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WGU D320 MANAGING CLOUD SECURITY OA AND PA EXAM
2025 TEST BANK| 2 VERSIONS WITH COMPLETE 700 REAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+| WGU D320
TEST BANK 2025/2026 (BRAND NEW!!)
WGU D320 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT EXAM
An organization needs to store passwords in a database securely. The
data should not be available to system administrators.
Which technique should the organization use?
A) Encryption
B) Hashing
C) Encoding
D) Masking – Correct Answer - B
A company is looking to ensure that the names of individuals in its data
in the cloud are not revealed in the event of a data breach, as the data is
sensitive and classified.
Which data masking technique should the company use to prevent
attackers from identifying individuals in the event of a data breach?
A) Crypto-shredding
B) Degaussing
C) Anonymization
D) Randomization – Correct Answer - C
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An organization needs to quickly identify the document owner in a
shared network folder.
Which technique should the organization use to meet this goal?
A) Labeling
B) Classification
C) Mapping
D) Categorization – Correct Answer - A
An organization plans to introduce a new data standard and wants to
ensure that system inventory data will be efficiently discovered and
processed.
Which type of data should the organization use to meet this goal?
A) Structured
B) Semi-structured
C) Annotated
D) Mapped – Correct Answer - A
An organization implemented an information rights management (IRM)
solution to prevent critical data from being copied without permission
and a cloud backup solution to ensure that the critical data is protected
from storage failures.
Which IRM challenge will the organization need to address?
A) Jurisdictional conflicts
B) Agent conflicts
C) Replication restrictions
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D) Execution restrictions – Correct Answer - C
A data center engineer is tasked with the destruction of data on solid-
state drives (SSDs). The engineer must ensure that the data is not able to
be retrieved.
Which data destruction action should the engineer take to meet this
goal?
A) Overwriting
B) Crypto-shredding
C) Wiping
D) Degaussing – Correct Answer - B
An organization wants to gather and interpret logs from its cloud
environment.
Which system should the organization use for this task?
A) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
B) Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
C) Business Process Management (BPM)
D) Distributed System Management (DSM) – Correct Answer - B
An organization with a Security Information and Event Management
(SIEM) system wants to minimize errors or missed issues due to human
log analysis.
Which SIEM policy should the organization use in this case?
A) Automated analysis of metadata
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B) Automated analysis of data sets
C) Manually generated analysis of data sets
D) Manually generated analysis of metadata – Correct Answer - B
Which software type allows multiple operating systems to run on the
same physical server in a virtualized environment?
A) Hypervisor
B) Container
C) Quantum computing
D) Blockchain technology – Correct Answer - A
What is the name of the process of automatically provisioning,
configuring, and managing virtual machines and other resources in a
virtualized environment?
A) Continuous deployment
B) Orchestration
C) Programmability
D) Continuous integration – Correct Answer - B
Which cloud computing characteristic allows customers to manage their
utilization by only paying for the resources used?
A) Metered service
B) Broad network access
C) Rapid elasticity
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WGU D320 MANAGING CLOUD SECURITY OA AND PA EXAM
2025 TEST BANK| 2 VERSIONS WITH COMPLETE 700 REAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+| WGU D320
TEST BANK 2025/2026 (BRAND NEW!!)
WGU D320 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT EXAM
An organization needs to store passwords in a database securely. The
data should not be available to system administrators.
Which technique should the organization use?
A) Encryption
B) Hashing
C) Encoding
D) Masking – Correct Answer - B
A company is looking to ensure that the names of individuals in its data
in the cloud are not revealed in the event of a data breach, as the data is
sensitive and classified.
Which data masking technique should the company use to prevent
attackers from identifying individuals in the event of a data breach?
A) Crypto-shredding
B) Degaussing
C) Anonymization
D) Randomization – Correct Answer - C
pg. 1
,2|Page
An organization needs to quickly identify the document owner in a
shared network folder.
Which technique should the organization use to meet this goal?
A) Labeling
B) Classification
C) Mapping
D) Categorization – Correct Answer - A
An organization plans to introduce a new data standard and wants to
ensure that system inventory data will be efficiently discovered and
processed.
Which type of data should the organization use to meet this goal?
A) Structured
B) Semi-structured
C) Annotated
D) Mapped – Correct Answer - A
An organization implemented an information rights management (IRM)
solution to prevent critical data from being copied without permission
and a cloud backup solution to ensure that the critical data is protected
from storage failures.
Which IRM challenge will the organization need to address?
A) Jurisdictional conflicts
B) Agent conflicts
C) Replication restrictions
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D) Execution restrictions – Correct Answer - C
A data center engineer is tasked with the destruction of data on solid-
state drives (SSDs). The engineer must ensure that the data is not able to
be retrieved.
Which data destruction action should the engineer take to meet this
goal?
A) Overwriting
B) Crypto-shredding
C) Wiping
D) Degaussing – Correct Answer - B
An organization wants to gather and interpret logs from its cloud
environment.
Which system should the organization use for this task?
A) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
B) Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
C) Business Process Management (BPM)
D) Distributed System Management (DSM) – Correct Answer - B
An organization with a Security Information and Event Management
(SIEM) system wants to minimize errors or missed issues due to human
log analysis.
Which SIEM policy should the organization use in this case?
A) Automated analysis of metadata
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B) Automated analysis of data sets
C) Manually generated analysis of data sets
D) Manually generated analysis of metadata – Correct Answer - B
Which software type allows multiple operating systems to run on the
same physical server in a virtualized environment?
A) Hypervisor
B) Container
C) Quantum computing
D) Blockchain technology – Correct Answer - A
What is the name of the process of automatically provisioning,
configuring, and managing virtual machines and other resources in a
virtualized environment?
A) Continuous deployment
B) Orchestration
C) Programmability
D) Continuous integration – Correct Answer - B
Which cloud computing characteristic allows customers to manage their
utilization by only paying for the resources used?
A) Metered service
B) Broad network access
C) Rapid elasticity
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