comptia cloud+ practice exam Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company is migrating a three-tier web application to the cloud. The web and application tiers should scale out automatically during seasonal spikes, while the database tier must remain consistent and avoid split-brain scenarios. Which design best meets these requirements?

A company has production workloads split across two cloud regions. The goal is to reduce user latency while ensuring the application can continue operating if one region fails. Which approach best meets both goals?

A security engineer discovers several virtual machines can reach the internet directly from a private subnet, violating policy. The company wants outbound internet access only through approved inspection and logging points. Which change is the BEST next step?

An organization must ensure encryption for data at rest in object storage. The security team also requires centralized control over key rotation and the ability to immediately revoke access if compromise is suspected. Which solution BEST satisfies these requirements?

A cloud administrator wants to reduce the attack surface of a containerized microservices platform. The platform currently allows broad east-west traffic between services. Which approach BEST improves security while maintaining service-to-service communication?

A development team is using infrastructure as code (IaC) to deploy environments. They want deployments to be repeatable and avoid configuration drift after changes are made manually in the console. Which practice BEST addresses this?

A company is deploying a new application to the cloud using a blue/green strategy. They want the ability to roll back quickly if errors are detected after the cutover, and they want to minimize downtime. Which implementation BEST meets these goals?

An operations team needs to ensure VM patching is performed monthly, but production services must remain available. The workload runs across multiple instances behind a load balancer. Which approach BEST satisfies the requirement?

A company’s monitoring shows intermittent application timeouts. Metrics indicate CPU utilization is low, but storage latency spikes align with the timeouts. Which action should the administrator take FIRST to confirm the suspected bottleneck?

After deploying a new security group rule set, users report they cannot access an internal API from a web tier. The web servers can resolve the API hostname, and the API health checks are passing from within its subnet. Which step is MOST likely to identify the root cause quickly?