Question 1

An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM. Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?
A) Availability
B) Elasticity
C) Pay-as-you-go
D) Self-service

Accepted Answer

Elasticity allows the organization to scale up resources, such as memory, on demand to meet increased demand and address performance degradation.

Question 2

A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?
A) Time to market
B) Operating expenditure fees
C) BYOL costs
D) Human capital

Accepted Answer

The answer of A small business is engaged with a...

Question 3

Which of the following technologies would help a game company prepare its cloud infrastructure to support a global distribution workload of a newly released online game? (Choose two.)
A) Auto-scaling
B) VDI
C) Data portability
D) CDN
E) Templates
F) Blockchain

Accepted Answer

Auto-scaling helps manage and adjust resources automatically based on demand, ensuring the infrastructure can handle varying loads. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) helps distribute game content globally, reducing latency and improving access speed for users worldwide.

Question 4

An online retailer wants to ensure its inventory for the holiday season is correct. The company does not have a large IT infrastructure or staff to collect and analyze sales information, customer analytics, marketing information, or trends. Which of the following cloud services will help the company analyze these metrics without a large investment in human capital?
A) Containerization
B) Big Data
C) Microservices
D) Blockchain

Accepted Answer

Big Data services in the cloud can help the company analyze large volumes of sales, customer, and marketing data efficiently without needing a large IT infrastructure or staff.

Question 5

A vendor stipulates it will provide incident response within two hours of a severity level A incident. Which of the following does this describe?
A) Maintenance agreement
B) Managed service agreement
C) Operating level agreement
D) Service level agreement

Accepted Answer

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) specifies the expected level of service, including response times for incidents, such as the two-hour response time for a severity level A incident.

Question 6

A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments?
A) Right-sizing
B) Scaling
C) Chargeback
D) Showback

Accepted Answer

Chargeback is the best approach to allocate cloud costs to the appropriate departments by billing them for their actual usage, helping to match costs with the departments responsible for them.

Question 7

A company migrated all of its infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud security team must review the security post-migration. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate task for the cloud security team to perform?
A) Risk register
B) Threat assessment
C) Application scan
D) Vulnerability scan

Accepted Answer

The answer of A company migrated all of its infrastructure...

Question 8

A company is required to move its human resources application to the cloud to reduce capital expenses. The IT team does a feasibility analysis and learns the application requires legacy infrastructure and cannot be moved to the cloud. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate cloud migration approach for the company?
A) Lift and shift
B) Hybrid
C) Rip and replace
D) In-place upgrade

Accepted Answer

A hybrid approach allows the company to keep the legacy infrastructure on-premises while integrating cloud solutions for other parts of the application, balancing the need to reduce capital expenses with the technical limitations of the legacy system.

Question 9

A company deploys a data management capability that reduces RPO. Which of the following BEST describes the capability needed?
A) Locality
B) Replication
C) Portability
D) Archiving

Accepted Answer

The answer of A company deploys a data management capability...

Question 10

A company wants to migrate mission-critical applications to the cloud. In order for technicians to build, decommission, and perform other routine functions, which of the following cloud characteristics would BEST satisfy this business requirement?
A) Self-service
B) Elasticity
C) Broad network access
D) Availability

Accepted Answer

Self-service allows technicians to independently manage and perform routine functions such as building and decommissioning applications without needing to go through a service provider, thus satisfying the business requirement.

Question 11

Which of the following is the cloud storage technology that would allow a company with 12 nearly identical servers to have the SMALLEST storage footprint?
A) Capacity on demand
B) Compression
C) Software-defined storage
D) Deduplication

Accepted Answer

The answer of Which of the following is the cloud...

Question 12

After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management. Which of the following should be presented to management?
A) Project charter
B) Feasibility study
C) Managed services
D) Pilot

Accepted Answer

The answer of After performing an initial assessment of a...

Question 13

Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two).
A) Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios.
B) Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services.
C) Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads.
D) Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.
E) Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch.
F) Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.

Accepted Answer

Specialized algorithms can be deployed for specific scenarios, and cloud environments offer features like cloud storage and auto-scaling to enhance machine learning processes.

Question 14

A cloud systems administrator needs to log in to a remote Linux server that is hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following protocols will the administrator MOST likely use?
A) HTTPS
B) RDP
C) Secure Shell
D) Virtual network computing

Accepted Answer

Secure Shell (SSH) is the most commonly used protocol for securely logging into remote Linux servers.

Question 15

A company wants to process a batch job in a faster, cost-effective manner. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A) Implement right-sizing.
B) Increase CPU usage.
C) Utilize spot instances.
D) Add storage.

Accepted Answer

Utilizing spot instances allows a company to use spare cloud capacity at a reduced cost, making it a cost-effective solution for processing batch jobs quickly.

Question 16

Which of the following cloud principles will help manage the risk of a network breach?
A) Shared responsibility
B) Self-service
C) Availability
D) Elasticity

Accepted Answer

The shared responsibility model helps manage the risk of a network breach by clearly defining the security responsibilities of both the cloud provider and the customer, ensuring that both parties understand their roles in protecting data and infrastructure.

Question 17

A business analysis team is reviewing a report to try to determine the costs for a cloud application. The report does not allow separating costs by application. Which of the following should the team use to BEST report on the costs of the specific cloud application?
A) Right-sizing
B) Content management
C) Optimization
D) Resource tagging

Accepted Answer

Resource tagging allows the team to categorize and track costs associated with specific cloud applications, making it easier to report on them separately.

Question 18

A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images?
A) Object
B) Cold
C) File
D) Block

Accepted Answer

Object storage is ideal for storing large amounts of unstructured data like images, as it is scalable, cost-effective, and provides easy access and management.

Question 19

A company has a perpetual license for a database application. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option when moving to the cloud?
A) Fixed
B) Subscription
C) EULA
D) BYOL

Accepted Answer

BYOL (Bring Your Own License) allows the company to use its existing perpetual license in the cloud, avoiding additional costs associated with purchasing new licenses.

Question 20

Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?
A) Vendor lock-in
B) Data portability
C) Network connectivity
D) Data sovereignty

Accepted Answer

Vendor lock-in is the risk most associated with moving all data to one cloud provider, as it can become difficult to switch providers or move data due to proprietary technologies or high switching costs.

Exam 4: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004

An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM. Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

A small business is engaged with a cloud provider to migrate from on-premises CRM software. The contract includes fixed costs associated with the product. Which of the following variable costs must be considered?

Which of the following technologies would help a game company prepare its cloud infrastructure to support a global distribution workload of a newly released online game? (Choose two.)

A vendor stipulates it will provide incident response within two hours of a severity level A incident. Which of the following does this describe?

A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments?

A company migrated all of its infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud security team must review the security post-migration. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate task for the cloud security team to perform?

A company deploys a data management capability that reduces RPO. Which of the following BEST describes the capability needed?

A company wants to migrate mission-critical applications to the cloud. In order for technicians to build, decommission, and perform other routine functions, which of the following cloud characteristics would BEST satisfy this business requirement?

Which of the following is the cloud storage technology that would allow a company with 12 nearly identical servers to have the SMALLEST storage footprint?

After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management. Which of the following should be presented to management?

Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two) .

A cloud systems administrator needs to log in to a remote Linux server that is hosted in a public cloud. Which of the following protocols will the administrator MOST likely use?

A company wants to process a batch job in a faster, cost-effective manner. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Which of the following cloud principles will help manage the risk of a network breach?

A business analysis team is reviewing a report to try to determine the costs for a cloud application. The report does not allow separating costs by application. Which of the following should the team use to BEST report on the costs of the specific cloud application?

A company is migrating its e-commerce platform to a cloud service provider. The e-commerce site has a significant number of images. Which of the following is the BEST storage type for storing the images?

A company has a perpetual license for a database application. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option when moving to the cloud?

Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?