QUESTION 181
A company developed an online trading platform. The engineering team selected event-based scaling for the platform’s underlying resources. The platform resources scale up with every 2,000 subscribed users. The engineering team finds out that although compute utilization is low, scaling is still occurring. Which of the following statements best explains why this is the case?
A. Event-based scaling does not scale down resources.
B. Event-based scaling should not be triggered at the 2,000-user frequency.
C. Event-based scaling should not track user subscriptions.
D. Event-based scaling does not take resource load into account.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 182
A company has ten cloud engineers working on different manual cloud deployments. In the past, engineers have had difficulty keeping deployments consistent. Which of the following is the best method to address this issue?
A. Deployment documentation
B. Service logging
C. Configuration as code
D. Change ticketing
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 183
Which of the following AI/ML technologies consumes text input to discern tone?
A. Text recognition
B. Computer vision
C. Visual recognition
D. Sentiment analysis
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 184
A company recently set up a CDN for its photography and image-sharing website. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the company’s action?
A. To eliminate storage costs
B. To improve site speed
C. To enhance security of static assets
D. To prevent unauthorized access
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 185
Which of the following storage types should be used to provide the highest IOPS?
A. Immutable
B. HDD
C. All flash
D. Block
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 186
A cloud engineer wants to implement a monitoring solution to detect cryptojacking and other cryptomining malware on cloud instances. Which of the following metrics would most likely be used to identify the activity?
A. Disk I/O
B. Network packets
C. Average memory utilization
D. Percent of CPU utilization
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 187
A high-usage cloud resource needs to be monitored in real time on specific events to guarantee its availability. Which of the following actions should be used to meet this requirement?
A. Configure a ping command to identify when the cloud instance is out of service.
B. Create a dashboard with visualizations to filter the status of critical activities.
C. Collect all the daily activity from the cloud instance and create a dump file for analysis.
D. Schedule an hourly scan of the network to check for the availability of the resource.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 188
An DevOps engineer is receiving reports that users can no longer access the company’s web application after hardening of a web server. The users are receiving the following error:
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH.
Which of the following actions should the engineer take to resolve the issue?
A. Restart the web server.
B. Configure TLS 1.2 or newer.
C. Update the web server.
D. Review logs on the WAF.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 189
Which of the following services is most appropriate for routing requests in front of a replica set of virtual machines that host multiple websites?
A. Forward proxy
B. Content delivery network
C. Layer 7 load balancer
D. Web application firewall
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 190
A video surveillance system records road incidents and stores the videos locally before uploading them to the cloud and deleting them from local storage. Which of the following best describes the nature of the local storage?
A. Persistent
B. Ephemeral
C. Differential
D. Incremental
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 191
A cloud security analyst is concerned about security vulnerabilities in publicly available container images. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the analyst to recommend?
A. Using CIS-hardened images
B. Using watermarked images
C. Using digitally signed images
D. Using images that have an application firewall
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 192
Which of the following is the most cost-effective way to store data that is infrequently accessed?
A. Cold site
B. Hot site
C. Off-site
D. Warm site
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 193
A company implements a web farm with 100 servers behind an application load balancer. During scaling events, new web servers that are placed in service have not loaded all their modules, which causes some requests to the web farm to fail. Which of the following should the cloud engineer implement to address the scaling issue?
A. Instance warm-up
B. Scheduled scaling
C. Event-based scaling
D. Load balancer passthrough
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 194
For compliance purposes, a cloud developer at an insurance company needs to save all customer policies for more than ten years. Which of the following options is the most cost-efficient tier to save the data in the cloud?
A. Archive
B. Hot
C. Cold
D. Warm
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 195
A developer is building a new application version using a CICD pipeline. The developer receives the following error message log when the build fails:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “app.py”, line 4, in <module>
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘requests’
Which of the following is the most likely cause of this failure?
A. Incorrect version
B. Test case failure
C. Broken build pipeline
D. Dependency issue
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 196
A cloud architect is preparing environments to develop a new application that will process sensitive data. The project team consists of one internal developer, two external consultants, and three testers. Which of the following is the most important security control for the cloud architect to consider implementing?
A. Setting up private development, public development, and testing environments
B. Segregating environments for internal and external teams
C. Configuring DDoS protection to mitigate the risk of downtime
D. Using IAM and ACL in order to bolster DLP
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 197
A cloud service provider requires users to migrate to a new type of VM within three months. Which of the following is the best justification for this requirement?
A. Security flaws need to be patched.
B. Updates could affect the current state of the VMs.
C. The cloud provider will be performing infrastructure maintenance.
D. The equipment is reaching end of life and end of support.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 198
A cloud engineer needs to deploy a new version of a web application to 100 servers. In the past, new version deployments have caused outages. Which of the following deployment types should the cloud engineer implement to prevent the outages from happening this time?
A. Rolling
B. Blue-green
C. Canary
D. Round-robin
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 199
Which of the following communication methods between on-premises and cloud environments would ensure minimal-to-low latency and overhead?
A. Site-to-site VPN
B. Peer-to-peer VPN
C. Direct connection
D. VPC peering
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 200
A cloud consultant needs to modernize a legacy application that can no longer address user demand and is expensive to maintain. Which of the following is the best migration strategy?
A. Retain
B. Rehost
C. Refactor
D. Replatform
Correct Answer: C