Kareem has set up a new web server on the company’s private cloud. He has installed the security certificate necessary so that the application can be accessed by HTTPS. He isn’t overly familiar with how these certificates work, so he decides to read up on the details. He learns that there is a pair of keys used to encrypt and decrypt the initial communications. Which of the following is the key that does not get sent to the browser?

Michonne currently manages a private cloud that has been built out in an on-premises data center. Some of the servers are reaching the end of their life, and she has been tasked with finding a solution that minimizes the amount of capital investment necessary. Which of the following might she choose to implement for her company?

Morgan has hardened the virtual machines in the subnet he’s just finished creating by turning off unnecessary services that were running in the background. However, he still wants to prevent unnecessary traffic from getting to the servers in the first place. Which of the following might he choose to implement in his cloud environment?

Lyle’s manager has asked him to implement micro-segmentation for his company’s cloud deployment. He wasn’t very familiar with this term and upon researching, came across the reasoning to implement this as being that nothing should be trusted in a cloud environment and every system, communication, and user is considered a threat until proven otherwise. To which of the following concepts does this relate?

A social video sharing platform has grown quite popular in the United States and has decided to expand to Europe. They want to open a second data center there as part of their expansion. Which of the following is perhaps one of the biggest pieces of the expansion that they want to consider a part of the data storage strategies?

Rose is implementing digital certificates for all of the users in her organization. Which of the following certificate types should she use?

Sean has implemented an automatic account locking policy that will lock a user account after five invalid attempts. Which of the following types of attacks will this help thwart?

Fictional Corp. has made the decision to outsource the creation of a cloud application that will be used by its sales department. Which method from the list below may the business utilize to request bids for the project?

Olina is fairly new at Fictional Corp. and is used to working at much smaller companies. Most of her former jobs have all been manual work. However, she has been told that because of its size, her new company prefers to implement technologies that can perform various processes and procedures without human intervention so that humans can spend their time monitoring the systems for errors and fixing problems when something goes wrong. Which of the following describes what Fictional Corp. has implemented to much more of an extent than her previous company?

Summer is analyzing one of the company’s database servers and sees that it uses 90 percent of its allocated disk space. What could she do without creating another server to split the load with?