A cloud engineer is using a hosted service for aggregating the logs for all the servers in a public cloud environment. Each server is configured via syslog to send its logs to a central location. A new version of the application was recently deployed, and the SaaS server now stops processing logs at noon each day.
In reviewing the system logs, the engineer notices the size of the logs has increased by 50% each day.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the logs are not being published after noon?

Several of an organization's mobile applications are hosted in a cloud environment, and the risk team requires cross-site scripting protection to ensure availability.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient security tool to implement?

Performance on a new private cloud deployment is not meeting expectations. An engineer has determined the virtualization host is experiencing high ready/wait times. VMs with the following configurations and metrics currently reside on the host:

Which of the following troubleshooting choices would MOST likely be used to bring the high ready/wait times to meet the expected baseline?

Which of the following will use ICMP to successively check hops between the source and destination?

After deploying multiple copies of database servers, data scrambling is started on them to anonymize user data. A few minutes later, the systems administrator receives multiple complaints regarding the performance of other VMs. CPU and memory have been eliminated as possible bottlenecks. Which of the following should be verified NEXT as a possible bottleneck?