NEW QUESTION 1
A systems administrator is deploying a solution that requires a virtual network in a private cloud environment. The solution design requires the virtual network to transport multiple payload types.
Which of the following network virtualization options would BEST satisfy the requirement?

• A. VXLAN
• B. STT
• C. NVGRE
• D. GENEVE

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
A systems administrator wants the VMs on the hypervisor to share CPU resources on the same core when feasible.
Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

• A. Configure CPU passthrough
• B. Oversubscribe CPU resources
• C. Switch from a Type 1 to a Type 2 hypervisor
• D. Increase instructions per cycle
• E. Enable simultaneous multithreading

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a second hard drive failed.
Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?

• A. Restart the RAID resynchronization process
• B. Perform a P2V migration of the server
• C. Swap the failed hard drive with a fresh one
• D. Restore the server from backup

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

• A. Live migration
• B. Physical-to-virtual
• C. Storage-level mirroring
• D. Database replication

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

• A. Auto-scaling of compute
• B. Oversubscription
• C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests
• D. Affinity rules in the hypervisor

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of the OS.
Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?

• A. Alternative community drivers
• B. Legacy drivers
• C. The latest drivers from the vendor’s website
• D. The drivers from the OS repository

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
A private IaaS administrator is receiving reports that all newly provisioned Linux VMs are running an earlier version of the OS than they should be. The administrator reviews the automation scripts to troubleshoot the issue and determines the scripts ran successfully. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

• A. API version incompatibility
• B. Misconfigured script account
• C. Wrong template selection
• D. Incorrect provisioning script indentation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
A web server has been deployed in a public IaaS provider and has been assigned the public IP address of 72.135.10.100. Users are now reporting that when they browse to the website, they receive a message indicating the service is unavailable. The cloud administrator logs into the server, runs a netstat command,
and notices the following relevant output:

Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take to resolve the issue?

• A. Assign a new IP address of 192.168.100.10 to the web server
• B. Modify the firewall on 72.135.10.100 to allow only UDP
• C. Configure the WAF to filter requests from 17.3.130.3
• D. Update the gateway on the web server to use 72.135.10.1

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
An organization is hosting a cloud-based web server infrastructure that provides web-hosting solutions. Sudden continuous bursts of traffic have caused the web servers to saturate CPU and network utilizations.
Which of the following should be implemented to prevent such disruptive traffic from reaching the web servers?

• A. Solutions to perform NAC and DLP
• B. DDoS protection
• C. QoS on the network
• D. A solution to achieve microsegmentation

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

• A. The firewall
• B. The subnet
• C. The gateway
• D. The services

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
A systems administrator has finished installing monthly updates to servers in a cloud environment. The administrator notices certain portions of the playbooks are no longer functioning. Executing the playbook commands manually on a server does not work as well. There are no other reports of issues.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

• A. Change management failure
• B. Service overload
• C. Patching failure
• D. Job validation issues
• E. Deprecated features

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed.
Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?

• A. Simultaneous multithreading
• B. Bus speed
• C. L3 cache
• D. Instructions per cycle

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13
The human resources department was charged for a cloud service that belongs to another department. All other cloud costs seem to be correct.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error?

• A. Misconfigured templates
• B. Misconfigured chargeback
• C. Incorrect security groups
• D. Misconfigured tags

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 14
An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs.
Which of the following should be verified NEXT?

• A. Application
• B. SAN
• C. VM GPU settings
• D. Network

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15
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

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would allow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

• A. 30 VMs, 3GB of memory
• B. 40 VMs, 1,5GB of memory
• C. 45 VMs, 2 GB of memory
• D. 60 VMs, 1 GB of memory

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 17
An organization purchased new servers with GPUs for render farms. The servers have limited CPU resources. Which of the following GPU configurations will be the MOST optimal for virtualizing this environment?

• A. Dedicated
• B. Shared
• C. Passthrough
• D. vGPU

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18
A technician just received the lessons learned from some recent data that was lost due to an on-premises file-server crash. The action point is to change the backup strategy to minimize manual intervention. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the technician to implement?

• A. Backup as a service
• B. RAID 1
• C. Long-term storage
• D. New backup devices

Answer: C

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