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Lara is trying to decide on a protocol to use for a VPN to connect from one cloud service provider to another. She knows there are a variety of protocols out there that can be used for VPNs but wants to make sure she chooses one that both cloud service providers support and that can be combined with IPsec. Which of the following protocols would she most likely need to choose?

Lyle’s manager has asked him to implement micro-segmentation for his company’s cloud deployment. He wasn’t very familiar with this term and upon researching, came across the reasoning to implement this as being that nothing should be trusted in a cloud environment and every system, communication, and user is considered a threat until proven otherwise. To which of the following concepts does this relate?

Joy has received several complaints that none of the users can access the company’s resources that are hosted on a cloud service provider. The company has a piece of hardware installed that provides a VPN tunnel to the CSP. Upon entering the data center, she sees that all the lights are off on the device. She unplugs it and plugs it back in and does not see any changes. Which of the following has most likely occurred?

Adrienne wants to be able to analyze the traffic coming into a Linux server’s network interface. Which of the following command line utilities will allow her to see this information?

Colm is designating the QoS level to the messages on his corporation’s network and has determined a certain type of message should be delivered exactly once when it is sent. Which QoS level should he designate these messages?

Sebastian is trying to access a resource that has been labeled as top secret, but he only has secret clearance. Which of the following access control methods does his organization use?

One of the sales managers has requested improvements to one of the online programs his team uses from the development team. The development team manager told him that although he had made several excellent proposals, they couldn’t be implemented without following the prescribed procedure. What should the development manager request from the sales manager?

Emily has just migrated the email from the company’s on-premises data center to a cloud service provider. She has modified the appropriate A records, but e-mail isn’t being delivered to the new servers. Which of the following records does she still need to modify?

Rose is implementing digital certificates for all of the users in her organization. Which of the following certificate types should she use?

Jennifer manages the IT department at a huge corporation. After a catastrophic resource failure 8 months ago, the IT department was tasked with developing a plan to avoid such an event from happening again. Jennifer’s team decides to start this project with a brainstorming session where any idea can be suggested and the team will then discuss if the solution is logistically possible and will help avoid another catastrophic failure. Which suggestion is Jennifer’s team most likely to throw out first because it will not address the issue?