Free CV0-003 Sample Questions — CompTIA Cloud+

A web application has been configured to use auto-scaling for provisioning and deprovisioning more VMs according to the workload. The systems administrator deployed a new Cl/CD tool to automate new releases of the web application. During the night, a script was deployed and configured to be executed by the VMs during bootstrapping. Now, the auto-scaling configuration is creating a new VM every five minutes. Which of the following actions will MOST likely resolve the issue?

• A. Reducing the maximum threshold in the auto-scaling configuration
• B. Debugging the script and redeploying it
• C. Changing the automation tool because it is incompatible
• D. Modifying the script to shut down the VM after five minutes

A cloud architect needs to distribute traffic equally among multiple application servers. Which of the following is the best device to use?

• A. Switch
• B. Load balancer
• C. Firewall
• D. Router

A clinic is planning to move its business management software from a local server to a privately hosted service. The clinic operates only on weekdays, and the data growth rate is slow. The software application requires other third-party tools to be present for efficient operations. Given the following objectives: • Minimal downtime • Cost savings • High availability Which of the following is the best migration strategy to achieve these objectives?

• A. Performing a P2V and implementing fault tolerance
• B. Implementing V2V and setting up cross-services migration
• C. Performing a V2P and implementing autoscaling
• D. Setting up a new infrastructure, installing management software, and implementing fault tolerance

A company is performing a DR drill and is looking to validate its documentation. Which of the following metrics will determine the service recovery duration?

• A. MTTF
• B. SLA
• C. RTO
• D. RPO

Users of an enterprise application, which is configured to use SSO, are experiencing slow connection times. Which of the following should be done to troubleshoot the issue?

• A. "¢ Perform a memory dump of the OS. "¢ Analyze the memory dump. "¢ Upgrade the host CPU to a higher clock speed CPU
• B. "¢ Perform a packet capture during authentication. "¢ Validate the load-balancing configuration. "¢ Analyze the network throughput of the load balancer
• C. "¢ Analyze the storage system IOPS. "¢ Increase the storage system capacity. "¢ Replace the storage system disks to SSD
• D. "¢ Evaluate the OS ACLs. "¢ Upgrade the router firmware. "¢ Increase the memory on the router

A cloud administrator needs to implement a new system within the current CSP. The system requires a storage service to allocate a large number of digital files and images. The storage service must keep files for distributed access and serve images directly to the user’s browser. Which of the following solutions would best meet these requirements?

• A. NAS storage
• B. Object storage
• C. File storage
• D. Block storage

A systems administrator is building a new visualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

• A. a storage area network
• B. a network file system
• C. hyperconverged storage
• D. thick-provisioned disks

A cloud engineer is deploying a server in a cloud platform. The engineer reviews a security scan report. Which of the following recommended services should be disabled? (Choose two.)

• A. Telnet
• B. FTP
• C. Remote login
• D. DNS
• E. DHCP
• F. LDAP

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. The amount of memory in the server
• B. The number of CPUs in the server
• C. The type of cloud in which the software is deployed
• D. The number of customers who will be using the software

A systems administrator is patching virtual servers in a private cloud environment and must ensure any failure induced by patching is resolved as soon as possible. Which of the following is the best method for addressing this issue?

• A. Uninstalling patches if the server is unresponsive after being patched
• B. Taking a full backup before patching and restoring from backup if the server is unresponsive after being patched
• C. Taking a snapshot before patching and reverting to the snapshot if a server is unresponsive after being patched
• D. Sending an alert to the on-call engineer if patching on a server fails for any reason

A storage administrator is reviewing the storage consumption of a SAN appliance that is running a VDI environment. Which of the following features should the administrator implement to BEST reduce the storage consumption of the SAN?

• A. Deduplication
• B. Thick provisioning
• C. Compression
• D. SDS

A systems administrator needs to configure a set of policies to protect the data to comply with mandatory regulations. Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure DLP efficiency prevents the exposure of sensitive data in a cloud environment?

• A. Integrity
• B. Versioning
• C. Classification
• D. Segmentation

A company that requires full administrative control at the OS level is considering the use of public cloud services. Which of the following service models would BEST fit the company's requirements?

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

An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments: ✑ Allow HTTPS/HTTP. ✑ Disable FTP and SMB traffic. Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?

• A. Implement an ADC solution to load balance the VLAN traffic
• B. Configure an ACL between the VLANs
• C. Implement 802.1X in these VLANs
• D. Configure on-demand routing between the VLANs

An organization is using IoT devices at an external location. Which of the following should the IT staff leverage in order to improve the performance of processing the IoT data?

• A. CDN
• B. Edge computing
• C. VPN
• D. Load balancer

A systems administrator is helping to develop a disaster recovery solution. The solution must ensure all production capabilities are available within two hours. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?

• A. hot site
• B. warm site
• C. backup site
• D. cold site

An OS administrator is reporting slow storage throughput on a few VMs in a private IaaS cloud. Performance graphs on the host show no increase in CPU or memory. However, performance graphs on the storage show a decrease of throughput in both IOPS and MBps but not much increase in latency. There is no increase in workload, and latency is stable on the NFS storage arrays that are used by those VMs. Which of the following should be verified NEXT?

• A. Application
• B. SAN
• C. VM GPU settings
• D. Network

A company wants to move its environment from on premises to the cloud without vendor lock-in. Which of the following would BEST meet this requirement?

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

A systems administrator is trying to establish an RDP session from a desktop to a server in the cloud. However, the connection appears to be refused even through the VM is responding to ICMP echo requests. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

• A. The firewall
• B. The subnet
• C. The gateway
• D. The services

An organization will be deploying a web application in a public cloud with two web servers, two database servers, and a load balancer that is accessible over a single public IP. Taking into account the gateway for this subnet and the potential to add two more web servers, which of the following will meet the minimum IP requirement?

• A. 192.168.1.0/26
• B. 192.168.1.0/27
• C. 192.168.1.0/28
• D. 192.168.1.0/29