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 global web-hosting company is concerned about the availability of its platform during an upcoming event. Web traffic is forecasted to increase substantially during the next week. The site contains mainly static content. Which of the following solutions will assist with the increased workload?

A. DoH

B. WAF

C. IPS

D. CDN

An organization is implementing a new requirement to facilitate users with faster downloads of corporate application content. At the same time, the organization is also expanding cloud regions. Which of the following would be suitable to optimize the network for this requirement?

A. Implement CDN for overall cloud application

B. Implement auto-scaling of the compute resources

C. Implement SR-IOV on the server instances

D. Implement an application container solution

An organization is required to set a custom registry key on the guest operating system.

Which of the following should the organization implement to facilitate this requirement?

A. A configuration management solution

B. A log and event monitoring solution

C. A file integrity check solution

D. An operating system ACL

Which of the following strategies will mitigate the risk of a zero-day vulnerability MOST efficiently?

A. Using only open-source technologies

B. Keeping all resources up to date

C. Creating a standby environment with a different cloud provider

D. Having a detailed incident response plan