Helping Hand Questions for CV0-003

Per user is a common SaaS-based licensing model that charges customers based on the number of users who access the software. This model is suitable for applications that have a clear and consistent user base, such as CRM, ERP, or collaboration tools. Per user licensing allows customers to scale up or down their usage as their needs change, and only pay for what they use. Per user licensing also simplifies the billing and management of the software, as customers do not need to worry about the underlying infrastructure, hardware, or software updates. References: CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-003 Study Guide, Chapter 1: Cloud Concepts and Models, page 19; SaaS Licensing.

The answer is B. A VPN tunnel. A VPN tunnel is a secure and encrypted connection between two networks over a public network, such as the Internet. A VPN tunnel can help protect data in transit by encrypting it before it leaves the company’s network and decrypting it when it reaches the public cloud service provider. A VPN tunnel can also authenticate the endpoints and verify the integrity of the data.

Some possible sources of information about VPN tunnels are:

• What is a VPN Tunnel? | Fortinet: This page explains what a VPN tunnel is, how it works, and what benefits it provides.
• VPN Gateway: Create a Site-to-Site connection using a VPN gateway | Microsoft Docs: This page shows how to create a site-to-site connection using a VPN gateway in Azure.
• [Cloud VPN overview | Google Cloud]: This page provides an overview of Cloud VPN, a service that creates secure and reliable VPN tunnels to Google Cloud.

Changing the subnet mask to use a 255.255.255.128 range would allow for the potential server addition. The current subnet mask of 255.255.255.240 (/28) only allows for 14 usable host addresses in the 172.16.0.0 network, which is not enough to accommodate the existing eight servers and the possible 16 new servers. Changing the subnet mask to 255.255.255.128 (/25) would increase the number of usable host addresses to 126 in the same network, which is sufficient to handle the server expansion. Changing the IP address range to use a 10.0.0.0 address, changing the server template to add network interfaces, or changing the server scaling configuration to increase the maximum limit would not solve the issue of the limited host addresses in the same network range. References: CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-003 Certification Study Guide, Chapter 3, Objective 3.1: Given a scenario, implement cloud networking solutions.

The correct answer is C. NTP.

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol, which is a standard protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computers over a network. NTP uses a hierarchical, client-server architecture, where a client requests the current time from a server, and the server responds with a timestamp. The client then adjusts its own clock to match the server’s time, taking into account the network delay and clock drift. NTP can achieve sub-millisecond accuracy over local area networks and a few milliseconds over the internet12.

NTP can help maintain time synchronization between all the resources in a distributed cloud environment, as it allows each resource to get the accurate time from a reliable source. This can help with correlating logs, auditing, security, and other time-sensitive operations. NTP can also handle different time zones, as it uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as the reference time, and each resource can convert UTC to its local time zone12.

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which is a protocol for resolving domain names into IP addresses. DNS does not provide any functionality for time synchronization3.

IPAM stands for IP Address Management, which is a method for planning, tracking, and managing the IP address space used in a network. IPAM does not provide any functionality for time synchronization.

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, which is a protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on a network. SNMP can be used to monitor the performance, availability, configuration, and security of network devices, but it does not provide any functionality for time synchronization.