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MCA Cloud Computing Cloudobservability — practice questions

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Which open-source standard defines vendor-neutral APIs and SDKs for emitting metrics, logs, and traces from applications?Read the answer and worked solution →Continuous monitoring means maintaining ongoing awareness of security, threats and:Read the answer and worked solution →Continuous monitoring is most effective when mechanisms are:Read the answer and worked solution →How many tiers does the monitoring approach describe?Read the answer and worked solution →Greater insight into and control of security processes enhances situational:Read the answer and worked solution →Tier 3 in the monitoring model refers to:Read the answer and worked solution →Unauthorized or unanalyzed configuration changes often leave a system:Read the answer and worked solution →Where automation is not practical, which monitoring methods are used?Read the answer and worked solution →Establishing the programme means determining metrics, frequencies and a technical:Read the answer and worked solution →After analysing the collected data, what is the next step?Read the answer and worked solution →Responding to findings may mean mitigating, transferring, avoiding or:Read the answer and worked solution →What drives the continuous monitoring strategy?Read the answer and worked solution →Tier 2 controls are deployed organization wide and support all:Read the answer and worked solution →Metrics are designed to present information in a context meaningful for each:Read the answer and worked solution →Dashboards can give a false sense of security if used without assurance of the metrics':Read the answer and worked solution →What determines the metrics and the frequency they are monitored at?Read the answer and worked solution →How frequently a control is likely to change after implementation is its:Read the answer and worked solution →Analysed information reaches officials as data feeds, database views and:Read the answer and worked solution →Continual improvement is limited only by the speed of collecting information and:Read the answer and worked solution →Order the monitoring programmeRead the answer and worked solution →Which monitoring tierRead the answer and worked solution →Match the monitoring termRead the answer and worked solution →True or false about monitoringRead the answer and worked solution →Collect or respondRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the monitoring factsRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the false claimRead the answer and worked solution →Monitoring bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which open-source standard defines vendor-neutral APIs and SDKs for emitting metrics, logs, and traces from applications?

  1. Markdown
  2. JSON Schema
  3. OpenTelemetry
  4. OAuth 2.0
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Correct answer: C. OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the CNCF standard for instrumentation across all three signal types. JSON Schema describes data shapes, OAuth handles authorization, Markdown is for documentation.

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Continuous monitoring means maintaining ongoing awareness of security, threats and:

  1. Vulnerabilities
  2. Verifications
  3. Valuations
  4. Ventilations
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Correct answer: A. Vulnerabilities

1. Monitoring watches for more than active attacks. 2. Three things are named as being kept in view. 3. Continuous monitoring maintains ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities and threats. 4. So the answer is vulnerabilities. _Source: NIST SP 800-137, 'Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations'_

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Continuous monitoring is most effective when mechanisms are:

  1. Aggregated
  2. Automated
  3. Allocated
  4. Alternated
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Correct answer: B. Automated

1. Manual collection cannot keep pace with a live system. 2. Machines gather and report faster than people. 3. It is most effective when automated mechanisms are employed for data collection and reporting. 4. So the answer is automated. _Source: NIST SP 800-137, 'Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations'_

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