Free CompTIA CV0-003 Practice Questions & Answers 2026 Part3

Question #1

A systems administrator received an email from a cloud provider stating that storage is 80% full on the volume that stores VDI desktops. Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to mitigate the situation?

A. Deduplication

B. Compression

C. Replication

D. Storage migration

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Correct Answer: A

Question #2

Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

A. PaaS

B. IaaS

C. CaaS

D. SaaS

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Correct Answer: A

Question #3

A VDI administrator has received reports from the drafting department that rendering is slower than normal. Which of the following should the administrator checkFIRST to optimize the performance of the VDI infrastructure?

A. GPU

B. CPU

C. Storage

D. Memory

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Correct Answer: D

Question #4

A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities. Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

A. Usability testing

B. Regression testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Penetration testing

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Correct Answer: B

Question #5

A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaignattempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent.Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

A. API request limit

B. Incorrect billing account

C. Misconfigured auto-scaling

D. Bandwidth limitation

E. Reveal Answer

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Correct Answer: A

Question #6

A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities. Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

A. Usability testing

B. Regression testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Penetration testing

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Correct Answer: B

Question #7

A systems administrator is working in a globally distributed cloud environment. After a file server VM was moved to another region, all users began reporting slowness when saving files. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the administrator should check while troubleshooting?

A. etwork switch

B. etwork connectivity

C. etwork peering

D. etwork latency

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Correct Answer: D

Question #8

Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

A. Auto-scaling of compute

B. Oversubscription

C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests

D. Affinity rules in the hypervisor

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Correct Answer: C

Question #9

A web consultancy group currently works in an isolated development environment. The group uses this environment for the creation of the final solution, but also for showcasing it to customers, before commissioning the sites in production. Recently, customers of newly commissioned sites have reported they are not receiving the final product shown by the group, and the website is performing in unexpected ways. Which of the following additional environments should the group adopt and include in its process?

A. Provide each web consultant a local environment on their device

B. Require each customer to have a blue-green environment

C. Leverage a staging environment that is tightly controlled for showcasing

D. Initiate a disaster recovery environment to fail to in the event of reported issues

E. Reveal Answer

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Correct Answer: C

Question #10

A VDI administrator is deploying 512 desktops for remote workers. Which of the following would meet the minimum number of IP addresses needed for the desktops?

A. 22

B. 25

C. 24

D. 23

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Correct Answer: D

Question #11

A systems administrator is analyzing a report of slow performance in a cloud application. This application is working behind a network load balancer with two VMs, and each VM has its own digital certificate configured. Currently, each VM is consuming 85% CPU on average. Due to cost restrictions, the administrator cannot scale vertically or horizontally in the environment. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to decrease the CPU utilization? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use a VPN

B. Move the digital certificate to the load balancer

C. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use HTTP

D. Reissue digital certificates on the VMs

E. Configure the communication between the load balancer and the VMs to use HTTPS

F. Keep the digital certificates on the VMs

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Correct Answer: BE

Question #12

A systems administrator is about to deploy a new VM to a cloud environment. Which of the following will the administrator MOST likely use to select an address for the VM?

A. DN

B. NS

C. TP

D. PAM

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Correct Answer: D

Question #13

A company has developed a cloud-ready application. Before deployment, an administrator needs to select a deployment technology that provides a high level of portability and is lightweight in terms of footprint and resource requirements. Which of the following solutions will be BEST to help the administrator achieve the requirements?

A. Containers

B. Infrastructure as a code

C. Desktop virtualization

D. Virtual machines

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Correct Answer: A

Question #14

A company that utilizes an IaaS service provider has contracted with a vendor to perform a penetration test on its environment. The vendor is able to exploit the virtualization layer and obtain access to other instances within the cloud provider's environment that do not belong to the company. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

A. VM escape

B. Directory traversal

C. Buffer overflow

D. Heap spraying

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Correct Answer: A

Question #15

To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

A. Live migration

B. Physical-to-virtual

C. Storage-level mirroring

D. Database replication

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Correct Answer: D

Question #16

A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

A. V2V

B. V2P

C. P2P

D. P2V

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Correct Answer: D

Question #17

A company is planning its cloud architecture and wants to use a VPC for each of its three products per environment in two regions, totaling 18 VPCs. The products have interdependences, consuming services between VPCs. Which of the following should the cloud architect use to connect all the VPCs?

A. MPLS connections

B. VPC peering

C. Hub and spoke

D. VPN connections

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Correct Answer: C

Question #18

A systems administrator needs to configure SSO authentication in a hybrid cloud environment.Which of the following is the BEST technique to use?

A. Access controls

B. Federation

C. Multifactor authentication

D. Certificate authentication

E. Reveal Answer

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Correct Answer: B

Question #19

An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team. Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?

A. DLP

B. HIDS

C. NAC

D. WAF

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Correct Answer: D

Question #20

A cloud architect is designing the VPCs for a new hybrid cloud deployment. The business requires the following:-High availability-Horizontal auto-scaling-60 nodes peak capacity per region-Five reserved network IP addresses per subnet-/24 rangeWhich of the following would BEST meet the above requirements?

A. Create two /25 subnets in different regions

B. Create three /25 subnets in different regions

C. Create two /26 subnets in different regions

D. Create three /26 subnets in different regions

E. Create two /27 subnets in different regions

F. Create three /27 subnets in different regions

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Correct Answer: A

Question #21

After a hardware upgrade on a private cloud system, the systems administrator notices a considerable drop in network performance. Which of the following isMOST likely the cause?

A. The driver

B. The memory

C. The cluster placement

D. The CPU

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Correct Answer: A

Question #22

A cloud administrator deployed new hosts in a private cloud. After a few months elapsed, some of the hypervisor features did not seem to be working. Which of the following was MOST likely causing the issue?

A. ncorrect tags

B. ncorrect permissions

C. versubscription

D. issing license

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Correct Answer: D

Question #23

A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

A. 2V

B. 2P

C. 2P

D. 2V

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Correct Answer: D

Question #24

Which of the following service models would be used for a database in the cloud?

A. aaS

B. aaS

C. aaS

D. aaS

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Correct Answer: A

Question #25

A resource pool in a cloud tenant has 90 GB of memory and 120 cores. The cloud administrator needs to maintain a 30% buffer for resources for optimal performance of the hypervisor. Which of the following would allow for the maximum number of two-core machines with equal memory?

A. 30 VMs, 3GB of memory

B. 40 VMs, 1,5GB of memory

C. 45 VMs, 2 GB of memory

D. 60 VMs, 1 GB of memory

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Correct Answer: B

Question #26

A systems administrator is building a new visualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:

A. a storage area network

B. a network file system

C. hyperconverged storage

D. thick-provisioned disks

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Correct Answer: A

Question #27

Due to a policy change, a few of a customer’s application VMs have been migrated to synchronously replicated storage. The customer now reports that performance is lower. The systems administrator checks the resource usage and discovers CPU utilization is at 60% and available memory is at 30%. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A. There is not enough vCPU assigned

B. The application is not compatible with the new settings

C. The new configuration is adding latency

D. The memory of the VM is underallocated

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Correct Answer: B

Question #28

A cloud administrator is reviewing a new application implementation document. The administrator needs to make sure all the known bugs and fixes are applied, and unwanted ports and services are disabled. Which of the following techniques would BEST help the administrator assess these business requirements?

A. Performance testing

B. Usability testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Regression testing

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Correct Answer: C

Question #29

A private IaaS administrator is receiving reports that all newly provisioned Linux VMs are running an earlier version of the OS than they should be. The administrator reviews the automation scripts to troubleshoot the issue and determines the scripts ran successfully. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A. API version incompatibility

B. Misconfigured script account

C. Wrong template selection

D. Incorrect provisioning script indentation

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Correct Answer: C

Question #30

A systems administrator is responsible for upgrading operating systems on VMs that are hosted in a cloud environment. The systems administrator wants to ensure the VMs receive updates for as long as possible. Which of the following should the systems administrator choose?

A. table

B. ightly

C. TS

D. anary

E. DR

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Correct Answer: A

Question #31

An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team. Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?

A. DLP

B. HIDS

C. NAC

D. WAF

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Correct Answer: D

Question #32

A company wants to check its infrastructure and application for security issues regularly. Which of the following should the company implement?

A. Performance testing

B. Penetration testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Regression testing

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Correct Answer: C

Question #33

A systems administrator is working in a globally distributed cloud environment. After a file server VM was moved to another region, all users began reporting slowness when saving files. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the administrator should check while troubleshooting?

A. Network latency

B. Network connectivity

C. Network switch

D. Network peering

E. Reveal Answer

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Correct Answer: A

Question #34

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers. Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

A. Decrease the MTU size on both servers

B. Adjust the CPU resources on both servers

C. Enable compression between the servers

D. Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #35

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power. Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

A. Server power

B. Rack power

C. Switch power

D. SAN power

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Correct Answer: C

Question #36

To save on licensing costs, the on-premises, IaaS-hosted databases need to be migrated to a public DBaaS solution. Which of the following would be the BEST technique?

A. Live migration

B. Physical-to-virtual

C. Storage-level mirroring

D. Database replication

View answer

Correct Answer: D

Question #37

An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team. Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?

A. DLP

B. HIDS

C. NAC

D. WAF

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Correct Answer: D

Question #38

An SQL injection vulnerability was reported on a web application, and the cloud platform team needs to mitigate the vulnerability while it is corrected by the development team. Which of the following controls will BEST mitigate the risk of exploitation?

A. DLP

B. HIDS

C. NAC

D. WAF

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Correct Answer: D

Question #39

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating the company's security management program. The CISO needs to locate all the assets with identifieddeviations and mitigation measures. Which of the following would help the CISO with these requirements?

A. An SLA document

B. A DR plan

C. SOC procedures

D. A risk register

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Correct Answer: D

Question #40

A marketing team is using a SaaS-based service to send emails to large groups of potential customers. The internally managed CRM system is configured to generate a list of target customers automatically on a weekly basis, and then use that list to send emails to each customer as part of a marketing campaign. Last week, the first email campaign sent emails successfully to 3,000 potential customers. This week, the email campaign attempted to send out 50,000 emails, but only 10,000 were sent. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for not sending all the emails?

A. PI request limit

B. ncorrect billing account

C. isconfigured auto-scaling

D. andwidth limitation

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Correct Answer: A

Question #41

Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

A. Auto-scaling of compute

B. Oversubscription

C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests

D. Affinity rules in the hypervisor

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Correct Answer: C

Question #42

During a security incident, an laaS compute instance is detected to send traffic to a host related to cryptocurrency mining. The security analyst handling the incident determines the scope of the incident is limited to that particular instance. Which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

A. eplace the instance with another from the baseline

B. reate a snapshot of the volumes attached to the instance

C. erform a memory acquisition in the affected instance

D. solate the instance from the network into quarantine

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Correct Answer: D

Question #43

An organization requires the following to be achieved between the finance and marketing departments:-Allow HTTPS/HTTP.-Disable FTP and SMB traffic.Which of the following is the MOST suitable method to meet the requirements?

A. Implement an ADC solution to load balance the VLAN traffic

B. Configure an ACL between the VLANs

C. Implement 802

D. Configure on-demand routing between the VLANs

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Correct Answer: B

Question #44

A company recently experienced a power outage that lasted 30 minutes. During this time, a whole rack of servers was inaccessible, even though the servers did not lose power. Which of the following should be investigated FIRST?

A. Server power

B. Rack power

C. Switch power

D. SAN power

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Correct Answer: C

Question #45

A systems administrator is configuring RAID for a new server. This server will host files for users and replicate to an identical server. While redundancy is necessary, the most important need is to maximize storage. Which of the following RAID types should the administrator choose?

A. 5

B. 6

C. 10

D. 50

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Correct Answer: A

Question #46

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers. Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

A. Decrease the MTU size on both servers

B. Adjust the CPU resources on both servers

C. Enable compression between the servers

D. Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #47

A systems administrator is creating a VM and wants to ensure disk space is not allocated to the VM until it is needed. Which of the following techniques should the administrator use to ensure this?

A. Deduplication

B. Thin provisioning

C. Software-defined storage

D. iSCSI storage

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Correct Answer: B

Question #48

A systems administrator would like to reduce the network delay between two servers. Which of the following will reduce the network delay without taxing other system resources?

A. Decrease the MTU size on both servers

B. Adjust the CPU resources on both servers

C. Enable compression between the servers

D. Configure a VPN tunnel between the servers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #49

A DevOps administrator is automating an existing software development workflow. The administrator wants to ensure that prior to any new code going into production, tests confirm the new code does not negatively impact existing automation activities. Which of the following testing techniques would be BEST to use?

A. Usability testing

B. Regression testing

C. Vulnerability testing

D. Penetration testing

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Correct Answer: B

Question #50

A cloud administrator needs to reduce the cost of cloud services by using the company's off-peak period.Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this with minimal effort?

A. reate an auto-shutdown group

B. reate a separate subscription

C. reate an auto-scaling group

D. reate tags

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Correct Answer: A

Question #51

Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

A. Auto-scaling of compute

B. Oversubscription

C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests

D. Affinity rules in the hypervisor

View answer

Correct Answer: C

Question #52

Some VMs that are hosted on a dedicated host server have each been allocated with 32GB of memory. Some of VMs are not utilizing more than 30% of the allocation. Which of the following should be enabled to optimize the memory utilization?

A. Auto-scaling of compute

B. Oversubscription

C. Dynamic memory allocations on guests

D. Affinity rules in the hypervisor

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Correct Answer: C

Question #53

A cloud engineer is responsible for managing a public cloud environment. There is currently one virtual network that is used to host the servers in the cloudenvironment. The environment is rapidly growing, and the network does not have any more available IP addresses. Which of the following should the engineer doto accommodate additional servers in this environment?

A. Create a VPC and peer the networks

B. Implement dynamic routing

C. Enable DHCP on the networks

D. Obtain a new IPAM subscription

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Correct Answer: A

Question #54

A company developed a product using a cloud provider's PaaS platform and many of the platform-based components within the application environment. Which of the following would the company MOST likely be concerned about when utilizing a multicloud strategy or migrating to another cloud provider?

A. Licensing

B. Authentication providers

C. Service-level agreement

D. Vendor lock-in

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Correct Answer: D

Question #55

A systems administrator has verified that a physical switchport that is connected to a virtualization host is using all available bandwidth. Which of the following would best address this issue?

A. icrosegmentation

B. ort mirroring

C. ink aggregation

D. panning tree

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Correct Answer: C

Question #56

A cloud engineer is troubleshooting RSA key-based authentication from a local computer to a cloud-based server, which is running SSH service on a default port. The following filepermissions are set on the authorized keys file:-rw-rw-rw-1 ubuntu ubuntu 391 Mar S 01:36 authorized _ keysWhich Of the following security practices are the required actions the engineer Should take to gain access to the server? (Select TWO).

A. Fix the file permissions with execute permissions to the owner of the file

B. Open port 21 access for the computer's public IP address

C. Fix the file permissions with read-only access to the owner Of the file

D. Open port 22 access for the computer's public IP address

E. Open port 21 access for 0

F. open port 22 access for 0

G. Reveal Answer

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Correct Answer: CD

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