Ben Piper - CompTIA Cloud+ Study Guide

42 Your employer has developed a mission-critical application for the medical industry, and there can be no downtime during maintenance. You have designed a web architecture to take this into account and that allows you to have an exact copy of your production fleet that can be brought online to replace your existing deployment for patching and maintenance. What type of model did you implement?ClusterDevOpsBlue-greenRolling

43 Jill is performing a Tuesday night backup of a Tier 2 storage volume of which she already completed a full backup on Sunday night. She only wants to back up files based on changes of the source data since the last backup. What type of backup is she performing?FullDifferentialIncrementalOnline

44 What virtual machine backup method creates a file-based image of the current state of a VM, including the complete operating system and all applications that are stored on it?Full backupSnapshotCloneReplicate

45 Ronald is a Cloud+ student studying systems that abstract and hide much of the complexity of modern cloud systems. What is he learning about?RunbooksWorkflowOrchestrationREST/API

46 What are common automation platforms? (Choose three.)ChefCloud-patchAnsibleDevOpsPuppetCloud Deploy

47 Marlene is updating her horizontally scaled Internet-facing web servers to remediate a critical bug. Her manager has agreed to operate under reduced computing capacity during the process but stipulates that there can be no downtime. What upgrade approach should Marlene perform to meet these requirements?OrchestrationRollingHotfixBlue-green

48 What VM backup method can be used to create a master image to be used as a template to create additional systems?Full backupSnapshotCloneReplica

49 A new application patch is being validated prior to release to the public. The developers have a release candidate, and the DevOps manager is requesting a report that shows the pass/fail data to verify that the fix does, in fact, resolve the problem. What process is the manager verifying?RolloutOrchestrationAutomationQA

50 Jane has found a table merge issue in her SQL database hosted in a private cloud. While reviewing the log files, the vendor requested that she install a software change designed for rapid deployment that corrects a specific and critical issue. What are they referring to?HotfixPatchVersion updateRollout

51 To meet regulatory requirements, a medical records company is required to store customer transaction records for seven years. The records will most likely never be accessed after the second year and can be stored offline to reduce expenses. What type of storage should they implement to achieve this goal?File transferArchiveReplicationData store

52 Mark is creating a disaster recovery plan based on directives from his company's executive management team. His company's business is an e-commerce website that sells children's apparel, with 85 percent of its revenue received during the holiday season. If there was a severe disruption in operations, the loss of business could put the company's ongoing financial viability in peril. Mark is creating a plan that will restore operations in the shortest amount of time possible if there is an outage. What DR model is he implementing?Hot siteActive/activeWarm siteActive/passiveCold siteRollover

53 You're researching data replication options for your SQL database. You've decided to create a backup replica in a different availability zone that could become primary should the primary zone go offline. The replica is updated in near real time after the initial write operation on the primary database. What type of solution is this?SynchronousAsynchronousVolume syncRemote mirroringRAID 5

54 Pierre is deploying a solution that allows data for his e-commerce operations hosted in a public cloud to be reached at remote locations worldwide with local points of presence. He wants to reduce the load on his web servers and reduce the network latency of geographically distant customers. What are these facilities called?RegionsEdge locationsAvailability zonesReplication

55 Melinda is updating her firm's disaster recovery plans, and after receiving direction from her company's board of directors, she has been instructed to create a plan that restores operations within 48 hours of a disaster. What part of the plan should she update with the new requirements?RSORPORTODBO

56 Jillian is a Cloud+ consultant for an auto parts company based in central Michigan. She is putting together a disaster recovery plan that includes a remote backup site that has a SQL server instance running at that location with a synchronously refreshed data replica. Her plan calls for activating all other services in the event of a hurricane causing an outage at her primary data center. What model is Jillian going to deploy to meet the requirements?Hot siteWarm siteCold siteActive/passive

57 Pete has been busy updating the disaster recovery procedures for his client's business continuity plan. The DR facility will need to be ready with floor space, power, and cooling and have loading docks to unload server and equipment racks to restore service. What type of DR implementation is Pete planning on deploying?Hot siteActive/activeWarm siteActive/passiveCold siteRollover

58 Connie has been directed by her employer's finance department that they cannot afford to lose any more than 30 minutes of data in the case of a database failure or other catastrophic event. Connie has updated her corporate business continuity and disaster recovery plans. What metric did she change?RSORPORTODBO

59 Will is testing his backup DR site and using his DNS configuration to load-balance the primary and backup sites. He wants to verify that the database in the DR facility is updated in real time and remains current with the production replica in the primary data center. What type of updates should he define in his primary data center servers prior to enabling the DNS load balancing?Synchronous replicationAsynchronous replicationVolume syncMirroringRAID 5

60 Leonard is creating disaster recovery documents for his company's online operations. He is documenting metrics for a measurable SLA that outlines when you can expect operations to be back online and how much data loss can be tolerated when recovering from an outage. Which metrics is he documenting? (Choose all that apply.)RSORTORPODRVxRestore

61 The ability to dynamically add additional resources on demand such as storage, CPUs, memory, and even servers is referred to as what?BurstingPoolingElasticityOrchestration

62 Margo is reviewing the maintenance responsibilities between her company and its public cloud service provider. She notices that the cloud provider takes responsibility for the operating system, and her company assumes responsibility for all applications and services running on the operating system. What type of service model is she operating under?IaaSPaaSSaaSXaaS

63 Which service model has the most lock-ins and is the most complex to migrate?IaaSPaaSSaaSXaaS

64 Joe is in the planning stages to make sure that an upcoming company promotion during a major sporting event will not overwhelm his company's cloud-based e-commerce site. He needs to determine his options to add capacity to the web server farm so that it can process the anticipated additional workload. What do you recommend as possible solutions? (Choose three.)Vertical scalingHorizontal scalingEdge cacheCloud burstingCore elasticity

65 Janice manages the MySQL database back end that runs on a multi-CPU instance that has reached 100 percent utilization. The database can run on only a single server. What options does she have to support the requirements of this database?Horizontal scalingVertical scalingPoolingBursting

66 A popular e-commerce site is hosting its public-facing front-end web server fleet in a public cloud. You have been tasked with determining what the normal day-to-day web hit count is so that capacity plans for the upcoming holiday selling season can be assessed. You want to track incoming web requests and graph them against delayed and missed connection counts. What type of dataset are you producing?MetricVarianceBaselineSmoothing