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(Part 2) Cloud Essentials Study Guide

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following cloud solutions BEST enables companies to improve the quality of SaaS offerings via ongoing, automated means?

a)

A. Orchestration

b)

B. Blockchain

c)

C. Machine learning

d)

D. Big Data

2.

Which of the following corresponds to risk response concepts?

a)

A. Findings and risk register

b)

B. Classification and ownership

c)

C. Vendor lock-in

d)

D. Acceptance and avoidance

3.

Which of the following policies dictates when to grant certain read/write permissions?

a)

A. Access control

b)

B. Communications

c)

C. Department-specific

d)

D. Security

4.

Which of the following policies would MOST likely contain instructions for breach remediation?

a)

A. Communication

b)

B. Resource management

c)

C. Security

d)

D. Access and control

5.

Which of the following is an option to enforce standardization of an IT workflow process when creating resources in a cloud environment?

a)

A. Sandboxing

b)

B. Right-sizing

c)

C. Orchestration

d)

D. Autoscaling

6.

Which of the following will provide a detailed overview of ports, protocols, and network routing?

a)

A. Architecture diagram

b)

B. Business requirements

c)

C. Business impact statement

d)

D. Gap analysis

7.

Locking down ports and services on a newly deployed laaS instance is an example of:

a)

A. Encrypting

b)

B. Containerization

c)

C. Hardening

d)

D. Scanning

8.

Which of the following cloud service models BEST simplifies a company's IT resource management process?

a)

A. laaS

b)

В. SaaS

c)

C. BPaas

d)

D. PaaS

9.

Which of the following can be used in a cloud project that requires data to be made available worldwide and the end user experience to remain constant with the lowest latency possible?

a)

A. Data portability

b)

B. CDN

c)

C. VDI

d)

D. Autoscaling

10.

CSP vendor lock-in is BEST prevented by utilizing:

a)

A. Multicloud

b)

B. Volume licensing

c)

C. Machine learning

d)

D. Autoscaling

11.

An administrator wants employees to use a cloud-based application for benefit renewal. Which of the following service models should be used?

a)

A. MaaS

b)

B. laaS

c)

C. PaaS

d)

D. SaaS

12.

Which of the following describes a plan that defines the procedural response to a failed server or service?

a)

A. Disaster recovery

b)

B. Geo-redundancy

c)

C. High availability

d)

D. Shared responsibility

13.

Which of the following technologies allows a social media application to authenticate access to resources that are available in the cloud?

a)

A. Microservices

b)

B. LDAP

c)

C. Federation

d)

D. MFA

14.

An IT manager is migrating several databases from physical servers to the cloud. The IT manager plans to continue to manage the databases in the cloud. Which of the following service models corresponds to this scenario?

a)

A. laaS

b)

B. PaaS

c)

C. SaaS

d)

D. MaaS

15.

An organization wants to transition to a SaaS-based email system. Which of the following should the organization consider to provide sso capabilities?

a)

A. Virtual desktop infrastructure

b)

B. Multifactor authentication

c)

C. Federation

d)

D. Onboarding self-service

16.

A business analyst is drafting a risk response to a vulnerability from a CSP. The risk is inherited and ongoing, and there is currently no plan to address the risk. Which of the following responses should the analyst provide to the leadership team?

a)

A. Avoid

b)

B. Accept

c)

C. Mitigate

d)

D. Transfer

17.

A business analyst is examining a report and notices compute costs are very high for four cloud-based, load balanced virtual machines hosting an application. The application will be in use for at least two more years, but there are no developers available to help optimize it. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to BEST reduce costs without impacting performance?

a)

A. Decommission a virtual machine

b)

B. Change to a pay-as-you-go plan

c)

C. Convert the application to a SaaS solution

d)

D. Switch the virtual machines to reserved instances

18.

A Chief Information Officer is concerned recent civil unrest in some geographical regions may disrupt connectivity to servers in certain countries. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this risk

a)

A. Geo-redundancy

b)

B. Availability zones

c)

C. Containerization

d)

D. Data sovereignty

19.

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises environment to the cloud. One of the requirements is to have synchronous copies of data in different datacenters. Which of the following is the cloud availability option the company is requesting?

a)

A. Backup

b)

B. Replication

c)

C. Orchestration

d)

D. Zones

e)

E. Right-sizing

20.

A DevOps engineer is configuring a quick way to deploy code changes to an application while also automating testing. Which of the following should the engineer implement?

a)

A. Orchestration

b)

B. Infrastructure as code

c)

C. Continuous delivery

d)

D. Sandboxing

21.

A virtual machine operating in the cloud was accidentally decommissioned, and all of the data on the machine was lost. Which of the following will BEST help to recover from this type of disaster in the future? (Select Two)

a)

A. Logging

b)

B. Autoscaling

C. Alerts

c)

D. Backup

d)

E. Load balancing

e)

F. Replication

22.

As the consumer of a cloud-hosted disaster recovery service, a business requires: 100% uptime of the business-critical e-commerce sites in the event of a disaster Sites to be in the same geolocation with latency less than 0.5ms Which of the following costs are essential to ensure these requirements are met?

a)

A. Network connectivity

b)

B. Scheduled maintenance

c)

C. Resource tagging

d)

D. Compute resources

23.

Which of the following helps achieve high availability within a cloud provider using different datacenters?

a)

A. Geo-redundancy

b)

B. Zones

c)

C. Localities

d)

D. Orchestration

24.

Which of the following is used to connect on-premises resources to resources located in a cloud environment?

a)

A. Virtual private network

b)

В. Access control list

c)

C. Secure file transfer protocol

d)

D. Software-defined network

25.

A university received a grant for a data-intensive research project that requires very high computing power. The project is estimated to run for three months. The IT architect at the University recommends using a CSP because the internal datacenter cannot handle the workload. Which of the following billing methods is BEST suited for this short-term project?

a)

A. Pay-by-instance

b)

B. Reserved instance

c)

C. Perpetual

d)

D. Pay-as-you-go

26.

The ability for an administrator to provision resources in a cloud without assistance is known as:

a)

A. Availability

b)

B. Elasticity

c)

C. Self-service

d)

D. Scalability

27.

A startup company wants to develop a new voice assistant that leverages technology that can improve its product based on end user input. Which of the following would MOST likely accomplish this goal?

a)

A. Big Data

b)

B. Blockchain

c)

C. VDI

d)

D. Machine learning

28.

Which of the following is the BEST method to use when migrating sensitive data to the cloud?

a)

A. Encrypt the data in transit

b)

B. Transfer the risk to the CSP

c)

C. Harden the disaster recovery site

d)

D. Classify sensitive data

29.

A benefit of the lift-and-shift migration approach is that it:

a)

A. Improves the integration with the cloud environment.

b)

B. Optimizes the cost of the infrastructure.

c)

C. Allows for a phased approach.

d)

D. Requires few or no changes to existing software

30.

A company has several legacy, line-of-business applications that have poor performance and are affected by security bugs. Which of the following BEST approach for this cloud migration?

a)

A. Hybrid

b)

B. Rip and replace

c)

C. Lift and shift

d)

D. Phased

31.

Which of the following deployment models includes application components on a company’s network as well as on the internet?

a)

A. Private

b)

B. Public

c)

C. Community

d)

D. Hybrid

32.

Which of the following deployment models includes application components in a shared cloud environment?

a)

A. Private

b)

B. Public

c)

C. Community

d)

D. Hybrid

33.

A cloud DevOps team is interested in a long-term evaluation of a SaaS based CI/CD solution that requires several integrations with on-premises resources. Which of the following will meet this requirement?

a)

A. Proof of value

b)

B. Managed services

c)

C. Proof of concept

d)

D. Monitoring services

34.

A company invested in on-premises infrastructure to accommodate the anticipated growth of a new project. However, the company can no longer maintain the project on premises and is looking to either relocate to a larger facility or migrate to the cloud. Which of the following cloud characteristics would BEST meet the company’s future growth requirements?

a)

A. Elasticity

b)

B. Broad network access

c)

C. Availability

d)

D. Scalability

35.

An existing datacenter is located in a hurricane zone; however, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides not to move the equipment. Which of the following risk responses is this an example of?

a)

A. Acceptance

b)

B. Mitigation

c)

C. Transference

d)

D. Avoidance

36.

A DevOps team wants to document the upgrade steps for its public database solution. The team needs a dedicated virtual environment separate from the production systems to replicate multiple installations. Which of the following BEST represents what the team needs?

a)

A. Containerization

b)

B. Cold Storage

c)

C. Infrastructure as code

d)

D. Sandboxing

37.

Open-source solutions are usually less:

a)

A. Expensive

b)

B. Time consuming

c)

C. Robust

d)

D. Portable

38.

With regard to authentication, which of the following cloud technologies uses a key pair for users to register their identity?

a)

A. Microservices

b)

B. Containerization

c)

C. Self-service

d)

D. Blockchain

39.

Which of the following metrics helps define the time it takes for an organization to recover from an outage?

a)

A. RTO

b)

B. TCO

c)

C. RPO

d)

D. MTTR

40.

Which of the following financial aspects of cloud computing is BEST associated with the day-to-day costs of running a cloud environment?

a)

A. Sunk costs

b)

B. Fixed costs

c)

C. Capital expenditures

d)

D. Operating expenditures

41.

A Chief Financial Officer was asked to review recent billing from a company’s CSP. Which of the following line items would MOST likely be considered fixed costs? (Select TWO).

a)

A. Bandwidth consumption

b)

B. Per-seat licensing

c)

C. Support

d)

D. OS licensing

e)

E. CDN services

F. Compute

42.

Which of the following policies outlines how to inform end users prior to a scheduled maintenance downtime?

a)

A. Communication

b)

B. Computer use

c)

C. Information security

d)

D. Incident response

43.

Which of the following allows an IP address to be referenced via an easily remembered name for a SaaS application?

a)

A. DNS

b)

B. CDN

c)

C. VPN

d)

D. WAN

44.

During an audit, a company is asked to present sales analysis from the past two years. However, the IT department lost the information due to power outages. Which of the following should be implemented to mitigate the risk?

a)

A. Offline hashing

b)

B. Distributive allocation

c)

C. Alerts

d)

D. Disaster recovery

45.

Which of the following is a common vulnerability of cloud-based storage?

a)

A. Unauthorized access

b)

B. Disgruntled employee

c)

C. Ransomware

d)

D. Misconfigured access control

46.

Which of the following deployment models describes a cloud that is accessible via the internet and sells service to any customer?

a)

A. Private

b)

B. Public

c)

C. Hybrid

d)

D. Community

47.

A business analyst at a large multinational organization has been tasked with checking to ensure an application adheres to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. Which of the following topics would be BEST for the analyst to research?

a)

A. Data integrity

b)

B. Industry-based requirements

c)

C. ISO certification

d)

D. Regulatory concerns

48.

Which of the following testing techniques is used to test a new feature of an application before it is released in production?

a)

A. White box

b)

B. Load

c)

C. Regression

d)

D. Performance