Question 1

Gary is creating a new virtual machine that needs to be closely monitored during its first few months of activity as the application that it is hosting is brand new and he's not sure what to expect out of it. Which of the following should he ensure is done to make sure that logs are collected in as much detail as possible?

Accepted Answer

Enabling auditing is crucial for collecting detailed logs on a virtual machine, especially when monitoring a new application. It allows for the tracking of user activities, system changes, and access to resources, providing a comprehensive view of the system's operations and potential issues.

Question 2

Widgets Inc. is a startup and looking to manage their own hardware and software. They know that procuring real estate to build their own data center can take a few months and do not have that kind of time built into their schedule. Which of the following would allow them to build their own private cloud on their own hardware with the potential to migrate into their own data center later if need be?

Accepted Answer

Colocation allows a business to rent space for servers and other computing hardware at a third-party provider's data center. This option enables Widgets Inc. to manage their own hardware and software immediately without the delay of building their own data center. Later, they can choose to migrate their setup to their own data center if desired.

Question 3

Cato has received an email stating that the change that he requested has been completed and the tracking ticket associated with the change has been closed. Cato pulls up the cloud application to see the new features that he had requested but is disappointed to see that they aren't quite what had been described in the change request. Which of the following steps, or phases, of the change management process were omitted?

Accepted Answer

Change review was likely omitted because this step involves evaluating the success of the change implementation and ensuring that the outcomes align with the initial objectives and requirements, which in this scenario, they did not.

Question 4

Fictional Corp has several scripts that can be copied and pasted into their cloud service provider's platform to create new virtual machines with certain specifications. After one of the administrators runs one of the scripts, she goes through and verifies that everything was set up correctly, only to find that certain things were not set up correctly. Which of the following is the most likely issue?

Accepted Answer

Template misconfiguration is the most likely issue because if the script, which acts as a template for creating new virtual machines, contains errors or incorrect configurations, the resulting virtual machines will not be set up correctly according to the intended specifications.

Question 5

Niles manages his company's private cloud. His manager wants to start taking advantage of the benefits that resources of a cloud service provider can offer. However, upon starting to try and get his company's local Active Directory to authenticate users on the public cloud resources, he can't seem to get it working. Which of the following is the most likely issue?

Accepted Answer

The most likely issue Niles is facing is a platform integration issue. When trying to integrate a company's local Active Directory with public cloud resources, the challenge often lies in ensuring compatibility and proper configuration between the on-premises infrastructure and the cloud service provider's platform. This can involve complex integration tasks such as setting up federation services or configuring directory synchronization, which are not related to licensing, time synchronization, or resource contention.

Question 6

Fictional Corp is trying to choose a cloud service provider. There are many things to consider, and they have narrowed the choices down to two CSPs that could meet their technical needs. Which of the following might they also consider doing before signing any contracts or creating an account on those platforms?

Accepted Answer

Having the legal department review agreements is crucial to ensure that all terms, conditions, and legal implications are understood and acceptable before committing to a contract.

Question 7

Jan has just migrated a virtual machine from the company's private cloud to the cloud service provider his company uses. He wants to see how the system responds as well as compare the original and new baselines. What type of testing should he perform?

Accepted Answer

Performance testing should be performed to evaluate how the system responds under various conditions and to compare the original and new baselines in terms of speed, scalability, and stability.

Question 8

Fictional Corp has grown exponentially over the first few years of its existence. Until now it had been using commercial off-the-shelf software. They've decided to create a development team and need to decide what the best method of development management is. Which of the following are the two most common methods that they might choose from?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Fictional Corp has grown exponentially over the...

Question 9

Fictional Corp currently has a data center that is not taking advantage of any virtualization technologies. They have decided that it is time to start looking at migrating to the cloud and depending less on their own data center. However, they have read that even the major cloud providers occasionally have outages that prevent them from meeting the 99.999 percent uptime that Fictional Corp needs, even if that isn't specified in the SLA of the major providers. Which of the following cloud solutions might best fit Fictional Corp's needs? (Choose two)

Accepted Answer

D  A hybrid cloud allows Fictional Corp to use both their own data center and cloud resources, providing flexibility and redundancy. A multi-cloud strategy involves using multiple cloud providers, which can help mitigate the risk of outages by not relying on a single provider.

Question 10

Daphne is trying to log into her company's cloud-based emailsystem, but is getting an error message. Upon logging into the administrative portal, it appears the credit card on file has expired. Which of the following seems to be the issue?

Accepted Answer

The issue appears to be a licensing outage, likely due to the expired credit card on file, which would prevent payment for the cloud-based email service, leading to a suspension or restriction of service.

Question 11

Fictional Corp has recently implemented a change management process where a group of employees, through regular meetings, must approve or deny the changes that are proposed through a formalized process. What is the name of the team of employees that is responsible for approving or denying the requested changes?

Accepted Answer

CAB stands for Change Advisory Board, which is a group of individuals who are tasked with assessing, prioritizing, and approving or rejecting changes in an organization's IT environment, aligning with the scenario described.

Question 12

Frasier is comparing the logs from the firewall to the logs on the web server after a security incident. He is trying to correlate the events, but it appears that the traffic took several minutes to reach the web server from the firewall for each of the various attempts. Which of the following could be the issue?

Accepted Answer

The discrepancy in time between the firewall logs and the web server logs suggests a time synchronization issue. Proper time synchronization is crucial for accurately correlating events across different systems in a network.

Question 13

Jason is working on a Saturday afternoon and has determined that a newly discovered vulnerability affects a group of servers that contain critical data for the company. The operating system manufacturer has released a fix overnight, but the company's change management processes require approval before patching any of the systems. Which group could possibly give Jason an approval on a weekend outside of their normally scheduled meetings?

Accepted Answer

The Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB) is designed to make decisions on urgent changes outside of the normal change schedule, such as on weekends or in emergency situations. This makes it the appropriate group for Jason to seek approval from for an urgent patching requirement.

Question 14

The Chief Technology Officer of an organization just got back from a technology conference where he learned about a set of best practices that many other organizations have put into place to help them be more efficient with their operations. Some of the topics covered by these best practices include change management and systems that store maintenance and configuration information for systems. He has determined that he wants everyone in his organization trained and up to speed on at least the foundational level of knowledge of these practices. What is the topic that the managers in IT should begin looking for training on?

Accepted Answer

The topics of change management and systems for storing maintenance and configuration information are key components of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). ITIL is a set of detailed practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business, which includes efficiency in operations.

Question 15

Fictional Corp has decided to outsource the development of a cloud application that it wants to have developed for its sales department to use. Which of the following might the company use to solicit bids for the project?

Accepted Answer

An RFP (Request for Proposal) is commonly used by companies to solicit bids from potential vendors or service providers for a specific project or service, such as the development of a cloud application.

Question 16

Fictional Corp has previously had a release schedule where changes were released into production on the first and third Saturday every month. However, it has been suggested that it would be more efficient to push the changes to production as soon as the code has passed testing. Which of the following methodologies is being suggested?

Accepted Answer

Continuous deployment is the methodology that involves automatically deploying every change that passes through the pipeline to production, which aligns with the suggestion to push changes to production as soon as the code has passed testing.

Question 17

Frank has just been hired as the new development manager at Widget Co. He was hired because he proposed that he could implement new methods such as one where new changes are deployed in small increments every 24 hours. Some of the team members don't quite understand it though, so he recommended they go read up on it. What search term would help them find the information they need to learn more about this method?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Frank has just been hired as the...

Question 18

Cara has requested some modifications to one of the cloud applications that the company developed internally. She pulled up the internal tracking application and sees that it has just gone through the change assessment phase. What is the next phase of the change management process that it should be in now?

Accepted Answer

After the change assessment phase, the next phase in the change management process is typically the change implementation, where the approved changes are actually made to the system or application.

Question 19

Jeff has a dashboard application that can give him an at-a-glance look at the various virtual machines on his cloud infrastructure. He notices that one of the systems is showing memory usage at 95 percent. Which of the following types of testing has possibly been overlooked for that system?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Jeff has a dashboard application that can...

Question 20

Fictional Corp uses a process to provide oversight to the development, maintenance, and retirement of programs that the company creates and uses internally. Which of the following would best describe this oversight and process?

Accepted Answer

Application life cycle management (ALM) is the correct term as it encompasses the processes, tools, and management techniques needed to oversee the life cycle of an application from conception to retirement. This includes development, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning, aligning with the description provided.

Quiz 3: Migration to the Cloud

Jan has just migrated a virtual machine from the company's private cloud to the cloud service provider his company uses. He wants to see how the system responds as well as compare the original and new baselines. What type of testing should he perform?

Daphne is trying to log into her company's cloud-based emailsystem, but is getting an error message. Upon logging into the administrative portal, it appears the credit card on file has expired. Which of the following seems to be the issue?

Fictional Corp has decided to outsource the development of a cloud application that it wants to have developed for its sales department to use. Which of the following might the company use to solicit bids for the project?

Jeff has a dashboard application that can give him an at-a-glance look at the various virtual machines on his cloud infrastructure. He notices that one of the systems is showing memory usage at 95 percent. Which of the following types of testing has possibly been overlooked for that system?

Fictional Corp uses a process to provide oversight to the development, maintenance, and retirement of programs that the company creates and uses internally. Which of the following would best describe this oversight and process?