Q158. A performance test team recently completed a simulated load test on a new e-commerce application hosted in the public cloud environment. The test was a 50% load test and produced the following results:

Based on these results, which of the following is the BEST recommendation to ensure the environment can handle a full load?

Q159. An administrator is implementing a new SaaS application. The administrator has been directed to enhance the user authentication experience.
Which of the following technologies BEST meets this requirement?

Q160. An administrator needs to make a file-level backup of a VM before deploying monthly updates. The backup should capture all changes since the last backup but should NOT reset the archive bit on any files.
Which of the following backup types BEST meets these requirements?

Q161. Joe, a systems administrator, deployed a computer and storage for a system and took it to the application team. The next day, the application team claimed the database was slow. The deployment request, result, and current utilization data are shown below.

Which of the following descriptions of the situation is correct?

Q162. Instruction:






Instruction: Only select a maximum of TWO options from the multiple choice question.

Q163. A physical server with SSD drives that hosts an IO-intensive database has been migrated into a private cloud to ensure further growth possibilities and accommodate quarterly load spikes (up to 10,000 IOPs).
The requirement is to have log partition latency below 5ms and data partition latency below 10ms, irrespective of the load spikes. A cloud administrator has conducted extensive tests after the migration.
Which of the following test results would ensure the migration is successful?
A:

B:

C:

D:

Q164. Which of the following may be used to increase data confidentiality when encryption is not an option?

Q165. Which of the following backup methods is MOST used by VM users?

Q166. Some users are experiencing high latency when accessing their virtual desktops or retrieving saved documents.
The administrator notices that two virtual desktops in the department are reserved for database processing applications that run several times a day. These machines are assigned to different hosts in the resource pool to provide a level of redundancy. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to remedy the situation?

Q167. A customer is building a web cluster in which all nodes must access a shared pool of images.
Which of the following storage types would be BEST for this workload?

Q168. Which of the following is a hardening technique that an administrator would perform when creating a standard VM template that would be used for deploying servers in a production environment?

Q169. Asynchronous data replication for a SaaS application occurs between Regions A and
B. Users in Region A are reporting that the most current data for an insurance claims application is not available to them until after 11:30 a.m. The cloud administrator for this SaaS provider checks the network utilization and finds that only about
10% of the network bandwidth is being used.
Which of the following describes how the cloud administrator could BEST resolve this issue?

Q170. A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data.
Which of the following techniques should the cloud administrator deploy to ensure testing requirements are met?

Q171. A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders.
A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes for server template: x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

Given an expected increase in workload, which of the following is the BEST solution to improve application performance?

Q172. An organization just went through a substantial audit, and the top findings were orphaned and inactive privileged accounts. Given the scenario, which of the following would be the BEST method for addressing these findings?

Q173. Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application.
The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization’s administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?

Q174. Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application. The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization’s administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?

Q175. A company has an SLA of 15ms for storage latency.

Given the above metrics, which of the following is the MOST appropriate change to the environment?

Q176. Company A has just implemented a SaaS-based cloud storage solution. The SaaS solution provides services for both commercial and personal use. The IT department has been tasked to migrate all the on-premises file shares to the SaaS solution with the username being the corporate email address. The IT department is currently using am IAM solution to provision the accounts in the SaaS solution. Upon execution of the account creation process, the IT department is receiving multiple “unable to create account” alerts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Q177. A company is seeking a new backup solution for its virtualized file servers that fits the following characteristics:
* The files stored on the servers are extremely large.
* Existing files receive multiple small changes per day.
* New files are only created once per month.
* All backups are being sent to a cloud repository.
Which of the following would BEST minimize backup size?

Q178. A company upgraded a hosted vulnerability scanner to the latest version, and now tickets are not being created to assign critical vulnerabilities. After confirming the ticketing issue, all the scanning services are confirmed to be running on the VM. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause and best method to fix the issue?

Q179. A cloud administrator updates the syslog forwarder configuration on a local server in production to use a different port. The development team is no longer receiving the audit logs from that server. However, the security team can retrieve and search the logs for the same server. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

Q180. An e-commerce business recently experienced a two-hour outage from its hosted web service provider.
According to the SLA, the business needs to determine how much data can be restored. On which of the following service-level components should the business focus?