Certified Cloud Security Professional
Domain 1Objective 2
Describe Cloud Reference Architecture CCSP Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Cloud Concepts, Architecture and Design domain, which accounts for 17% of the CCSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 20 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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6concepts
17%of the exam
Questions 1–5
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A cloud provider offers a service that encrypts data while it is being processed in memory to protect against unauthorized access during computation. Which emerging technology does this service use?
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A company is evaluating a cloud provider and needs assurance that the provider's services can be measured against agreed performance targets. Which shared consideration is directly addressed by a service level agreement (SLA)?
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A company runs a private cloud in its own data center for sensitive workloads and also uses a public cloud provider for development and testing. The two environments are connected via a secure VPN. Which deployment model does this architecture represent?
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A startup is deploying a multi-tier web application on a public cloud IaaS platform. They have configured auto-scaling rules for the web tier, set up a load balancer, and enabled detailed logging. The operations team wants a single dashboard that shows real-time CPU utilization, request latency, and error rates across all instances, and also triggers an alert when the 95th percentile latency exceeds 500ms for more than 5 minutes. Which cloud computing activity is the team primarily implementing?
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A company wants to use a cloud service for email and collaboration tools without managing any underlying servers, operating systems, or application updates. Which cloud service category best fits this requirement?
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