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Question 1:
A company wants to deploy a new application with minimal operational overhead. They want the cloud provider to manage the runtime, middleware, and operating system, while they maintain control over the application code and data. Which cloud service model should they choose?
A) IaaS
B) PaaS
C) SaaS
D) FaaS
B
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Question 2:
A cloud administrator needs to deploy a new version of a web application with zero downtime. The deployment method should allow for quick rollback if issues are detected. Which deployment strategy best fits these requirements?
A) In-place deployment
B) Blue-green deployment
C) Canary deployment
D) Rolling deployment
Think traffic routing, instant rollback, and full environment isolation… 🧭🔀
B
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Question 3:
A company’s cloud financial report shows unexpected high costs linked to a particular storage account. Investigation shows the storage contains rarely accessed, non-critical log files from five years ago.
Which of the following would be the most cost-effective storage tier to move this data to?
A) Hot storage
B) Cool storage
C) Cold storage
D) Archive storage
Think access frequency, retrieval times, and cost per GB… 💸🗄️
D
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Question 4:
A developer is troubleshooting a cloud application and discovers that API requests are being unexpectedly throttled and rejected.
Which of the following is the most likely cause?
A) Incorrect IAM policy
B) Exceeded service quota
C) Regional outage
D) Expired SSL certificate
Think limits, quotas, and what causes throttling specifically… 🚦⏱️
B
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Question 5:
A cloud administrator needs to ensure that a database hosted in a virtual machine can survive a single physical server failure.
Which of the following solutions best meets this requirement?
A) Install the database on a dedicated host
B) Place the VM in an availability set
C) Configure a network security group
D) Enable geo-redundant storage
Think high availability, fault domains, and VM-level resilience… 🛡️🏗️
B
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Question 6:
A company wants to improve the security of its cloud environment by ensuring that all changes to resources are logged and traceable back to individual users.
Which of the following should be implemented?
A) Enable MFA on all accounts
B) Implement a WAF
C) Configure auditing and logging
D) Enforce password complexity policies
Think accountability, traceability, and tracking user actions… 📝👤🔍
C
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Question 7:
A cloud engineer needs to deploy a temporary development environment that will only be used for two weeks.
Which of the following billing models would be the most cost-effective?
A) Reserved Instances
B) Spot Instances
C) Dedicated Hosts
D) On-Demand Instances
Think short-term, flexible, and low cost… ⏳💰🧑💻
D
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Question 8:
A company’s security team wants to ensure that cloud storage buckets are not accidentally configured for public access.
Which of the following is the best preventive control?
A) Enable versioning on the buckets
B) Implement a storage lifecycle policy
C) Apply a bucket policy that denies public access
D) Use client-side encryption
Think prevention vs. detection, public access blocks, and data exposure… 🛡️📂🚫
C
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Question 9:
A cloud administrator is designing a disaster recovery solution. The business can tolerate up to 4 hours of downtime and 30 minutes of data loss.
Which of the following recovery site types best fits these requirements?
A) Hot site
B) Warm site
C) Cold site
D) Pilot light
Think RTO (4 hours) and RPO (30 minutes)… ⏱️📉🔥
A
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Question 10:
A developer needs to deploy a small, event-driven function that runs for a few seconds each time a file is uploaded to cloud storage.
Which of the following cloud service models is the best fit?
A) IaaS
B) PaaS
C) SaaS
D) FaaS
Think event-driven, short-lived, and minimal management… ⚡📁🕒
D
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Question 11:
A company wants to improve application performance for global users by reducing latency when serving static content like images and CSS files.
Which of the following should be implemented?
A) Load balancer
B) Content Delivery Network (CDN)
C) Web Application Firewall (WAF)
D) DNS round-robin
Think global, static content, and latency reduction… 🌍⚡🖼️
B
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Question 12:
A cloud engineer needs to ensure that a web application can automatically scale out when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for more than 5 minutes.
Which of the following should be configured?
A) Load balancer health checks
B) Horizontal pod autoscaling
C) Vertical scaling policy
D) Scheduled scaling
Think automatic, metric-based, and adding more instances… 📈➡️📊🔄
B
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Question 13:
A company’s security policy requires that all data stored in the cloud must be encrypted both at rest and in transit.
Which of the following would fulfill the in-transit requirement?
A) Database encryption
B) TLS/SSL protocols
C) Storage service encryption
D) Client-side encryption
Think data movement, network security, and encryption during transfer… 🔒🔄🌐
B
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Question 14:
A developer needs to store unstructured data like photos, videos, and documents in the cloud. The data must be accessible via a URL.
Which of the following storage types is the best fit?
A) Block storage
B) File storage
C) Object storage
D) Database storage
Think unstructured data, URL access, and scalability… 🖼️🎥📄🔗
C
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Question 15:
A cloud administrator needs to give a developer access to deploy resources in a cloud environment, but only to a specific resource group and nothing else.
Which of the following access control methods best fits this requirement?
A) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
B) Security Groups
C) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
D) Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
Think granular permissions, resource scope, and identity management… 👤🔐📦
A
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Question 16:
A company wants to ensure that their cloud database can automatically fail over to another region if the primary region becomes unavailable, with minimal data loss.
Which of the following should be configured?
A) Read replicas
B) Geo-redundant storage
C) Multi-region deployment with synchronous replication
D) Backup and restore
Think high availability, cross-region failover, and minimal RPO… 🌍🔄📉
C
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Question 17:
A cloud engineer needs to deploy a containerized application that requires persistent storage that will survive container restarts and rescheduling.
Which of the following storage types should be used?
A) Ephemeral storage
B) Object storage
C) Persistent volumes
D) Block storage
Think container orchestration, stateful workloads, and data persistence… 🐳💾🔄
C
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Question 18:
During a post-migration review, a cloud engineer discovers that latency between the web servers and the database has increased significantly compared to the on-premises environment.
Which of the following is the most likely cause?
A) Incorrect subnet configuration
B) Database and web servers are in different regions
C) Insufficient CPU allocation
D) Missing network security groups
Think latency, geographic distance, and cloud network topology… 🌐⚡📊
B
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Question 19:
A company is implementing a microservices architecture in the cloud and needs a way for services to automatically discover and communicate with each other without hardcoded IP addresses.
Which of the following should be implemented?
A) Load balancer
B) Service discovery
C) API gateway
D) Content delivery network
Think dynamic service registration, discovery, and microservices communication… 🔍🔄📡
B
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Question 20:
A cloud administrator needs to ensure that all API calls to cloud services are encrypted, authenticated, and logged for audit purposes.
Which of the following should be implemented?
A) Enable VPC flow logs
B) Configure an application gateway
C) Use TLS and API logging
D) Implement a web application firewall
*Think API security, encryption, authentication, and auditing…_ 🔐📝🌐
A