A company's engineering department is conducting a month-long test on the scalability of an in-house-developed software that requires a cluster of 100 or more servers. Which of the following models is the best to use?
A. PaaS
B. SaaS
C. DBaaS
D. laaS
An administrator needs to adhere to the following requirements when moving a customer's data to the cloud:
1.
The new service must be geographically dispersed.
2.
The customer should have local access to data
3.
Legacy applications should be accessible.
Which of the following cloud deployment models is most suitable?
A. On-premises
B. Private
C. Hybrid
D. Public
Which of the following describes what CRUD is typically used for?
A. Relational databases
B. Time series databases
C. Graph databases
D. NoSQL databases
Users have been reporting that a remotely hosted application is not accessible following a recent migration. However, the cloud administrator is able to access the application from the same site as the users.
Which of the following should the administrator update?
A. Cipher suite
B. Network ACL
C. Routing table
D. Permissions
A systems administrator is configuring network management but is concerned about confidentiality.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to address this concern?
A. Community strings
B. IPSec tunnels
C. ACLs
D. SNMPv3
A cloud administrator has built a new private cloud environment and needs to monitor all computer, storage, and network components of the environment.
Which of the following protocols would be MOST useful for this task?
A. SMTP
B. SCP
C. SNMP
D. SFTP
Users of a public website that is hosted on a cloud platform are receiving a message indicating the connection is not secure when landing on the website. The administrator has found that only a single protocol is opened to the service and accessed through the URL https://www.comptiasite.com.
Which of the following would MOST likely resolve the issue?
A. Renewing the expired certificate
B. Updating the web-server software
C. Changing the crypto settings on the web server
D. Upgrading the users' browser to the latest version
A development team recently completed testing changes to a company's web-based CMS in the sandbox environment. The cloud administrator deployed these CMS application changes to the staging environment as part of the next phase in the release life cycle. The deployment was successful, but after deploying the CMS application, the web page displays an error message stating the application is unavailable. After reviewing the application logs, the administrator sees an error message that the CMS is unable to connect to the database.
Which of the following is the BEST action for the cloud administrator to perform to resolve the issue?
A. Modify the deployment script to delete and recreate the database whenever the CMS application is deployed.
B. Modify the ACL to allow the staging environment to access the database in the sandbox environment.
C. Modify the CMS application deployment to use the previous version and redeploy the application.
D. Modify the configuration settings of the CMS application to connect to the database in the current environment.
An organization's two-node, hybrid container cluster is experiencing failures during horizontal scaling to the cloud cluster instance. The on-premises IP range is 192.168.0.0/16, and the cloud environment is 10.168.0.0/16. Overlapping or stretched VLANs are not permitted, and a node is deployed in each location. The cloud monitoring agent reports a healthy status for the second instance, but when pinging the clusters from on premises, the following output is received:
pinging cluster1. comptia. containers.com C192.168.100 reply pinging cluster2. comptia. containers.com [192.16B .100 .128] request timed out
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the scaling failure?
A. Incorrect DNS entry
B. Offline cluster node
C. Incorrect proxy entry
D. Incorrect cluster IP
E. Incorrect IP route
A systems administrator is reviewing the logs from a company's IDS and notices a large amount of outgoing traffic from a particular server. The administrator then runs a scan on the server, which detects malware that cannot be removed.
Which of the following should the administrator do first?
A. Determine the root cause.
B. Disconnect the server from the network.
C. Perform a more intrusive scan.
D. Restore the server from a backup.