51-60 Flashcards
An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:
✑ Allow HTTPS/HTTP.
✑ Disable FTP and SMB traffic.
Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?
A. Implement an ADC solution to load balance the VLAN traffic.
B. Configure an ACL between the VLANs.
C. Implement 802.1X in these VLANs.
D. Configure on-demand routing between the VLANs.
C. Implement 802.1X in these VLANs.
A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?
A. Performance testing
B. Penetration testing
C. Vulnerability testing
D. Regression testing
C. Vulnerability testing
A systems administrator is analyzing a report of slow performance in a cloud application. This application is working behind a network load balancer with two VMs, and each VM has its own digital certificate configured. Currently, each VM is consuming 85% CPU on average. Due to cost restrictions, the administrator cannot scale vertically or horizontally in the environment. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to decrease the CPU utilization? (Choose two.)
A. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use a VPN.
B. Move the digital certificate to the load balancer.
C. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use HTTP.
D. Reissue digital certificates on the VMs.
E. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use HTTPS.
F. Keep the digital certificates on the VMs.
B. Move the digital certificate to the load balancer.
E. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use HTTPS.
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
C. Wrong template selection
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
C. Vulnerability testing
A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities. Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?
A. Usability testing
B. Regression testing
C. Vulnerability testing
D. Penetration testing
B. Regression testing
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
C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests
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.
A. Decrease the MTU size on both servers.
An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team. Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?
A. DLP
B. HIDS
C. NAC
D. WAF
B. HIDS
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
B. Physical-to-virtual
