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A cloud operations team needs to implement a monitoring solution for a microservices architecture. The solution must provide centralized logging, metrics, and alerting, and must be able to correlate data from multiple services. Which THREE of the following components should the team include?

A
A security information and event management (SIEM) system.
Why wrong: SIEM is security-focused; general operations monitoring doesn't require it.
B
A centralized logging system (e.g., ELK stack).
Centralized logging aggregates logs from all services.
C
A correlation engine and alerting system (e.g., event correlation).
Correlation engine links logs and metrics for better diagnosis.
D
A metrics collection agent and dashboard (e.g., Prometheus+Grafana).
Metrics aggregation provides system performance data.
E
An application performance monitoring (APM) tool.
Why wrong: APM is useful but not essential for correlation; logs and metrics suffice.

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A cloud operations team needs to implement a monitoring solution for a microservices architecture. The solution must provide centralized logging, metrics, and alerting, and must be able to correlate data from multiple services. Which THREE of the following components should the team include?

Refer to the exhibit. A cloud administrator runs the above command on a Linux virtual machine. What is the effect of the current firewall rules?

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An organization's hybrid cloud environment uses a VPN connection between on-premises and the cloud. Intermittent connectivity drops are reported during peak hours. The VPN logs show rekeying failures. Which configuration is most likely the cause?

A company is migrating a legacy database that relies on a specific hardware security module (HSM) that cannot be moved to the cloud. The application must continue to function with minimal redevelopment. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

An organization wants to minimize costs for a batch processing workload that runs nightly for 2 hours and can tolerate interruptions. Which pricing model is most cost-effective?

A company is migrating to GCP and needs to ensure data encryption in transit for all external communications. Which THREE measures should be implemented? (Choose three.)

A company uses a multi-cloud strategy with both AWS and Azure. The cloud operations team needs to centrally monitor all cloud resources and receive alerts when resource usage exceeds predefined thresholds. Which of the following solutions should the team implement?

A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between two subnets. They suspect a security group or NACL is blocking traffic. Which tool should they use to analyze the traffic flow?

A cloud engineer needs to ensure that an auto-scaling group does not launch new instances immediately after a scale-in event to allow metrics to stabilize. Which feature should they configure?

A company is experiencing high latency in their cloud-based database. The database is provisioned with SSD storage. Which THREE factors should the administrator investigate? (Choose three.)

A company is migrating on-premises workloads to a public cloud. The disaster recovery plan requires an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. Which replication strategy should be used for a critical database?

A company is deploying a critical application in the cloud and needs to ensure that it can automatically recover from an intent—a failure of an entire cloud provider region. Which of the following architectures should be implemented?

During a scheduled DR drill, the cloud team fails over a critical application to the secondary region. After the drill, the application is failed back. The application's RTO was 2 hours, but the actual failover took 2.5 hours. Which action should be taken to improve future failover times?

A company uses AWS and wants to analyze cost trends and identify the top services contributing to monthly spending. Which AWS tool provides a pre-built dashboard for this purpose?

A company uses AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery plan with an RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 1 hour. They have a primary site in us-east-1 and a DR site in us-west-2. The application data is stored in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Which strategy meets both RTO and RPO with minimal data loss?

A cloud engineer is configuring an auto-scaling policy for a batch processing application that takes about 10 minutes to initialize before it can start processing jobs. To avoid premature termination of instances that have just started, what should the engineer configure?