Cloud+ Practice Questions

As part of a nightly testing process, new version of an application is deployed to the set of web servers in the development environment.

Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure the test environment is consistent with the previous night’s test?

Which of the following provides the BEST approach for deploying multiple new firewalls into an laaS cloud environment with minimal errors?

A company wants to implement a public laaS solution but also wants to address site resiliency challenges. When selecting an laaS provider, which of the following should a cloud technician look for within the provider’s capabilities to meet the requirements?

A company has deployed a four-node cluster in a COLO environment with server configurations listed below. The company wants to ensure there is 50% overhead for failover and redundancy. There are currently eight VMs running within the cluster with four vCPUs x32GB each. The company wants to better utilize its resources within the cluster without compromising failover and redundancy.

Given the information below, which of the following should a cloud administrator do to BEST accommodate failover and redundancy requirements?

A service engineer is trying to determine why one of the company’s SaaS solution is no longer available. The internal systems are responding and other online applications using the same SaaS solution are responding as expected.

Which of the following is the MOST common cause of the availability issue?

A cloud administrator sets up performance monitoring, which raises alerts. The monitoring runs periodically and checks for the suggested parameters. However, alerts are not being raised in a timely fashion.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate action to resolve the issue?

After deploying new VMs, the systems administrator notices it is not possible to connect to them using network credentials; however, local accounts work. After logging in, the administrator notices the NTP servers are not set.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing this issue?

An administrator is using a script to create ten new VMs in a public cloud. The script runs and returns no errors. The administrator confirms that all ten VMs show up in the dashboard, but only the first eight reply to pings.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

An engineer is responsible for managing a private cloud environment at a software company. Company developers perform all programming in the cloud environment. There are two departments working on a highly classified product that now requires dedicated resources, which cannot be viewed or accessed by other departments in the cloud environment.

Which of the following should the engineer perform to ensure the requirements are met? (Choose three.)

A cloud administrator is configuring a bastion host. The bastion host will be used to administer systems in the cloud remotely from the administrator’s on-premises desktop. The administrator is given the following requirements:

• Ensure port 22 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall.
• Ensure port 3389 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall.
• Harden these services with PKI (where applicable).

Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator utilize to BEST address these requirements? (Select THREE).