A mobile application development team requires frequent software updates for a major launch of a customer- facing application. The business requirement is to be first-to-market on a new feature that leverages third-party- hosted services.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to use for speed and efficiency?

A. Proprietary code solution
B. Application programming interface
C. Regression testing
D. Production load testing

Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead?

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

Transferring all of a customer's on-premises data and virtual machines to an appliance, and then shipping it to a cloud provider is a technique used in a:

A. phased migration approach.
B. replatforming migration approach.
C. rip and replace migration approach.
D. lift and shift migration approach.

An organization wants to migrate a locally hosted application to a PaaS model. The application currently runs on a 15-year-old operating system and cannot be upgraded.
Which of the following should the organization perform to ensure the application will be supported in the cloud?

A. Risk register
B. Feasibility study
C. Benchmarks
D. Baseline

A cloud administrator suggested using spot instances to reduce cloud costs for part of a new cloud infrastructure.
Which of the following conditions must be addressed by the application that will run on these instances?

A. The application needs to store data in a database.
B. There is a restriction for distributed network communications.
C. The application needs to handle unpredictable instance termination.
D. Resource-intensive compute loads will be forbidden.

A cloud systems administrator needs to migrate several corporate applications to a public cloud provider and decommission the internal hosting environment. This migration must be completed by the end of the month.
Because these applications are internally developed to meet specific business accounting needs, the administrator cannot use an alternative application.
Which of the following BEST describes the approach the administrator should use?

A. Hybrid deployment
B. Phased migration
C. Lift and shift
D. Rip and replace

Which of the following is a cloud service model that organizations use when their third-party ERP tool is provided as a complete service?

A. Public cloud
B. SaaS
C. Hybrid cloud
D. IaaS

A business analyst is drafting a risk assessment.
Which of the following components should be included in the draft? (Choose two.)

A. Asset management
B. Database type
C. Encryption algorithms
D. Certificate name
E. Asset inventory
F. Data classification

A small online retailer is looking for a solution to handle the high load on its servers during the holiday season.
The retailer is not currently ready to move its IT operations completely to the cloud.
Which of the following will BEST fit these requirements?

A. Elasticity
B. Scalability
C. Bursting
D. Self-service

A cloud administrator for an ISP identified a vulnerability in the software that controls all the firewall rules for a geographic area. To ensure the software upgrade is properly tested, approved, and applied, which of the following processes should the administrator follow?

A. Configuration management
B. Incident management
C. Resource management
D. Change management