Fictional Corp has just finished migrating several servers from an on-premises data center to a cloud service provider (CSP). However, users are now complaining that they are running much slower than before. Which of the following would NOT be a contributing factor as to why they seem slower?

Frasier is comparing the logs from the firewall to the logs on the web server after a security incident. He is trying to correlate the events, but it appears that the traffic took several minutes to reach the web server from the firewall for each of the various attempts. Which of the following could be the issue?

Ted’s job is to convert the organization’s on-premises server architecture to a cloud-based system. He is aware that the company’s data center’s servers are still pretty young and have a ways to go before they need to be replaced. He is aware that security is a crucial consideration in all decisions, though. Which of the following is least likely to be taken into account when deciding how to prepare for secrecy in security?

A huge Fortune 500 firm wants to transfer 5 petabytes of data to a cloud service provider from its data center, which is packed with servers. According to some projections, transferring all of this data to a cloud service provider may take years. Which of the following would the business most likely need to take into account in order to finish this relocation quickly?

Several scripts from Fictional Corp. may be copied and pasted into the platform of their cloud service provider to construct new virtual machines with unique requirements. One of the admins checks to make sure everything was configured properly after running one of the scripts, only to discover that certain things weren’t. Which of the following is most likely to be the problem?

Timothy is in charge of keeping track of how effectively the company’s apps are running both on their internal private cloud and on the cloud service provider. The IT department had committed to making sure that the services were available to varying degrees based on their criticality when the apps were first established. He must thus consult the paperwork for each of those services in order to understand how they need to be functioning. Which document is Timothy probably alluding to?

One of the internal company-developed cloud apps has received updates from Cara. She opened the internal tracking program and noticed that the change evaluation stage had just been completed. What stage of the change management process should it be at right now?

Marissa is wanting to implement a VPN at her company but knows that some of the places the users need to connect from have issues with IPsec being used through the firewall. Which of the following protocols should she choose?

Bonnie has been charged with doing an investigation of the firewall infrastructure at her workplace. The company employs a lot of employees who work remotely from their homes in addition to having several office sites spread out around the United States. She discovers that a large number of the current firewalls are no longer maintained by the manufacturer and has persuaded the corporation to set aside some funds to acquire a replacement. Which of the following options may she suggest in their place?

Dez has been reading about encryption recently. She begins to wonder how anything can be secure if everyone is using the same set of algorithms. After all, anyone using the same algorithm would be able to decrypt anything that had been encrypted using that algorithm. Which of the following helps make the data unusable by anyone else using that same encryption scheme without having this information?