291-300 Flashcards
A cloud administrator receives an email stating the following:
“Clients are receiving emails from our web application with non-encrypted links.”
The administrator notices that links generated from the web application are opening in http://. Which of the following should be configured to redirect the traffic to https://?
A. User account access
B. Programming code
C. Web server configuration
D. Load balancer setting
C. Web server configuration
A systems administrator strictly followed a CSP’s documentation to federate identity for the company’s users; however, even when using the correct credentials, the users receive an error message indicating their tokens are expired. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the error?
A. The date on the company’s identity server is configured incorrectly.
B. The CSP’s documentation is incorrect.
C. There is a connection issue between the company and the CSP’s networks.
D. MFA was enforced on the CSP.
A. The date on the company’s identity server is configured incorrectly.
A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. The administrator needs to deploy new servers that will be domain controllers to authenticate 500,000 users and computer objects. Which of the following storage types would be BEST to select when deploying the servers to achieve the lowest cost per I/O?
A. Hybrid
B. SAS
C. Flash
D. SSD
A. Hybrid
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
D. Network
A company is comparing an application environment to be hosted on site versus a SaaS model of the same application. Which of the following SaaS-based licensing models should the administrator consider?
A. Per core
B. Per socket
C. Per instance
D. Per user
D. Per user
A cloud administrator is performing automated deployment of cloud infrastructure for clients. The administrator notices discrepancies from the baseline in the configuration of infrastructure that was deployed to a new client. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A. The deployment user account changed.
B. The deployment was done to a different resource group.
C. The deployment was done by a different cloud administrator.
D. The deployment template was modified.
A. The deployment user account changed.
A systems administrator is implementing a new file storage service that has been deployed in the company’s private cloud instance. The key requirement is fast read/write times for the targeted users, and the budget for this project is not a concern. Which of the following storage types should the administrator deploy?
A. Spinning disks
B. NVMe
C. SSD
D. Hybrid
B. NVMe
A cloud engineer, who manages workloads in a public cloud environment, uses autoscaling to maintain availability of a critical application. During a recent burst in demands, the engineer received the following error alert:
LimitedInstanceCapacity -
Which of the following is MOST likely cause of the error?
A. The cloud account has a misconfigured security group.
B. The cloud account has exhausted the number of instances quota.
C. The cloud account has had rights revoked to create instances.
D. The autoscaling feature does not have permissions to create instances.
B. The cloud account has exhausted the number of instances quota.
A company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly. Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?
A. Tier pricing
B. Licensing
C. Estimated consumption
D. Feature compatibility
D. Feature compatibility
A non-critical file on a database server was deleted and needs to be recovered. A cloud administrator must use the least disruptive restoration process to retrieve the file, as the database server cannot be stopped during the business day. Which of the following restoration methods would BEST accomplish this goal?
A. Alternate location
B. Restore from image
C. Revert to snapshot
D. In-place restoration
A. Alternate location
