NO.166 A cloud administrator is assessing the scaling of an infrastructure stack. When viewing the configuration, the cloud administrator notices that the servers have a maximum limit of three. Which of the following is a way to increase throughput for the three servers without adjusting the maximum scaling limits?

NO.167 A company’s marketing department is running a rendering application on virtual desktops. Currently, the application runs slowly, and it takes a long time to refresh the screen. The virtualization administrator is tasked with resolving this issue. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

NO.168 A cloud-based web store is experiencing poor website performance and unavailability. Which of the following approaches would prevent the issue without administrator intervention?

NO.169 A company has decided to get multiple compliance and security certifications for its public cloud environment. However, the company has few staff members to handle the extra workload, and it has limited knowledge of the current infrastructure.
Which of the following will help the company meet the compliance requirements as quickly as possible?

NO.170 A storage administrator is reviewing the storage consumption of a SAN appliance that is running a VDI environment. Which of the following features should the administrator implement to BEST reduce the storage consumption of the SAN?

NO.171 Which of the following is the MOST mission critical for an IaaS provider?

NO.172 A financial industry services firm was the victim of an internal data breach, and the perpetrator was a member of the company’s development team. During the investigation, one of the security administrators accidentally deleted the perpetrator’s user data. Even though the data is recoverable, which of the following has been violated?

NO.173 A systems administrator needs to configure monitoring for a private cloud environment. The administrator has decided to use SNMP for this task.
Which of the following ports should the administrator open on the monitoring server’s firewall?

NO.174 A company security policy mandates education and training for new employees. The policy must outline acceptable use policies for SaaS applications. Given these requirements, which of the following security controls is BEST suited?

NO.175 A database system is causing performance issues due to an increase in the number of transactions. Which of the following is the best way to solve these performance issues?

NO.176 Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

NO.177 A systems administrator needs to migrate email services to the cloud model that requires the least amount of administrative effort. Which of the following should the administrator select?

NO.178 An IaaS application has a two-hour RTO and a four-hour RPO. The application takes one hour to back up its data or restore from a local backup file. A systems administrator is tasked with configuring the backup policy.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to achieve the application requirements with the LEAST cost?

NO.179 A cloud administrator is assigned to establish a connection between the on-premises data center and the new CSP infrastructure. The connection between the two locations must be secure at all times and provide service for all users inside the organization. Low latency is also required to improve performance during data transfer operations. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

NO.180 Company A has acquired Company B and is in the process of integrating their cloud resources. Company B needs access to Company A’s cloud resources while retaining its IAM solution.
Which of the following should be implemented?

NO.181 After accidentally uploading a password for an IAM user in plain text, which of the following should a cloud administrator do FIRST? (Choose two.)

NO.182 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?

NO.183 A company has implemented a dual-region (Region 1 and Region 2) cloud strategy from its current CSP. Both regions have the same data in them. Region 2 is experiencing an outage.
Which of the following is the BEST way to provide service to users in Region 2 during the outage while allowing access to the data?

NO.184 A company is switching from one cloud provider to another and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible.
Which of the following is the MOST important consideration to ensure a seamless migration?

NO.185 A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of the OS.
Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?

NO.186 A cloud administrator is adding several accounts for new development team interns. These interns will need access to some, but not all, of the resources and will only be working over the summer. Which of the following user provisioning techniques should be used?

NO.187 Which of the following would be the BEST option for discussion of what individuals should do in an incident response or disaster recovery scenario?

NO.188 A VDI provider suspects users are installing prohibited software on the instances. Which of the following must be implemented to prevent the issue?