NEW QUESTION 1
An organization plans to keep three of its cloud servers online for another nine months and a fourth server online for a year. The current pricing is $200 per month per server. The cloud provider announced the sale price of $1,500 per year per reserved instance.
Which of the following represents the cost savings by converting all four of the cloud servers to reserved instances?

• A. $900
• B. $1,800
• C. $2,400
• D. $3,600

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 2
A mobile application development team requires frequent software updates for a major launch of a customer-facing application. The business requirement is to be first-to-market on a new feature that leverages third-partyhosted services.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to use for speed and efficiency?

• A. Proprietary code solution
• B. Application programming interface
• C. Regression testing
• D. Production load testing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images?

• A. Object
• B. Cold
• C. File
• D. Block

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
Following a risk assessment, a company decides to adopt a multicloud strategy for its IT applications.
Which of the following is the company trying to avoid as part of its risk mitigation strategy?

• A. Geo-redundancy
• B. Vendor lock-in
• C. High availability
• D. Data sovereignty

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
Transferring all of a customer's on-premises data and virtual machines to an appliance, and then shipping it to a cloud provider is a technique used in a:

• A. phased migration approach.
• B. replatforming migration approach.
• C. rip and replace migration approach.
• D. lift and shift migration approach.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?

• A. Time to market
• B. Operating expenditure fees
• C. BYOL costs
• D. Human capital

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 7
Which of the following BEST explains the concept of RTOs for restoring servers to operational use?

• A. To reduce the amount of data loss that can occur in the event of a server failure
• B. To ensure the restored server is available and operational within a given window of time
• C. To ensure the data on the restored server is current within a given window of time
• D. To reduce the amount of time a particular server is unavailable and offline

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8
Which of the following are the main advantages of using ML/AI for data analytics in the cloud as opposed to on premises? (Choose two.)

• A. Cloud providers offer enhanced technical support.
• B. Elasticity allows access to a large pool of compute resources.
• C. The shared responsibility model offers greater security.
• D. AI enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster.
• E. A pay-as-you-go approach allows the company to save money.
• F. ML enables DevOps to build applications easier and faster.

Answer: BE

NEW QUESTION 9
An online retailer wants to ensure its inventory for the holiday season is correct. The company does not have a large IT infrastructure or staff to collect and analyze sales information, customer analytics, marketing information, or trends.
Which of the following cloud services will help the company analyze these metrics without a large investment in human capital?

• A. Containerization
• B. Big Data
• C. Microservices
• D. Blockchain

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
A company wants to migrate mission-critical applications to the cloud. In order for technicians to build, decommission, and perform other routine functions, which of the following cloud characteristics would BEST satisfy this business requirement?

• A. Self-service
• B. Elasticity
• C. Broad network access
• D. Availability

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two).

• A. Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios.
• B. Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services.
• C. Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads.
• D. Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.
• E. Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch.
• F. Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 12
Which of the following technologies would help a game company prepare its cloud infrastructure to support a global distribution workload of a newly released online game? (Choose two.)

• A. Auto-scaling
• B. VDI
• C. Data portability
• D. CDN
• E. Templates
• F. Blockchain

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 13
A project manager must inform the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the additional resources necessary to migrate services to the cloud successfully.
Which of the following cloud assessments would be MOST appropriate to use for the recommendation?

• A. Feasibility study
• B. Gap analysis
• C. Future requirements
• D. Baseline report

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14
Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?

• A. Vendor lock-in
• B. Data portability
• C. Network connectivity
• D. Data sovereignty

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
Which of the following is an example of outsourcing administration in the
context of the cloud?

• A. Managed services
• B. Audit by a third party
• C. Community support
• D. Premium support

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
A human resources department is considering a SaaS-based human resources portal and requires
a risk analysis. Which of the following are requirements to consider? (Choose two.)

• A. Support
• B. Threats
• C. Chargebacks
• D. Vulnerabilities
• E. Maintenance
• F. Gap analysis

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 17
A company has defined a multicloud model.
Which of the following is the MOST important aspect to consider when defining the company's needs?

• A. Change management
• B. Data sovereignty
• C. Data portability
• D. Data classification

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 18
A SaaS provider specifies in a user agreement that the customer agrees that any misuse of the service will be the responsibility of the customer. Which of the following risk response methods was applied?

• A. Acceptance
• B. Avoidance
• C. Transference
• D. Mitigation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 19
A document that outlines the scope of a project, specific deliverables, scheduling, and additional specific details from the client/buyer is called a:

• A. statement of work.
• B. standard operating procedure.
• C. master service document.
• D. service level agreement.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 20
Which of the following cloud characteristics helps transform from a typical capital expenditure model to an operating expenditure model?

• A. Pay-as-you-go
• B. Elasticity
• C. Self-service
• D. Availability

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 21
The cloud consumer compliance team requires the IT department to patch and update cloud resources properly. Which of the following cloud service delivery models will BEST suit this need?

• A. SaaS
• B. DBaaS
• C. DRaaS
• D. IaaS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 22
Which of the following results from implementing a proprietary SaaS solution when an organization does not ensure the solution adopts open standards? (Choose two.)

• A. Vendor lock-in
• B. Inability to enforce the SLA
• C. Lack of technical support
• D. Higher ongoing operational expenditure
• E. Integration issues
• F. Higher initial capital expenditure

Answer: AE

NEW QUESTION 23
A startup company wants to use a CRM application to manage its sales and support organizations. The company does not have any IT staff. Which of the following cloud computing models is MOST appropriate for this company to use?

• A. CaaS
• B. PaaS
• C. IaaS
• D. SaaS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 24
Which of the following is a cloud service model that organizations use when their third-party ERP tool is provided as a complete service?

• A. Public cloud
• B. SaaS
• C. Hybrid cloud
• D. IaaS

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 25
Which of the following can be used by a client’s finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments?

• A. Reserved instances
• B. Service level agreement
• C. Resource tagging
• D. RFI from the CSP

Answer: C

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