Exam 7: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-002)

Question 1

A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage. Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?

A) 5
B) 6
C) 10
D) 50

Answer 1

10

Question 2

A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

A) System files
B) User backups
C) Relational database
D) Mail database

Answer 2

User backups

Question 3

A cloud administrator is reviewing the authentication and authorization mechanism implemented within the cloud environment. Upon review, the administrator discovers the sales group is part of the finance group, and the sales team members can access the financial application. Single sign-on is also implemented, which makes access much easier. Which of the following access control rules should be changed?

A) Discretionary-based
B) Attribute-based
C) Mandatory-based
D) Role-based

Answer 3

Role-based

Question 4

A cloud administrator is reviewing the annual contracts for all hosted solutions. Upon review of the contract of the hosted mail solution, the administrator notes the monthly subscription rate has increased every year. The provider has been in place for ten years, and there is a large amount of data being hosted. Which of the following is a barrier to switching providers?

A) Service-level agreement
B) Vendor lock-in
C) Memorandum of understanding
D) Encrypted data

Question 5

A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

A) The firewall
B) The subnet
C) The gateway
D) The services

Question 6

An update is being deployed to a web application, and a systems administrator notices the cloud SQL database has stopped running. The VM is responding to pings, and there were not any configuration changes scheduled for the VM. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

A) Logs on the VM
B) Firewall on the VM
C) Memory on the VM
D) vGPU performance on the VM

Question 7

A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider's environment that do not belong to the company. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

A) VM escape
B) Directory traversal
C) Buffer overflow
D) Heap spraying

Question 8

After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

A) The driver
B) The memory
C) The cluster placement
D) The CPU

Question 9

A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter. The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below: The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions. Which of the following solutions would help to company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

A) Configure auto-scaling within the private cloud.
B) Set up cloud bursting for the additional resources.
C) Migrate all workloads to a public cloud provider.
D) Add more capacity to the private cloud.

Question 10

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power. Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

A) Server power
B) Rack power
C) Switch power
D) SAN power

Question 11

A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would allow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

A) 30 VMs, 3GB of memory
B) 40 VMs, 1,5GB of memory
C) 45 VMs, 2 GB of memory
D) 60 VMs, 1 GB of memory

Question 12

A cloud provider wants to make sure consumers are utilizing its IaaS platform but prevent them from installing a hypervisor on the server. Which of the following will help the cloud provider secure the environment and limit consumers' activity?

A) Patch management
B) Hardening
C) Scaling
D) Log and event monitoring

Question 13

A systems administrator has migrated an internal application to a public cloud. The new web server is running under a TLS connection and has the same TLS certificate as the internal application that is deployed. However, the IT department reports that only internal users who are using new versions of the OSs are able to load the application home page. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A) The local firewall from older OSs is not allowing outbound connections.
B) The local firewall from older OSs is not allowing inbound connections.
C) The cloud web server is using a self-signed certificate that is not supported by older browsers.
D) The cloud web server is using strong ciphers that are not supported by older browsers.

Question 14

A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such data. Which of the following should the systems administrator implement?

A) DLP
B) WAF
C) FIM
D) ADC

Question 15

A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

A) V2V
B) V2P
C) P2P
D) P2V

Question 16

A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

A) API request limit
B) Incorrect billing account
C) Misconfigured auto-scaling
D) Bandwidth limitation

Question 17

An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall. The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%. Which of the following should be deployed?

A) Two load balancers behind a single firewall
B) Firewalls in a blue-green configuration
C) Two firewalls in a HA configuration
D) A web application firewall

Question 18

A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?

A) GPU
B) CPU
C) Storage
D) Memory

Question 19

Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

A) PaaS
B) IaaS
C) CaaS
D) SaaS

Question 20

A cloud administrator is building a new VM for machine-learning training. The developer requesting the VM has stated that the machine will need a full GPU dedicated to it. Which of the following configuration options would BEST meet this requirement?

A) Virtual GPU
B) External GPU
C) Passthrough GPU
D) Shared GPU

Question 21

An organization's web server farm, which is hosted in the cloud with DNS load balancing, is experiencing a spike in network traffic. This has caused an outage of the organization's web server infrastructure. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent this in the future as a mitigation method?

A) Enable DLP.
B) Configure microsegmentation.
C) Enable DNSSEC.
D) Deploy a vADC appliance.

Question 22

A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

A) Account mismatches
B) IP address changes
C) API version incompatibility
D) Server name changes

Question 23

A cloud administrator would like to deploy a cloud solution to its provider using automation techniques. Which of the following must be used? (Choose two.)

A) Auto-scaling
B) Tagging
C) Playbook
D) Templates
E) Containers
F) Serverless

Question 24

A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance. Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

A) The network environment
B) Container resources
C) Client devices
D) Server resources

Question 25

A systems administrator is configuring network management but is concerned about confidentiality. Which of the following should the administrator configure to address this concern?

A) SNMPv3
B) Community strings
C) IPSec tunnels
D) ACLs

Question 26

A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled. Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?

A) Performance testing
B) Usability testing
C) Vulnerability testing
D) Regression testing

Question 27

A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department's database servers. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

A) Capacity planning
B) Change management
C) Backups
D) Patching

Question 28

A company is switching from one cloud provider to another and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration to ensure a seamless migration?

A) The cost of the environment
B) The I/O of the storage
C) Feature compatibility
D) Network utilization

Question 29

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers. Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

A) Decrease the MTU size on both servers.
B) Adjust the CPU resources on both servers.
C) Enable compression between the servers.
D) Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers.

Question 30

To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

A) Live migration
B) Physical-to-virtual
C) Storage-level mirroring
D) Database replication

Question 31

A systems administrator is building a new visualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

A) a storage area network.
B) a network file system.
C) hyperconverged storage.
D) thick-provisioned disks.

Question 32

Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

A) Auto-scaling of compute
B) Oversubscription
C) Dynamic memory allocations on guests
D) Affinity rules in the hypervisor

Question 33

An IaaS provider has numerous devices and services that are commissioned and decommissioned automatically on an ongoing basis. The cloud administrator needs to implement a solution that will help reduce administrative overhead. Which of the following will accomplish this task?

A) IPAM
B) NAC
C) NTP
D) DNS

Question 34

A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements. Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

A) Containers
B) Infrastructure as a code
C) Desktop virtualization
D) Virtual machines

Question 35

A cloud administrator has finished setting up an application that will use RDP to connect. During testing, users experience a connection timeout error. Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

A) Checking user passwords
B) Configuring QoS rules
C) Enforcing TLS authentication
D) Opening TCP port 3389

Question 36

A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure?

A) Deduplication
B) Thin provisioning
C) Software-defined storage
D) iSCSI storage

Question 37

A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information: The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%. The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server. A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address. The server is a member of the same security group as the others. The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

A) The network driver updates did not apply successfully, and the interface is in a down state.
B) The ACL policy for the server was updated as part of the server reboot, preventing login access.
C) The server was assigned a new IP address, and DNS entry for the server name was not updated.
D) The update caused an increase in the output to the logs, and the server is too busy to respond.

Question 38

A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a second hard drive failed. Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?

A) Restart the RAID resynchronization process.
B) Perform a P2V migration of the server.
C) Swap the failed hard drive with a fresh one.
D) Restore the server from backup.

Question 39

A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations. Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?

A) Initiate a failover.
B) Restore backups.
C) Configure the network.
D) Perform a failback.

Question 40

After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)

A) Identify the resources that are accessible to the affected IAM user.
B) Remove the published plain-text password.
C) Notify users that a data breach has occurred.
D) Change the affected IAM user's password.
E) Delete the affected IAM user.

Question 41

An organization is developing a new solution for hosting an external website. The systems administrator needs the ability to manage the OS. Which of the following methods would be MOST suitable to achieve this objective?

A) Deploy web servers into an IaaS provider.
B) Implement a cloud-based VDI solution.
C) Provision web servers in a container environment.
D) Use PaaS components in the cloud to implement the product.

Question 42

A systems administrator recently upgraded the processors in a web application host. Upon the nest login, the administrator sees a new alert regarding the license being out of compliance. Which of the following licensing models is the application MOST likely using?

A) Per device
B) Per user
C) Core-based
D) Volume-based

Question 43

A cloud administrator is designing a multiregion network within an IaaS provider. The business requirements for configuring the network are as follows: Use private networking in and between the multisites for data replication. Use low latency to avoid performance issues. Which of the following solutions should the network administrator use within the IaaS provider to connect multiregions?

A) Peering
B) Gateways
C) VPN
D) Hub and spoke

Question 44

A systems administrator is provisioning VMs in a cloud environment and has been told to select an OS build with the furthest end-of-life date. Which of the following OS builds would be BEST for the systems administrator to use?

A) Open-source
B) LTS
C) Canary
D) Beta
E) Stable

Question 45

A company is currently running a website on site. However, because of a business requirement to reduce current RTO from 12 hours to one hour, and the RPO from one day to eight hours, the company is considering operating in a hybrid environment. The website uses mostly static files and a small relational database. Which of the following should the cloud architect implement to achieve the objective at the LOWEST cost possible?

A) Implement a load-balanced environment in the cloud that is equivalent to the current on-premises setup and use DNS to shift the load from on premises to cloud.
B) Implement backups to cloud storage and infrastructure as code to provision the environment automatically when the on-premises site is down. Restore the data from the backups.
C) Implement a website replica in the cloud with auto-scaling using the smallest possible footprint. Use DNS to shift the load from on premises to the cloud.
D) Implement a CDN that caches all requests with a higher TTL and deploy the IaaS instances manually in case of disaster. Upload the backup on demand to the cloud to restore on the new instances.

Question 46

A company needs to access the cloud administration console using its corporate identity. Which of the following actions would MOST likely meet the requirements?

A) Implement SSH key-based authentication.
B) Implement cloud authentication with local LDAP.
C) Implement multifactor authentication.
D) Implement client-based certificate authentication.

Question 47

Which of the following will provide a systems administrator with the MOST information about potential attacks on a cloud IaaS instance?

A) Network flows
B) FIM
C) Software firewall
D) HIDS

Question 48

Users of an enterprise application, which is configured to use SSO, are experiencing slow connection times. Which of the following should be done to troubleshoot the issue?

A) • Perform a memory dump of the OS. • Analyze the memory dump. • Upgrade the host CPU to a higher clock speed CPU.
B) • Perform a packet capture during authentication. • Validate the load-balancing configuration. • Analyze the network throughput of the load balancer.
C) • Analyze the storage system IOPS. • Increase the storage system capacity. • Replace the storage system disks to SSD.
D) • Evaluate the OS ACLs. • Upgrade the router firmware. • Increase the memory of the router.