CLO-002 Practice Test 5 — 25 Questions

Question 1

Which TWO criteria are essential when selecting a cloud vendor for an enterprise?

Accepted Answer

Compliance and regulatory certifications. Reliability (uptime/SLA) and compliance certifications are primary drivers for enterprise adoption.

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Availability of free trial gifts

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The number of employees at the cloud company

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The physical location of the cloud company's headquarters

Question 2

A company is preparing a cloud business case and must justify migrating an on-premises legacy application. The finance department requires a direct comparison of current hardware refresh costs versus cloud consumption models. Which metric should the cloud architect prioritize to demonstrate the financial benefit?

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Capital Expenditure (CapEx) reduction. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis allows the organization to compare the full lifecycle costs of maintaining on-premises hardware against the operational expenditure of cloud services.

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Service Level Agreement (SLA) uptime

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Return on Investment (ROI)

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Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

Question 3

Which strategy minimizes 'vendor lock-in' when designing a cloud-native architecture?

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Containerization. Using containerization (e.g., Kubernetes) makes applications portable across different cloud providers, reducing dependency on a single vendor's proprietary APIs.

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Relying on proprietary database engines

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Using vendor-specific serverless functions

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Single-cloud architecture

Question 4

A developer needs to host a static website on AWS S3. Which configuration is required to make the objects publicly accessible?

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Enable Static Website Hosting. Enabling static website hosting and updating the bucket policy is necessary for public access.

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Configure a NAT Gateway

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Attach an Elastic IP

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Create an EC2 instance

Question 5

A company uses a hybrid cloud. They need to move a database workload to the cloud that has strict regulatory requirements. Which deployment model is most appropriate?

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Private cloud deployment. A private cloud or a dedicated host within a cloud is best for strict regulatory requirements.

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Public cloud multi-tenant

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Community cloud

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Serverless functions

Question 6

A healthcare company must comply with HIPAA. When selecting a cloud provider, which document provides the best assurance of compliance?

Accepted Answer

SOC 2 Type II report. The SOC 2 Type II report details the operational effectiveness of security controls over a period of time.

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Vendor marketing brochure

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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

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Public pricing catalog

Question 7

A firm wants to ensure its cloud spend is aligned with specific business units. Which feature should they implement?

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Resource tagging. Tagging resources by department or cost center allows for granular billing reports.

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Instance types

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User permissions

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Virtual private clouds

Question 8

What is the primary benefit of 'Elasticity' for an e-commerce company during a major sale?

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Dynamically scaling resources to meet demand. Elasticity allows the company to automatically increase capacity during a traffic spike and scale down afterward, saving money.

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Reducing the number of required database admins

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Ensuring the website never experiences any latency

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Decreasing the need for network security

Question 9

Which THREE activities are included in the 'Cloud Adoption Strategy' planning phase?

Accepted Answer

Identifying security and compliance requirements. Planning requires assessing the current state, defining the target, and analyzing the business case.

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Updating the break room menu

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Buying office chairs for the staff

Question 10

Which THREE of the following are primary business drivers for adopting a cloud computing model?

Accepted Answer

Reduced time-to-market for new features. Business drivers for cloud include operational flexibility, financial optimization, and rapid delivery of services to market.

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Mandatory hardware ownership

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Increasing fixed infrastructure costs

Question 11

Which THREE regulatory or compliance frameworks might an enterprise need to audit a cloud provider for?

Accepted Answer

HIPAA (Healthcare). Enterprises must ensure the provider meets strict, verified standards like HIPAA, SOC, and PCI-DSS.

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Company dress code policy

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The local library catalog system

Question 12

A developer needs a serverless environment to run event-driven code. What should they choose?

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FaaS (e.g., Lambda). Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the serverless model for event-driven code.

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Managed Kubernetes

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Elastic Compute Cloud

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Relational Database

Question 13

A developer needs a storage solution for high-frequency trading logs that must be instantly accessible for analysis, with high IOPS, and low latency. Which storage type is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Block Storage. Block storage provides the performance characteristics required for high-frequency applications that need low-latency, random I/O access.

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Archive Storage

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File Storage

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Object Storage

Question 14

A startup is calculating the ROI for a migration project. They have calculated the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings. What secondary financial factor must be included to accurately determine the overall ROI of the cloud adoption?

Accepted Answer

Initial migration and training costs. ROI is (Net Profit / Cost of Investment). To find the net benefit, you must factor in the migration costs (labor, refactoring, training) against the TCO savings.

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Current on-premises electricity costs

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Projected marketing revenue

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Cloud provider's stock price

Question 15

An organization wants to use AWS Cost Explorer to identify cost-saving opportunities. Which filter should the administrator apply to find idle resources?

Accepted Answer

Usage Type Group. Cost Explorer allows filtering by usage type to identify services that are running without generating traffic.

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API Activity Log

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Service Quotas

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Resource Tagging

Question 16

An enterprise is planning a multi-cloud strategy. What is the primary management risk associated with this approach?

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Increased operational complexity. Managing multiple cloud platforms increases complexity in security policies, cost management, and operational workflows.

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Lower data redundancy

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Simplified security auditing

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Decreased network latency

Question 17

When assessing cloud readiness, what is a 'Legacy' application characteristic that might make migration difficult?

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Hard-coded IP addresses. Hard-coded IP addresses break if the application is moved to a dynamic cloud environment.

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Written in Java

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Used by a small team

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Web-based interface

Question 18

A company needs to store static website assets such as images and CSS files cheaply. Which service is appropriate?

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Object storage. Object storage (like S3 or Azure Blob) is designed for static assets and is very cost-effective.

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Block storage

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Ephemeral storage

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Relational database

Question 19

When performing a TCO analysis for migrating a legacy on-premises database to Azure SQL, which hidden cost is most likely to be overlooked?

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Data egress fees. Data egress fees are often excluded from initial calculations but significantly impact the long-term TCO of cloud-based database systems.

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Power and cooling

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Software licensing

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Hardware maintenance

Question 20

An IT manager is reviewing the monthly cloud invoice and notices high costs associated with 'Egress'. What does this cost component represent in a business context?

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Data leaving the cloud provider's network. Egress refers to data being transferred out of the cloud provider's network, which is often a billable event that impacts the overall TCO.

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The cost of idle virtual machine instances

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Data ingestion into the cloud

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Subscription fees for security software