A company decides to add more virtual machines to handle a growing workload rather than upgrading existing servers. What approach is this?

A research firm shares computing resources across several partner universities under a shared governance model. Which deployment model fits?

A hospital wants full control over sensitive patient data and builds its own on-prem cloud infrastructure. Which model is this?

A retailer uses AWS and Google Cloud simultaneously to prevent vendor lock-in. What deployment model is this?

A developer uses a cloud platform to deploy an app using preconfigured environments, APIs, and database access. What service model is used?

A company uses Microsoft 365 for email and document sharing. Which model is this?

A university IT admin provisions virtual servers and storage using a web console. Which model applies?

A business creates a VPN to connect securely to its cloud resources. What’s the benefit of this configuration?

A company needs guaranteed low latency between its data center and the cloud provider. What connection type is most suitable?

An organization automates deployment of infrastructure using YAML scripts. What practice is this?

A system admin writes a series of automated scripts that sequentially deploy a multi-tier web app. This is an example of:

A customer asks who is responsible for encrypting data stored in the cloud. The provider says “you are.” What does this refer to?

A firm migrates its data to a CSP and expects uptime guarantees and penalties for downtime. What defines this relationship?

In a hybrid cloud, where are workloads usually distributed?

An e-commerce site automatically adds instances during sales events and removes them afterward. Which feature enables this?

A bank wants strict data residency control but occasionally uses the cloud for extra compute power. Which model fits best?

A developer deploys the same script to create identical server environments in multiple regions. What does this prevent?

A company migrates its application to a CSP. The provider secures the physical servers, while the company is responsible for configuring firewall rules inside their virtual machines. What concept is illustrated here?

A developer wants to automate the deployment of 50 identical test servers every night and destroy them in the morning. Which cloud benefit makes this feasible?

A company contracts AWS for 99.9% uptime. However, the system went down beyond the allowed downtime. What governs the compensation process?

A business wants to use cloud storage services from one provider but run its compute instances on another. Which model applies?

A company wants to host sensitive workloads internally but run less sensitive apps on the public cloud. Which model applies?

A gaming company experiences unpredictable usage spikes. Which cloud feature minimizes cost while meeting user demands?

A firm uses Terraform scripts to deploy servers, networks, and databases identically across regions. What is the primary advantage?

A team automates provisioning of VMs, load balancers, and firewalls for an application using a workflow tool. This is an example of:

A law firm using a CSP wants to store data only in a specific country due to regulatory requirements. What should they review in the contract?

A company wants to run a virtual desktop for each employee from the cloud. Which service model is appropriate?

An e-commerce business wants to connect its internal network to a cloud VPC with encryption. Which method should they use?

A tech company wants guaranteed bandwidth and low-latency links to Azure. Which solution helps?

A CSP provides a fully functional CRM system to customers. Users do not manage servers or software. Which model applies?

A development team receives unpredictable bills because servers remain running after testing. What cloud feature should they use?

A company wants to avoid “snowflake” servers - unique, manually configured systems - by ensuring identical setups everywhere. Which solution do they need?

A technician installs VMware Workstation on a desktop and then creates virtual machines inside it. What type of hypervisor is used?

An enterprise installs a hypervisor directly on server hardware without an OS layer. Which hypervisor type is this?

A VM must communicate with another VM on the same host without external network access. Which component enables this?

A network admin creates multiple VM NICs attached to different VLANs. What is enabled by this structure?

A company wants to virtualize functions such as firewalls and routers instead of buying hardware appliances. What technology supports this?

A VM requires firewall protection and routing before sending traffic to external networks. Which virtualized solution applies?

A storage admin wants block-level access from application servers to centralized storage. Which architecture is needed?

A datacentre uses Fibre Channel to connect servers to storage. Which component initiates the connection?

A company wants to combine Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic over the same cable. Which technology allows this?

A small business wants a low-cost SAN without buying Fibre Channel equipment. What technology helps?

An admin maps a LUN from a SAN to a specific application server. This process is known as:

A VM administrator notices that several VMs on a host cannot communicate externally, but they can reach each other. Which virtual component is most likely misconfigured?

A security team wants to isolate a group of VMs so they can only communicate through a virtual firewall. Which solution accomplishes this?

A company wants to migrate a physical server to a VM without shutting down critical applications. What technique is this?

A data centre admin uses a hypervisor feature that moves live VMs from one host to another with zero downtime. Which feature is this?

A virtual environment suffers from poor performance because too many VMs share the same physical CPU. What is happening?

An admin configures a VM with two virtual NICs—one for management and one for application traffic. What is the benefit?

A storage engineer needs to ensure that mission-critical databases run on the fastest disks while archived data is placed on slower ones. Which SAN concept applies?

A SAN admin notices that a server cannot access its assigned LUN. Other servers work correctly. What should they check first?

An organization wants to reduce cabling in the rack and transmit storage and network traffic over a single interface. Which device supports this?

A small enterprise wants SAN storage but cannot afford Fibre Channel switches. Which solution works?

A VM cluster is designed to automatically restart VMs on another host if one host fails. What virtualization feature enables this?

A virtualization admin wants to clone a VM quickly to create multiple identical test machines. What is the advantage of cloning?

A VM cannot boot because its virtual disk file is missing. Where is this file stored in a virtualization environment?

A VM admin needs to ensure network performance remains stable even if one physical NIC fails. What configuration should they use?

A company wants to limit which hosts can access certain storage devices in the SAN. What is the correct method?

A developer deploys a virtual router, virtual firewall, and virtual load balancer for an application. What are these components collectively?

iSCSI sends SCSI commands inside which type of packets?

A SAN with multiple storage tiers uses SSDs for high-performance workloads. Why is this effective?

A VM admin configures a VM-only internal network. What can VMs on this network access?

A hypervisor manages virtual storage, CPUs, RAM, and NICs for each VM. This is an example of:

An org wants to run a legacy OS that no longer works on modern hardware. What technology allows this?

A technician deploys multiple web server VMs across hosts but stores all databases on a central SAN. Why is this beneficial?

A datacentre operator wants a topology that ensures predictable 1-hop latency between any leaf switch and any spine switch. Which design is suitable?

A datacentre has heavy east–west traffic between servers. Which topology handles this efficiently?

A company wants to programmatically configure network traffic policies using a central controller. Which technology supports this?

A datacentre admin uses a controller to push routing rules to network switches. Which SDN component handles this?

A cloud provider wants to allow applications to communicate over a virtual network without changing the physical topology. Which technology enables this?

A datacentre operator wants to separate routing decisions from physical switches and control them centrally. Which architecture supports this?

Servers in a datacentre frequently exchange traffic with each other. What term describes this traffic pattern?