Which of the following can be used by a client's finance department to identify the cost of cloud use in a public cloud environment shared by different projects and departments?

A. Reserved instances
B. Service level agreement
C. Resource tagging
D. RFI from the CSP

A company with critical resources in the cloud needs to ensure data is available in multiple datacenters around the world.
Which of the following BEST meets the company's needs?

A. Auto-scaling
B. Geo-redundancy
C. Disaster recovery
D. High availability

Which of the following are true about the use of machine learning in a cloud environment? (Choose two).

A. Specialized machine learning algorithms can be deployed to optimize results for specific scenarios.
B. Machine learning can just be hosted in the cloud for managed services.
C. Just one type of cloud storage is available in the cloud for machine learning workloads.
D. Machine learning can leverage processes in a cloud environment through the use of cloud storage and auto-scaling.
E. Machine learning requires a specialized IT team to create the machine learning models from scratch.
F. Using machine learning solutions in the cloud removes the data-gathering step from the learning process.

After performing an initial assessment of a cloud-hosted architecture, a department wants to gain the support of upper management.
Which of the following should be presented to management?

A. Project charter
B. Feasibility study
C. Managed services
D. Pilot

A systems administrator is reviewing a disaster recovery option that requires little to no downtime in the event of a natural disaster.
Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

A. Configure availability zones.
B. Configure high availability.
C. Configure geo-redundancy.
D. Configure auto-scaling.

Which of the following BEST describes decreasing the resources assigned to a system to avoid paying for unused capacity?

A. Orchestration
B. Auto-scaling
C. Right-sizing
D. Scalability

A report identified that several of a company's SaaS applications are against corporate policy.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

A. Shadow IT
B. Sensitive data
C. Encryption
D. Vendor lock-in

Which of the following cloud principles will help manage the risk of a network breach?

A. Shared responsibility
B. Self-service
C. Availability
D. Elasticity

An organization's servers are experiencing performance degradation from oversubscription of memory in the virtual environment and exhausted physical RAM.
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics would BEST address the issue?

A. Availability
B. Elasticity
C. Pay-as-you-go
D. Self-service

A company has been running tests on a newly developed algorithm to increase the responsiveness of the application. The company's monthly bills for the testing have been much higher than expected.
Which of the following documents should the company examine FIRST?

A. Memory report
B. Compute report
C. Network report
D. Storage report