E20-018 Exam Questions

What are the two primary reasons for creating services in the service catalog?

Which design consideration helps reduce risk when data is comingled across different business units in a VDC, or between different companies in the cloud?

A software manufacturer is planning to convert their VDC to IaaS. As part of the transformation to IaaS the company realizes they have to make several organizational changes. They...

Which type of application is a poor candidate for migration to a VDC?

You are planning to deploy a virtualized application in a high-availability configuration with automated VM restart on a hypervisor cluster. Your sizing estimates show that peak wo...

An architect is designing a VDC network environment, and is concerned about Spanning Tree convergence issues. The environment will have approximately 150 VLANs configured. Each acc...

Why does lock-in represent a significant threat to the business?

What is a feature of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)?

A company has to implement a test/dev environment infrastructure as quickly as possible. The company does not have weeks or months to accomplish this. They also have limited resour...

An organization uses Linux desktops, laptops, and servers for their primary infrastructure. The company has a business need to run an application that is only available for the Mic...

Which backup solution(s) are possible candidates when there is a need to restore specific files on a VM?

You are creating dimension classifications for applications. You are considering attributes such as data size, availability requirements, RTO/RPO, compute resources, management met...

What is a benefit of client-side application virtualization?

What is a benefit of PowerPath/VE with RSA encryption relative to array-based data encryption?

Which storage requirement would be met with the implementation of traditional (thick) provisioning?

Which framework for governance is also an international standard?

What is the primary consideration when performing a risk assessment?

A company has implemented a VDI solution. A user logs in to their virtual desktop for the first time and customizes the environment before logging off for the day. When they return...

The formula "If A > B and B > C, then A > C" describes which aspect of governance, compliance, and risk in a cloud architecture?

Which technology provides load balancing and fault tolerance for Fibre Channel traffic?

Which is a scale-out NAS solution?

A small company is deploying VDI as part of their VDC initiative. The storage array that is currently being used for VDI and other applications contains SSD, SAS and NL SAS drives....

What is a benefit of client-side application virtualization?

In the context of GRC, which are data handlers?

A project is assigned to a group of developers who have only weeks to develop a prototype for an online trading application. The application needs to run on a variety of virtual ho...

A software manufacturer is planning to convert their VDC to IaaS. As part of the transformation to IaaS the company realizes they have to make several organizational changes. They...

Which product eliminates the need to manually replicate data to a secondary file system?

As part of a VDC design, you configured a number of hypervisor clusters that require a non- routable network to accommodate data transfers for online VM migrations and cluster hear...

Which type of application is represented by virus scanning software, email clients, and word processing software?

A load balancing/firewall application is purchased and downloaded from a vendor site. It is prepackaged to run on a specific hypervisor. The administrator must import it into the V...

Which represent key legal contracts for a service provider?

What is IT's approach to addressing performance issues during the Virtualize phase of the Cloud Maturity Model?

A company has invested in virtualization for all of their non-mission critical applications and many of their mission critical applications. The now want to convert their virtualiz...

Which solution should be the primary choice for protection against a site-wide failure?

You have decided to pursue a "scale-up" approach instead of a "scale-out" approach to storage. What is the fundamental tradeoff that you have made?

Why is a quick risk assessment performed?

What is the benefit of storage technologies such as data deduplication and data compression?

A Linux-based application platform stack is downloaded from a community site. It is prepackaged to run on a specific hypervisor. The administrator must import it into the VDC envir...

In which situation should you consider implementing hypervisor over-provisioning?

What is the primary GRC concern when using a service provider's storage?

Which backup solution(s) should be your preferred choice(s) when you require consistent backups for ease of recovery?

Which cloud deployment model would be appropriate if the primary concern is to address spikes in application load?

A company has finished the design for their VDC. They realize that they should also include a few design considerations to prepare them for cloud. What is a key technical reason fo...

You are using virtual (thin) provisioning to reduce the amount of physical storage that is initially required for an implementation. On the storage array, you configure a pool that...

You are planning to deploy a virtualized application in a high-availability configuration with automated VM restart on a hypervisor cluster. Your sizing estimates show that peak wo...

A company has implemented a Vblock solution in their primary data center. They are using a single management toolset to configure and provision the compute, network, and storage re...

Which is a poor candidate for migration to a VDC?

Which technology provides load balancing and fault tolerance for Fibre Channel over Ethernet traffic?

Which is a valid method for modifying an application environment to support more clients and increased data throughput?

You are designing a VDC that uses converged networking to support both LAN and SAN traffic. FCoE is used exclusively for storage access. The access and aggregation layer switches t...