1.
A hosting company provides 10 VM web servers for a financial institution. The financial institution recently introduced a new web application and now their web traffic has significantly increased. Which of the following could the administrator implement to assist in reducing the load on the web servers?
2.
Which of the following cloud delivery models has the LEAST probability of data leakage?
3.
The helpdesk starts receiving calls from a number of users that are suddenly having issues accessing one of the project management shared drives. When Joe, an administrator, logs onto the guest hosting the drive via the console he is able to get to the information. Which of the following failures could have caused this issue?
4.
Fault tolerant design allows a host to overcome a single HBA failure through:
5.
An administrator is tasked with encrypting all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a cloud-based database. Which of the following types of encryption will ensure that ONLY this type of information is encrypted while the rest of the database remains unencrypted?
6.
An administrator has configured a new VM with the correct IP, netmask, and default gateway. However, even with the vNIC showing a link and incoming and outgoing packets, the VM is unable to ping its default gateway. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason the VM network connection is not functioning properly?
7.
Which of the following types of geo-clustering should a cloud service provider implement in case a tenant requires that response time decreases if operations are moved closer to the cloud service provider's primary site?
8.
Which of the following can be used to physically restrict employees from accessing a datacenter?
9.
For budget purposes, the accounting department has asked an administrator to provide a disaster recovery solution that will comply with the following requirements:
10.
An administrator has virtualized a physical server. The application team reports satisfactory performance. The physical machine has been reimaged with a newer operating system. The following day, the application team remembers that the physical server had a dual purpose and uses a proprietary telephony card that connects to the PBX switch. The administrator needs to restore the server to its previous state. Which of the following should the administrator perform?