Rayshawn is about to deploy a new web server. He wants to ensure that when a user accesses the server, that their web browsing session is encrypted between the browser and the server. Which of the following should he use with the web server to provide this functionality?

Anna is trying to determine how to organize the virtual machines at the university where she works. There are 30 VMs that are all located at the main campus that must run high-speed applications. Which placement group should she choose for these VMs?

Jana is trying to optimize the cloud infrastructure of her organization for availability. She wants to ensure that the virtual machines that normally use a certain amount of memory can use more physical memory up to a predefined level in cases of heavy workloads. Which of the following features should she look at configuring?

Morgan has hardened the virtual machines in the subnet he’s just finished creating by turning off unnecessary services that were running in the background. However, he still wants to prevent unnecessary traffic from getting to the servers in the first place. Which of the following might he choose to implement in his cloud environment?

Timothy is in charge of keeping track of how effectively the company’s apps are running both on their internal private cloud and on the cloud service provider. The IT department had committed to making sure that the services were available to varying degrees based on their criticality when the apps were first established. He must thus consult the paperwork for each of those services in order to understand how they need to be functioning. Which document is Timothy probably alluding to?

Fictional Corp’s vice president of sales has just returned from a conference where he learned about a great customer relationship management platform that he would like for the company to begin using. This platform doesn’t require any investment in hardware, operating systems, or any other software, and only requires administration of user accounts and configuration of the types of data that it needs to store. Users would access it through their web browser, and the administration and maintenance tasks for the IT department would be minimal. Which of the following is the VP suggesting that the company use?

Thelonius has just created a new virtual machine. By default, the cloud service provider automatically configured it as part of a class C private network. Which of the following is the default subnet mask expressed in CIDR notation that was configured?

Jan has just migrated a virtual machine from the company’s private cloud to the cloud service provider his company uses. He wants to see how the system responds as well as compare the original and new baselines. What type of testing should he perform?

Applications and data from Fictional Corp.’s on-premises physical servers are now being transferred to a cloud service provider. Although they successfully transferred the application code, they still need to move the servers that host the underlying database. Which of the following might provide the most risk when moving database servers?

One of the internal company-developed cloud apps has received updates from Cara. She opened the internal tracking program and noticed that the change evaluation stage had just been completed. What stage of the change management process should it be at right now?