CompTIA CompTIA Cloud+ CV1-003 Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  A systems administrator in a large enterprise needs to alter the configuration of one of the finance department's database servers. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

  A. Capacity planning

  B. Change management

  C. Backups

  D. Patching

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 22:

  A SaaS provider wants to maintain maximum availability for its service. Which of the following should be implemented to attain the maximum SLA?

  A. A hot site

  B. An active-active site

  C. A warm site

  D. A cold site

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 23:

  A cloud administrator recently deployed an update to the network drivers of several servers. Following the update, one of the servers no longer responds to remote login requests. The cloud administrator investigates the issue and gathers the following information:

  1.

  The cloud management console shows the VM is running and the CPU and memory utilization is at or near 0%.

  2.

  The cloud management console does not show an IP address for that server.

  3.

  A DNS lookup shows the hostname resolves to an IP address.

  4.

  The server is a member of the same security group as the others.

  5.

  The cloud administrator is able to log in remotely to the other servers without issue. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the server being unavailable?

  A. The network driver updates did not apply successfully, and the interface is in a down state.

  B. The ACL policy for the server was updated as part of the server reboot, preventing login access.

  C. The server was assigned a new IP address, and DNS entry for the server name was not updated.

  D. The update caused an increase in the output to the logs, and the server is too busy to respond.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 24:

  An organization is hosting a DNS domain with private and public IP ranges.

  Which of the following should be implemented to achieve ease of management?

  A. Network peering

  B. A CDN solution

  C. A SDN solution

  D. An IPAM solution

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://www.infoblox.com/glossary/ipam-ip-address-management/

• Question 25:

  A systems administrator is creating a playbook to run tasks against a server on a set schedule.

  Which of the following authentication techniques should the systems administrator use within the playbook?

  A. Use the server's root credentials

  B. Hard-code the password within the playbook

  C. Create a service account on the server

  D. Use the administrator's SSO credentials

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 26:

  A systems administrator wants the VMs on the hypervisor to share CPU resources on the same core when feasible. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

  A. Configure CPU passthrough

  B. Oversubscribe CPU resources

  C. Switch from a Type 1 to a Type 2 hypervisor

  D. Increase instructions per cycle

  E. Enable simultaneous multithreading

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 27:

  Which of the following strategies will mitigate the risk of a zero-day vulnerability MOST efficiently?

  A. Using only open-source technologies

  B. Keeping all resources up to date

  C. Creating a standby environment with a different cloud provider

  D. Having a detailed incident response plan

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 28:

  A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment. Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

  A. Set up affinity rules to keep web and database servers on the same hypervisor

  B. Enable jumbo frames on the gateway

  C. Move the web and database servers onto the same VXLAN

  D. Move the servers onto thick-provisioned storage

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 29:

  An IaaS provider has numerous devices and services that are commissioned and decommissioned automatically on an ongoing basis. The cloud administrator needs to implement a solution that will help reduce administrative overhead. Which of the following will accomplish this task?

  A. IPAM

  B. NAC

  C. NTP

  D. DNS

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: https://www.infoblox.com/glossary/ipam-ip-address-management/

• Question 30:

  A systems administrator needs to configure an email client to ensure data integrity of the email messages. Which of the following provides the BEST mechanism to achieve this goal?

  A. Cyclic redundancy check

  B. SHA-1 hashes

  C. SHA-256 hashes

  D. Digital signature

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/integrity-storagess05/integrity.html