comptia cv1-003 practice test
CompTIA Cloud+
Question 1
A cloud administrator is building a new VM for machine-learning training. The developer requesting the VM has stated that
the machine will need a full GPU dedicated to it.
Which of the following configuration options would BEST meet this requirement?
- A. Virtual GPU
- B. External GPU
- C. Passthrough GPU
- D. Shared GPU
Answer:
A
Question 2
A company recently subscribed to a SaaS collaboration service for its business users. The company also has an on-
premises collaboration solution and would like users to have a seamless experience regardless of the collaboration solution
being used.
Which of the following should the administrator implement?
- A. LDAP
- B. WAF
- C. VDI
- D. SSO
Answer:
A
Question 3
An IaaS provider has numerous devices and services that are commissioned and decommissioned automatically on an
ongoing basis. The cloud administrator needs to implement a solution that will help reduce administrative overhead.
Which of the following will accomplish this task?
- A. IPAM
- B. NAC
- C. NTP
- D. DNS
Answer:
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.infoblox.com/glossary/ipam-ip-address-management/
Question 4
An administrator is performing an in-place upgrade on a quest VM operating system.
Which of the following can be performed as a quick method to roll back to an earlier state, if necessary?
- A. A configuration file backup
- B. A full backup of the database
- C. A differential backup
- D. A VM-level snapshot
Answer:
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/performing-in-place-upgrade-windows-server
Question 5
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
Answer:
B
Question 6
A web server has been deployed in a public IaaS provider and has been assigned the public IP address of 72.135.10.100.
Users are now reporting that when they browse to the website, they receive a message indicating the service is unavailable.
The cloud administrator logs into the server, runs a netstat command, and notices the following relevant output:
Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take to resolve the issue?
- A. Assign a new IP address of 192.168.100.10 to the web server
- B. Modify the firewall on 72.135.10.100 to allow only UDP
- C. Configure the WAF to filter requests from 17.3.130.3
- D. Update the gateway on the web server to use 72.135.10.1
Answer:
D
Question 7
A systems administrator is configuring a storage array.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to set up mirroring on this array?
- A. RAID 0
- B. RAID 1
- C. RAID 5
- D. RAID 6
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-management/raid-levels.html
Question 8
A systems administrator is troubleshooting performance issues with a Windows VDI environment. Users have reported that
VDI performance is very slow at the start of the work day, but the performance is fine during the rest of the day.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
- A. Disk I/O limits
- B. Affinity rule
- C. CPU oversubscription
- D. RAM usage
Answer:
C
Question 9
A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the
known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled.
Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?
- A. Performance testing
- B. Usability testing
- C. Vulnerability testing
- D. Regression testing
Answer:
C
Question 10
A cloud administrator is designing a multiregion network within an IaaS provider. The business requirements for configuring
the network are as follows:
Use private networking in and between the multisites for data replication. Use low latency to avoid performance issues.
Which of the following solutions should the network administrator use within the IaaS provider to connect multiregions?
- A. Peering
- B. Gateways
- C. VPN
- D. Hub and spoke
Answer:
C
Question 11
An organization has the following requirements that need to be met when implementing cloud services:
SSO to cloud infrastructure
On-premises directory service RBAC for IT staff
Which of the following cloud models would meet these requirements?
- A. Public
- B. Community
- C. Hybrid
- D. Multitenant
Answer:
C
Question 12
A systems administrator swapped a failed hard drive on a server with a RAID 5 array. During the RAID resynchronization, a
second hard drive failed.
Which of the following actions will make the server fully operational?
- A. Restart the RAID resynchronization process
- B. Perform a P2V migration of the server
- C. Swap the failed hard drive with a fresh one
- D. Restore the server from backup
Answer:
A
Question 13
Lateral-moving malware has infected the server infrastructure.
Which of the following network changes would MOST effectively prevent lateral movement in the future?
- A. Implement DNSSEC in all DNS servers
- B. Segment the physical network using a VLAN
- C. Implement microsegmentation on the network
- D. Implement 802.1X in the network infrastructure
Answer:
B
Question 14
A systems administrator is building a new virtualization 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
Answer:
A
Question 15
A systems administrator needs to convert ten physical servers to virtual.
Which of the following would be the MOST efficient conversion method for the administrator to use?
- A. Rebuild the servers from scratch
- B. Use the vendor’s conversion tool
- C. Clone the hard drive
- D. Restore from backup
Answer:
C