A private medical practice hires you to determine the feasibility of cloud computing, whereby storage of e-mail and medical applications, as well as patient information, would be hosted by a public cloud provider. You are asked to identify potential problems related to sensitive data regulatory compliance. (Choose two.)

Which of the following are true regarding virtualization? (Choose two.)

Cloud computing offers which benefits? (Choose two.)

You are responsible for three IaaS payroll servers that store data in the cloud. The chief financial officer (CFO) requests observation of access to a group of budget files by a particular user. What should you do?

As the database administrator for your company, you are evaluating various public cloud offerings to test customer database app code changes. Which category of cloud service should you research?

Your company hosts an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory server to authenticate network users. Mailboxes and productivity applications for users are hosted in a public cloud. You have configured identity federation to enable locally authenticated users to connect to their mailboxes and productivity applications seamlessly. What type of cloud deployment model is in use?

What type of hypervisor would be required if you wanted to use an existing server with an existing operating system?

Your manager wants to run every application securely in its own virtualized environment while minimizing application startup time. What should be used for each application?

Which cloud computing characteristic relates to how a service can grow in response to workloads?

You have replicated on-premises application servers and data to the cloud in the event of an on-premises network disruption. The servers are kept in sync through replication. Which term best describes the role of the cloud in this configuration?

You have configured a cloud-based VDI solution in which client devices run a cloud-based Windows desktop. Which term best describes the connecting user device that may be generally used?

You are configuring cloud-based virtual networks without having to connect directly to the cloud provider hardware routers to configure VLANs. What enables this capability?

Private cloud technicians have configured policies that will shut down and remove virtual machines with no activity for 30 days or more. What are technicians attempting to prevent?

You must ensure that cloud storage is available in the event of a regional disruption. What should you configure?

You must control network traffic flow to specific Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual machines. What should you configure?

You have deployed a database in an AWS virtual private cloud. You need to limit database access to other AWS resources while ensuring that network traffic does not leave the Amazon network. What should you configure?

Which type of provider specializes in providing IT security service offerings?

A cloud firewall solution examines packet headers to allow or deny traffic based on IP addresses and port numbers. To which layer of the OSI model does the type of firewall apply?

You have configured a content-filtering firewall for traffic leaving a cloud virtual network. To which layer of the OSI model does this type of firewall apply?

Which strategy involves using network edge devices to process and move data into and out of the cloud?

Which strategy increases the security of cloud-based containerized applications?

Your software developers use security keys to access cloud services. What should you do to harden the use of security keys?

You need to deploy virtual machines in the cloud to support big data processing. The virtual machines must not be reachable from the Internet. Data processing summaries will be uploaded from the virtual machines to an on-premises database server. The on-premises network is already configured to allow incoming connections from the Internet. What should you do to allow the required functionality while maximizing security?

Over time, you have noticed unauthorized configuration changes made to virtual machine cloud settings. You need a way to track who made these changes and when. What should you do?

Which capabilities are offered by Next-generation Secure Web Gateways? (Choose two.)

Which type of cloud service model is depicted in Figure 16-1?

Which type of cloud service model is depicted in Figure 16-2?

You have linked your on-premises and public cloud networks together with a site-to-site VPN. Which type cloud deployment model does this apply to?

Which term best describes Figure 16-3?

Which type of replication does not wait for data to be committed to the primary replica before synchronizing additional replicas?

Which term describes breaking out of a virtual machine and attacking the hypervisor?

In the event of a server hard disk failure, you have been asked to configure server hard disks as depicted in Figure 18-1. What type of disk configuration is this?

A team leader assigns a server administrator the task of determining the business and financial effects that a failed e-mail server would have if it was down for two hours. What type of analysis must the server administrator perform?

An airline company has hired you to ensure that its customer reservation system is always online. The software runs and stores data locally on the Linux operating system. What should you do?

A busy clustered web site regularly experiences congested network traffic. You must improve the web site response time. What should you implement?

Your primary e-mail server uses three hot-swappable hard disks in a RAID 5 configuration. When one disk fails, other disks are readily available in the server room, which you can simply plug in while the server is still running. Which term best describes this scenario?

Your server tape backup routine consists of a full backup each Friday night and a nightly backup of all data changed since Friday’s backup. What type of backup schedule is this?

You are a network engineer for a San Francisco law firm. After the 1989 earthquake, an emphasis on continued business operation after future earthquakes dominated in the San Francisco business community. What type of plan focuses on ensuring that personnel, customers, and IT systems are minimally affected after a disaster?

A server is configured with three hard disks as shown in Figure 18-2. What type of configuration is this?

Windows Server backups are scheduled as follows: full backups on Saturdays at 3 A.M. and incremental backups weeknights at 9 P.M. Write verification has been enabled. Backup tapes are stored off site at a third-party backup vendor location. What should be done to ensure the integrity and confidentially of the backups? (Choose two.)

You are an IT network architect. Your firm has been hired to perform a network security audit for a shipping company. One of the company’s warehouses has a server room containing one Windows server and two Linux servers. After interviewing the server administrators, you learn they have no idea what to do if the Linux servers cease to function. What is needed here?

Which items should be considered when ensuring high availability for an e-commerce web site? (Choose two.)

Which of the following are the most closely related to creating a disaster recovery plan? (Choose three.)

What should be used to make informed decisions regarding your specific disaster recovery plan?

Identify the disaster recovery plan errors. (Choose two.)

You are creating a DRP for a small, independent car dealership. There are four employees who each use a desktop computer; there are no servers. All company data is stored on the four computers. A single high-speed DSL link is shared by all users. What are the best DRP solutions? (Choose two.)

Your senior network administrator has decided that the five physical servers at your location will be virtualized and run on a single physical host. The five virtual guests are mission-critical and will use the physical hard disks in the physical host. The physical host has the hard disks configured with RAID 1. Identify the flaw in this plan.

Your company is virtualizing DNS, DHCP, web, and e-mail servers at your location. Each of the four virtual machines will be spread out across two physical hosts. Virtual machines are using virtual hard disks, and these files exist on a SAN. Choose the best virtual machine backup strategy that will enable the quickest granular restore.

To ensure confidentiality, what should you do when storing server backup disks off site?

You are the administrator for a recently patched virtual Windows Server running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Recently the server has been randomly rebooting and now cannot boot at all. What should you do?

You are the network administrator for a small IT consulting firm. All servers are located at the single site. Employees use a web browser to access their e-mail accounts. After testing the DRP and receiving management approval, you e-mail a copy to all employees for their reference in the event of a disaster. Identify the problem.

You are the network administrator for a small IT consulting firm. All servers are hosted externally in the public cloud. After analyzing threats, creating a DRP, and receiving management approval, you e-mail a copy to all employees for their reference in the event of a disaster. Identify the most serious problem.

Which of the following regarding disaster recovery are true? (Choose two.)

You are a web site administrator. You need to minimize web site downtime in the event of a disaster or security compromise. Which of the following terms best describes the reliability of hard disks?

As the IT director, you are comparing public cloud providers. Your company will no longer house on-premises mail or application servers. Which factors under your control must you consider to ensure that e-mail and applications are always available to users?

You have configured your enterprise cloud storage so that it continuously replicates to a cloud provider data center in a different region. Replication to the secondary region occurs only after data is written to the primary storage. Which term best describes this resilience configuration?

Which storage area network term describes a host using more than one physical path to gain access to shared network storage?

Which configuration provides network traffic load balancing?

Your Windows server will no longer boot the operating system. No recent updates or configuration changes have been applied. What should you do first to attempt to resolve the problem?

Your IT security team has worked with executive management to determine that a company e-commerce web site must never remain down for more than two hours. To which disaster recovery term does this apply?

You company backs up on-premises data using a tape backup system that also replicates backup data to the cloud. You need to back data up daily while minimizing backup storage capacity on local backup tapes. What should you do?