CompTIA CV0-002 Free Practice Questions

NEW QUESTION 1
A small clinic is moving its health and accounting systems to a SaaS solution. The clinic holds patient-
and business-sensitive information. Which of the following is the company expected to do to protect its data?

• A. Document, configure, and enforce strong account management policies.
• B. Disable and document unneeded ports and protocols on the SaaS servers.
• C. Install antivirus and disable unneeded services on all SaaS servers.
• D. Harden the underlying infrastructure: servers, firewalls, and load balancers.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 2
An administrator is unable to connect to servers in the DMZ. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to determine where the connection failure occurs?

• A. nslookup
• B. traceroute
• C. telnet
• D. netstat

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
An administrator is asked to securely upload a configuration file to a web server in a cloud. Which of
the following protocols should be used in this scenario?

• A. SFTP
• B. SSL
• C. TLS
• D. HTTP

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 4
An administrator is responsible for managing a private cloud that has servers that require a significant amount of RAM, but does not have the resources to dedicate to the guests. Which of the following features should the administrator configure on the hypervisor?

• A. Resource pooled memory
• B. Memory reservation
• C. Dynamic memory
• D. Static memory

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
An administrator is implementing a private cloud that will be used as a test environment. To limit the
number of guests per subnet to a maximum of 14, the administrator implemented a /20 network. Which of the following should the administrator use to assign the networks?

• A. DHCP
• B. Subnet
• C. VLAN
• D. Gateway

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
A cloud administrator has finished building a virtual server template in a public cloud environment.
The administrator is now cloning six servers from that template. Each server is configured with one private IP address and one public IP address. After starting the server instances, the cloud administrator notices that two of the servers do not have a public IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

• A. The maximum number of public IP addresses has already been reached.
• B. The two servers are not attached to the correct public subnet.
• C. There is no Internet gateway configured in the cloud environment.
• D. The two servers do not have enough virtual network adapters attached.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 7
An administrator, who operates a public cloud, has been tasked with implementing a secondary
datacenter for failover purposes. Immediate replication has too much of an impact on the WAN link during production hours. Which of the following is the BEST option?

• A. Asynchronous replication
• B. Storage deduplication
• C. Cold site failover with offsite archiving
• D. Site mirroring

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 8
Which of the following backup methods is MOST used by VM users?

• A. Tape backups
• B. Cloning
• C. Image backups
• D. Snapshots

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
Ann, the lead product developer for a company, just hired three new developers. Ann asked the
cloud administrator to give these developers access to the fileshares in the public cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take?

• A. Clone Ann’s account to create three new developer accounts.
• B. Distribute the credentials of Ann’s shared account to the three new developers.
• C. Copy the fileshares to each new developer’s laptop.
• D. Create a new role to access the fileshares and assign the three new developers.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
Which of the following is a benefit of having a virtual versus physical server environment?

• A. Improved security
• B. IPSec tunnel
• C. Data scraping
• D. Redundancy

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
Worldwide users from an organization are experiencing intermittent access to a global cloud application. The cloud provider availability dashboard shows all resource availability has been 100% in the last two weeks. No network outages have been reported. Which of the following should the organization’s administrator do BEFORE calling the cloud provider?

• A. Check the firewall rules on the headquarters site.
• B. Restart the application and applicable services.
• C. Allow all traffic at the cloud provider side from any private IP address.
• D. Evaluate the DNS to ensure all configurations are correct.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
A new application with availability SLA requirements of 99.99% has been deployed in a cloud. For a
test spanning a month, which of the following unavailability times would mean the test was successful? (Select TWO).

• A. 1 minute
• B. 4 minutes
• C. 10 minutes
• D. 30 minutes
• E. 60 minutes

Answer: AB

NEW QUESTION 13
Before doing a change on a VM, a systems administrator wants to ensure there is an easy and fast
way to rollback if needed. The change and testing should take approximately two hours. Which of the following is the EASIEST way to meet this requirement?

• A. Create a snapshot on the hypervisor.
• B. Make an on-demand, incremental backup to a VTL.
• C. Make an on-demand, full backup to a secondary location.
• D. Create a snapshot on a remote storage array.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 14
A cloud administrator is analyzing usage trends for a website housed within an IaaS cloud platform.
The administrator notices that traffic and visitors to the site quadrupled from the normal baseline during the holiday season. The environment has a load balancer that uses standardized VMs to host the applications. Given this scenario, which of the following would be the MOST efficient, provide no downtime, and address the temporary spike in traffic?

• A. Implement an upward vertical scaling solution.
• B. Implement a downward vertical scaling solution.
• C. Implement an inward horizontal scaling solution.
• D. Implement an outward horizontal scaling solution.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
A small business owner needs to establish a secure logon to the company database server to troubleshoot an issue while on vacation. Which of the following will allow secure access to manage the server from a remote location?

• A. SFTP
• B. Telnet
• C. SSH
• D. RSH

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
The helpdesk starts receiving calls from a number of users that are suddenly having issues accessing one of the project management shared drives. When Joe, an administrator, logs onto the guest hosting the drive via the console he is able to get to the information. Which of the following failures could have caused this issue?

• A. NIC failure
• B. Disk failure
• C. Memory failure
• D. CPU failure

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 17
A cloud administrator is configuring a bastion host. The bastion host will be used to administer systems in the cloud remotely from the administrator’s on-premises desktop. The administrator is given the following requirements:
Ensure port 22 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Ensure port 3389 is open on the host and only allow the public IP of the on-premises router/firewall. Harden these services with PKI (where applicable).
Given this scenario, which of the following should the administrator utilize to BEST address these requirements? (Select THREE).

• A. RDP protocol from the desktop to the bastion host
• B. Telnet protocol from the desktop to the bastion host
• C. SSH protocol from the desktop to the bastion host
• D. MD5 and RC4 with a signed certificate
• E. RSA and AES with a signed certificate
• F. Blowfish and SHA-1 with a signed certificate
• G. VNC protocol from the desktop to the bastion host

Answer: ACD

NEW QUESTION 18
A company wants to ensure their website, which allows customers to purchase products, is in a
cluster at another geographical location. Which of the following solutions does this represent?

• A. Differential backups
• B. Data deduplication
• C. Cold site
• D. High availability

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 19
A small software development company wants to provide four of their developers with the ability to
create four or five VMs each. The company also wants to be able to share all of the VM images and snapshots on a NAS. Which of the following would meet these objectives at the lowest cost?

• A. Enterprise level hypervisor
• B. Workstation level hypervisor
• C. Bare metal hypervisor
• D. Type I hypervisor

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 20
A newly established CSP allows for drive shipping to upload new data into the environment. Sensitive
data on 40TB of storage needs to be transferred within one week. Which of the following is the MOST efficient and secure method for shipment of the data to the CSP with minimal downtime?

• A. Create a VPN between the sites and schedule data transfer during non-business hours.
• B. Copy the data to encrypted drives and use the CSP-certified shipping provider.
• C. Compress and SFTP the data to the CSP.
• D. Move the data to encrypted drives and use the CSP-certified shipping provider.

Answer: D