A system surpasses 75% to 80% of resource consumption. Which of the following scaling approaches is the most appropriate?

The change control board received a request to approve a configuration change 10 deploy in the cloud production environment. Which of the following should have already been competed?

A company's VMs that are created using the noncritical application tag are automatically shut down at 5:00 p.m. using a cronjob. Which of the following actions would allow a cloud engineer to stop all unresponsive instances with the least effort in case the automation fails?

An administrator configures three subnets to the corporate network. All servers should communicate with the main corporate network and access the internet. The administrator creates the following configurations:

After configuring the networks, the administrator recognizes an issue with the configuration. Which of the following can the administrator change in one step to accomplish the goal?

A company has developed an online trading platform. The engineering team selected event-based scaling for the platform's underlying resources. The platform resources scale up with every 2,000 subscribed users. The engineering team finds out that although compute utilization is low, scaling is still occurring. Which of the following statements best explains why this is the case?

A developer at a small startup company deployed some code for a new feature to its public repository. A few days later, a data breach occurred. A security team investigated the incident and found that the database was hacked. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this breach?

A cloud administrator wants to provision a host with two VMs. The VMs require the following:

After configuring the servers, the administrator notices that during certain hours of the day, the performance heavily degrades. Which of the following is the best explanation?

A cloud engineer is exploring options to reduce the management overhead of the servers and network. Which of the following cloud service models should the engineer implement?

An organization’s critical data was exfiltrated from a computer system in a cyberattack. A cloud analyst wants to identify the root cause and is reviewing the following security logs of a software web application:

A network administrator is building a site-to-site VPN tunnel from the company’s headquarters office to the company’s public cloud development network. The network administrator confirms the following: The VPN tunnel is established on the headquarters office firewall. While inside the office, developers report that they cannot connect to the development network resources. While outside the office on a client VPN, developers report that they can connect to the development network resources. The office and the client VPN have different IP subnet ranges. The firewall flow logs show that traffic is reaching the development network from the office. Which of the following is the next step the network administrator should take to troubleshoot the VPN tunnel?

A healthcare organization must follow strict compliance requirements to ensure that PII is not leaked. The cloud administrator needs to ensure the cloud email system can support this requirement. Which of the following should the organization enable?

A cloud engineer is designing a cloud native, three-tier application. The engineer must adhere to the following security best practices: Minimal services should run on all layers of the stack. The solution should be vendor agnostic. Virtualization could be used over physical hardware. Which of the following concepts should the engineer use to design the system to best meet these requirements?

A company’s website suddenly crashed. A cloud engineer investigates the following logs:

A cloud engineer wants to deploy a new application to the cloud and is writing the following script:

An e-commerce store is preparing for an annual holiday sale. Previously, this sale has increased the number of transactions between two and ten times the normal level of transactions. A cloud administrator wants to implement a process to scale the web server seamlessly. The goal is to automate changes only when necessary and with minimal cost. Which of the following scaling approaches should the administrator use?

A developer is testing code that will be used to deploy a web farm in a public cloud. The main code block is a function to create a load balancer and a loop to create 1,000 web servers, as shown below:

The developer runs the code against the company’s cloud account and observes that the load balancer is successfully created, but only 100 web servers have been created. Which of the following should the developer do to fix this issue?

A cloud architect attempts to modify a protected branch but is unable to do so. The architect receives an error indicating the action cannot be completed. Which of the following should the architect try instead?

A company wants to optimize cloud resources and lower the overhead caused by managing multiple operating systems. Which of the following compute resources would be best to help to achieve this goal?

Which of the following is a difference between a SAN and a NAS?

A cloud engineer is reviewing the following Dockerfile to deploy a Python web application:

Which of the following changes should the engineer make to the file to improve container security?

A company just learned that the data in its object storage was accessed by an unauthorized party. Which of the following should the company have done to make the data unusable?

Which of the following is a field of computer science that enables computers to identify and understand objects and people in images and videos?

Which of the following migration types is best to use when migrating a highly available application, which is normally hosted on a local VM cluster, for usage with an external user population?

Which of the following container storage types loses data after a restart?

A government agency in the public sector is considering a migration from on premises to the cloud. Which of the following are the most important considerations for this cloud migration? (Choose two.)

A group of cloud administrators frequently uses the same deployment template to recreate a cloud-based development environment. The administrators are unable to go back and review the history of changes they have made to the template. Which of the following cloud resource deployment concepts should the administrator start using?

A company runs a discussion forum that caters to global users. The company’s monitoring system reports that the home page suddenly is seeing elevated response times, even though internal monitoring has reported no issues or changes. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

A customer relationship management application, which is hosted in a public cloud IaaS network, is vulnerable to a remote command execution vulnerability. Which of the following is the best solution for the security engineer to implement to prevent the application from being exploited by basic attacks?

A cloud engineer is troubleshooting an application that consumes multiple third-party REST APIs. The application is randomly experiencing high latency. Which of the following would best help determine the source of the latency?

A software engineer needs to transfer data over the internet using programmatic access while also being able to query the data. Which of the following will best help the engineer to complete this task?

A company needs to deploy its own code directly in the cloud without provisioning additional infrastructure. Which of the following is the best cloud service model for the company to use?