QUESTION 209
An IT administrator is implementing security controls on an OS. Which of the following will provide the best protection against a brute-force attack? (Select two).

QUESTION 210
An organization is hosting a DNS domain with private and public IP ranges.
Which of the following should be implemented to achieve ease of management?

QUESTION 211
An organization is running a database application on a SATA disk, and a customer is experiencing slow performance most of the time.
Which of the following should be implemented to improve application performance?

QUESTION 212
A cloud engineer is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. There is currently one virtual network that is used to host the servers in the cloud environment. The environment is rapidly growing, and the network does not have any more available IP addresses. Which of the following should the engineer do to accommodate additional servers in this environment?

QUESTION 213
A cloud administrator is choosing a backup schedule for a new application platform that creates many small files. The backup process impacts the performance of the application, and backup times should be minimized during weekdays. Which of the following backup types best meets the weekday requirements?

QUESTION 214
A cloud security analyst needs to ensure the web servers in the public subnet allow only secure communications and must remediate any possible issue. The stateful configuration for the public web servers is as follows:

Which Of the following actions Should the analyst take to accomplish the Objective?

QUESTION 215
A cloud administrator has created a new asynchronous workflow lo deploy VMs to the cloud in bulk. When the workflow is tested for a single VM, it completes successfully. However, if the workflow is used to create
50 VMs at once, the job fails. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue? (Choose two.)

QUESTION 216
A company has an in-house-developed application. The administrator wants to utilize cloud services for additional peak usage workloads. The application has a very unique stack of dependencies.
Which of the following cloud service subscription types would BEST meet these requirements?

QUESTION 217
An organization is replacing its internal human resources system with a SaaS-based application.
The solution is multi-tenant, and the organization wants to ensure ubiquitous access while preventing password replay attacks. Which of the following would BEST help to mitigate the risk?

QUESTION 218
After announcing a big sales promotion, an e-commerce company starts to experience a slow response on its platform that is hosted in a public cloud. When checking the resources involved, the systems administrator sees the following consumption:

Considering all VMs were built from the same templates, which of the following actions should the administrator perform FIRST to speed up the response of the e-commerce platform?

QUESTION 219
A systems administrator deployed a new application release to the green stack of a blue-green infrastructure model and made the green stack primary. Immediately afterward, users began reporting application issues. The systems administrator must take action to bring the service online as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the FASTEST way to restore the service?

QUESTION 220
A customer wants to remove a user’s access to the SaaS CRM system. Which of the following methods should be executed FIRST?

QUESTION 221
A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements.
Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

QUESTION 222
A cloud solutions architect has an environment that must only be accessed during work hours. Which of the following processes should be automated to BEST reduce cost?

QUESTION 223
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?

QUESTION 224
An organization suffered a critical failure of its primary datacenter and made the decision to switch to the DR site. After one week of using the DR site, the primary datacenter is now ready to resume operations.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to bring the block storage in the primary datacenter up to date with the DR site?

QUESTION 225
A systems administrator is using a configuration management tool to perform maintenance tasks in a system. The tool is leveraging the target system’s API to perform these maintenance tasks After a number of features and security updates are applied to the target system, the configuration management tool no longer works as expected. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

QUESTION 226
A cloud architect wants to minimize the risk of having systems administrators in an IaaS compute instance perform application code changes. The development group should be the only group allowed to modify files in the directory.
Which of the following will accomplish the desired objective?

QUESTION 227
A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a performance issue for a high-traffic, cloud-based application that provides static content to its geographically distributed users. The engineer needs to:
* Improve the performance of an application.
* Implement a static content caching mechanism.
* Protect against DDoS attacks.
* Maintain low cost.
Which of the following strategies would best accomplish this task?

QUESTION 228
A systems administrator wants to verify the word “qwerty” has not been used as a password on any of the administrative web consoles in a network. Which of the following will achieve this goal?

QUESTION 229
A systems administrator needs to modify the replication factors of an automated application container from 3 to 5. Which of the following file types should the systems administrator modify on the master controller?