupt. Which of the following actions would BEST meet the company's increased resource needs?

Ann, a technician, is using a saved workflow to deploy virtual servers. The script worked yesterday but is now returning an authentication error. Ann confirms that she can manually log in with her own account and create a virtual server. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the error?

A company is interested in a DRP. The purpose of the plan is to recover business as soon as possible. The MOST effective technique is:

A storage administrator must choose the best replication methodology for storage. The datacenters are on opposite sides of the country. The RPO is 24 hours. Replication and customer access use the same connections. Replication should not impact customer access during the day. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

A cloud administrator is required to implement a solution to handle data-at-rest encryption requirements for a database. Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?

A company has implemented a change management process that allows standard changes during business hours. The company's private cloud hardware needs firmware updates and supports rolling upgrades. Which of the following considerations should be given to upgrade firmware and make the change as transparent as possible to users?

A consultant is helping a gaming-as-a-service company set up a new cloud. The company recently bought several graphic cards that need to be added to the servers. Which of the following should the consultant suggest as the MOST cost effective?

After running monthly capacity reports on private cloud hosts, an engineer decides the CPU overcommitment ratio on the cluster is affecting performance on the VMs. If the engineer is trying to minimize costs, which of the following actions is the engineer MOST likely to take?

A cloud security analyst recently performed a vulnerability scan on a web application server across all staging environments. The vulnerability scan determines the directory that houses web content is located on the same drive as the operating system. The analyst then attempts to mitigate the vulnerability in all staging environments. The vulnerability scan is performed again and produces the following results: PROD Website XYZ web content is housed on the C: drive. QA Website XYZ web content is housed on the G: drive. DEV Given this scenario, which of the following should the test results conclude about the vulnerability?

A cloud architect is deploying a VM in a public IaaS cloud. The software that will be installed on the VM is not compatible with any of the OS versions in the system images offered by the IaaS vendor. Which of the following is the BEST way to deploy a VM with the required OS?

A cloud engineer needs to deploy a new virtual firewall in a private cloud. Which of the following should the engineer do as a FIRST step?

A public cloud provider recently updated one of its services to provide a new type of application load balancer. The cloud administrator is tasked with building out a proof-of-concept using this new service type. The administrator sets out to update the scripts and notices the cloud provider does not list the load balancer as an available option type for deploying this service. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

A customer has requirements for its application data to be copied into a second location for failover possibilities. Latency should be minimized, while RPO and RTO are over 15 minutes. Which of the following technologies BEST fits the customer's needs?

A company security policy mandates education and training for new employees. The policy must outline acceptable use policies for SaaS applications. Given these requirements, which of the following security controls is BEST suited?

An entertainment company with a very large movie library is moving all of its production systems to an IaaS cloud. The current lease is expiring in the next month, and the company made a last-minute decision not to renew the lease. Which of the following would be the MOST effective way to move all the data to the new cloud provider?

Joe, a systems administrator, deployed a computer and storage for a system and took it to the application team. The next day, the application team claimed the database was slow. The deployment request, result, and current utilization data are shown below. Which of the following descriptions of the situation is correct?

An administrator defines a backup as follows: One weekly full backup Daily incremental backup Which of the following BEST describes where the administrator would define this?