Which of the following is a typical component of an OS hardening baseline for a cloud-hosted virtual machine?

Enabling automatic backups of application data to object storage

Setting up a virtual private network (VPN) for remote administration

Configuring a load balancer to distribute traffic across multiple instances

Disabling unnecessary services and removing default accounts

In a cloud environment, what is the primary purpose of a patch management process?

To replace all software with newer versions on a regular schedule to avoid end-of-life issues

To automate the installation of all available updates as soon as they are released

To systematically identify, acquire, test, and apply updates to remediate vulnerabilities and maintain system stability

To ensure all software is updated to the latest version available from the vendor

In a clustered cloud environment, what is the role of a quorum?

To store the cluster configuration database and help prevent split-brain scenarios

To encrypt communication between cluster nodes

To provide a backup of all virtual machines running in the cluster

To balance incoming network traffic across cluster nodes

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Operate and Maintain Physical and Logical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment CCSP Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Cloud Security Operations 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 26 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Which of the following is a typical component of an OS hardening baseline for a cloud-hosted virtual machine?
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Which term describes the process by which a cluster automatically transfers workloads from a failed node to a healthy node?
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In a cloud environment, which plane is responsible for administrative actions such as creating virtual machines, configuring network security groups, and managing user access policies?
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Operate and Maintain Physical and Logical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment CCSP Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

Which of the following is a typical component of an OS hardening baseline for a cloud-hosted virtual machine?

Which term describes the process by which a cluster automatically transfers workloads from a failed node to a healthy node?

In a cloud environment, what is the primary purpose of a patch management process?

In a clustered cloud environment, what is the role of a quorum?

In a cloud environment, which plane is responsible for administrative actions such as creating virtual machines, configuring network security groups, and managing user access policies?

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