Which of the following BEST explains the concept of RTOs for restoring servers to operational use?

A. To reduce the amount of data loss that can occur in the event of a server failure
B. To ensure the restored server is available and operational within a given window of time
C. To ensure the data on the restored server is current within a given window of time
D. To reduce the amount of time a particular server is unavailable and offline

When designing a new cloud-enabled application, an organization that is considering RTO and RPO is MOST likely concerned about:

A. redundancy.
B. load balancing.
C. disaster recovery.
D. high availability.

A startup company wants to use a CRM application to manage its sales and support organizations. The company does not have any IT staff. Which of the following cloud computing models is MOST appropriate for this company to use?

A. CaaS
B. PaaS
C. IaaS
D. SaaS

An incident response team requires documentation for an email phishing campaign against a company's email server. Which of the following is the BEST resource to use to start the investigation?

A. Audit and system logs
B. Change management procedures
C. Departmental policies
D. Standard operating procedures

Which of the following techniques helps an organization determine benchmarks for application performance within a set of resources?

A. Auto-scaling
B. Load testing
C. Sandboxing
D. Regression testing

A new company directive requires all departments to ensure intellectual property is kept within a country's borders. Which of the following concepts BEST represents this requirement?

A. Data portability
B. Data security
C. Data locality
D. Data sovereignty

A company's finance team is reporting increased cloud costs against the allocated cloud budget. Which of the following is the BEST approach to match some of the cloud operating costs with the appropriate departments?

A. Right-sizing
B. Scaling
C. Chargeback
D. Showback

When selecting a cloud provider, which of the following is MOST likely to be a financial consideration?

A. Proof of concept
B. Request for information
C. Licensing models
D. Request for proposal

Which of the following types of risk is MOST likely to be associated with moving all data to one cloud provider?

A. Vendor lock-in
B. Data portability
C. Network connectivity
D. Data sovereignty

An organization plans to keep three of its cloud servers online for another nine months and a fourth server online for a year. The current pricing is $200 per month per server. The cloud provider announced the sale price of $1,500 per year per reserved instance.
Which of the following represents the cost savings by converting all four of the cloud servers to reserved instances?

A. $900
B. $1,800
C. $2,400
D. $3,600