CompTIA Cloud+ Study Guide. Ben Piper

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Assessment Test

      1 Bob is accessing a self-service portal in the cloud to instantly create additional servers, storage, and database instances for his firm's DevOps group. Which of the following options best describes this operation?BurstingPay-as-you-growMultitenancyOn-demand

      2 Jillian is working on a project to interconnect her company's private data center to a cloud company that offers email services and another that can provide burstable compute capacity. What type of cloud delivery model is she creating?PublicHybridCommunityPrivate

      3 Carl is learning how cloud service providers allocate physical resources into a group. These resources are then dynamically associated with cloud services as demand requires. What best describes this?On-demand virtualizationDynamic scalingResource poolingElasticity

      4 Liza is a new Cloud+ architect for BigCo Inc. She is investigating cloud services that provide server hardware, but not applications. What cloud service is she using?IaaSPaaSSaaSCaaS

      5 Harold is investigating his options to migrate his company's time and attendance application to the cloud. He wants to be responsible only for maintaining the application and would prefer that the public cloud company manage all underlying infrastructure and servers that are required to support his application. Harold calls you and asks for assistance in selecting a cloud service model that would meet his requirements. What would you suggest that he implement?IaaSPaaSSaaSCaaS

      6 Jane is a Cloud+ architect working on a physical-to-virtual migration to the public cloud. She has matched VM performance levels to her established baselines. She knows that her organization may need to adjust hardware resources in the future. What cloud characteristics can she use to match cloud capacity with future growth? (Choose three.)ElasticityOn-demand computingAvailability zonesResiliency virtualizationPay-as-you growResource pooling

      7 What are two elements that together distinguish the cloud from a traditional data center operation? (Choose two.)Load balancingAutomationAutoscaling groupsVirtualization

      8 Dawn is interested in selecting a community cloud provider that offers a specialized financial reporting application. What type of cloud model would you recommend Dawn investigate to meet her requirements?IaaSPaaSSaaSCaaS

      9 Carol is a cloud customer that your consulting company is assisting with their migration. She is asking you about the demarcation point of operations for her public PaaS service. Which of the following defines what you are responsible for and the responsibility of the provider?Availability zonesCommunityShared responsibility modelBaselines

      10 Jonathan is architecting his client's global public cloud presence for an upcoming e-commerce deployment. You have been brought on to help design the network. He asks about providing local connections in Singapore and Malaysia. What would you suggest that he investigate?RegionsAuto-scaling groupsAvailability zonesGlobal DNS affinity

      11 Zale is working on a collaborative project that requires the implementation of a large-scale NoSQL database that will access three petabytes of historical data. He needs durable block storage in remote flash arrays. You have been tasked with designing the storage connectivity from the database to the stored data. What type of network connection would you recommend for NoSQL read/write access to the arrays?Block accessZoningVMFSSAN

      12 Physical resources are virtualized and presented as resources to virtual machines running on hypervisors. What common resources does the hypervisor virtualize? (Choose three.)Layer 2RAMLayer 3CPUsRAIDStorage

      13 As a new Cloud+ professional, you have been hired by a company that operates its own data center; however, the company is calling it a cloud. What delivery model are you working with?HybridPublicPrivateCommunity

      14 Tim just logged into his cloud management dashboard to check the health monitors of his server fleet. What is the process that he completed at login?AuthorizationAccountingAuthenticationFederationIdentity access

      15 Martha is studying SAN technologies that use the Fibre Channel protocol, and she is asking about disk configuration in the remote storage array. She asks you which type of storage she can use on her Linux servers. What storage type can she deploy? (Choose the best answer.)MetaObjectBlockFile

      16 Patesh is becoming familiar with the interfaces available for his operations team to use to access his hybrid cloud deployment. You have been asked to explain the common types of user-based interfaces available to manage cloud objects. What are the common interfaces that you would explain to Patesh? (Choose three.)Web consoleSNMPAPIPaaSCLI

      17 You work for a company that offers cloud services to the railroad industry. All railroads have a similar set of requirements and access the same applications. BigWest Rail has contacted you about becoming a customer and is asking what applications are shared with other rail operators. They also ask what type of cloud model your company offers. What type of cloud is this?HybridPublicPrivateCommunity

      18 Kevin is exploring a durable block storage option that offers high performance. It also needs to support striping that allows a parity bit to be used to reconstruct a volume if a single magnetic disk fails in his array. Which storage type stripes file data and performs a parity check of data over multiple disks that can recover from a single hard disk failure?RAID 0RAID 1RAID 3RAID 5

      19 You are involved in a large-scale migration project that requires moving a Windows OS running on a dual-slot, eight-core server with no hypervisor in a data center to a virtual server in the public cloud. What type of migration is this?vMotionP2VPrivate to publicV2VSynchronous replication

      20 You have been asked by a new customer what type of authentication systems require something that you have and something that you know. What type of authentication technology would you recommend?Single sign-onConfederationsActive Directory/LDAPMultifactor

      21 Beatriz stops at her bank's ATM on her way home from work. She inserts her card into the ATM and then enters her PIN on the keypad. What type of authentication is she using?SSOTwo-factorLDAPUser-based

      22 Roman is the cloud administrator for a company that stores object-based data in a hybrid cloud. Because of the sensitivity of the data and various regulatory restrictions on allowing users access to sensitive security data, what type of access control would meet his security policies?Mandatory access controlNondiscretionaryRolesMultifactor

      23 William is implementing an access control rollout for a cluster of Windows SQL database servers in a hybrid cloud environment. Developers will need full read/write access to the database servers, whereas other business units will need read-only access to particular databases. What type of access control should William deploy?Mandatory access controlNondiscretionaryRole-basedMultifactor

      24 Quentin is a defense contractor investigating server compliance requirements needed to be certified to meet the U.S. Department of Defense security requirements for contractors. What requirement would you recommend that he focus on?FedRAMPDIACAPFISMASection 405.13 for DoD rule A286

      25 Leanna wants to deploy a public cloud service that allows her to retain responsibility only for her applications and requires the cloud provider to maintain the underlying operating system and virtualized hardware. Which service model would you recommend that she implement?IaaSPaaSSaaSCaaS

      26 Robert is configuring a new cloud interconnect to access his locally hosted Active Directory services. He wants to prevent his user base from having fragmented rights and no unified authorization services. You are brought in as a service consultant to assist in optimizing and controlling user access by implementing a technology that will give access to all allowed systems at the time of user authentication. What type of system are you deploying?Token-based 2FASSORSANondiscretionary

      27 Cathy