A systems administrator recently upgraded the processors in a web application host. Upon the next login, the administrator sees a new alert regarding the license being out of compliance. Which of the following licensing models is the application MOST likely using?
A. Per device
B. Per user
C. Core-based
D. Volume-based
An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.
Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?
A. A configuration file backup
B. A full backup of the database
C. A differential backup
D. A VM-level snapshot
A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements. Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?
A. Containers
B. Infrastructure as code
C. Desktop virtualization
D. Virtual machines
A company has a cloud infrastructure service, and the cloud architect needs to set up a DR site. Which of the following should be configured in between the cloud environment and the DR site?
A. Failback
B. Playbook
C. Zoning
D. Replication
A systems administrator is deploying a GPU-accelerated VDI solution. Upon requests from several users, the administrator installs an older version of the OS on their virtual workstations. The majority of the VMs run the latest LTS version of
the OS.
Which of the following types of drivers will MOST likely ensure compatibility will all virtual workstations?
A. Alternative community drivers
B. Legacy drivers
C. The latest drivers from the vendor's website
D. The drivers from the OS repository
A cloud administrator is switching hosting companies and using the same script that was previously used to deploy VMs in the new cloud. The script is returning errors that the command was not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the script failure?
A. Account mismatches
B. IP address changes
C. API version incompatibility
D. Server name changes
A systems administrator is reviewing two CPU models for a cloud deployment. Both CPUs have the same number of cores/threads and run at the same clock speed. Which of the following will BEST identify the CPU with more computational power?
A. Simultaneous multithreading
B. Bus speed
C. L3 cache
D. Instructions per cycle
Company A has acquired Company B and is in the process of integrating their cloud resources. Company B needs access to Company A's cloud resources while retaining its IAM solution. Which of the following should be implemented?
A. Multifactor authentication
B. Single sign-on
C. Identity federation
D. Directory service
A cloud architect wants to minimize the risk of having systems administrators in an IaaS compute instance perform application code changes. The development group should be the only group allowed to modify files in the directory. Which of the following will accomplish the desired objective?
A. Remove the file write permissions for the application service account.
B. Restrict the file write permissions to the development group only.
C. Add access to the fileshare for the systems administrator's group.
D. Deny access to all development user accounts
A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a second hard drive failed. Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?
A. Restart the RAID resynchronization process
B. Perform a P2V migration of the server
C. Swap the failed hard drive with a fresh one
D. Restore the server from backup