Sam, a cloud admin, works for a technology company that uses Azure resources. Because Azure contains the resources of numerous organizations and several alerts are received timely, it is difficult for the technology company to identify risky resources, determine their owner, know whether they are needed, and know who pays for them. How can Sam organize resources to determine this information immediately?

By configuring workflow automation

Georgia Lyman works as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Her organization uses cloud-based services. Its virtualized networks and associated virtualized resources encountered certain capacity limitations that affected the data transfer performance and virtual server communication. How can Georgia eliminate the data transfer capacity thresholds imposed on a virtual server by its virtualized environment?

By allowing the virtual server to bypass the hypervisor and access the I/O card of the physical server directly

By allowing the virtual appliance to bypass the hypervisor and access the I/O card of the physical server directly

By restricting the virtual appliance to bypass the hypervisor and access the I/O card of the physical server directly

By restricting the virtual server to bypass the hypervisor and access the I/O card of the physical server directly

By allowing the virtual server to bypass the hypervisor and access the I/O card of the physical server directly

Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops mobile-based software and applications. For smooth, secure, and cost-effective facilitation of business, the organization uses public cloud services. Now, Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is encountering a vendor lock-in issue. What is vendor lock-in in cloud computing?

It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to another cloud service provider without substantial switching costs

It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to another cloud service broker without substantial switching costs

It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to a cloud carrier without substantial switching costs

It is a situation in which a cloud service provider cannot switch to another cloud service broker without substantial switching costs

It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to another cloud service provider without substantial switching costs

TetraSoft Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that provides software and application services to numerous customers across the globe. In 2015, the organization migrated its applications and data from on-premises to the AWS cloud environment. The cloud security team of TetraSoft Pvt. Ltd. suspected that the EC2 instance that launched the core application of the organization is compromised. Given below are randomly arranged steps involved in the forensic acquisition of an EC2 instance. In this scenario, when should the investigators ensure that a forensic instance is in the terminated state?

After creating evidence volume from the snapshot

Before taking a snapshot of the EC2 instance

Before attaching evidence volume to the forensic instance

After attaching evidence volume to the forensic instance

QuickServ Solutions is an organization that wants to migrate to the cloud. It is in the phase of signing an agreement with a cloud vendor. For that, QuickServ Solutions must assess the current vendor procurement process to determine how the company can mitigate cloud-related risks. How can the company accomplish that?

Using Cloud Computing Contracts

Kevin Ryan has been working as a cloud security engineer over the past 2 years in a multinational company, which uses AWS-based cloud services. He launched an EC2 instance with Amazon Linux AMI. By disabling password-based remote logins, Kevin wants to eliminate all possible loopholes through which an attacker can exploit a user account remotely. To disable password-based remote logins, using the text editor, Kevin opened the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and found the #PermitRootLogin yes line. Which of the following command lines should Kevin use to change the #PermitRootLogin yes line to disable password-based remote logins?

PermitRootLogin without-password

PermitRootLogin without./password/disable

PermitRootLogin without./password

PermitRootLogin without-password/disable

FinTech Inc. is an IT company that utilizes a cloud platform to run its IT infrastructure. Employees belonging to various departments do not implement the rules and regulations framed by the IT department, which leads to fragmented control and breaches that affect the efficiency of cloud services. How can the organization effectively overcome shadow IT and unwarranted usage of cloud resources in this scenario?

By implementing cloud governance

By implementing cloud risk management

By implementing cloud governance

By implementing regulatory compliance

By implementing corporate compliance

Coral IT Systems is a multinational company that consumes cloud services. As a cloud service consumer (CSC), the organization should perform activities such as selecting, monitoring, implementing, reporting, and securing the cloud services. The CSC and cloud service provider (CSP) have a business relationship in which the CSP delivers cloud services to the CSC. Which cloud governance role is applicable to the organization?

Cloud service deployment manager

Shell Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops software products and services for BPO companies. The organization became a victim of a cybersecurity attack. Therefore, it migrated its applications and workloads from on-premises to a cloud environment. Immediately, the organization established an incident response team to prevent such incidents in the future. Using intrusion detection system and antimalware software, the incident response team detected a security incident and mitigated the attack. The team recovered the resources from the incident and identified various vulnerabilities and flaws in their cloud environment. Which step of the incident response lifecycle includes the lessons learned from previous attacks and analyzes and documents the incident to understand what should be improved?

Coordination and Information Sharing

An Azure organization wants to enforce its on-premises AD security and password policies to filter brute-force attacks. Instead of using legacy authentication, the users should sign in to on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords in Azure AD. Which Azure AD feature can enable users to access Azure resources?

Azure AD Pass Through Authentication

Falcon Computers is an IT company that runs its IT infrastructure on the cloud. The organization must implement cloud governance in its corporate cloud environment to align its business vision with the cloud vision. Which of the following cloud governance components can help the organization to align the cloud vision and business vision?

Norms, models, reference architectures, best practices, guidelines, and policies

Processes for the cloud service lifecycle

An organization wants to implement a zero-trust access model for its SaaS application on the GCP as well as its on-premises applications. Which of the following GCP services can be used to eliminate the need for setting up a company-wide VPN and implement the RBAC feature to verify employee identities to access organizational applications?

Web Application and API Protection

Bruce McFee works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company. His organization uses AWS cloud-based services. Because Amazon CloudFront offers low-latency and high-speed data delivery through a user-friendly environment, Bruce's organization uses the CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) web service for the fast and secure distribution of data to various customers throughout the world. How does CloudFront accelerate content distribution?

By sending the requests of end users to the nearest edge locations

By restricting the requests of end users from the nearest edge locations

By routing the requests of end users to the original source

By forwarding the requests of end users to the original source

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Colin Farrell works as a senior cloud security engineer in a healthcare company. His organization has migrated all workloads and data in a private cloud environment. An attacker used the cloud environment as a point to disrupt the business of Colin's organization. Using intrusion detection prevention systems, antivirus software, and log analyzers, Colin successfully detected the incident; however, a group of users were not able to avail the critical services provided by his organization. Based on the incident impact level classification scales, select the severity of the incident encountered by Colin's organization?

High

None

Low

Medium

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