NEW QUESTION 1
A software development manager is looking for a solution that will allow a team of developers to work in isolated environments that can be spun up and torn down quickly.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate solution?

• A. Containers
• B. File subscriptions
• C. Ballooning
• D. Software-defined storage

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2
A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled.
Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?

• A. Performance testing
• B. Usability testing
• C. Vulnerability testing
• D. Regression testing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 3
A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage.
Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?

• A. 5
• B. 6
• C. 10
• D. 50

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 4
In an existing IaaS instance, it is required to deploy a single application that has different versions. Which of the following should be recommended to meet this requirement?

• A. Deploy using containers
• B. Install a Type 2 hypervisor
• C. Enable SR-IOV on the host
• D. Create snapshots

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 5
An organization is developing a new solution for hosting an external website. The systems administrator needs the ability to manage the OS. Which of the following methods would be MOST suitable to achieve this objective?

• A. Deploy web servers into an laaS provider.
• B. Implement a cloud-based VDI solution.
• C. Provision web servers in a container environment.
• D. Use PaaS components in the cloud to implement the product.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
A systems administrator is deploying a new storage array for backups. The array provides 1PB of raw disk space and uses 14TB nearline SAS drives. The solution must tolerate at least two failed drives in a single RAID set.
Which of the following RAID levels satisfies this requirement?

• A. RAID 0
• B. RAID 1
• C. RAID 5
• D. RAID 6
• E. RAID 10

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 7
A systems administrator is building a new virtualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

• A. a storage area network
• B. a network file system
• C. hyperconverged storage
• D. thick-provisioned disks

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 8
An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.
Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?

• A. A configuration file backup
• B. A full backup of the database
• C. A differential backup
• D. A VM-level snapshot

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

• A. Access controls
• B. Federation
• C. Multifactor authentication
• D. Certificate authentication

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10
A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

• A. Account mismatches
• B. IP address changes
• C. API version incompatibility
• D. Server name changes

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter. The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below:

The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions.
Which of the following solutions would help the company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

• A. Configure auto-scaling within the private cloud
• B. Set up cloud bursting for the additional resources
• C. Migrate all workloads to a public cloud provider
• D. Add more capacity to the private cloud

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
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

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that VDI performance is very slow at the start of the work day, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

• A. Disk I/O limits
• B. Affinity rule
• C. CPU oversubscription
• D. RAM usage

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
Users of an enterprise application, which is configured to use SSO, are experiencing slow connection times. Which of the following should be done to troubleshoot the issue?

• A. • Perform a memory dump of the OS.• Analyze the memory dump.• Upgrade the host CPU to a higher clock speed CPU.
• B. • Perform a packet capture during authentication.• Validate the load-balancing configuration.• Analyze the network throughput of the load balancer.
• C. • Analyze the storage system IOPS.• Increase the storage system capacity.• Replace the storage system disks to SSD.
• D. • Evaluate the OS ACLs.• Upgrade the router firmware.• Increase the memory of the router.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking of costs for each business are inaccurate.
Which of the following is the BEST method for resolving this issue?

• A. Perform segregation of the VLAN and capture egress and ingress values of each network interface
• B. Tag each server with a dedicated cost and sum them based on the businesses
• C. Split the total monthly invoice equally between the businesses
• D. Create a dedicated subscription for the businesses to manage the costs

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 16
A systems administrator is informed that a database server containing PHI and PII is unencrypted. The environment does not support VM encryption, nor does it have a key management system. The server needs to be able to be rebooted for patching without manual intervention.
Which of the following will BEST resolve this issue?

• A. Ensure all database queries are encrypted
• B. Create an IPSec tunnel between the database server and its clients
• C. Enable protocol encryption between the storage and the hypervisor
• D. Enable volume encryption on the storage
• E. Enable OS encryption

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17
A systems administrator is using VMs to deploy a new solution that contains a number of application VMs. Which of the following would provide high availability to the application environment in case of hypervisor failure?

• A. Anti-affinity rules
• B. Cold migration
• C. Live migration
• D. Affinity rules

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 18
A company wants to implement business continuity, and the cloud solution architect needs to design the correct solution.
Which of the following will provide the data to measure business continuity? (Choose two.)

• A. A service-level agreement
• B. Automation scripts
• C. Playbooks
• D. A network diagram
• E. A backup and restore
• F. A recovery time objective

Answer: AF

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