Q24. A systems administrator must select a CSP while considering system uptime and access to critical servers. Which of the following is the MOST important criterion when choosing the CSP?

Q25. For security reasons, a cloud service that can be accessed from anywhere would make BEST use of:

Q26. A cloud risk assessment indicated possible outages in some regions. In response, the company enabled geo- redundancy for its cloud environment. Which of the following did the company adopt?

Q27. 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?

Q28. A company would like to improve its current DR plan with an emphasis on high availability. Which of the following metrics should the company focus on?

Q29. A vendor stipulates it will provide incident response within two hours of a severity level A incident. Which of the following does this describe?

Q30. Which of the following cloud migration methods would take full advantage of the cloud computing model?

Q31. The cloud consumer compliance team requires the IT department to patch and update cloud resources properly. Which of the following cloud service delivery models will BEST suit this need?

Q32. Which of the following results from implementing a proprietary SaaS solution when an organization does not
ensure the solution adopts open standards? (Choose two.)

Q33. A document that outlines the scope of a project, specific deliverables, scheduling, and additional specific
details from the client/buyer is called a:

Q34. Which of the following models provides the SMALLEST amount of technical overhead?

Q35. Which of the following DevOps options is used to integrate with cloud solutions?

Q36. 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?

Q37. 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:

Q38. A business analyst is comparing used vs. allocated storage cost for each reserved instance on a financial expenditures report related to the cloud. The CSP is currently billing at the following rates for storage:
$1.50 per GB of used space
$0.75 per GB of allocated space
The operating expenditures the analyst is reviewing are as follows:

Given this scenario, which of the following servers is costing the firm the least, and which should have storage increased due to over 70% utilization?

Q39. A company is migrating a legacy application to the cloud. Two C-level executives are currently engaged in the
initial stages of the migration, and they are planning a rip-and-replace approach.
Before initiating the project, the FIRST step should be to identify:

Q40. Which of the following BEST explains why there should be an established communication policy between CSPs and clients?

Q41. A company migrated all of its infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud security team must review the security post-
migration.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate task for the cloud security team to perform?

Q42. A SaaS provider specifies in a user agreement that the customer agrees that any misuse of the service will be
the responsibility of the customer. Which of the following risk response methods was applied?

Q43. A new company directive requires all departments to ensure intellectual property is kept within a country’s
borders. Which of the following concepts BEST represents this requirement?

Q44. A cloud developer chooses to use private key encryption for all traffic in a new application. Which of the following security concerns does this BEST describe?

Q45. A company is evaluating the capital expenditure necessary to modernize its on-premises datacenter. Management has directed that 50% of capital expenditure be reallocated to operating expenditure. Which of the following cloud characteristics applies?

Q46. Which of the following are considered secure access types of hosts in the cloud? (Choose two.)

Q47. A business analyst is comparing utilization for a company’s cloud servers on a financial expenditures report. The usage report is as follows:

Which of the following instances represents the highest utilization?