GIAC Cloud Threat Detection
Domain 2Objective 3
Data and Storage Monitoring GCTD Practice Questions (Page 8)
Part of the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring domain, which makes up ~37% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~19–30 in this domain), expect 5–8 from this objective — we provide 53 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 36–40
- 36
A database administrator is setting up monitoring for a new cloud database. The database will be used for a reporting application that runs heavy queries every hour. Which combination of metrics should be monitored to ensure the database can handle the load?
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Which storage security monitoring check verifies that data at rest is protected using encryption?
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Which database monitoring metric indicates the number of client connections currently established to the database server?
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A company replicates its object storage bucket to another region for disaster recovery. The replication is asynchronous and the RPO is 1 hour. The security team wants to be alerted if replication falls behind. Which monitoring approach is the most effective?
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Which backup monitoring metric indicates the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time, such as 15 minutes?
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