Which of the following should be considered to ensure the availability of data that is accessed across multiple sites? (Choose two.)

A. Auto-scaling
B. Geo-redundancy
C. Backup
D. Provisioning
E. Locality
F. Zones

Which of the following stores transactions in a distributed ledger of which all users have a copy?

A. Big Data
B. Blockchain
C. Machine learning
D. Artificial intelligence

A systems administrator must select a CSP while considering system uptime and access to critical servers.
Which of the following is the MOST important criterion when choosing the CSP?

A. Elasticity
B. Scalability
C. Availability
D. Serviceability

Which of the following is the BEST approach to optimize data security in an IaaS migration of data to the cloud?

A. Review the risk register.
B. Perform a vulnerability scan
C. Perform server hardening.
D. Configure encryption in transit.

Before conducting a cloud migration, a compliance team requires confirmation that sensitive data will remain close to their users. Which of the following will meet this requirement during the cloud design phase?

A. Data locality
B. Data classification
C. Data certification
D. Data validation

Which of the following metrics defines how much data loss a company can tolerate?

A. RTO
B. TCO
C. MTTR
D. ROI
E. RPO

Which of the following BEST describes a pay-as-you-go licensing model within a cloud service?

A. Subscription agreement
B. Perpetual agreement
C. Enterprise agreement
D. Promotional agreement

A low-budget project with a flexible completion time can become financially feasible via the use of:

A. right-sizing.
B. resource tagging.
C. reserved instances.
D. spot instances.

Which of the following security objectives is MOST improved when moving a system to the cloud?

A. Availability
B. Integrity
C. Privacy
D. Confidentiality

Which of the following is a benefit of microservice applications in a cloud environment?

A. Microservices are dependent on external shared databases found on cloud solutions.
B. Federation is a mandatory component for an optimized microservice deployment.
C. The architecture of microservice applications allows the use of auto-scaling.
D. Microservice applications use orchestration solutions to update components in each service.