A systems administrator is troubleshooting network throughput issues following a deployment. The network is currently being overwhelmed by the amount of traffic between the database and the web servers in the environment.
Which of the following should the administrator do to resolve this issue?
A. Set up affinity rules to keep web and database servers on the same hypervisor
B. Enable jumbo frames on the gateway
C. Move the web and database servers onto the same VXLAN
D. Move the servers onto thick-provisioned storage
A company changed its policy to have seven-year data retention in the public cloud. Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective way to meet retention requirements?
A. Site mirroring
B. Automated archiving
C. Replication
D. Third-party sites
A systems administrator has received an email from the virtualized environment's alarms indicating the memory was reaching full utilization. When logging in, the administrator notices that one out of a five-host cluster has a utilization of 500GB out of 512GB of RAM. The baseline utilization has been 300GB for that host. Which of the following should the administrator check NEXT?
A. Storage array
B. Running applications
C. VM integrity
D. Allocated guest resources
A cloud solutions architect has received guidance to migrate an application from on premises to a public cloud. Which of the following requirements will help predict the operational expenditures in the cloud?
A. Average resource consumption
B. Maximum resource consumption
C. Minimum resource consumption
D. Actual hardware configuration
A systems administrator wants to verify the word "qwerty" has not been used as a password on any of the administrative web consoles in a network. Which of the following will achieve this goal?
A. A service availability scan
B. An agent-based vulnerability scan
C. A default and common credentialed scan
D. A network port scan
A systems administrator has migrated a web application to the cloud with a synchronous uplink speed of 100Mbps. After the migration, the administrator receives reports of slow connectivity to the web application. The administrator logs into the firewall and notices the WAN port is transmitting at a constant 12.5MBps. Which of the following BEST explains the reason for the issue?
A. Misconfigured subnetting
B. Insufficient compute
C. Firewall issues
D. Not enough upload bandwidth
A company still has several dedicated servers and wants to migrate them to its private cloud. Which of the following migration methods would be BEST to accomplish this goal?
A. Virtual-to-virtual
B. Storage
C. Cloud-to-cloud
D. Physical-to-virtual
An integration application that communicates between different application and database servers is currently hosted on a physical machine. A P2V migration needs to be done to reduce the hardware footprint. Which of the following should be considered to maintain the same level of network throughput and latency in the virtual server?
A. Upgrading the physical server NICs to support 10Gbps
B. Adding more vCPU
C. Enabling SR-IOV capability
D. Increasing the VM swap/paging size
A business is looking at extending the platform for an internally developed application using microservices from various cloud vendors. The cloud architect is responsible for reviewing the proposed solution design, which covers critical requirements for the business to fulfill its requirements. Which of the following is the most likely requirement the cloud architect needs to fulfill?
A. Software
B. Budgetary
C. Security
D. Integration
A small marketing company recently moved all of its storage to a cloud provider. The budget for storage has limited the company to buying a small amount of SSD storage and a lot of spinning disks. The storage administrator needs to find a way to optimize this environment to realize maximum speed. Which of the following would best achieve this?
A. Compression
B. Automated storage tiering
C. Deduplication
D. Autoscaling