Exam 6: CompTIA CySA+ Certification Exam (CS0-002)

Developers are frustrated by the deployment delay caused by setting up permissions and firewall rules. Which of the following would be the BEST way to resolve this issue?

Several SaaS providers support identity federation for authentication. Which of the following would BEST assist in enabling federation?

A company provides IaaS services. Which of the following disk provisioning models for creating standard template should the company use to provision virtual instances?

Company A recently acquired Company B. A cloud administrator needs to give access to the accounting and time-reporting systems for Company B's employees. Company A's employees use a single account to access both systems. To give access to Company B's employees, the cloud administrator should:

An entertainment company with a very large movie library is moving all of its production systems to an IaaS cloud. The current lease is expiring in the next month, and the company made a last-minute decision not to renew the lease. Which of the following would be the MOST effective way to move all the data to the new cloud provider?

A cloud engineer deployed an email server in a public cloud. Users can access the email server, but the emails they send cannot reach their destinations. Which of the following should the cloud engineer do FIRST?

A CSA is reviewing the deployment of an e-commerce application in a public cloud provider. The CSA wants to ensure the sizing is optimal to keep the cost of the environment down. The available server configurations are as follows: A review of the current system shows the following utilization information: Which of the following should the CSA implement to ensure the MOST optimal sizing?

A cloud security analyst performs a vulnerability scan on a web application server across all staging environments. According to the vulnerability scan, the web content featured on the server in the staging environment is located on the C:\ drive, which is the same location housing the operating system. The analyst determines the results are false positive and submits a report, which includes artifacts supporting the claim to the CAB. Given this scenario, which of the following test plans would be the MOST appropriate to include in the report?

A cloud administrator is provisioning five VMs, each with a minimum of 8GB of RAM and a varying load throughout the day. The hypervisor has only 32GB of RAM. Which of the following features should the administrator use?

Ann, an internal user, has been accessing an internal SaaS solution on a different subnet for the last several months. When Ann tries to connect to the application today, she receives an error stating the resource cannot be found. When checking with her teammates, she discovers some users can access the resource and others cannot. Which of the following tools would be the BEST option to determine where the issue is located?

Given the metric below: Using iSCSI storage reports across three datacenters, which of the following recorded metrics indicates an anomaly in the performance?

A consultant is helping a large company migrate its development environment to a public cloud provider. The developers are working on a VDI solution. The development tools that employees utilize require greater control of the OS environment. Which of the following cloud types should the consultant implement?

A systems administrator created several new VMs on a private cloud and wants to ensure the new baseline still meets corporate guidelines. The administrator finds the following new load numbers on the hosts: If corporate policy requires N+1 host capacity, which of the following metrics is MOST likely to present a problem?

A security administrator wants to automate the implementation of network-based ACLs for services deployed within the company's VPC. The security administrator is mostly concerned with intra-VPN separation to prevent unauthorized communication between cloud deployed services within the VPC. Which of the following should the security administrator implement?

A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data. Which of the following techniques should the cloud administrator deploy to ensure testing requirements are met?

After monthly patching, a large number of users who are logged onto the network report that application links from a company's intranet site, which previously opened directly into the website, are now prompting for logon information. Application administrators confirm that the websites in question are working properly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the new behavior?

A cloud administrator has deployed a new all-flash storage array with deduplication and compression enabled, and moved some of the VMs into it. The goal was to achieve 4:1 storage efficiency while maintaining sub-millisecond latency. Which of the following results would BEST suit the requirements?

A new browser version has been deployed to all users at a company. After the deployment, users report that they can no longer access the company's secure time-card system, which is hosted by a SaaS provider. A technician investigates and discovers a security error is received upon opening the site. If the browser is rolled back to the older version, the site is accessible again. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the security error users are seeing?

Following is a sample result from a recently completed load test. Based on the information provided, which of the following would be the BEST recommendation?

An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization: Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%. Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?