A piece of software applies licensing fees on a socket-based model. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when attempting to calculate the licensing costs for this software?
A systems administrator is responding to an outage in a cloud environment that was caused by a network-based flooding attack. Which of the following should the administrator configure to mitigate the attack?
A cloud engineer, who manages workloads in a public cloud environment, uses autoscaling to maintain availability of a critical application. During a recent burst in demands, the engineer received the following error alert:
LimitedlnstanceCapacity
Which of the following is MOST likely cause of the error?
A systems administrator is diagnosing performance issues on a web application. The web application sends thousands of extremely complex SQL queries to a database server, which has trouble retrieving the information in time. The administrator checks the database server and notes the following resource utilization:
CPU: 64%
RAM: 97%
Network throughput: 384,100Kbps.
Disk throughput: 382,700Kbps
The administrator also looks at the storage for the database server and notices it is consistently near its OPS limit. Which of the following will BEST resolve these performance issues?
An organization recently deployed a private cloud on a cluster of systems that delivers compute, network, and storage resources in a single hardware, managed by an intelligent software. Which of the following BEST describes this type of deployment?
After initial stress testing showed that a platform performed well with the specification of a single 32 vCPU node, which of the following will provide the desired service with the LOWEST cost and downtime?
A company is using a method of tests and upgrades in which a small set of end users are exposed to new services before the majority of other users. Which of the following deployment methods is being used?
A systems administrator adds servers to a round-robin, load-balanced pool, and then starts receiving reports of the website being intermittently unavailable. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A support engineer wants to prevent users from running malware on several IaaS compute instances. Which of the following will BEST achieve this objective?
An administrator recently provisioned a file server in the cloud. Based on financial considerations, the administrator has a limited amount of disk space. Which of the following will help control the amount of space that is being used?