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SOP is correct.

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) ensure that tasks are carried out consistently.

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SLA is incorrect. Service level agreements (SLAs) are contractual documents between service providers and consumers that provide details such as expected uptime.

BIA is incorrect. The business impact analysis (BIA) identifies the impact that threats could have on business operations.

DRP is incorrect. The disaster recovery plan (DRP) provides steps for recovering a failed service.

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Application containers is correct.

Application containers are lightweight, portable environments that contain software and its dependencies but not an operating system. The container uses the underlying OS kernel.

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Application compression is incorrect. There is no such thing as application compression.

Scaling in is incorrect. Scaling in removes virtual machines when the load is low.

Dynamic memory is incorrect. Dynamic memory increases and decreases virtual machine memory as needed.

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65,534 is correct.

/16 means there are 16 of 32 bits assigned to the network. This leaves 16 bits for addressing hosts, and 2 raised to the power of 16 (2 because the address is binary zeros or ones) equals 65,536. The range 0 to 65,535 provides 65,536 possible values, but 0 and 65,535 are reserved, thus leaving 65,534 usable IP addresses.

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The other numbers listed do not represent the number of usable IP addresses.

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Take a virtual machine snapshot is correct.

A snapshot is a point-in-time picture of the state of a virtual machine’s disks.

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Perform a virtual machine backup is incorrect. Backups take much longer than taking a snapshot.

Create a system restore point is incorrect. The creation of operating system images takes much longer than taking a snapshot.

Create an operating system image is incorrect. System restore points do not apply to Linux systems.

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ACL is correct.

Access control lists (ACLs) determine which file permissions are assigned.

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Obfuscation is incorrect. Obfuscation attempts to conceal sensitive data with complex data.

Zoning is incorrect. Zoning is used to limit access to shared network storage.

Authentication is incorrect. Authentication establishes identity for purposes of accessing a system, but it doesn’t establish authorization to access files, which is related to file system ACLs.

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Licensing is correct.

Some software licensing is based on the number of physical or vCPU cores.

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Network speed is incorrect. Network speed is not affected by adding vCPUs.

Page faults is incorrect. Page faults are not affected by adding vCPUs.

Load balancing is incorrect. Load balancing is not affected by adding vCPUs.

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SOP is correct.

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) document how tasks are to be performed consistently.

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PowerShell script is incorrect. Scripts are not documentation.

SLA is incorrect. Service level agreements (SLAs) do not document how tasks are to be performed; they state expected service levels for service consumers.

Application log is incorrect. Logs are not documentation.

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Sizing is correct.

Sizing refers to selecting vCPUs, RAM, disk type, network type, and so on.

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Scaling up is incorrect. Scaling up refers to increasing compute power, which is not implied in this scenario, as there is no preexisting virtual machine to scale up.

Scaling down is incorrect. Scaling down refers to decreasing compute power, which is not implied in this scenario, as there is no preexisting virtual machine to scale down.

Sizing up is incorrect. Sizing up is not a valid cloud term.

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NIPS is correct.

A network-based intrusion prevention system (NIPS) can be configured to detect and block suspicious network activity.

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HIPS is incorrect. A host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) is specific to a host.

NIDS is incorrect. A network-based intrusion detection system (NIDS) can detect and report on suspicious activity, but cannot stop it.

HIDS is incorrect. A host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) can detect and report on suspicious activity, but cannot stop it.

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Load balancing is correct.

Load balancing improves app performance by distributing incoming client requests to multiple back-end servers.

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Failover clustering is incorrect. Failover clustering makes an app highly available. This does not improve performance.

Replication is incorrect. Replication synchronizes changes to objects such as website content items. This does not improve performance.

Hashing is incorrect. Hashing is used to verify data integrity. This does not improve performance.