CV1-003 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following will mitigate the risk of users who have access to an instance modifying the system configurations?

A. Implement whole-disk encryption

B. Deploy the latest OS patches

C. Deploy an anti-malware solution

D. Implement mandatory access control

A systems administrator wants to have near-real-time information on the volume of data being exchanged between an application server and its clients on the Internet. Which of the following should the systems administrator implement to achieve this objective?

A. A stateful firewall

B. DLP

C. DNSSEC

D. Network flows

A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider's environment that do not belong to the company.

Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

A. VM escape

B. Directory traversal

C. Buffer overflow

D. Heap spraying

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers. Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

A. Decrease the MTU size on both servers

B. Adjust the CPU resources on both servers

C. Enable compression between the servers

D. Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers

An organization is running a database application on a SATA disk, and a customer is experiencing slow performance most of the time. Which of the following should be implemented to improve application performance?

A. Increase disk capacity

B. Increase the memory and network bandwidth

C. Upgrade the application

D. Upgrade the environment and use SSD drives

A cloud architect is designing the VPCs for a new hybrid cloud deployment. The business requires the following:

1.

High availability

2.

Horizontal auto-scaling

3.

60 nodes peak capacity per region

4.

Five reserved network IP addresses per subnet

5.

/24 range

Which of the following would BEST meet the above requirements?

A. Create two /25 subnets in different regions

B. Create three /25 subnets in different regions

C. Create two /26 subnets in different regions

D. Create three /26 subnets in different regions

E. Create two /27 subnets in different regions

F. Create three /27 subnets in different regions

A cloud administrator is setting up a DR site on a different zone of the same CSP. The application servers are replicated using the VM replication, and the database replication is set up using log shipping. Upon testing the DR site, the application servers are unable to access the database servers. The administrator has verified the systems are running and are accessible from the CSP portal.

Which of the following should the administrator do to fix this issue?

A. Change the database application IP

B. Create a database cluster between the primary site and the DR site

C. Update the connection string

D. Edit the DNS record at the DR site for the application servers

A cloud administrator needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the expense of the company's cloud resources. Which of the following is the BEST option to execute this task with minimal effort?

A. Ask the cloud provider to send a daily expense report

B. Set custom notifications for exceeding budget thresholds

C. Use the API to collect expense information from cloud resources

D. Implement a financial tool to monitor cloud resource expenses

A storage array that is used exclusively for datastores is being decommissioned, and a new array has been installed. Now the private cloud administrator needs to migrate the data. Which of the following migration methods would be the BEST to use?

A. Conduct a V2V migration

B. Perform a storage live migration

C. Rsync the data between arrays

D. Use a storage vendor migration appliance

A vendor is installing a new retail store management application for a customer. The application license ensures software costs are low when the application is not being used, but costs go up when use is higher. Which of the following licensing models is MOST likely being used?

A. Socket-based

B. Core-based

C. Subscription

D. Volume-based