Question 1

A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed. Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?

Accepted Answer

A)  Simultaneous multithreading 
B)  Bus speed 
C)  L3 cache 
D)  Instructions per cycle

Question 2

A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities. Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment. Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  Set up affinity rules to keep web and database servers on the same hypervisor 
B)  Enable jumbo frames on the gateway 
C)  Move the web and database servers onto the same VXLAN 
D)  Move the servers onto thick-provisioned storage

Question 4

A global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event. Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content. Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?

Accepted Answer

A)  DoH 
B)  WAF 
C)  IPS 
D)  CDN

Question 5

A company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly. Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tier pricing 
B)  Licensing 
C)  Estimated consumption 
D)  Feature compatibility

Question 6

A cloud administrator checked out the deployment scripts used to deploy the sandbox environment to a public cloud provider. The administrator modified the script to add an application load balancer in front of the web-based front-end application. The administrator next used the script to recreate a new sandbox environment successfully, and the application was then using the new load balancer. The following week, a new update was required to add more front-end servers to the sandbox environment. A second administrator made the necessary changes and checked out the deployment scripts. The second administrator then ran the script, but the application load balancer was missing from the new deployment. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  The license limit on the number of server deployments allowed per month was exceeded 
B)  The deployment script changes made by the first administrator were not checked in and committed 
C)  The new server images were incompatible with the application load-balancer configuration 
D)  The application load balancer exceeded the maximum number of servers it could use

Question 7

A company wants to implement business continuity, and the cloud solution architect needs to design the correct solution. Which of the following will provide the data to measure business continuity? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  A service-level agreement 
B)  Automation scripts 
C)  Playbooks 
D)  A network diagram 
E)  A backup and restore
F) A recovery time objective

Question 8

An organization is hosting a cloud-based web server infrastructure that provides web-hosting solutions. Sudden continuous bursts of traffic have caused the web servers to saturate CPU and network utilizations. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent such disruptive traffic from reaching the web servers?

Accepted Answer

A)  Solutions to perform NAC and DLP 
B)  DDoS protection 
C)  QoS on the network 
D)  A solution to achieve microsegmentation

Question 9

A systems administrator notices that a piece of networking equipment is about to reach its end of support. Which of the following actions should the administrator recommend?

Accepted Answer

A)  Update the firmware 
B)  Migrate the equipment to the cloud 
C)  Update the OS 
D)  Replace the equipment

Question 10

A cloud administrator is building a new VM for a network security appliance. The security appliance installer says the CPU clock speed does not meet the requirements. Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  Move the VM to a host with a faster CPU 
B)  Add more vCPUs to the VM 
C)  Enable CPU masking on the VM 
D)  Enable hyperthreading on the virtual host

Question 11

A cloud engineer is responsible for managing two cloud environments from different MSPs. The security department would like to inspect all traffic from the two cloud environments. Which of the following network topology solutions should the cloud engineer implement to reduce long-term maintenance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chain 
B)  Star 
C)  Mesh 
D)  Hub and spoke

Question 12

A company developed a product using a cloud provider's PaaS platform and many of the platform-based components within the application environment. Which of the following would the company MOST likely be concerned about when utilizing a multicloud strategy or migrating to another cloud provider?

Accepted Answer

A)  Licensing 
B)  Authentication providers 
C)  Service-level agreement 
D)  Vendor lock-in

Question 13

A systems administrator disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1, as well as RC4, 3DES, and AES-128 ciphers for TLS 1.2, on a web server. A client now reports being unable to access the web server, but the administrator verifies that the server is online, the web service is running, and other users can reach the server as well. Which of the following should the administrator recommend the user do FIRST?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disable antivirus/anti-malware software 
B)  Turn off the software firewall 
C)  Establish a VPN tunnel between the computer and the web server 
D)  Update the web browser to the latest version

Question 14

Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

Accepted Answer

A)  IaaS 
B)  GPU in the cloud 
C)  IoT 
D)  Serverless compute 
E)  SaaS

Question 15

A systems administrator recently upgraded the processors in a web application host. Upon the next 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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

A cloud architect wants to minimize the risk of having systems administrators in an IaaS compute instance perform application code changes. The development group should be the only group allowed to modify files in the directory. Which of the following will accomplish the desired objective?

Accepted Answer

A)  Remove the file write permissions for the application service account. 
B)  Restrict the file write permissions to the development group only. 
C)  Add access to the fileshare for the systems administrator's group. 
D)  Deny access to all development user accounts

Question 17

A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance is very slow at the start of the work day, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disk I/O limits 
B)  Affinity rule 
C)  CPU oversubscription 
D)  RAM usage

Question 18

A systems administrator is deploying a new storage array for backups. The array provides 1PB of raw disk space and uses 14TB nearline SAS drives. The solution must tolerate at least two failed drives in a single RAID set. Which of the following RAID levels satisfies this requirement?

Accepted Answer

A)  RAID 0 
B)  RAID 1 
C)  RAID 5 
D)  RAID 6 
E)  RAID 10

Question 19

An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking of costs for each business are inaccurate. Which of the following is the BEST method for resolving this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  Perform segregation of the VLAN and capture egress and ingress values of each network interface 
B)  Tag each server with a dedicated cost and sum them based on the businesses 
C)  Split the total monthly invoice equally between the businesses 
D)  Create a dedicated subscription for the businesses to manage the costs

Question 20

After analyzing a web server's logs, a systems administrator sees that users are connecting to the company's application through HTTP instead of HTTPS. The administrator then configures a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS on the web server, and the application responds with a connection time-out message. Which of the following should the administrator verify NEXT?

Accepted Answer

A)  The TLS certificate 
B)  The firewall rules 
C)  The concurrent connection limit 
D)  The folder permissions

Exam 8: CompTIA Cloud+