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?

Carol is analyzing the security on her company’s hybrid network and sees that GRE is being used as a VPN. Why does Carol recommend it be removed from the company’s network?

Aron has recently learned about the CIA triad. He knows that encryption is important to a variety of things within his organization’s infrastructure. One of those is the ability to ensure that data being transmitted across the network cannot be modified undetected. Which of the following tenets of the CIA triad supports this idea?

Sarah has deployed a private cloud infrastructure that requires users to insert a smart card into their computer or into a card reader in order to authenticate them to use the applications. The smart card is associated with a certificate for each user, which is verified against a certificate authority. Which of the following has she deployed?