Weekend Sale Limited Time 65% Discount Offer - Ends in 0d 00h 00m 00s - Coupon code: pass65

CV0-003 CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Questions 4

A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure?

Options:

A.

Deduplication

B.

Thin provisioning

C.

Software-defined storage

D.

iSCSI storage

Buy Now
Questions 5

A systems administrator is examining a managed hosting agreement and wants to determine how much data would be lost if a server had to be restored from backups. To which of the following metrics should the administrator refer?

Options:

A.

RTO

B.

MTBF

C.

RPO

D.

MTTR

Buy Now
Questions 6

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?

Options:

A.

Tier pricing

B.

Licensing

C.

Estimated consumption

D.

Feature compatibility

Buy Now
Questions 7

All of a company's servers are currently hosted in one cloud MSP. The company created a new cloud environment with a different MSP. A cloud engineer is now tasked with preparing for server migrations and establishing connectivity between clouds. Which of the following should the engineer perform FIRST?

Options:

A.

Peer all the networks from each cloud environment.

B.

Migrate the servers.

C.

Create a VPN tunnel.

D.

Configure network access control lists.

Buy Now
Questions 8

Which of the following should be considered for capacity planning?

Options:

A.

Requirements, licensing, and trend analysis

B.

Laws and regulations

C.

Regions, clusters, and containers

D.

Hypervisors and scalability

Buy Now
Questions 9

A cloud administrator is setting up a new coworker for API access to a public cloud environment. The administrator creates a new user and gives the coworker access to a collection of automation scripts. When the coworker attempts to use a deployment script, a 403 error is returned. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

Options:

A.

Connectivity to the public cloud is down.

B.

User permissions are not correct.

C.

The script has a configuration error.

D.

Oversubscription limits have been exceeded.

Buy Now
Questions 10

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?

Options:

A.

A service availability scan

B.

An agent-based vulnerability scan

C.

A default and common credentialed scan

D.

A network port scan

Buy Now
Questions 11

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?

Options:

A.

Storage array

B.

Running applications

C.

VM integrity

D.

Allocated guest resources

Buy Now
Questions 12

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?

Options:

A.

VLAN

B.

NIPS

C.

WAF

D.

NAC

Buy Now
Questions 13

A systems administrator is working in a globally distributed cloud environment. After a file server VM was moved to another region, all users began reporting slowness when saving files. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the administrator should check while troubleshooting?

Options:

A.

Network latency

B.

Network connectivity

C.

Network switch

D.

Network peering

Buy Now
Questions 14

A disaster situation has occurred, and the entire team needs to be informed about the situation. Which of the following documents will help the administrator find the details of the relevant team members for escalation?

Options:

A.

Chain of custody

B.

Root cause analysis

C.

Playbook

D.

Call tree

Buy Now
Questions 15

A software development manager is looking for a solution that will allow a team of developers to work in isolated environments that can be spun up and torn down quickly.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate solution?

Options:

A.

Containers

B.

File subscriptions

C.

Ballooning

D.

Software-defined storage

Buy Now
Questions 16

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power.

Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

Options:

A.

Server power

B.

Rack power

C.

Switch power

D.

SAN power

Buy Now
Questions 17

A company is planning to migrate applications to a public cloud, and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) would like to know the cost per business unit for the applications in the cloud. Before the migration, which of the following should the administrator implement FIRST to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit?

Options:

A.

An SLA report

B.

Tagging

C.

Quotas

D.

Showback

Buy Now
Questions 18

A development team recently completed testing changes to a company's web-based CMS in the sandbox environment. The cloud administrator deployed these CMS application changes to the staging environment as part of the next phase in the release life cycle. The deployment was successful, but after deploying the CMS application, the web page displays an error message stating the application is unavailable. After reviewing the application logs, the administrator sees an error message that the CMS is unable to connect to the database. Which of the following is the BEST action for the cloud administrator to perform to resolve the issue?

Options:

A.

Modify the deployment script to delete and recreate the database whenever the CMS application is deployed.

B.

Modify the ACL to allow the staging environment to access the database in the sandbox environment.

C.

Modify the CMS application deployment to use the previous version and redeploy the application.

D.

Modify the configuration settings of the CMS application to connect to the database in the current environment.

Buy Now
Questions 19

A systems administrator is deploying a VM and would like to minimize storage utilization by ensuring the VM uses only the storage if needs. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

Options:

A.

Compression

B.

Deduplication

C.

RAID

D.

Thin provisioning

Buy Now
Questions 20

A systems administrator adds servers to a round-robin, load-balanced pool, and then starts receiving reports of the website being intermittently unavailable. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

The network is being saturated.

B.

The load balancer is being overwhelmed.

C.

New web nodes are not operational.

D.

The API version is incompatible.

E.

There are time synchronization issues.

Buy Now
Questions 21

A cloud solutions architect needs to determine the best strategy to deploy an application environment in production, given the following requirements:

No downtime

Instant switch to a new version using traffic control for all users

Which of the following deployment strategies would be the BEST solution?

Options:

A.

Hot site

B.

Blue-green

C.

Canary

D.

Rolling

Buy Now
Questions 22

A systems administrator is deploying a new cloud application and needs to provision cloud services with minimal effort. The administrator wants to reduce the tasks required for maintenance, such as OS patching, VM and volume provisioning, and autoscaling configurations. Which of the following would be the BEST option to deploy the new application?

Options:

A.

A VM cluster

B.

Containers

C.

OS templates

D.

Serverless

Buy Now
Questions 23

After a few new web servers were deployed, the storage team began receiving incidents in their queue about the web servers. The storage administrator wants to verify the incident tickets that should have gone to the web server team. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

Incorrect assignment group in service management

B.

Incorrect IP address configuration

C.

Incorrect syslog configuration on the web servers

D.

Incorrect SNMP settings

Buy Now
Questions 24

A cloud administrator is managing an organization's infrastructure in a public cloud. All servers are currently located in a single virtual network with a single firewall that all traffic must pass through. Per security requirements, production, QA, and development servers should not be able to communicate directly with each other. Which of the following should an administrator perform to comply with the security requirement?

Options:

A.

Create separate virtual networks for production, QA, and development servers.

Move the servers to the appropriate virtual network.

Apply a network security group to each virtual network that denies all traffic except for the firewall.

B.

Create separate network security groups for production, QA, and development servers.

Apply the network security groups on the appropriate production, QA, and development servers.

Peer the networks together.

C.

Create separate virtual networks for production, QA, and development servers.

Move the servers to the appropriate virtual network.

Peer the networks together.

D.

Create separate network security groups for production, QA, and development servers.

Peer the networks together.

Create static routes for each network to the firewall.

Buy Now
Questions 25

A cloud security analyst is implementing a vulnerability scan of the web server in the DMZ, which is running in an IaaS compute instance. The default inbound firewall settings are as follows:

Which of the following will provide the analyst with the MOST accurate report?

Options:

A.

An agent-based scan

B.

A network vulnerability scan

C.

A default and common credentialed scan

D.

A network credentialed vulnerability scan

Buy Now
Questions 26

A private IaaS administrator is receiving reports that all newly provisioned Linux VMs are running an earlier version of the OS than they should be. The administrator reviews the automation scripts to troubleshoot the issue and determines the scripts ran successfully. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

API version incompatibility

B.

Misconfigured script account

C.

Wrong template selection

D.

Incorrect provisioning script indentation

Buy Now
Questions 27

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.)

Options:

A.

Install TLS certificates on the server.

B.

Forward port 80 traffic to port 443.

C.

Disable TLS 1.0/1.1 and SSL.

D.

Disable password authentication.

E.

Enable SSH key access only.

F.

Provision the server in a separate VPC.

G.

Disable the superuser/administrator account.

Buy Now
Questions 28

A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Options:

A.

The firewall

B.

The subnet

C.

The gateway

D.

The services

Buy Now
Questions 29

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

Options:

A.

PaaS

B.

laaS

C.

CaaS

D.

SaaS

Buy Now
Questions 30

An administrator has been informed that some requests are taking a longer time to respond than other requests of the same type. The cloud consumer is using multiple network service providers and is performing link load balancing for bandwidth aggregation. Which of the following commands will help the administrator understand the possible latency issues?

Options:

A.

ping

B.

ipconfig

C.

traceroute

D.

netstat

Buy Now
Questions 31

Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?

Options:

A.

IaaS

B.

GPU in the cloud

C.

IoT

D.

Serverless compute

E.

SaaS

Buy Now
Questions 32

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:

CV0-003 Question 32

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?

Options:

A.

Spin up a new web server

B.

Spin up a new application server

C.

Add more memory to the web server

D.

Spin up a new database server

Buy Now
Questions 33

A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression?

Options:

A.

System files

B.

User backups

C.

Relational database

D.

Mail database

Buy Now
Questions 34

A cloud administrator is supporting an application that has several reliability issues. The administrator needs visibility into the performance characteristics of the application. Which of the following will MOST likely be used in a reporting dashboard?

Options:

A.

Data from files containing error messages from the application

B.

Results from the last performance and workload testing

C.

Detail log data from syslog files of the application

D.

Metrics and time-series data measuring key performance indicators

Buy Now
Questions 35

A cloud engineer is deploying a server in a cloud platform. The engineer reviews a security scan report. Which of the following recommended services should be disabled? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

Telnet

B.

FTP

C.

Remote login

D.

DNS

E.

DHCP

F.

LDAP

Buy Now
Questions 36

Which of the following should be enabled to reduce cloud compute costs when planning hardware capacity?

Options:

A.

Compression and deduplication on the object storage.

B.

Autoscaling with load balancing.

C.

Affinity settings per node.

D.

Lifecycle management on the data storage.

Buy Now
Questions 37

A cloud administrator received a request to provision a set of cloud resources in an effort to switch to infrastructure as code to automate and optimize operations. The administrator decides to try to run some tests with the following definition:

CV0-003 Question 37

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

The cloud provider is expecting the private key.

B.

The incorrect resource name was used.

C.

The environment variable for the public key path has not been set.

D.

An unexpected variable was provided.

Buy Now
Questions 38

A cloud solutions architect is working on a private cloud environment in which storage consumption is increasing daily, resulting in high costs. Which of the following can the architect use to provide more space without adding more capacity? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Tiering

B.

Deduplication

C.

RAID provisioning

D.

Compression

E.

Flash optimization

F.

NVMe

Buy Now
Questions 39

A web consultancy group currently works in an isolated development environment. The group uses this environment for the creation of the final solution, but also for showcasing it to customers, before commissioning the sites in production. Recently, customers of newly commissioned sites have reported they are not receiving the final product shown by the group, and

the website is performing in unexpected ways. Which of the following additional environments should the group adopt and include in its process?

Options:

A.

Provide each web consultant a local environment on their device.

B.

Require each customer to have a blue-green environment.

C.

Leverage a staging environment that is tightly controlled for showcasing.

D.

Initiate a disaster recovery environment to fail to in the event of reported issues.

Buy Now
Questions 40

An organization located in Asia connects to a cloud infrastructure hosted in North America and Europe. Sporadic slowness has been observed when using the PaaS and laaS components. A diagnostic using the following commands was run, and the following results were collected:

Which of the following is the most likely reason for the latency?

Options:

A.

Service degradation on the ISP

B.

A DDoS attack on the organization's infrastructure

C.

Misconfiguration of the network security groups

D.

Switch failure at the organization

Buy Now
Questions 41

A company has a large environment with multiple VPCs across three regions in a public cloud. The company is concerned about connectivity within the regions. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement?

Options:

A.

Peering

B.

A firewall

C.

Network access control

D.

A load balancer

Buy Now
Questions 42

A systems administrator is configuring a DNS server. Which of the following steps should a technician take to ensure confidentiality between the DNS server and an upstream DNS provider?

Options:

A.

Enable DNSSEC.

B.

Implement single sign-on.

C.

Configure DOH.

D.

Set up DNS over SSL.

Buy Now
Questions 43

A systems administrator needs to implement a way for users to verify software integrity. Which of the following tools would BEST meet the administrator's needs?

Options:

A.

TLS 1.3

B.

CRC32

C.

AES-256

D.

SHA-512

Buy Now
Questions 44

A company that performs passive vulnerability scanning at its transit VPC has detected a vulnerability related to outdated web-server software on one of its public subnets. Which of the following can the company use to verify if this is a true positive with the least effort and cost? (Select two).

Options:

A.

A network-based scan

B.

An agent-based scan

C.

A port scan

D.

A red-team exercise

E.

A credentialed scan

F.

A blue-team exercise

G.

Unknown environment penetration testing

Buy Now
Questions 45

A systems administrator has verified that a physical switchport that is connected to a virtualization host is using all available bandwidth. Which of the following would best address this issue?

Options:

A.

Port mirroring

B.

Link aggregation

C.

Spanning tree

D.

Microsegmentation

Buy Now
Questions 46

An organization that currently stores a set of documents in the cloud is concerned about potential loss if these documents are accidentally deleted. Which of the following is the best way for the organization to quickly recover a lost file?

Options:

A.

Enabling deduplication on the cloud storage.

B.

Enabling versioning for the underlying cloud storage.

C.

Creating an identity and access management policy.

D.

Creating a single snapshot of the cloud storage.

Buy Now
Questions 47

A systems administrator is diagnosing performance issues on a web application. The web application sends thousands of extremely complex SQL queries to a database server, which has trouble retrieving the information in time. The administrator checks the database server and notes the following resource utilization:

    CPU: 64%

    RAM: 97%

    Network throughput: 384/1000 Kbps

    Disk throughput: 382,700 Kbps

The administrator also notices that the storage for the database server is consistently near its IOPS limit. Which of the following will best resolve these performance issues?

Options:

A.

Increase CPU resources on the database server.

B.

Increase caching on the database server.

C.

Put the storage and the database on the same VLAN.

D.

Enable compression on storage traffic.

E.

Enable deduplication on the storage appliance.

Buy Now
Questions 48

A cloud engineer needs to perform a database migration_ The database has a restricted SLA and cannot be offline for more than ten minutes per month The database stores 800GB of data, and the network bandwidth to the CSP is 100MBps. Which of the following is the BEST option to perform the migration?

Options:

A.

Copy the database to an external device and ship the device to the CSP

B.

Create a replica database, synchronize the data, and switch to the new instance.

C.

Utilize a third-patty tool to back up and restore the data to the new database

D.

use the database import/export method and copy the exported file.

Buy Now
Questions 49

A systems administrator is attempting to gather information about services and resource utilization on VMS in a cloud environment. Which of the following will BEST accomplish this objective?

Options:

A.

Syslog

B.

SNMP

C.

CMDB

D.

Service management

E.

Performance monitoring

Buy Now
Questions 50

A cloud administrator deployed new hosts in a private cloud. After a few months elapsed, some of the hypervisor features did not seem to be working. Which of the following was MOST likely causing the issue?

Options:

A.

Incorrect permissions

B.

Missing license

C.

Incorrect tags

D.

Oversubscription

Buy Now
Questions 51

When designing a three-node. load-balanced application, a systems administrator must ensure each node runs on a different physical server for HA purposes. Which of the following does the systems administrator need to configure?

Options:

A.

Round-robin methods

B.

Live migration

C.

Anti-affinity rule

D.

Priority queues

Buy Now
Questions 52

A company is comparing an application environment to be hosted on site versus a SaaS model of the same application. Which of the following SaaS-based licensing models should the administrator consider?

Options:

A.

Per core

B.

Per socket

C.

Per instance

D.

Per user

Buy Now
Questions 53

A DevOps team needs to provide a solution that offers isolation, portability, and scalability Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Virtual machines

B.

Containers

C.

Appliances

D.

Clusters

Buy Now
Questions 54

A cloud engineer is configuring automated backups for a database. The engineer wants to ensure that backups can be restored quickly and consistently to meet the SLA. Which of the following backup methods would be the most appropriate?

Options:

A.

Incremental.

B.

Differential.

C.

Full.

D.

Synthetic full.

Buy Now
Questions 55

A systems administrator is trying to connect to a remote KVM host. The command line appears as follows:

CV0-003 Question 55

After logging in to the remote server, the administrator verifies the daemon is running. Which of the following should the administrator try NEXT?

Options:

A.

Opening port 22 on the firewall

B.

Running the command with elevated privileges

C.

Checking if the SSH password is correct

D.

Ensuring the private key was properly imported

Buy Now
Questions 56

A cloud architect is reviewing the design for a new cloud-based ERP solution. The solution consists of eight servers with a single network interface. The allocated IP range is 172.16.0.0/28. One of the requirements of the solution is that it must be able to handle the potential addition of 16 new servers to the environment. Because of the complexity of the firewall and related ACL requirements, these new servers will need to be in the same network range. Which of the following changes

would allow for the potential server addition?

Options:

A.

Change the IP address range to use a 10.0.0.0 address.

B.

Change the server template to add network interfaces.

C.

Change the subnet mask to use a 255.255.255.128 range.

D.

Change the server scaling configuration to increase the maximum limit.

Buy Now
Questions 57

Which of the following types of incidents requires users to be informed post-incident?

Options:

A.

Data breaches.

B.

Brute-force attacks.

C.

Website hijacking.

D.

DDoS attacks.

Buy Now
Questions 58

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?

Options:

A.

The cost of the environment

B.

The I/O of the storage

C.

Feature compatibility

D.

Network utilization

Buy Now
Questions 59

An organization has multiple VLANs configured to segregate the network traffic. Following is the breakdown of the network segmentation:

    Production traffic (10.10.0.0/24)

    Network backup (10.20.0.0/25)

    Virtual IP network (10.20.0.128/25)

The following configuration exists on the server:

The backup administrator observes that the weekly backup is failing for this server. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to identify the issue?

Options:

A.

ROUTE PRINT

B.

NETSTAT -A

C.

IPCONFIG /ALL

D.

NET SM

Buy Now
Questions 60

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?

Options:

A.

An API gateway

B.

An IPS/IDS

C.

A reverse proxy

D.

A WAF

Buy Now
Questions 61

A systems administrator is attempting to gather information about services and resource utilization on VMs in a cloud environment. Which of the following will best accomplish this objective?

Options:

A.

Syslog

B.

SNMP

C.

CMDB

D.

Service management

E.

Performance monitoring

Buy Now
Questions 62

An organization's two-node, hybrid container cluster is experiencing failures during horizontal scaling to the cloud cluster instance. The on-premises IP range is 192.168.0.0/16, and the cloud environment is 10.168.0.0/16. Overlapping or stretched VLANs are not permitted, and a node is deployed in each location. The cloud monitoring agent reports a healthy status for the second instance, but when pinging the clusters from on premises, the following output is received:

pinging cluster1. comptia. containers.com C192.168.100 reply

pinging cluster2. comptia. containers.com [192.16B .100 .128] request timed out

Which of the following is the most likely reason for the scaling failure?

Options:

A.

Incorrect DNS entry

B.

Offline cluster node

C.

Incorrect proxy entry

D.

Incorrect cluster IP

E.

Incorrect IP route

Buy Now
Questions 63

A systems administrator needs to provide information for a capacity-planning document. Which of the following is the most relevant baseline and capacity information?

Options:

A.

vCPU, vGPU, subscriptions, geographical, storage, user density, firewall settings.

B.

vGPU, storage, networking, user density, firewall, budgetary.

C.

vCPU, subscriptions, storage, DDoS, licensing, user density.

D.

vCPU, vGPU, subscriptions, storage, bandwidth, licensing.

Buy Now
Questions 64

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?

Options:

A.

Anti-affinity rules

B.

Cold migration

C.

Live migration

D.

Affinity rules

Buy Now
Questions 65

A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations.

Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?

Options:

A.

Initiate a failover

B.

Restore backups

C.

Configure the network

D.

Perform a failback

Buy Now
Questions 66

A company developed a product using a cloud provider’s PaaS platform and many of the platform-based components within the application environment.

Which of the following would the company MOST likely be concerned about when utilizing a multicloud strategy or migrating to another cloud provider?

Options:

A.

Licensing

B.

Authentication providers

C.

Service-level agreement

D.

Vendor lock-in

Buy Now
Questions 67

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?

Options:

A.

Ask the cloud provider to send a daily expense report

B.

Set custom notifications for exceeding budget thresholds

C.

Use the API to collect expense information from cloud resources

D.

Implement a financial tool to monitor cloud resource expenses

Buy Now
Questions 68

A systems administrator disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1, as well as RC4, 3DES, and AES-128 ciphers for TLS 1.2, on a web server. A client now reports being unable to access the web server, but the administrator verifies that the server is online, the web service is running, and other users can reach the server as well.

Which of the following should the administrator recommend the user do FIRST?

Options:

A.

Disable antivirus/anti-malware software

B.

Turn off the software firewall

C.

Establish a VPN tunnel between the computer and the web server

D.

Update the web browser to the latest version

Buy Now
Questions 69

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating the company’s security management program. The CISO needs to locate all the assets with identified deviations and mitigation measures. Which of the following would help the CISO with these requirements?

Options:

A.

An SLA document

B.

ADR plan

C.

SOC procedures

D.

A risk register

Buy Now
Questions 70

Based on the shared responsibility model, which of the following solutions passes the responsibility of patching the OS to the customer?

Options:

A.

PaaS

B.

DBaaS

C.

laaS

D.

SaaS

Buy Now
Questions 71

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?

Options:

A.

Increase disk capacity

B.

Increase the memory and network bandwidth

C.

Upgrade the application

D.

Upgrade the environment and use SSD drives

Buy Now
Questions 72

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers.

Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

Options:

A.

Decrease the MTU size on both servers

B.

Adjust the CPU resources on both servers

C.

Enable compression between the servers

D.

Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers

Buy Now
Questions 73

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?

Options:

A.

IPAM

B.

NAC

C.

NTP

D.

DNS

Buy Now
Questions 74

A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?

Options:

A.

Account mismatches

B.

IP address changes

C.

API version incompatibility

D.

Server name changes

Buy Now
Questions 75

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?

Options:

A.

The license limit on the number of server deployments allowed per month was exceeded

B.

The deployment script changes made by the first administrator were not checked in and committed

C.

The new server images were incompatible with the application load-balancer configuration

D.

The application load balancer exceeded the maximum number of servers it could use

Buy Now
Questions 76

A systems administrator recently deployed a VDI solution in a cloud environment; however, users are now experiencing poor rendering performance when trying to display 3-D content on their virtual desktops, especially at peak times.

Which of the following actions will MOST likely solve this issue?

Options:

A.

Update the quest graphics drivers from the official repository

B.

Add more vGPU licenses to the host

C.

Instruct users to access virtual workstations only on the VLAN

D.

Select vGPU profiles with higher video RAM

Buy Now
Questions 77

A systems administrator needs to configure a set of policies to protect the data to comply with mandatory regulations.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure DLP efficiently prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Integrity

B.

Versioning

C.

Classification

D.

Segmentation

Buy Now
Questions 78

A VDI administrator has received reports of poor application performance.

Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot FIRST?

Options:

A.

The network environment

B.

Container resources

C.

Client devices

D.

Server resources

Buy Now
Questions 79

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

Options:

A.

Licensing

B.

A hypervisor

C.

Clustering

D.

Scalability

Buy Now
Questions 80

A systems administrator is building a new virtualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host.

This is an example of:

Options:

A.

a storage area network

B.

a network file system

C.

hyperconverged storage

D.

thick-provisioned disks

Buy Now
Questions 81

A systems administrator wants to have near-real-time information on the volume of data being exchanged between an application server and its clients on the Internet.

Which of the following should the systems administrator implement to achieve this objective?

Options:

A.

A stateful firewall

B.

DLP

C.

DNSSEC

D.

Network flows

Buy Now
Questions 82

A cloud administrator is investigating slow VM performance. The administrator has checked the physical server performance and has identified the host is under stress due to a peak usage workload. Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should complete?

Options:

A.

Perform a root cause analysis

B.

Migrate the VM to a different host.

C.

Document the findings.

D.

Perform a system restart.

Buy Now
Questions 83

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?

Options:

A.

Deploy using containers

B.

Install a Type 2 hypervisor

C.

Enable SR-IOV on the host

D.

Create snapshots

Buy Now
Questions 84

An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking of costs for each

business are inaccurate.

Which of the following is the BEST method for resolving this issue?

Options:

A.

Perform segregation of the VLAN and capture egress and ingress values of each network interface

B.

Tag each server with a dedicated cost and sum them based on the businesses

C.

Split the total monthly invoice equally between the businesses

D.

Create a dedicated subscription for the businesses to manage the costs

Buy Now
Questions 85

A systems administrator needs to convert ten physical servers to virtual.

Which of the following would be the MOST efficient conversion method for the administrator to use?

Options:

A.

Rebuild the servers from scratch

B.

Use the vendor’s conversion tool

C.

Clone the hard drive

D.

Restore from backup

Buy Now
Questions 86

A media company has made the decision to migrate a physical, internal file server to the cloud and use a web- based interface to access and manage the files. The users must be able to use their current corporate logins.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to achieve this goal?

Options:

A.

Deploy a VM in a cloud, attach storage, and copy the files across

B.

Use a SaaS service with a directory service federation

C.

Deploy a fileshare in a public cloud and copy the files across

D.

Copy the files to the object storage location in a public cloud

Buy Now
Questions 87

A storage array that is used exclusively for datastores is being decommissioned, and a new array has been installed. Now the private cloud administrator needs to migrate the data.

Which of the following migration methods would be the BEST to use?

Options:

A.

Conduct a V2V migration

B.

Perform a storage live migration

C.

Rsync the data between arrays

D.

Use a storage vendor migration appliance

Buy Now
Questions 88

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?

Options:

A.

Back up to long-term storage every night

B.

Back up to object storage every three hours

C.

Back up to long-term storage every four hours

D.

Back up to object storage every hour

Buy Now
Questions 89

An organization purchased new servers with GPUs for render farms. The servers have limited CPU resources.

Which of the following GPU configurations will be the MOST optimal for virtualizing this environment?

Options:

A.

Dedicated

B.

Shared

C.

Passthrough

D.

vGPU

Buy Now
Questions 90

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?

Options:

A.

Capacity planning

B.

Change management

C.

Backups

D.

Patching

Buy Now
Questions 91

An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:

    Allow HTTPS/HTTP.

    Disable FTP and SMB traffic.

Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?

Options:

A.

Implement an ADC solution to load balance the VLAN traffic

B.

Configure an ACL between the VLANs

C.

Implement 802.1X in these VLANs

D.

Configure on-demand routing between the VLANs

Buy Now
Questions 92

An organization is required to set a custom registry key on the guest operating system.

Which of the following should the organization implement to facilitate this requirement?

Options:

A.

A configuration management solution

B.

A log and event monitoring solution

C.

A file integrity check solution

D.

An operating system ACL

Buy Now
Questions 93

A global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event. Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content.

Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?

Options:

A.

DoH

B.

WAF

C.

IPS

D.

CDN

Buy Now
Questions 94

A systems administrator notices that a piece of networking equipment is about to reach its end of support.

Which of the following actions should the administrator recommend?

Options:

A.

Update the firmware

B.

Migrate the equipment to the cloud

C.

Update the OS

D.

Replace the equipment

Buy Now
Questions 95

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?

Options:

A.

Multifactor authentication

B.

Single sign-on

C.

Identity federation

D.

Directory service

Buy Now
Questions 96

A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information:

    The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%.

    The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server.

    A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address.

    The server is a member of the same security group as the others.

    The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

Options:

A.

The network driver updates did not apply successfully, and the interface is in a down state.

B.

The ACL policy for the server was updated as part of the server reboot, preventing login access.

C.

The server was assigned a new IP address, and DNS entry for the server name was not updated.

D.

The update caused an increase in the output to the logs, and the server is too busy to respond.

Buy Now
Questions 97

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?

Options:

A.

Require the user's source IP to be an RFC1918 address.

B.

Require the password to contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.

C.

Require the use of a password and a physical token.

D.

Require the password to be ten characters long.

Buy Now
Questions 98

A cloud architect is deploying a web application that contains many large images and will be accessed on two continents. Which of the following will MOST improve the user experience while keeping costs low?

Options:

A.

Implement web servers in both continents and set up a VPN between the VPCs.

B.

Implement web servers on both continents and peer the VPCs.

C.

Implement a CDN and offload the images to an object storage.

D.

Implement a replica of the entire solution on every continent.

Buy Now
Questions 99

A company is migrating workloads from on premises to the cloud and would like to establish a connection between the entire data center and the cloud environment. Which of the following VPN configurations would accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

Site-to-site

B.

Client-to-site

C.

Point-to-site

D.

Point-to-point

Buy Now
Questions 100

A cloud engineer recently used a deployment script template to implement changes on a cloud-hosted web application. The web application communicates with a managed database on the back end. The engineer later notices the web application is no longer receiving data from the managed database. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

Misconfiguration in the user permissions

B.

Misconfiguration in the routing traffic

C.

Misconfiguration in the network ACL

D.

Misconfiguration in the firewall

Buy Now
Questions 101

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?

Options:

A.

Reboot all the servers in the green stack

B.

Failback to the blue stack

C.

Restore from backups

D.

Troubleshoot and resolve the application issues

Buy Now
Questions 102

A cloud administrator is configuring several security appliances hosted in the private laaS environment to forward the logs to a central log aggregation solution using syslog. Which of the following firewall rules should the administrator add to allow the web servers to connect to the central log collector?

Options:

A.

Allow UDP 161 outbound from the web servers to the log collector .

B.

Allow TCP 514 outbound from the web servers to the log collector.

C.

Allow UDP 161 inbound from the log collector to the web servers .

D.

Allow TCP 514 inbound from the log collector to the web servers .

Buy Now
Questions 103

A cloud administrator configured a local cloud-resource pool lo offer 64GB of memory, 64 cores, and 640GB of storage. Thirty-two machines with identical resource allocations are started. but one machine is unable to handle requests. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Options:

A.

Insufficient guest bandwidth

B.

Overwhelmed vCPU

C.

A storage error on the guest

D.

Incorrect VLAN assignment

E.

Inadequate memory allocation

Buy Now
Questions 104

A cloud engineer, who manages workloads in a public cloud environment, uses autoscaling to maintain availability of a critical application. During a recent burst in demands, the engineer received the following error alert:

LimitedlnstanceCapacity

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

Options:

A.

The cloud account has a misconfigured security group.

B.

The cloud account has exhausted the number of instances quota.

C.

The cloud account has had rights revoked to create instances.

D.

The autoscaling feature does not have permissions to create instances.

Buy Now
Questions 105

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?

Options:

A.

Implement a secret management solution.

B.

Create autoscaling capabilities.

C.

Develop CI/CD tools.

D.

Deploy a CMDB tool.

Buy Now
Questions 106

A security team is conducting an audit of the security group configurations for the Linux servers that are hosted in a public laaS. The team identifies the following rule as a potential

A cloud administrator, who is working remotely, logs in to the cloud management console and modifies the rule to set the source to "My IR" Shortly after deploying the rule, an internal developer receives the following error message when attempting to log in to the server using SSH: Network error: connection timed out. However, the administrator is able to connect successfully to the same server using SSH. Which of the following is the BEST option for both the developer and the administrator to access the

server from their locations?

Options:

A.

Modify the outbound rule to allow the company's external IP address as a source.

B.

Add an inbound rule to use the IP address for the company's main office as a source.

C.

Modify the inbound rule to allow the company's external IP address as a source.

D.

Delete the inbound rule to allow the company's external IP address as a source.

Buy Now
Questions 107

A systems administrator is diagnosing performance issues on a web application. The web application sends thousands of extremely complex SQL queries to a database server, which has trouble retrieving the information in time. The administrator checks the database server and notes the following resource utilization:

CPU: 64%

RAM: 97%

Network throughput: 384,100Kbps.

Disk throughput: 382,700Kbps

The administrator also looks at the storage for the database server and notices it is consistently near its OPS limit. Which of the following will BEST resolve these performance issues?

Options:

A.

Increase CPU resources on the database server.

B.

Increase caching on the database server.

C.

Put the storage and the database on the same VLAN.

D.

Enable compression on storage traffic.

E.

Enable deduplication on the storage appliance.

Buy Now
Questions 108

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?

Options:

A.

Isolate the instance from the network into quarantine.

B.

Perform a memory acquisition in the affected instance.

C.

Create a snapshot of the volumes attached to the instance.

D.

Replace the instance with another from the baseline.

Buy Now
Questions 109

A systems administrator must ensure confidential company information is not leaked to competitors. Which of the following services will BEST accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

CASB

B.

IDS

C.

FIM

D.

EDR

E.

DLP

Buy Now
Questions 110

Over the last couple of years, the growth of a company has required a more complex DNS and DHCP environment. Which of the following should a systems administration team implement as an appropriate solution to simplify management?

Options:

A.

IPAM

B.

DoH

C.

VLAN

D.

SDN

Buy Now
Questions 111

A security audit related to confidentiality controls found the following transactions occurring in the system:

GET http://gateway.securetransaction.com/privileged/api/v1/changeResource?id=123 &user=277

Which of the following solutions will solve the audit finding?

Options:

A.

Using a TLS-protected API endpoint

B.

Implementing a software firewall

C.

Deploying a HIDS on each system

D.

Implementing a Layer 4 load balancer

Buy Now
Questions 112

An enterprise recently upgraded the memory of its on-premises VMs from 8GB to 16GB. However, users are not experiencing any performance benefit. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

Options:

A.

Insufficient memory on the hypervisor

B.

Operating system memory limit

C.

Memory mismatch error

D.

Dynamic memory allocation

Buy Now
Questions 113

Users currently access SaaS email with five-character passwords that use only letters and numbers. An administrator needs to make access more secure without changing the password policy. Which of the following will provide a more secure way of accessing email at the lowest cost?

Options:

A.

Change the email service provider.

B.

Enable MFA with a one-time password.

C.

Implement SSO for all users.

D.

Institute certificate-based authentication

Buy Now
Questions 114

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?

Options:

A.

Implement database as a service

B.

Configure Key Vault

C.

Use password as a service

D.

Implement KeePass

Buy Now
Questions 115

A cloud administrator has deployed several VM instances that are running the same applications on VDI nodes. Users are reporting that a role instance is looping between STARTED, INITIALIZING, BUSY, and stop. Upon investigation, the cloud administrator can see the status changing every few minutes. Which of the following should be done to resolve the issue?

Options:

A.

Reboot the hypervisor.

B.

Review the package and configuration file.

C.

Configure service healing.

D.

Disable memory swap.

Buy Now
Questions 116

A cloud administrator needs to control the connections between a group of web servers and database servers as part of the financial application security review. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

Options:

A.

Create a directory security group.

B.

Create a resource group.

C.

Create separate VLANs.

D.

Create a network security group.

Buy Now
Questions 117

After initial stress testing showed that a platform performed well with the specification of a single 32 vCPU node, which of the following will provide the desired service with the LOWEST cost and downtime?

Options:

A.

One 32 vCPU node with CDN caching

B.

Two 8 vCPU nodes with load balancing

C.

Three to six 8 vCPU nodes autoscaling group

D.

Four 8 vCPU nodes with DNS round robin

Buy Now
Questions 118

A systems administrator is setting up a backup solution to follow the 3-2-1 policy. Currently, the solution is set to back up from the servers to an on-site storage server. Which of the following should the administrator configure to comply with the 3-2-1 policy?

Options:

A.

Weekly lull backups, with daily incremental backups

B.

A second on-site storage server for backups

C.

Storage snapshots

D.

An off-site storage server for backups

Buy Now
Questions 119

A company is using an laaS environment. Which of the following licensing models would BEST suit the organization from a financial perspective to implement scaling?

Options:

A.

Subscription

B.

Volume-based

C.

per user

D.

Socket-based

Buy Now
Questions 120

Audit and system logs are being forwarded to a syslog solution. An administrator observes that two application servers have not generated any logs for a period of three days, while others continue to send logs normally. Which of the following BEST explains what is occurring?

Options:

A.

There is a configuration failure in the syslog solution.

B.

The application servers were migrated to the cloud as laaS instances.

C.

The application administrators have not performed any activity in those servers.

D.

There is a local firewall policy restriction on the syslog server.

Buy Now
Questions 121

An organization has a public-facing API that is hosted on a cloud provider. The API performs slowly at times. Which of the following technologies should the cloud administrator apply to provide speed acceleration and a secure connection?

Options:

A.

WAF

B.

EDR

C.

IDS

D.

HIPS

E.

SSL

Buy Now
Questions 122

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?

Options:

A.

The SaaS provider's licensing model

B.

The SaaS provider's reputation

C.

The number of servers the SaaS provider has

D.

The number of network links the SaaS provider has

Buy Now
Questions 123

A large pharmaceutical company needs to ensure it is in compliance with the following requirements:

• An application must run on its own virtual machine.

• The hardware the application is hosted on does not change.

Which of the following will BEST ensure compliance?

Options:

A.

Containers

B.

A firewall

C.

Affinity rules

D.

Load balancers

Buy Now
Questions 124

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.)

Options:

A.

Incorrect permissions

B.

Insufficient storage

C.

Billing issues with the cloud provider

D.

No connectivity to the public cloud

E.

Expired API token

F.

Disabled autoscaling

Buy Now
Questions 125

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?

Options:

A.

Chain of custody

B.

Evidence acquisition

C.

Containment

D.

Root cause analysis

Buy Now
Questions 126

A systems administrator is configuring a storage system for maximum performance and redundancy. Which of the following storage technologies should the administrator use to achieve this?

Options:

A.

RAID 5

B.

RAID 6

C.

RAID 10

D.

RAID 50

Buy Now
Questions 127

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?

Options:

A.

Implementing a CI/CD tool

B.

Configuring infrastructure as code

C.

Deploying an orchestration tool

D.

Employing DevOps methodology

Buy Now
Questions 128

A cloud administrator is responsible for managing a VDI environment that provides end users with access to limited applications. Which of the following should the administrator make changes to when a new application needs to be provided?

Options:

A.

Application security policy

B.

Application whitelisting policy

C.

Application hardening policy

D.

Application testing policy

Buy Now
Questions 129

An administrator manages a file server that has a lot of users accessing and creating many files. As a result, the storage consumption is growing quickly. Which of the following would BEST control storage usage?

Options:

A.

Compression

B.

File permissions

C.

User quotas

D.

Access policies

Buy Now
Questions 130

A company is deploying a public cloud solution for an existing application using lift and shift. The requirements for the applications are scalability and external access. Which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

A load balancer

B.

SON

C.

A firewall

D.

SR-IOV

E.

Storage replication

F.

A VPN

Buy Now
Questions 131

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?

Options:

A.

Scaling of the environment after work hours

B.

Implementing access control after work hours

C.

Shutting down the environment after work hours

D.

Blocking external access to the environment after work hours

Buy Now
Questions 132

A new development team requires workstations hosted in a PaaS to develop a new website. Members of the team also require remote access to the workstations using their corporate email addresses. Which of the following solutions will best meet these requirements? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Deploy new virtual machines.

B.

Configure email account replication.

C.

Integrate identity services.

D.

Implement a VDI solution.

E.

Migrate local VHD workstations.

F.

Create a new directory service.

Buy Now
Questions 133

A company would like to move all its on-premises platforms to the cloud. The company has enough skilled Linux and web-server engineers but only a couple of skilled database administrators. It also has little expertise in managing email services. Which of the following solutions would BEST match the skill sets of available personnel?

Options:

A.

Run the web servers in PaaS, and run the databases and email in SaaS.

B.

Run the web servers, databases, and email in SaaS.

C.

Run the web servers in laaS, the databases in PaaS, and the email in SaaS.

D.

Run the web servers, databases, and email in laaS.

Buy Now
Questions 134

Developers report that the time needed in the current build process to deploy a VM, install an OS, and configure an application is too long. The developers want a more optimized solution that allows portability of the application across environments and can be deployed more quickly and efficiently. Which of the following should be used to optimize the environment?

Options:

A.

Containers.

B.

Orchestration.

C.

Automation.

D.

VM templates.

Buy Now
Questions 135

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?

Options:

A.

Alternative community drivers

B.

Legacy drivers

C.

The latest drivers from the vendor’s website

D.

The drivers from the OS repository

Buy Now
Questions 136

A cloud architect is designing the VPCs for a new hybrid cloud deployment. The business requires the following:

    High availability

    Horizontal auto-scaling

    60 nodes peak capacity per region

    Five reserved network IP addresses per subnet

    /24 range

Which of the following would BEST meet the above requirements?

Options:

A.

Create two /25 subnets in different regions

B.

Create three /25 subnets in different regions

C.

Create two /26 subnets in different regions

D.

Create three /26 subnets in different regions

E.

Create two /27 subnets in different regions

F.

Create three /27 subnets in different regions

Buy Now
Exam Code: CV0-003
Exam Name: CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Exam
Last Update: Dec 13, 2024
Questions: 456

PDF + Testing Engine

$57.75  $164.99

Testing Engine

$43.75  $124.99
buy now CV0-003 testing engine

PDF (Q&A)

$36.75  $104.99
buy now CV0-003 pdf