Question 1

A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage. Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?

Accepted Answer

RAID 10 provides both data redundancy and increased storage capacity, making it suitable for maximizing storage while ensuring data protection.

Question 2

A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Accepted Answer

User backups often contain redundant data and can be significantly reduced in size through compression, making them the most suitable for this process.

Question 3

A cloud administrator is reviewing the authentication and authorization mechanism implemented within the cloud environment. Upon review, the administrator discovers the sales group is part of the finance group, and the sales team members can access the financial application. Single sign-on is also implemented, which makes access much easier. Which of the following access control rules should be changed?

Accepted Answer

The issue arises from the role-based access control (RBAC) where the sales group is nested within the finance group, allowing unintended access to financial applications. Adjusting the roles and permissions can resolve this.

Question 4

A cloud administrator is reviewing the annual contracts for all hosted solutions. Upon review of the contract of the hosted mail solution, the administrator notes the monthly subscription rate has increased every year. The provider has been in place for ten years, and there is a large amount of data being hosted. Which of the following is a barrier to switching providers?

Accepted Answer

Vendor lock-in is a barrier to switching providers because it involves dependencies on a specific vendor's services, making it difficult and costly to move to another provider, especially with a large amount of data involved.

Question 5

A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A systems administrator is trying to establish...

Question 6

An update is being deployed to a web application, and a systems administrator notices the cloud SQL database has stopped running. The VM is responding to pings, and there were not any configuration changes scheduled for the VM. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

Accepted Answer

The administrator should check the logs on the VM to identify any errors or issues that might have caused the cloud SQL database to stop running. Logs can provide insights into what happened before the service stopped.

Question 7

A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider's environment that do not belong to the company. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

Accepted Answer

VM escape is an attack where a virtual machine breaks out of its isolation and interacts with the host operating system or other virtual machines, which is what happened in this scenario.

Question 8

After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Accepted Answer

The answer of After a hardware upgrade on a private...

Question 9

A company is utilizing a private cloud solution that is hosted within its datacenter. The company wants to launch a new business application, which requires the resources below:  The current private cloud has 30 vCPUs and 512GB RAM available. The company is looking for a quick solution to launch this application, with expected maximum sessions to be close to 24,000 at launch and an average of approximately 5,000 sessions. Which of the following solutions would help to company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A company is utilizing a private cloud...

Question 10

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power. Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

Accepted Answer

The issue likely lies with the network switch power, as the servers remained powered but were inaccessible, indicating a potential network connectivity problem.

Question 11

A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would allow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A resource pool in a cloud tenant...

Question 12

A cloud provider wants to make sure consumers are utilizing its IaaS platform but prevent them from installing a hypervisor on the server. Which of the following will help the cloud provider secure the environment and limit consumers' activity?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A cloud provider wants to make sure...

Question 13

A systems administrator has migrated an internal application to a public cloud. The new web server is running under a TLS connection and has the same TLS certificate as the internal application that is deployed. However, the IT department reports that only internal users who are using new versions of the OSs are able to load the application home page. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A systems administrator has migrated an internal...

Question 14

A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such data. Which of the following should the systems administrator implement?

Accepted Answer

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is designed to detect and prevent unauthorized data exfiltration, especially for sensitive information like Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Question 15

A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

Accepted Answer

The systems administrator should perform a P2V (Physical to Virtual) migration, which involves converting a physical server into a virtual machine to be hosted in the cloud.

Question 16

A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

Accepted Answer

The most likely reason is an API request limit, as SaaS services often have limits on the number of requests or emails that can be sent within a certain time frame.

Question 17

An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall. The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%. Which of the following should be deployed?

Accepted Answer

Deploying two firewalls in a High Availability (HA) configuration ensures redundancy and meets the high SLA requirement of 99.999%, as it allows for failover in case one firewall fails.

Question 18

A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A VDI administrator has received reports from...

Question 19

Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Which of the following service models would...

Question 20

A cloud administrator is building a new VM for machine-learning training. The developer requesting the VM has stated that the machine will need a full GPU dedicated to it. Which of the following configuration options would BEST meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Passthrough GPU allows a virtual machine to have direct access to a physical GPU, dedicating the full GPU to the VM, which is ideal for machine-learning tasks requiring high performance.

Exam 7: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-002)