A database analyst reports it takes two hours to perform a scheduled job after onboarding 10,000 new users to the system. The analyst made no changes to the scheduled job before or after onboarding the users. The database is hosted…
A cloud administrator has deployed a new VM. The VM cannot access the Internet or the VMs on any other subnet. The administrator runs a network command and sees the following output: The new VM can access another VM at…
A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure? A. Deduplication B. Thin provisioning C.…
A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances. Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective? A. Encrypt all applications that users should not access. B. Set the execute filesystem permissions on…
A technician just received the lessons learned from some recent data that was lost due to an onpremises file-server crash. The action point is to change the backup strategy to minimize manual intervention. Which of the following is the BEST…
A systems administrator is trying to reduce storage consumption. Which of the following file types would benefit the MOST from compression? A. System files B. User backups C. Relational database D. Mail database
After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause? A. The driver B. The memory C. The cluster placement D. The…
An engineer is responsible for configuring a new firewall solution that will be deployed in a new public cloud environment. All traffic must pass through the firewall. The SLA for the firewall is 99.999%. Which of the following should be…
A company is concerned about the security of its data repository that contains customer PII. A systems administrator is asked to deploy a security control that will prevent the exfiltration of such dat a. Which of the following should the…
An update is being deployed to a web application, and a systems administrator notices the cloud SQL database has stopped running. The VM is responding to pings, and there were not any configuration changes scheduled for the VM. Which of…