Free CLO-002 Sample Questions — CompTIA Cloud Essentials+

Which of the following would be expected from a security consultant who has been hired to investigate a data breach of a private cloud instance?

• A. Incident report
• B. Application scan results
• C. Request for information
• D. Risk register

A company wants to deploy an application in a public cloud. Which of the following service models gives the MOST responsibility to the provider?

• A. PaaS
• B. IaaS
• C. BPaaS
• D. SaaS

A systems administrator is reviewing a disaster recovery option that requires little to no downtime in the event of a natural disaster. Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

• A. Configure availability zones
• B. Configure high availability
• C. Configure geo-redundancy
• D. Configure auto-scaling

An architect recently discovered new opportunities the cloud can provide to the company. A business analyst is currently working with the architect to document the business use-case scenarios. Which of the following should be the architect's NEXT step?

• A. Initialize a PoC
• B. Conduct a feasibility study
• C. Perform a gap analysis
• D. Gather cloud requirements

Volume, variety, velocity, and veracity are the four characteristics of:

• A. machine learning
• B. Big Data
• C. microservice design
• D. blockchain
• E. object storage

Which of the following is used to build and manage interconnections between cloud resources within the same cloud environment?

• A. Firewall
• B. Software-defined network
• C. Virtual private network
• D. Direct Connect

Which of the following are the appropriate responses to risks?

• A. Mitigate, accept, avoid, validate
• B. Migrate, accept, avoid, transfer
• C. Mitigate, accept, avoid, transfer
• D. Migrate, accept, avoid, validate

Which of the following should be considered to ensure the availability of data that is accessed across multiple sites? (Choose two.)

• A. Auto-scaling
• B. Geo-redundancy
• C. Backup
• D. Provisioning
• E. Locality
• F. Zones

Which of the following allows for the management of network policies from a central portal while maintaining a hardware-agnostic approach?

• A. Virtual private network
• B. Software-defined network
• C. Load balancing
• D. Direct Connect

A report identified that several of a company's SaaS applications are against corporate policy. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

• A. Shadow IT
• B. Sensitive data
• C. Encryption
• D. Vendor lock-in

Which of the following stores transactions in a distributed ledger of which all users have a copy?

• A. Big Data
• B. Blockchain
• C. Machine learning
• D. Artificial intelligence

Which of the following DevOps options is used to integrate with cloud solutions?

• A. Provisioning
• B. API
• C. SOA
• D. Automation

A company with critical resources in the cloud needs to ensure data is available in multiple datacenters around the world. Which of the following BEST meets the company's needs?

• A. Auto-scaling
• B. Geo-redundancy
• C. Disaster recovery
• D. High availability

Which of the following is a benefit of microservice applications in a cloud environment?

• A. Microservices are dependent on external shared databases found on cloud solutions
• B. Federation is a mandatory component for an optimized microservice deployment
• C. The architecture of microservice applications allows the use of auto-scaling
• D. Microservice applications use orchestration solutions to update components in each service

A document that outlines the scope of a project, specific deliverables, scheduling, and additional specific details from the client/buyer is called a:

• A. statement of work
• B. standard operating procedure
• C. master service document
• D. service level agreement

Which of the following would MOST likely trigger a compliance audit?

• A. vulnerability
• B. breach
• C. risk
• D. threat

Which of the following BEST explains the concept of RTOs for restoring servers to operational use?

• A. To reduce the amount of data loss that can occur in the event of a server failure
• B. To ensure the restored server is available and operational within a given window of time
• C. To ensure the data on the restored server is current within a given window of time
• D. To reduce the amount of time a particular server is unavailable and offline

An incident response team requires documentation for an email phishing campaign against a company's email server. Which of the following is the BEST resource to use to start the investigation?

• A. Audit and system logs
• B. Change management procedures
• C. Departmental policies
• D. Standard operating procedures

Which of the following cloud characteristics helps transform from a typical capital expenditure model to an operating expenditure model?

• A. Pay-as-you-go
• B. Elasticity
• C. Self-service
• D. Availability

A software developer wants to ensure a packaged application can be deployed in different environments without modifying anything but the application settings. The developer creates an image and provides instructions for the systems administrator to use for deployment. This is an example of:

• A. application versioning
• B. source code control
• C. containerization
• D. deployment automation