CLO-002 Management And Technical Operations Practice Test 2 — 15 Questions

Question 1

You are notified that an unused storage volume is incurring costs. What is the standard operational procedure to stop these charges?

Accepted Answer

Delete the volume. Deleting or detaching and deleting the orphaned resource is the standard way to stop billing.

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Encrypt the volume

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Rename the volume

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Move to a different region

Question 2

Which metric should you monitor to determine if your application's load balancer is struggling with concurrent user connections?

Accepted Answer

Active connection count. Connection counts or active flow metrics are the primary indicators of load balancer capacity.

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Disk I/O throughput

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Memory usage of the DB

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Log write errors

Question 3

You are responsible for managing access keys for service accounts. You suspect a key has been compromised. What is the immediate operational step to take?

Accepted Answer

Deactivate/Rotate the key. The most effective and immediate way to stop unauthorized access is to rotate or deactivate the compromised credentials.

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Change the password of the user

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Increase logging levels

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Monitor CloudTrail logs

Question 4

A security audit requires that all database queries be logged and stored securely. Which feature should be enabled to meet this requirement in a relational database service?

Accepted Answer

Database auditing/Query logging. Database auditing or query logging features track user access and query execution for security analysis.

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Storage encryption

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Automated backups

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Connection pooling

Question 5

You have a microservices architecture. How can you effectively manage the deployment of configuration changes across hundreds of containers without manual intervention?

Accepted Answer

Centralized configuration management. Configuration management tools or orchestration platforms (like Kubernetes) use templates to propagate changes.

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Rebooting the instances

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Manual SSH access

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Hard-coding values

Question 6

When a cloud service experiences a global outage, which document should you check to verify the current status of the provider's infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Cloud provider status dashboard. Cloud providers maintain a public Status Dashboard to track the real-time health of their services.

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Internal IT wiki

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Billing report

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Service Level Agreement (SLA) doc

Question 7

What is the primary benefit of using a Managed Service (like RDS) over a self-managed database on a virtual machine?

Accepted Answer

Reduced operational overhead. Managed services handle operational tasks like patching, backups, and maintenance, reducing the operational burden on the user.

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Access to underlying OS

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Lower cost

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Unlimited performance

Question 8

Your organization uses a 'Shared Responsibility Model'. Which of the following is typically the customer's responsibility in the cloud?

Accepted Answer

Configuration of security groups. In most cloud models, the provider manages the physical hardware, while the customer manages data, patches, and configurations.

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Maintenance of the host OS kernel

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Redundancy of the physical power grid

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Physical security of the data center

Question 9

You are troubleshooting a connectivity issue where an application cannot reach a database. Which tool allows you to trace the network path and identify the specific point of failure?

Accepted Answer

VPC Flow Logs. Network tracing tools like Traceroute or cloud-native Flow Logs help diagnose where traffic is blocked.

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Instance health checks

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IAM Policy simulator

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CloudWatch Metrics

Question 10

An administrator wants to ensure that a storage bucket is not accidentally deleted. Which feature should be enabled?

Accepted Answer

Bucket versioning. Soft delete or bucket versioning ensures that data can be recovered if accidentally deleted.

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Public access block

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Storage encryption

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Cross-region replication

Question 11

You are tasked with automating a script that runs every night at 2 AM to clean up temporary files. Which service is most appropriate for triggering this task?

Accepted Answer

AWS Lambda + EventBridge. Event-driven scheduling tools like EventBridge (AWS) or Azure Automation run tasks based on cron-like schedules.

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AWS SNS

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AWS IAM

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AWS SQS

Question 12

You notice that the latency of your web application is increasing. You have determined the database is the bottleneck. What is the most effective way to improve read performance?

Accepted Answer

Create read replicas. Adding read replicas distributes query load, reducing the pressure on the primary database instance.

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Delete old indexes

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Enable multi-AZ failover

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Increase primary instance size

Question 13

Which document is essential to review to understand the scope and limitations of a cloud provider's commitment to service uptime?

Accepted Answer

Service Level Agreement (SLA). The Service Level Agreement (SLA) outlines the uptime guarantee and the remedies if that guarantee is not met.

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Pricing sheet

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Support contact list

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Architecture diagram

Question 14

You are migrating a legacy application to the cloud. The application requires an OS that is no longer supported by the provider. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Re-platforming. Re-platforming or re-architecting is often necessary for legacy apps that can't run on modern cloud-native OS templates.

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Re-hosting (Lift and Shift)

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Retaining

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Retiring

Question 15

You need to ensure that all virtual machines follow a consistent naming convention and have specific tags for cost tracking. What service should you use to enforce this?

Accepted Answer

Azure Policy. Policy enforcement services like Azure Policy or AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) can mandate tags and naming patterns.

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Azure Monitor

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Azure Resource Graph

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Azure Advisor