Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using VLANs?

A. Performance

B. Reduced costs

C. Security

D. Reduced network complexity

Answer: D. Reduced network complexity

What increases as compression reduces the size of transmitted data?

A. Routing complexity

B. Available bandwidth

C. Cloud ingress network traffic costs

D. Cloud egress network traffic costs

Answer: B. Available bandwidth

Your organization plans to use iSCSI for shared network storage. Which technique should be used to ensure that iSCSI traffic is kept separate from other IP traffic?

A. LUN masking

B. VLANs

C. Zoning

D. Load balancing

Answer: B. VLANs

Users complain that Internet access has been intermittent. You check the configuration of a user system and discover it has an IP address beginning with 169.254. What is the problem?

A. The DHCP server cannot be reached.

B. The default gateway cannot be reached.

C. The DNS server cannot be reached.

D. The proxy server cannot be reached.

Answer: A. The DHCP server cannot be reached.

Andrew is a cloud network administrator. Cloud-based virtual machines hosting a custom web application have been deployed to a single cloud virtual network that currently has no Internet access. Each virtual machine must have Internet access, while incoming connections initiated from the Internet must be blocked. Which solution should the administrator deploy?

A. Forward proxy host

B. Packet filtering firewall

C. Web application firewall

D. NAT

E. Host based firewall

Answer: D. NAT

Lisa is responsible for a web application running in the public cloud. Recent performance metrics indicate that the average user wait time for page loads is four seconds due to the high number of HTTP requests. What should she configure?

A. Compression

B. Load balancing

C. Proxying

D. PKI

Answer: B. Load balancing