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Which of the following cloud services has the highest level of vendor lock-in?
The correct answer is B. Option B: PaaS database
Explanation
Platform as a service manages the underlying platform so customers focus on deploying applications and data.
A cloud engineer is developing an operating expense report that will be used to purchase various cloud billing models for virtual machine instances. The cloud billing model must meet the following requirements: β’ The instance cannot be ephemeral. β’ The minimum life cycle of the instance is expected to be five years. β’ The software license is charged per physical CPU count. Which of the following best meets these requirements?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Dedicated host
A system surpasses 75% to 80% of resource consumption. Which of the following scaling approaches is the most appropriate?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Load
A security engineer recently discovered a vulnerability in the operating system of the company VMs. The operations team reviews the issue and decides all VMs need to be updated from version 3.4.0 to 3.5.0. Which of the following best describes the type of update that will be applied?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Minor This option keeps traffic private / properly secured as required.
Which of the following costs would increase significantly for data transfer when comparing a multiregion to a single-region cloud platform design?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Network
An organization decides to migrate its software source code framework to microservices. Which of the following correctly describes this new approach?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Loosely coupled architecture
A software development team must manage changes to source code for different clients who utilize the same product with different features. Which of the following meets this requirement?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Branch
Which of the following would a customer most likely be accountable for in a shared responsibility model?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Security in the cloud
A cloud engineer needs to enable monitoring on a virtual machine instance within a cloud service provider. The engineer must monitor the resources related to the amount of memory an application is utilizing. Which of the following metrics should the engineer monitor for memory as it relates to disk performance?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Swap usage
A development team is ready to release the latest version of an application. Which of the following strategies best ensures successful deployment without impacting the bandwidth of company resources?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Shadow
An engineer receives information about an application issue and reviews the events. The engineer decides to horizontally scale the application server. Which of the following would most likely explain the engineer's decision?
The correct answer is D. Option D: The application server averages 50% CPU and spiked to 90% CPU. This option scales automatically to match demand.
A cloud engineer is selecting a model for a data center that will host a workload. The database must reside within the data center on the company's SAN solution. However, the workload will be hosted by a third-party vendor. Which of the following models should the cloud engineer select to meet these requirements?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Hybrid
A new major version of a package installed on a VM was recently released. Which of the following should a cloud engineer do first before applying the upgrade?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Raise a change request
A cloud engineer needs to choose a storage technology that fulfills the following requirements: β’ 99.99% durability β’ Resilient to instance failures β’ Resilient to instance deletions Which of the following types of storage is the best option?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Persistent By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.
A cloud engineer must improve the availability of a database for an application. The database must meet the following requirements: β’ Failover capability in case of a data center outage β’ Point-in-time data restoration capabilities Which of the following best meets these requirements?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Multi-availability zone database instance
A cloud administrator is implementing backups for a virtual file server with a large number of daily changes to files. The backups have historically caused performance issues on the server. As a result, the company has asked for backups to be completed as quickly as possible. The administrator opts for an incremental backup technology. Which of the following statements best explains the administrator's choice?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Differential backups are generally slower than incremental backups
Explanation
An incremental backup stores changes since the most recent backup, minimizing backup time and storage. A differential backup stores changes since the last full backup and requires only the full plus latest differential to restore.
Which of the following types of releases best describes the update made to a code repository production release when it changes from version 1.0 to version 1.1?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Minor
A cloud engineer discovers that two nodes experience resource exhaustion during the holidays. This creates a denial of service on the web application. Adding a third node is not an option because of budgetary constraints. Which of the following scaling approaches helps minimize resource exhaustion?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Vertical scaling
Which of the following allows network access to services deployed in a container?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Port mapping
Which of the following compute services is the best for quick and easy provisioning?
The correct answer is B. Option B: Container
Explanation
A container packages an application and dependencies while sharing the host kernel for lightweight isolation.
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