Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

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 4

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 7: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-002)