A newly established CSP allows for drive shipping to upload new data into the environment. Sensitive data on 40TB of storage needs to be transferred within one week. Which of the following is the MOST efficient and secure method for shipment of the data to the CSP with minimal downtime?
A. Create a VPN between the sites and schedule data transfer during non-business hours.
B. Copy the data to encrypted drives and use the CSP-certified shipping provider.
C. Compress and SFTP the data to the CSP.
D. Move the data to encrypted drives and use the CSP-certified shipping provider.
An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization:

Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%. Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?
A. Disk
B. IOPS
C. CPU
D. Network
E. RAM
Which of the following would be considered use cases for Object-Based Storage? (Select two.)
A. Transactional database
B. Cloud-based storage
C. Web server platform
D. Data archival solution
E. Enterprise email services
An administrator needs to verify what ports are listening on an operating system. Which of the following tools can be used to accomplish this task?
A. telnet
B. netstat
C. packet sniffer
D. ifconfig
Which of the following is a zone, within a network, that is MOST likely to be accessed by both internal and external hosts?
A. Intranet
B. VPN
C. DMZ
D. Management VLAN
A technician needs to configure a virtual NIC on a Class A IP address network. Which of the following is the default subnet mask for this network?
A. /8
B. /16
C. /24
D. /28
Which of the following is the BEST method to isolate iSCSI network traffic?
A. WWPN Zoning
B. WWNN Zoning
C. Dedicated VLANs
D. LUN Masking
A cloud engineer needs to deploy a new virtual firewall in a private cloud. Which of the following should the engineer do as a FIRST step?
A. Document the deployment in a knowledge base.
B. Create a change for deploying the firewall.
C. Put the hypervisor in maintenance mode.
D. Inform users that the cloud will be momentarily unavailable.
An engineer is responsible for managing a private cloud environment at a software company. Company developers perform all programming in the cloud environment. There are two departments working on a highly classified product that now requires dedicated resources, which cannot be viewed or accessed by other departments in the cloud environment. Which of the following should the engineer perform to ensure the requirements are met? (Choose three.)
A. Create a baseline
B. Assign an ACL
C. Verify segmentation
D. Use thin provisioned storage
E. Automate patch deployments
F. Create a tenant
G. Deploy a PKI solution
A company is migrating a website to a CSP to improve availability and performance. After testing the application, the systems engineer realizes the website stores the session state in a database system. Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure a successful migration?
A. Configure the new website to use the database system.
B. Migrate to a DBaaS and keep the session state.
C. Implement a new database system to store the session state.
D. Deploy a load balancer to store the session state.