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CV0-003 · Question #401

A company recently decided to move some of its servers to a public cloud. The engineer has been invited to attend requirement sessions for moving servers to the cloud. The engineer is tasked with…

The correct answer is C. Configuration management tool. A configuration management tool enforces and audits compliance baselines consistently, ensuring cloud servers meet the same standards they did on-premises.

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Question

A company recently decided to move some of its servers to a public cloud. The engineer has been invited to attend requirement sessions for moving servers to the cloud. The engineer is tasked with ensuring the servers that are being moved to the cloud are still in compliance, as they were on-premises. Which of the following should the engineer request during the requirement sessions?

Options

  • ASyslog server
  • BAdministrator access to the cloud service
  • CConfiguration management tool
  • DOrchestration tool

How the community answered

(22 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    9% (2)
  • C
    73% (16)
  • D
    14% (3)

Why each option

A configuration management tool enforces and audits compliance baselines consistently, ensuring cloud servers meet the same standards they did on-premises.

ASyslog server

A syslog server aggregates log data for monitoring and auditing but does not actively enforce or remediate configuration compliance on servers.

BAdministrator access to the cloud service

Administrator access to the cloud service provides control over cloud resources but does not by itself enforce or verify that server configurations remain compliant.

CConfiguration management toolCorrect

Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef define and enforce desired configuration states, compliance baselines, and security policies across both on-premises and cloud environments. Requesting this tool ensures that servers migrated to the public cloud are continuously audited and remediated against the same compliance requirements they had on-premises.

DOrchestration tool

An orchestration tool automates deployment and workflow sequencing but is not designed to continuously enforce or audit configuration compliance standards.

Concept tested: Configuration management for cloud compliance enforcement

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview

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#configuration management#compliance#cloud migration#on-premises to cloud

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