A systems administrator is asked to implement a new three-host cluster. The cloud architect specifies this should be a testing environment, and the budget is limited. The estimated resource consumption for each application is as follows:


A. Three public cloud hosts with four cores
120GB of RAM
100GB of storage
1Gbps
B. Three public cloud hosts with six cores
80GB of RAM
180GB of storage
150Mbps
C. Three public cloud hosts with six cores
80GB of RAM
1TB of storage
200Mbps
D. Four public cloud hosts with four cores
140GB of RAM
200GB of storage

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?

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

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?

A. Weekly full 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

An administrator needs to back up all the data from each VM daily while also saving space. Which of the following backup types will BEST fit this scenario?

A. Differential
B. Incremental
C. Synthetic full
D. Full

A DevOps administrator is building a new application slack in a private cloud. This application will store sensitive information and be accessible from the internet. Which of the following would be MOST useful in maintaining confidentiality?

A. NAC
B. IDS
C. DLP
D. EDR

A company wants to move to a multicloud environment and utilize the technology that provides the most portability. Which of the following technology solutions would BEST meet the company's needs?

A. Bootstrap
B. Virtual machines
C. Clusters
D. Containers

A cloud engineer is performing updates to an application and needs to gracefully stop any new transactions from processing before the updates can be applied. Which of the following steps should the engineer take?

A. Enable maintenance mode from the application dashboard
B. Wait until after business hours to conduct the change when the system is not in use
C. Run a kill command on the system to stop the application services
D. Use a load balancer to redirect traffic to other systems serving the application

A cloud administrator configured a local cloud-resource pool to 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?

A. Insufficient guest bandwidth
B. Overwhelmed vCPU
C. A storage error on the guest
D. Incorrect VLAN assignment
E. Inadequate memory allocation

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?

A. WAF
B. EDR
C. IDS
D. HIPS
E. SSL

A production engineer is configuring a new application, which is running in containers, that requires access to a database. Which of the following methods will allow the application to authenticate to the database in the MOST secure way?

A. Store the credentials in a variable on every worker node
B. Store the credentials on a shared volume using whole-disk encryption
C. Store the credentials in a configuration file using SHA-256 inside the container image
D. Store the credentials using the orchestrator secret manager