CV0-003 Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A company wants to utilize its private cloud for a new application. The private cloud resources can meet 75% of the application's resource requirements. Which of the following

scaling techniques can the cloud administrator implement to accommodate 100% of the application's requirements?

A cloud administrator has deployed a website and needs to improve the site security to meet requirements. The website architecture is designed to have a DBaaS in the back end and autoscaling instances in the front end using a load balancer to distribute the request. Which of the following will the cloud administrator MOST likely use?

A cloud administrator would like to maintain file integrity checks through hashing on a cloud object store. Which of the following is MOST suitable from a performance perspective?

An organization is hosting its dedicated email infrastructure with unlimited mailbox creation capability. The management team would like to migrate to a SaaS-based solution. Which of the following must be considered before the migration?

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 the company accommodate the new workload in the SHORTEST amount of time and with the maximum financial benefits?

A piece of software applies licensing fees on a socket-based model. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when attempting to calculate the licensing costs for this software?

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?

A technician is working with an American company that is using cloud services to provide video-based training for its customers. Recently, due to a surge in demand, customers in Europe are experiencing latency.

Which of the following services should the technician deploy to eliminate the latency issue?

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?

A company had a system compromise, and the engineering team resolved the issue after 12 hours. Which of the following information will MOST likely be requested by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to understand the issue and its resolution?

An organization recently deployed a private cloud on a cluster of systems that delivers compute, network, and storage resources in a single hardware, managed by an intelligent software. Which of the following BEST describes this type of deployment?

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?

A cloud administrator needs to coordinate and automate the management of a company's secrets and keys for all its cloud services with minimal effort and low cost. Which of the following is the BEST option to achieve the goal?

A web-application company recently released some new marketing promotions without notifying the IT staff. The systems administrator has since been noticing twice the normal traffic consumption every two hours for the last three hours in the container environment. Which of the following should the company implement to accommodate the new traffic?

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?

An organization is using multiple SaaS-based business applications, and the systems administrator is unable to monitor and control the use of these subscriptions. The administrator needs to implement a solution that will help the organization apply security policies and monitor each individual SaaS subscription. Which of the following should be deployed to achieve these requirements?

A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed.

Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?

An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs.

Which of the following should be verified NEXT?

Which of the following is relevant to capacity planning in a SaaS environment?

A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a cloud-based content management solution. According to the security policy, any data that is hosted in the cloud must be protected against data exfiltration. Which of the following solutions should the administrator implement?

A systems administrator is deploying a solution that includes multiple network I/O-intensive VMs. The solution design requires that vNICs of the VMs provide low-latency, near-native performance of a physical NIC and data protection between the VMs. Which of the following would BEST satisfy these requirements?

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?

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?

A cloud administrator checked out the deployment scripts used to deploy the sandbox environment to a public cloud provider. The administrator modified the script to add an application load balancer in front of the web- based front-end application. The administrator next used the script to recreate a new sandbox environment successfully, and the application was then using the new load balancer.

The following week, a new update was required to add more front-end servers to the sandbox environment. A second administrator made the necessary changes and checked out the deployment scripts. The second administrator then ran the script, but the application load balancer was missing from the new deployment.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

A systems administrator is analyzing a report of slow performance in a cloud application. This application is working behind a network load balancer with two VMs, and each VM has its own digital certificate configured. Currently, each VM is consuming 85% CPU on average. Due to cost restrictions, the administrator cannot scale vertically or horizontally in the environment. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to decrease the CPU utilization? (Choose two.)

A product-based company wants to transition to a method that provides the capability to enhance the product seamlessly and keep the development iterations to a shorter time frame. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

A company is currently running a website on site. However, because of a business requirement to reduce current RTO from 12 hours to one hour, and the RPO from one day to eight hours, the company is considering operating in a hybrid environment. The website uses mostly static files and a small relational database. Which of the following should the cloud architect implement to achieve the objective at the LOWEST cost possible?

A developer is no longer able to access a public cloud API deployment, which was working ten minutes prior.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

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

A cloud solutions architect has received guidance to migrate an application from on premises to a public cloud. Which of the following requirements will help predict the operational expenditures in the cloud?

An organization is hosting a cloud-based web server infrastructure that provides web-hosting solutions. Sudden continuous bursts of traffic have caused the web servers to saturate CPU and network utilizations.

Which of the following should be implemented to prevent such disruptive traffic from reaching the web servers?

A company needs to migrate the storage system and batch jobs from the local storage system to a public cloud provider. Which of the following accounts will MOST likely be created to run the batch processes?

An administrator recently provisioned a file server in the cloud. Based on financial considerations, the administrator has a limited amount of disk space. Which of the following will help control the amount of space that is being used?

A systems administrator has received an email from the virtualized environment's alarms indicating the memory was reaching full utilization. When logging in, the administrator notices that one out of a five-host cluster has a utilization of 500GB out of 512GB of RAM. The baseline utilization has been 300GB for that host. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?

A company has deployed a new cloud solution and is required to meet security compliance.

Which of the following will MOST likely be executed in the cloud solution to meet security requirements?

A systems administrator is using VMs to deploy a new solution that contains a number of application VMs.

Which of the following would provide high availability to the application environment in case of hypervisor failure?

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?

An organization will be deploying a web application in a public cloud with two web servers, two database servers, and a load balancer that is accessible over a single public IP.

Taking into account the gateway for this subnet and the potential to add two more web servers, which of the following will meet the minimum IP requirement?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting issues with network slowness. Traffic analysis shows that uplink bandwidth on the core switch is often sustained at 125Mbps due to a

combination of production traffic from other sources. Which of the following would BEST resolve the issue?

A system administrator supports an application in the cloud, which includes a restful API that receives an encrypted message that is passed to a calculator system. The administrator needs to ensure the proper function of the API using a new automation tool. Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the administrator to use to accomplish this requirement?

A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department’s database servers.

Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

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?

A systems administrator is provisioning VMs in a cloud environment and has been told to select an OS build with the furthest end-of-life date.

Which of the following OS builds would be BEST for the systems administrator to use?

A systems administrator is responding to an outage in a cloud environment that was caused by a network-based flooding attack. Which of the following should the administrator configure to mitigate the attack?

The human resources department was charged for a cloud service that belongs to another department. All other cloud costs seem to be correct.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error?

A local bank has all of its infrastructure in the cloud. An update was applied to the main database server at 5:00 a.m. on Monday morning, and the database was then corrupted and unusable. It had to be restored from backup. The last backup was taken the night before at 10:00 p.m. The database was then restored successfully, but seven hours' worth of data was lost, which is deemed unacceptable. Which of the following needs to be updated in the DR plan?

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?

A company wants to move its environment from on premises to the cloud without vendor lock-in. Which of the following would BEST meet this requirement?

A cloud security engineer needs to ensure authentication to the cloud pro-vider console is secure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this ob-jective?

An enterprise recently upgraded the memory of its on-premises VMs from 8GB to 16G

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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?

To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

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?

A cloud administrator is monitoring a database system and notices an unusual increase in the read operations, which is causing a heavy load in the system. The system is using a relational database and is running in a VM. Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve the issue with minimal architectural changes?

A system administrator has provisioned a new web server. Which of the following, in combination, form the best practice to secure the server's OS? (Choose three.)

An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.

Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?

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?

A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.

Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?

A company has two identical environments (X and Y) running its core business application. As part of an upgrade, the X environment is patched/upgraded and tested while the Y environment is still serving the consumer workloads. Upon successful testing of the X environment, all workload is sent to this environment, and the Y environment is then upgraded before both environments start to manage the workloads. Which of the following upgrade methods is being used?

A user reports a poor-quality remote VDI session. Which of the following should the help desk technician do FIRST to troubleshoot the issue?

A cloud administrator needs to reduce the cost of cloud services by using the company's off-peak period. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this with minimal effort?

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?

During a security incident, an laaS compute instance is detected to send traffic to a host related to cryptocurrency mining. The security analyst handling the incident determines the scope of the incident is limited to that particular instance. Which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

A DevOps administrator is designing a new machine-learning platform. The application needs to be portable between public and private clouds and should be kept as small as possible. Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?

A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service.

Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?

A cloud administrator has finished setting up an application that will use RDP to connect. During testing, users experience a connection timeout error.

Which of the following will MOST likely solve the issue?

Which of the following actions should a systems administrator perform during the containment phase of a security incident in the cloud?

A security analyst is investigating incidents in which attackers are able to access sensitive data from a corporate application's database. The attacks occur periodically and usually

after the release of a new application's version. The following log confirms the compromise:

USER: WebApp access—key accepted

WebApp user assumed DBA role

GetData API call executed

The following actions are made after every incident occurrence:

• Validation of firewall rules

• Scripted rebuild of the database and web instances

• Application deployment from a cloud code repository

Which of the following actions will MOST likely prevent future compromises?

A systems administrator is deploying a new virtualized environment. The setup is a three-server cluster with 12 VMs running on each server. While executing a vertical-scaling test of the vCPU on the VMs, the administrator gets an error. Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

A systems administrator needs to deploy a solution to automate new application releases that come from the development team. The administrator is responsible for provisioning resources at the infrastructure layer without modifying any configurations in the application code. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this task?

An IaaS provider has numerous devices and services that are commissioned and decommissioned automatically on an ongoing basis. The cloud administrator needs to implement a solution that will help reduce administrative overhead.

Which of the following will accomplish this task?

Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.

Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?

An administrator is securing a private cloud environment and wants to ensure only approved systems can connect to switches. Which of the following would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

A company needs to rehost its ERP system to complete a datacenter migration to the public cloud. The company has already migrated other systems and configured VPN connections.

Which of the following MOST likely needs to be analyzed before rehosting the ERP?

A company is doing a cloud-to-cloud migration to lower costs. A systems administrator has to plan the migration accordingly.

Which of the following considerations is MOST important for a successful, future-proof, and low-cost migration?

A cloud administrator needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the expense of the company’s cloud resources.

Which of the following is the BEST option to execute this task with minimal effort?

In an existing IaaS instance, it is required to deploy a single application that has different versions.

Which of the following should be recommended to meet this requirement?

A systems administrator is informed that a database server containing PHI and PII is unencrypted. The environment does not support VM encryption, nor does it have a key management system. The server needs to be able to be rebooted for patching without manual intervention.

Which of the following will BEST resolve this issue?

A cloud engineer is performing updates to an application and needs to gracefully stop any new transactions from processing before the updates can be applied. Which of the following steps should the engineer take?

A cloud engineer is responsible for managing two cloud environments from different MSPs. The security department would like to inspect all traffic from the two cloud environments.

Which of the following network topology solutions should the cloud engineer implement to reduce long-term maintenance?

A company is using a method of tests and upgrades in which a small set of end users are exposed to new services before the majority of other users. Which of the following deployment methods is being used?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a VDI environment. The administrator determines the issue is GPU related and then increases the frame buffer on the virtual machines. Testing confirms the issue is solved, and everything is now working correctly. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT?

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?