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1A software engineer needs to transfer data over the internet using programmatic access while also being able to query the data. Which of the following will best help the engineer to complete this task?
SQL
Web sockets
RPC
GraphQL
Answer: D
2Which of the following is a field of computer science that enables computers to identify and understand objects and people in images and videos?
Image reconstruction
Facial recognition
Natural language processing
Computer vision
Answer: D
3A company needs to deploy its own code directly in the cloud without provisioning additional infrastructure. Which of the following is the best cloud service model for the company to use?
PaaS
SaaS
IaaS
XaaS
Answer: A
4A company just learned that the data in its object storage was accessed by an unauthorized party. Which of the following should the company have done to make the data unusable?
The company should have switched from object storage to file storage.
The company should have hashed the data.
The company should have changed the file access permissions.
The company should have encrypted the data at rest.
Answer: D
5A customer relationship management application, which is hosted in a public cloud IaaS network, is vulnerable to a remote command execution vulnerability. Which of the following is the best solution for the security engineer to implement to prevent the application from being exploited by basic attacks?
IPS
ACL
DLP
WAF
Answer: D
6Which of the following is a difference between a SAN and a NAS?
A SAN works only with fiber-based networks.
A SAN works with any Ethernet-based network.
A NAS uses a faster protocol than a SAN.
A NAS uses a slower protocol than a SAN.
Answer: D
7A cloud engineer is troubleshooting an application that consumes multiple third-party REST APIs. The application is randomly experiencing high latency. Which of the following would best help determine the source of the latency?
Configuring centralized logging to analyze HTTP requests
Running a flow log on the network to analyze the packets
Configuring an API gateway to track all incoming requests
Enabling tracing to detect HTTP response times and codes
Answer: D
8A cloud engineer is reviewing the following Dockerfile to deploy a Python web application:
Which of the following changes should the engineer make to the file to improve container security?
Add the instruction USER nonroot.
Change the version from latest to 3.11.
Remove the ENTRYPOINT instruction.
Ensure myapp/main/py is owned by root.
Answer: A
9A group of cloud administrators frequently uses the same deployment template to recreate a cloud-based development environment. The administrators are unable to go back and review the history of changes they have made to the template. Which of the following cloud resource deployment concepts should the administrator start using?
Drift detection
Repeatability
Documentation
Versioning
Answer: D
10A government agency in the public sector is considering a migration from on premises to the cloud. Which of the following are the most important considerations for this cloud migration? (Choose two.)