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A cloud administrator is building a company-standard VM image, which will be based on a public image. Which of the following should the administrator implement to secure the image?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Hardening This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
A cloud deployment uses three different VPCs. The subnets on each VPC need to communicate with the others over private channels. Which of the following will achieve this objective?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Creating peering connections between all VPCs This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
A cloud resource increases its capacity based on seasonal activity. Which of the following best describes this type of cloud instance and the scaling approach?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Elastic; triggered by trend
Which of the following can eliminate the risk of CI/CD pipelines leaking secrets on containers?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Private image repositories
A company uses containers to implement a web application. The development team completed internal testing of a new feature and is ready to move the feature to the production environment. Which of the following deployment models would best meet the company’s needs while minimizing cost and targeting a specific subset of its users?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Canary
Once a change has been made to templates, which of the following commands should a cloud architect use next to deploy an IaaS platform?
The correct answer is D. Option D: git push
Explanation
Git provides distributed source control with branching, history, and collaborative change tracking.
A company is developing a new web application that requires a relational database management system with minimal operational overhead. Which of the following should the company choose?
The correct answer is B. Option B: A managed SQL database on the cloud This option is the most fully managed / serverless choice, so it meets the requirement for the least operational overhead.
Which of the following provides secure, private communication between cloud environments without provisioning additional hardware or appliances?
The correct answer is B. Option B: VPC peering This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
A cloud engineer is running a latency-sensitive workload that must be resilient and highly available across multiple regions. Which of the following concepts best addresses these requirements?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Clustering By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.
A cloud engineer is in charge of deploying a platform in an IaaS public cloud. The application tracks the state using session cookies and there are no affinity restrictions. Which of the following will help the engineer reduce monthly expenses and allow the application to provide the service?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Pay-as-you-go model
A cloud administrator recently created three servers in the cloud. The goal was to create ACLs so the servers could not communicate with each other. The servers were configured with the following IP addresses: After implementing the ACLs, the administrator confirmed that some servers are still able to reach the other servers. Which of the following should the administrator change to prevent the servers from being on the same network?
The correct answer is C. Option C: The IP address of Server 2 to 172.16.12.18
A company implements a web farm with 100 servers behind an application load balancer. During scaling events, new web servers that are placed in service have not loaded all their modules, which causes some requests to the web farm to fail. Which of the following should the cloud engineer implement to address the scaling issue?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Instance warm-up
A CI/CD pipeline is used to deploy VMs to an IaaS environment. Which of the following can be used to harden the operating system once the VM is running?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Ansible
For compliance purposes, a cloud developer at an insurance company needs to save all customer policies for more than ten years. Which of the following options is the most cost-efficient tier to save the data in the cloud?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Archive
Which of the following do developers use to keep track of changes made during software development projects?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Code versioning
Which of the following strategies requires the development of new code before an application can be successfully migrated to a cloud provider?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Refactor
Which of the following reduces the chance of introducing a misconfiguration into cloud deployment templates?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Opening pull requests for changes
Which of the following AI/ML technologies consumes text input to discern tone?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Sentiment analysis
A cloud solutions architect needs to design a solution that will collect a report and upload it to an object storage service every time a virtual machine is gracefully or non-gracefully stopped. Which of the following will best satisfy this requirement?
The correct answer is A. Option A: An event-driven architecture that will send a message when the VM shuts down to a log-collecting function that extracts and uploads the log directly from the storage volume
A cloud architect is preparing environments to develop a new application that will process sensitive data. The project team consists of one internal developer, two external consultants, and three testers. Which of the following is the most important security control for the cloud architect to consider implementing?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Using IAM and ACL in order to bolster DLP
Explanation
Data loss prevention identifies sensitive data and prevents unauthorized disclosure or transfer. This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
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