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A developer sends multiple requests to a SaaS application in a short amount of time. The developer realizes that the entire server and all other users can no longer send requests to the application. Which of the following best describes the issue?
The correct answer is B. Option B: API rate limiting
A cloud engineer needs to integrate a new payment processor with an existing e-commerce website. Which of the following technologies is the best fit for this integration?
The correct answer is C. Option C: REST API over HTTPS
A company’s website suddenly crashed. A cloud engineer investigates the following logs: Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?
The correct answer is D. Option D: DDoS
Which of the following best describes a characteristic of a hot site?
The correct answer is D. Option D: All servers are replicated from the main site in an online status.
Which of the following is a direct effect of cloud migration on an enterprise?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Utility costs will be reduced on premises.
An administrator used a script that worked in the past to create and tag five virtual machines. All of the virtual machines have been created; however, the administrator sees the following results: {tags: []} Which of the following is the most likely reason for this result?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Command deprecation
A cloud administrator needs to collect process-level, memory-usage tracking for the virtual machines that are part of an autoscaling group. Which of the following is the best way to accomplish the goal by using cloud-native monitoring services?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Deploying the cloud-monitoring agent software
A cloud developer is creating a static website that customers will be accessing globally. Which of the following services will help reduce latency?
The correct answer is C. Option C: CDN
A cloud engineer is designing a cloud native, three-tier application. The engineer must adhere to the following security best practices: Minimal services should run on all layers of the stack. The solution should be vendor agnostic. Virtualization could be used over physical hardware. Which of the following concepts should the engineer use to design the system to best meet these requirements?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Microservices This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
A cloud solutions architect needs to have consistency between production, staging, and development environments. Which of the following options will best achieve this goal?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Using Terraform templates with environment variables
A healthcare organization must follow strict compliance requirements to ensure that PII is not leaked. The cloud administrator needs to ensure the cloud email system can support this requirement. Which of the following should the organization enable?
The correct answer is B. Option B: DLP
Explanation
Data loss prevention identifies sensitive data and prevents unauthorized disclosure or transfer.
A company’s content management system (CMS) service runs on an IaaS cluster on a public cloud. The CMS service is frequently targeted by a malicious threat actor using DDoS. Which of the following should a cloud engineer monitor to identify attacks?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Network flow logs
Which of the following is the most cost-effective way to store data that is infrequently accessed?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Off-site This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.
Which of the following models will best reduce the cost of running short-term, non-critical workloads?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Spot instance
Which of the following vulnerability management concepts is best defined as the process of discovering vulnerabilities?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Scanning
Which of the following types of storage provides the greatest performance advantage for a traditional relational database?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Block
A cloud networking engineer is troubleshooting the corporate office’s network configuration. Employees in the IT and operations departments are unable to resolve IP addresses on all devices, and the IT department cannot establish a connection to other departments’ subnets. The engineer identifies the following configuration currently in place to support the office network: Each employee needs to connect to the network with a maximum of three hosts. Each subnet must be segregated, but the IT department must have the ability to communicate with all subnets. Which of the following meet the IP addressing and routing requirements? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A, D. Option A: Modifying the subnet mask to 255.255.254.0 for IT and operations departments Option D: Configuring static routing to allow access from 10.1.30.1 to each subnet
Explanation
Subnetting divides an IP network into smaller routing and broadcast domains for address efficiency and segmentation.
Which of the following compute resources is the most optimal for running a single scripted task on a schedule?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Serverless function
A video surveillance system records road incidents and stores the videos locally before uploading them to the cloud and deleting them from local storage. Which of the following best describes the nature of the local storage?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Ephemeral
An organization is hosting a seminar with eight individuals who need to connect to their own dedicated VM. The technician used the following VM configurations: IP address: DHCP - NIC: 1Gbps - Network: 10.1.10.0/29 - Several users are unable to access their VMs. Which of the following best describes the reason?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Not enough addresses are available.
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