Which of the following will explain why only some of the CPU cycles are available to a virtualized server using two virtualized processors?
A. Extra processing is needed to store encryption keys used for secure transmission between the server and the network.
B. Additional processing is used to run ports and services not turned off through the process of server hardening.
C. Some processing is required for operational overhead on the processor and between the physical and virtualized processors.
D. Significant processing is used to create and maintain the cache on multi-core processors.
A small business is moving ten physical servers to the cloud. Which of the following should the cloud provider implement to ensure that all ten servers can dynamically share memory resources with other tenants as needed while not interfering with the other tenants?
A. Soft limits
B. Load balancing
C. Resource pooling
D. Caching
A system administrator wants to create a mitigation strategy to quickly roll back a virtual image after applying the latest updates. Which of the following would the administrator utilize?
A. File backup
B. Snapshot
C. Offline backup
D. Image backup
A system administrator wants to be able to use one server to collect all of the logs on the network. Which of the following would be used to satisfy this scenario?
A. Firewall logging
B. Change management database
C. Syslog service
D. SNMP
A company is required to provide their customers with zero downtime for its web application. Which of the following would satisfy this requirement?
A. Cold site
B. High availability
C. Multipathing
D. Load balancing
Which of the following networking components would be used to connect two subnets in a virtual environment?
A. Virtual switch
B. Virtual disks
C. Virtual router
D. Virtual HBA
Which of the following is the correct subnet mask for a VM with an IP address configuration of 192.168.1.10/24?
A. 255.255.0.0
B. 255.255.248.0
C. 255.255.255.0
D. 255.255.255.224
A financial storage system will be required by law to retain copies of checks for up to two years. Which of the following would be suited to meet this requirement?
A. SSD
B. USB drive
C. FCIP
D. CAS
Which of the following ciphers consists of independent keys providing a key length of 168 bits?
A. 3DES
B. RC6
C. RC5
D. AES
A user in the human resource (HR) department has reported slow response time to the company personnel database when trying to process new hires to the company. The administrator reviews the department VMs and resource pools to determine the cause of the slow access. The memory and CPU for the host machines in this resource pool have recently been upgraded. Other HR users that do not access the database are not reporting any problems. Which of the following is the cause of the slow response time?
A. NIC failure
B. Disk latency
C. Bandwidth throttling
D. CPU wait time