Cloud+ - Chapter 9 Review

Common cloud resources in your deployment that may saturate over time include which of the following? (Choose three)

• RAM

• Power

• CPU

• Storage

• Monitoring

Connie has noticed an increase in the response time of the SQL database application that she runs in her IaaS deployment. When comparing current results against the baseline measurements that she recorded when the database was deployed, she verified that there has been a steady increase in the number of read requests. What should she focus her troubleshooting on?

• Memory

• CPU

• Storage

• Networking

What are recommended procedures to take when preparing an outage response plan? (Choose three)

• Configuration backups

• SLA

• Documentation

• Diagrams

• PaaS

Jeff has been monitoring resource usage increases in his web server farm. Based on trending data that he has collected, there will be regular requirements to increase CPU capacity for his web servers as usage increases. Jeff wants to use the automation capabilities of his private cloud to automatically use the orchestration software to add CPU cores as required. What can he implement to automate this?

• Puppet

• Chef

• Docker

• Autoscaling

• OpenStack

Sharon posted a new software update to her company's popular smartphone application. After announcing the release, she has been monitoring her dashboard information and has noticed a large spike in activity. What cloud resource should she focus on?

• CPU

• Network bandwidth

• RAM

• API

• Storage

Jim has added a new group of users to his IaaS-based NoSQL database. What license requirements does he need to investigate to ensure compliance? (Choose all that apply)

• Total connections

• Named users

• Current connections

• Usage Metrics

• All of the above

Hank designed an application tier for his company's new e-commerce site. He decided on using IP subnet that uses a /28 IPv4 subnet. He is planning for a maximum of 14 servers. You are brought in as a cloud architect to validate his design. What other devices may be on this subnet other than the servers that would also require IP address assignments? (Choose three)

• SLA

• Default gateway

• DNS

• NTP

• SNMP

Dale has been monitoring storage volume utilization and is writing a change request to add capacity. He has decided to automate the volume allocation size. What cloud feature can he take advantage of?

• SaaS

• API

• Elasticity

• OpenStack

Performance issues are measured by the load on a system. Which of the following should Jane be concerned about as she integrates her new marketing group into her PaaS cloud fleet?

• APIs

• Users

• Cores

• Licensing

Cloud capacity can be measured by comparing current usage to what?

• Orchestration

• Automation

• NTP

• Baseline

• APIs