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

A multinational corporation needs to migrate servers, which are supporting a national defense project, to a new datacenter. The data in question is approximately 20GB in size. The engineer on the project is considering datacenters in several countries as possible destinations. All sites in consideration are on a high-speed MPLS network (10Gb+ connections). Which of the following environmental constraints is MOST likely to rule out a possible site as an option?

A technician is configuring a new web application to be highly available. The technician has configured multiple web servers in different availability zones at a public cloud provider. The application requires users to be directed to the same server each time they visit. Which of the following network components is MOST likely to accomplish this?

A cloud provider is evaluating an insider threat. A resource from the company operations team has access to the servers' virtual disks. This poses a risk that someone could copy and move the virtual server image and have access to the data. Which of the following solutions would help mitigate this problem?

A cloud administrator is tasked with ensuring redundancy and high availability of an IaaS cloud platform environment. The administrator is given the following requirements: Two web servers must share the same configurations and service client connections evenly. Two database servers must share data and configurations, with only one being used at a time. Given the above, which of the following should the administrator propose to BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

A company has hired a technician to build a cloud infrastructure for a massively parallel application. Which of the following should the technician consider doing FIRST?

A new service request asks for all members of the finance department to have access to the accounting department's file server VMs on the private cloud environment. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to fulfill this service request?

A multinational corporation is moving its worldwide cloud presence to a single region, which is called Region A. An administrator attempts to use a workflow, which was previously used to deploy VMs to Region E in the new Region A environment, and receives the following error: Invalid character set . Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

Before doing a change on a VM, a systems administrator wants to ensure there is an easy and fast way to rollback if needed. The change and testing should take approximately two hours. Which of the following is the EASIEST way to meet this requirement?

A cloud administrator is load balancing six VMs on an IaaS cloud service. The organization has an SLA stating the application should be available 99.999% of the time. At present, the six VMs are handling the load from one region and three availability zones. System baselines have confirmed there must be at least six VMs to handle this load. Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator recommend to BEST meet these requirements?

A customer recently provisioned a new server on the IaaS. The IP address assigned from the pool resolves to another hostname. Some user traffic is being dumped or is causing slowness because of this issue. Which of the following maintenance activities does the provider need to perform to prevent this issue?

A cloud administrator is provisioning several user accounts that have administrator rights to assets using JSON within an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator is required to configure "alternate" settings using the API. Given this scenario, which of the following elements would allow the administrator to meet these requirements in the JSON file?

A technician receives a call from Joe, a user, who is unable to log into any of the company's SaaS application. The applications are provided by multiple vendors. Joe reports his credentials were working previously, and he is able to log into the locally hosted applications with the same credentials. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of Joe's issues?

A cloud administrator is securing access to a VM using an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator must perform this task using an automated method, allow administrators to perform any method and expose any property of the VM, deny access for everyone else, and allow only read-only access to everyone else. Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator use to BEST meet these requirements?

Users at a university are experiencing slow response and performance issues with private cloud services. The university was compromised, and a loss of bandwidth utilization was reported. Without deploying new software, which of the following should be performed to determine the cause of the issues?

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

A cloud administrator runs a maintenance script to remove unused resources. After the maintenance has been performed, users report they can no longer access the application website. The administrator confirms the server is up and responding on the proper ports. Which of the following cleanup actions MOST likely caused the problem?

A company has moved all on-premises workloads into a public cloud. After some time, the cloud engineer starts noticing time drifts on the VMs and suspects an NTP issue. Time drifts were not an issue when all the workloads were on-premises. Which of the following describes how the cloud engineer should resolve the issue?

A physical server with SSD drives that hosts an IO-intensive database has been migrated into a private cloud to ensure further growth possibilities and accommodate quarterly load spikes (up to 10,000 IOPs). The requirement is to have log partition latency below 5ms and data partition latency below 10ms, irrespective of the load spikes. A cloud administrator has conducted extensive tests after the migration. Which of the following test results would ensure the migration is successful?

A cloud engineer is required to ensure all servers in the cloud environment meet requirements for PCI compliance. One of the requirements is to make certain all administrator logins and commands are logged. Which of the following is the BEST approach to meet these requirements?

A cloud administrator needs to give a new developer access to contents in a directory stored in a public cloud provider. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?