Free-2022 Updated CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-002 Certification Exam Dumps & Practice Exam Questions

1. A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders. A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes for server template: x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

Given an expected increase in workload, which of the following is the BEST solution to improve application performance?

2. A company wants to leverage a SaaS provider for its back-office services, and security is paramount. Which of the following solutions should a cloud engineer deploy to BEST meet the security requirements?

3. A company upgraded a hosted vulnerability scanner to the latest version, and now tickets are not being created to assign critical vulnerabilities. After confirming the ticketing issue, all the scanning services are confirmed to be running on the VM. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause and best method to fix the issue?

4. A system's application servers need to be patched. The requirements for maintenance work are as follows: System downtime is not allowed.

The application server in use must be in the sane patch status. System performance must be maintained during patching work.

Testing after patching must be done before the application server is in use. If any trouble occurs, recover the previous version in ten minutes.

Which of the following methodologies should be selected?

5. A software development company is building cloud-ready applications and needs to determine the best approach for releasing software. Which of the following approaches should be used?

6. A customer recently provisioned a new server on the IaaS. The IP address assigned from the pool resolves to another hostname. Some user traffic is being dumped or is causing slowness because of this issue. Which of the following maintenance activities does the provider need to perform to prevent this issue?

7. A development team released a new version of an application and wants to deploy it to the cloud environment with a faster rollback and minimal downtime. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to achieve this goal?

8. A university is running a DNA decoding project that will take seven years if it runs on its current internal mainframe. The university negotiated a deal with a large cloud provider, which will donate its cloud resource to process the DNA decoding during the low peak time throughout the world. Which of the following is the MOST

important resource the university should ask the cloud provider to donate?

9. A business is demanding faster IT services turnaround from its IT groups. The current lead time between request and delivery is three weeks for a task that would take a competitor two days. An architect is asked to develop a solution to reduce the lead time of the request while ensuring adherence to the company policies. Which of the following is the BEST approach to achieve the stated objective?

10. A storage administrator must choose the best replication methodology for storage. The datacenters are on opposite sides of the country.

The RPO is 24 hours.

Replication and customer access use the same connections. Replication should not impact customer access during the day.

Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

11. The InfoSec team has directed compliance database activity monitoring without agents on a hosted database server in the public IaaS. Which of the following configurations is needed to ensure this requirement is achieved?

12. Ann. a user, has tried to connect to a VM hosted in a private cloud using her directory services credentials. After three attempts, she realizes the keyboard was set to German instead of English, and she was typing "z" instead of "y". After fixing this issue, Ann is still unable to log in; however, other users can access the VM. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

13. A cloud administrator is integrating account logins with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter for marketing and to increase market presence using social media platforms. Given this scenario, which of the following components are needed to match these requirements? (Select two).

14. A company uses its own private cloud, which has few available resources. Mission-critical systems and other information systems are running on it. A new system will be deployed on the private cloud. The following tests are included in the test plan:

Load test (2h) Backup/restore test (6h) Functional test (8h) Failover test (1h)

The work schedule of the existing system is shown below.

To minimize the effect to the existing system, which of the following schedules is MOST suitable for the load test?

15. A cloud administrator is required to implement a solution to handle data-at-rest encryption requirements for a database. Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?

16. A cloud administrator is tasked with ensuring redundancy and high availability of an IaaS cloud platform environment. The administrator is given the following requirements:

Two web servers must share the same configurations and service client connections evenly. Two database servers must share data and configurations, with only one being used at a time.

Given the above, which of the following should the administrator propose to BEST meet these requirements? (Select two).

17. In an IaaS model, to which of the following methodologies would the client apply a list of OS patches, assuming approval from CAB has been given?

18. A cloud administrator has finished building a virtual server template in a public cloud environment. The administrator is now cloning six servers from that template. Each server is configured with one private IP address and one public IP address. After starting the server instances, the cloud administrator notices that two of the servers do not have a public IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

19. A public cloud provider recently updated one of its services to provide a new type of application load balancer. The cloud administrator is tasked with building out a proof-of-concept using this new service type. The administrator sets out to update the scripts and notices the cloud provider does not list the load balancer as an available option type for deploying this service. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

20. A cloud service provider wants to offer hardened virtual server images for provisioning purposes. This will enable users to use only the operating system services that are allowed by the provider. Which of the following tasks are MOST appropriate for the hardening process? (Select two).

21. A customer wants to schedule a backup job that compares and saves changes from the last full backup. Which of the following backup types should be used?

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23. A company security policy mandates education and training for new employees. The policy must outline acceptable use policies for SaaS applications. Given these requirements, which of the following security controls is BEST suited?

24. A private cloud customer is considering using the public cloud to accommodate the peak utilization workload. Which of the following would be considered the ideal scaling solution?

25. A private cloud customer is considering using the public cloud to accommodate the peak utilization workload. Which of the following would be considered the ideal scaling solution?

26. A cloud administrator reports a problem with the maximum number of users reached in one of the pools. There are ten VMs in the pool, each with a software capacity to handle ten users. Based on the dashboard metrics, 15% of the incoming new service requests are failing. Which of the following is the BEST approach to resolve the issue?

27. In an IaaS environment, the security team issues a new signature file to prevent specific malware threats from infiltrating the company network. Which of the following describes where the security team should deploy the updated signatures?

28. A small clinic is moving its health and accounting systems to a SaaS solution. The clinic holds patient- and business-sensitive information. Which of the following is the company expected to do to protect its data?

29. A consultant is helping a large company migrate its development environment to a public cloud provider. The developers are working on a VDI solution. The development tools that employees utilize require greater control of the OS environment. Which of the following cloud types should the consultant implement?

30. A company changed its policy to have seven-year data retention in the public cloud. Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective way to meet retention requirements?

31. During peak times, users are unable to access their online wealth management applications in a timely fashion. The online banking application resides in a community cloud environment. Which of the following explains how the cloud systems administrator should start to resolve this issue?

32. A business is planning to migrate from a private cloud to a public cloud. To document business continuity, which of the following should be done FIRST?

33. Joe, a systems administrator, deployed a computer and storage for a system and took it to the application team. The next day, the application team claimed the database was slow. The deployment request, result, and current utilization data are shown below.

Which of the following descriptions of the situation is correct?

34. A large finance firm processes three times as many transactions in December of each year. The transactions are processed in a private cloud. Management wants to avoid adding permanent resources to accommodate the single month increase. Which of the following is the BEST way to meet the need?

35. A cloud administrator is adding several accounts for new development team interns. These interns will need access to some, but not all, of the resources and will only be working over the summer. Which of the following user provisioning techniques should be used?

36. After deploying new VMs, the systems administrator notices it is not possible to connect to them using network credentials; however, local accounts work. After logging in, the administrator notices the NTP servers are not set. Which of the following is MOST likely causing this issue?

37. A cloud engineer notices on a dashboard that the host is close to reaching maximum capacity for the CPU and memory in the cloud environment, which could cause performance issues. The cloud environment has 100 servers, with 25% of the servers consuming their compute only during peak business hours, 25% consuming half of the allocated resources, and the remaining 50% using the compute during off hours. Which of the following should the engineer perform to optimize the efficiency of the compute usage in the cloud?

38. A cloud administrator is managing two private cloud environments. In cloud A, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of five minutes and RTO of one hour. In cloud B, the disaster recovery solution has an SLA for RPO of one hour and RTO of 24 hours. A new customer’s application requires that, in case of a disaster, no more than 15 minutes of data can be lost, and it should be fully recovered within one day. Which of the following would be the BEST approach to this application?

39. A new private cloud platform is being deployed by an engineer. SLA requirements state that any clusters should have a baseline redundancy sufficient to handle the failure of at least two hosts. The engineer records the following metrics after the deployment:

Which of the following metrics is MOST likely to represent a violation of SLA?

40. Email users report that it takes more than one minute to open emails, including those without attachments. There are three email instances in three different regions hosted by the same CSP. Other applications hosted by the same CSP have no reported issues. Which of the following solutions BEST resolves the issue?

41. A hospital is deploying a web-based application in its private cloud to service multiple facilities in a region.

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application is used by employees of the hospital, as well as the patients and their families. Which of the following security configurations is MOST likely to be deployed to secure the information from the application?

42. A cloud-based web store is experiencing poor website performance and unavailability. Which of the following approaches would prevent the issue without administrator intervention?

43. A technician is configuring a new web application to be highly available. The technician has configured multiple

web servers in different availability zones at a public cloud provider. The application requires users to be directed to the same server each time they visit. Which of the following network components is MOST likely to accomplish this?

44. Which of the following would be appropriate when considering inbound access security for a web-based SaaS solution?

45. A company has an SLA of 15ms for storage latency.

Given the above metrics, which of the following is the MOST appropriate change to the environment?

46. A VM was deleted by mistake today at 11:05 a.m. Below are the backups currently available for the VM:

Crash-consistent restore is acceptable. Which of the following backups should be chosen?

47. After deploying multiple copies of database servers, data scrambling is started on them to anonymize user data. A few minutes later, the systems administrator receives multiple complaints regarding the performance of other VMs. CPU and memory have been eliminated as possible bottlenecks. Which of the following should be verified NEXT as a possible bottleneck?

48. A cloud administrator is configuring a bastion host. The bastion host will be used to administer systems in the cloud remotely from the administrator’s on-premises desktop. The administrator is given the following requirements:

Ensure port 22 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Ensure port 3389 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Harden these services with PKI (where applicable).

Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator utilize to BEST address these requirements? (Choose three.)

49. After scheduled network maintenance, users report that an externally hosted web application is particularly slow to load. Small items on the page load such as text documents and markup, but larger multimedia files do not load. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the reported issues?

50. A cloud administrator for a state government agency is tasked with giving access to the voter registration application to a government agency in another state. Only authorized officials from each state should access the application. These agencies have a common environment where applications have been deployed in the past. Which of the following should the cloud administrator do to give access to the application?

51. A software solution must be deployed based on the most granular access level. Which of the following methods should be used to meet the requirements?

52. Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application. The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization’s administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?

53. A cloud deployment engineer is modifying versions of the existing template image to instantiate new VMs. The engineer accomplishes this through the cloud self-service portal. After the version is changed and a new VM is successfully started, it does not have any connectivity, and all ping tests to other VMs fail. Which of the following would be the BEST approach to solve the problem?

54. A cloud provider is evaluating an insider threat. A resource from the company operations team has access to the servers’ virtual disks. This poses a risk that someone could copy and move the virtual server image and have access to the data. Which of the following solutions would help mitigate this problem?

55. After monthly patching, a large number of users who are logged onto the network report that application links from a company’s intranet site, which previously opened directly into the website, are now prompting for logon

information. Application administrators confirm that the websites in question are working properly. Which of the

following is the MOST likely cause of the new behavior?

56. A cloud administrator is analyzing usage trends for a website housed within an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator notices that traffic and visitors to the site quadrupled from the normal baseline during the holiday season. The environment has a load balancer that uses standardized VMs to host the applications. Given this scenario, which of the following would be the MOST efficient, provide no downtime, and address the temporary

spike in traffic?

57. A company is implementing a launchpad within an existing application that will point to an existing SaaS provider. One of the requirements is the user should not have to log on multiple times. SSO is in place. When the launchpad is used, the user is redirected to SaaS providers as designed, but is asked for login credentials. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

58. A cloud service administrator is consuming PaaS services and is performing baseline configuration tests. Which of the following is part of the PaaS consumer’s responsibility with respect to the baseline confirmation tests?

59. An engineer is configuring the monitoring for a new application server. During the day, the CPU on the server is baselined at approximately 30% utilization. At midnight, a batch job is scheduled to run that will drive the CPU utilization up to 75% for approximately an hour. Any time the CPU utilization is at 40% or higher for longer

than ten minutes, administrators will receive an alert. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure administrators do not experience message fatigue due to false alerts?

60. A cloud administrator configures a new web server for the site https://companyname.com. The administrator installs a wildcard SSL certificate for *.companyname.com. When users attempt to access the site, a certificate error is received. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?

61. A cloud service company is proposing a solution to a major sporting venue. The solution offers 99.999% availability during special events, which is proven through specialized testing. Which of the following techniques should be applied to confirm the high availability claimed by the company? (Choose two.)

62. An organization is replacing its internal human resources system with a SaaS-based application. The solution is multi-tenant, and the organization wants to ensure ubiquitous access while preventing password replay attacks. Which of the following would BEST help to mitigate the risk?

63. The following three hosts are being put into a virtualization cluster for a new project initiative:

As more VMs are deployed to the cluster, which of the following virtualization technologies is MOST likely to report an error with this configuration?

64. A user has submitted a ticket to request additional VMs due to long wait times for online ordering. Given the snapshot of the resources in the table below:

Which of the following is the BEST option for the administrator to resolve the ticket?

65. A company is implementing a SaaS solution with a large user base. SaaS solution licensing is user based, and user management is critical to keep the cost in check. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to meet

this requirement?

66. A cloud administrator updates the syslog forwarder configuration on a local server in production to use a different port. The development team is no longer receiving the audit logs from that server. However, the security team can retrieve and search the logs for the same server. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

67. Performance on a new private cloud deployment is not meeting expectations. An engineer has determined the virtualization host is experiencing high ready/wait times. VMs with the following configurations and metrics currently reside on the host:

Which of the following troubleshooting choices would MOST likely be used to bring the high ready/wait times to

meet the expected baseline?

68. The CASB report indicates several unsanctioned SaaS applications are being used in an organization. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

69. A company has been migrating a significant number of its on-premises applications to various SaaS providers. The IT department has noticed the following:

User account management has become
User account compromises have increased.
Accessing various SaaS applications is

Which of the following should the IT security department implement to BEST resolve the issue? (Choose three.)

70. A cloud administrator is securing access to a VM using an IaaS cloud platform. The administrator must perform this task using an automated method, allow administrators to perform any method and expose any property of the VM, deny access for everyone else, and allow only read-only access to everyone else. Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator use to BEST meet these requirements?

71. A company is deploying a new instant messaging app to allow for communications with external vendors. Each entity will host its own version of the application, but users must be able to talk between the companies. Which

of the following security techniques would MOST likely be used to allow this to happen?

72. A cloud administrator wants to apply patches in an isolated copy of the production virtual server to assess the impact. Which of the following activities would BEST achieve this objective?

73. A security and risk team requires a weekly report to detect VM file system changes and validate the integrity of the OS. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this requirement?

74. IaaS users are reporting longer than expected wait times when accessing the virtual file repository. There are more than 2TB of free disk space, and vCPU and vRAM do not reach more than 75% utilization. In which of the following ways should the cloud systems administrator analyze this issue?

75. A software company recently moved all of its development testing to a public cloud environment. The company primarily uses IaaS to deploy and test its code. The company needs the software developers to be more agile and efficient when testing application code. Which of the following backup types should the developers use to BEST ensure the speedy recovery of a system if it is damaged?

76. A cloud administrator works for an online gaming company that is hosting its multiplayer servers in a public IaaS cloud. The following metrics are reported during a controlled beta test:

RAM usage 80%

Bandwidth usage 50% Average ping 800ms

The beta test shows poor performance for gamers. Which of the following should the cloud administrator implement FIRST to improve the gamers’ experience?

77. An administrator defines a backup as follows:

One weekly full backup Daily incremental backup

Which of the following BEST describes where the administrator would define this?

78. In a private cloud environment, which of the following is the BEST way to update 20 VMs with the same patch that has been regression tested and approved for rollout?

79. A cloud administrator has configured a connection between two virtual private cloud environments at a public cloud provider that are each in different accounts. The administrator has configured the accounts correctly so they can connect to each other’s resources. Both cloud environments have policies that allow anyone from 0.0.0.0/0 on TCP port 22. The following table shows the network configuration information:

However, the administrator is unable to establish an SSH connection from a server in 10.250.40.100 to 10.250.48.214. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?

80. A company is looking for a hardware feature with the least amount of downtime in terms of firmware upgrades. Which of the following features BEST meet this requirement?

81. A company uses SaaS and IaaS solutions from multiple cloud providers. Users report that this requires them to manage and remember multiple user accounts and passwords. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to fix this issue?

82. A CSA needs to bring a client’s public cloud site online at another location in the same region after a disaster.

The RPO is eight hours, and the RTO is four hours. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this goal?

83. A company is migrating some of its consumer-facing services to a cloud provider. The company has been getting more customers since its competitors have gone bankrupt. Which of the following actions would BEST meet the company’s increased resource needs?

84. Company A just acquired Company B and needs to migrate critical applications to Company A’s private cloud

infrastructure. Company B’s applications are running on legacy servers and cannot be removed from the current datacenter where they reside. Which of the following migration strategies should the cloud administrator use?

85. An e-commerce business recently experienced a two-hour outage from its hosted web service provider. According to the SLA, the business needs to determine how much data can be restored. On which of the following service-level components should the business focus?

86. Ann, the lead product developer for a company, just hired three new developers. Ann asked the cloud administrator to give these developers access to the fileshares in the public cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take?

87. A hospital is leveraging a third-party-hosted, SaaS-based EMRS for all its regional locations. The EMRS will consolidate all existent stand-alone regional systems. All regional systems managers are concerned about the new system availability. Which of the following should the new EMRS architect do to address the manager’s

concerns?

88. A physical server with SSD drives that hosts an IO-intensive database has been migrated into a private cloud to ensure further growth possibilities and accommodate quarterly load spikes (up to 10,000 IOPs). The requirement is to have log partition latency below 5ms and data partition latency below 10ms, irrespective of

the load spikes. A cloud administrator has conducted extensive tests after the migration. Which of the following test results would ensure the migration is successful?

89. A company hosts its server in a public IaaS cloud. The company’s management decides to migrate the servers

to a different geographical region that is closer to the user base. A cloud administrator creates a new environment in that geographical region. Which of the following is the BEST way to migrate the VM from the original geographic region to the new region?

90. A new startup company is growing and wants to deploy a human resources management system on a private cloud that is only accessible to the human resources department. Which of the following is the BEST method of access control?

91. A Type 1 hypervisor has the following specifications:

RAM 128GB

CPU 4 socket quad-core Storage 16TB

Each VM must have reserved 8GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 512GB storage. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of VMs that can be hosted on this hypervisor?

92. A cloud provider is increasingly discovering hard-to-find issues within the growing infrastructure. The provider has all the basic necessary tools implemented to collect and store data regarding the environment. To allow

the cloud provider to focus on relevant events, which of the following is the MOST appropriate technique to build intelligence?

93. An application server, which uses a SaaS fax provider, is determined to cost too much money. An upgrade to the application allows for use of a physical fax card so the company only has to pay for a phone line. This is a production application; therefore, downtime must be minimized. Which of the following types of migration is MOST efficient in facilitating this application upgrade?

94. Company A has just implemented a SaaS-based cloud storage solution. The SaaS solution provides services for both commercial and personal use. The IT department has been tasked to migrate all the on-premises file shares to the SaaS solution with the username being the corporate email address. The IT department is currently using am IAM solution to provision the accounts in the SaaS solution. Upon execution of the account creation process, the IT department is receiving multiple “unable to create account†alerts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

95. A company has moved all on-premises workloads into a public cloud. After some time, the cloud engineer starts noticing time drifts on the VMs and suspects an NTP issue. Time drifts were not an issue when all the workloads were on-premises. Which of the following describes how the cloud engineer should resolve the issue?

96. A consultant is helping a gaming-as-a-service company set up a new cloud. The company recently bought several graphic card that need to be added to the servers. Which of the following should the consultant suggest as the MOST cost effective?

97. A company wants to implement a public IaaS solution but also wants to address site resiliency challenges. When selecting an IaaS provider, which of the following should a cloud technician look for within the provider’s

capabilities to meet the requirements?

98. A security administrator wants to automate the implementation of network-based ACLs for services deployed within the company's VPC. The security administrator is mostly concerned with intra-VPN separation to prevent unauthorized communication between cloud deployed services within the VPC.

99. A CASB provides the application proxy and web application firewall to a large retailer. All access to the retailer cloud application must originate from the CASB-designated IP addresses. The CASB has known geolocations with known IP addresses. Suddenly, all customers are not able to access the retailer cloud applications. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for the issue?

100. A tenant has provisioned a new database server. It needs to add the database files in the exclusion list for security scanning, as it allows down the performance and locks the database file. Which of the following solutions must have this exclusion?

101. Ann, a technician, is using a saved workflow to deploy virtual servers. The script worked yesterday but is now returning an authentication error. Ann confirms that she can manually log in with her own account and create a virtual server. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the error?

102. An upgrade to a web application, which supports 400 users at four sites, is being tested. The application runs on four servers behind a load balancer.

The following test plan is proposed:

Have 50 users from site A connect to server 1 Have 50 users from site B connect to server 2 Have 50 users from site C connect to server 3 Have 50 users from site D connect to server 4

Which of the following parameters is being properly tested by this plan?

103. A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking into account the values provided by the users as input. The scripts need to be run automatically as part of the provisioning process and reused later for other purposes.

Which of the following would help the provider do this?

104. A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking into account the values provided by the users as input. The scripts need to be run automatically as part of the provisioning process and reused later for other purposes.

Which of the following would help the provider do this?

105. A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking into account the values provided by the users as input. The scripts need to be run automatically as part of the provisioning process and reused later for other purposes.

Which of the following would help the provider do this?

106. A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data.

Which of the following techniques should the cloud administrator deploy to ensure testing requirements are met?

107. A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data.

Which of the following techniques should the cloud administrator deploy to ensure testing requirements are met?

108. A company recently decided to move some of its servers to a public cloud. The engineer has been invited to attend requirement sessions for moving servers to the cloud. The engineer is tasked with ensuring the servers that are being moved to the cloud are still in compliance, as they were on-premises.

109. Following is a sample result from a recently completed load test.

Based on the information provided, which of the following would be the BEST recommendation?

110. An administrator needs to make a file-level backup of a VM before deploying monthly updates. The backup should capture all changes since the last backup but should NOT reset the archive bit on any files.

Which of the following backup types BEST meets these requirements?

111. As part of a nightly testing process, new version of an application is deployed to the set of web servers in the development environment.

Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure the test environment is consistent with the previous night’s

test?

112. A company wants to deploy new compute resources efficiently through automation. Which of the following is a key success factor to achieve automation?