CMT Association CMT-LEVEL-II Exam Prep
CMT Level II Exam (Page 8 )

• AWS IoT Greengrass supports local ML inference using models trained in Amazon SageMaker.
• The model and inference code run on the factory’s local server, so processing continues even when internet connectivity is unavailable.
• A Greengrass component can:

• This provides low latency and avoids sending images to AWS for every inference.

• A: Uses AWS-hosted services and therefore depends on internet connectivity. It would fail during an outage.
• C: Snowball Edge is unnecessary for this use case and adds deployment complexity. A local Greengrass server is the intended edge-inference solution.
• D: Amazon Monitron is designed for monitoring industrial equipment health, not analyzing camera images with a custom SageMaker model.

• Entradas grandes, de até aproximadamente 1 GB.
• Processamentos demorados, que podem levar até cerca de 1 hora.
• O cliente envia a solicitação e consulta o resultado depois, sem precisar manter uma conexão aberta durante todo o processamento.

• Real-time inference: indicada para respostas imediatas, com entradas menores e processamento rápido.
• Serverless inference: adequada para cargas variáveis e solicitações menores; não é ideal para processamento longo e arquivos grandes.
• Batch transform: processa grandes volumes em lote, mas não atende à necessidade de respostas próximas do tempo real.

• Multi-pass wipe: Overwrites the drive’s existing data multiple times, making recovery much more difficult while preserving the drive’s functionality.
• Single-pass wipe: May be sufficient in some modern sanitization standards, but is presented here as less secure than multiple overwrites.
• Degaussing: Uses a strong magnetic field to disrupt data. It can render the drive unusable or unreliable, reducing its resale value.
• Pinning: Is not an appropriate data-sanitization method.

• The correct setting to configure is the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) profile.
• Why: ESP tracks the enrollment progress and logs during Autopilot provisioning. You can enable log collection within the ESP policy so that, if ESP times out, the user can collect and share the logs with support.
• Optional enhancement: In the ESP policy (or the Autopilot diagnostics settings), you can enable:

• Automatic enrollment settings: control how devices auto-enroll, not log collection.
• Windows Autopilot deployment profile: controls deployment steps but not ESP log collection.
• Device configuration profile: applies settings but doesn’t provide ESP log collection mechanics.

• The legacy system creates a signed JWT assertion.
• Salesforce validates the assertion using a certificate configured on a Connected App.
• Salesforce issues an access token for the integration user.
• No refresh token is required; the system can request a new access token when needed.

• Web Server Flow: normally uses a client secret and authorization/refresh tokens.
• Username-Password Flow: requires storing Salesforce credentials and is discouraged for integrations where stronger options are available.
• User Agent Flow: intended for user-interactive applications, not unattended server-to-server processing.

Why

cmd 
PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\Scripts\ConfigureVM.ps1

Why the other options are less suitable

• GPO logon script: Runs only when a user logs on and may not run during initial VM provisioning.
• GPO startup script: Can work, but requires the VM to be joined to the domain and the policy to be applied. It is also normally evaluated at each startup.
• Place scripts in a VHD: Merely placing scripts on a disk does not cause them to execute.

bash 
docker run -it microsoft/azure-cli:0.10.17

• docker run starts an Azure CLI container; it does not automatically connect to the AKS cluster.
• The command does not run kubectl apply.
• The container would need the appropriate Kubernetes tools and AKS credentials.
• The device or container must obtain cluster credentials, typically using an AKS credential command, before running Kubernetes commands.

bash 
az aks get-credentials --resource-group <resource-group> --name <aks-cluster> 
kubectl apply -f myapp.yaml

• Identity provider (IdP): Authenticates users and asserts their identity.
• Service provider (SP): The application being accessed—in this case, Salesforce/the employee portal.
• Identity store: A directory that stores user identities, such as Active Directory.
• Authentication store: A system used to validate credentials.

• Amazon GuardDuty: Detects suspicious activity and threats using security-related data sources; it is not primarily a software vulnerability scanner.
• Amazon Detective: Helps investigate and analyze the root cause of security findings after an event.
• Amazon Cognito: Provides user authentication and authorization for applications.

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• Basic: Self-help only; no technical support or design assessment.
• Developer/Standard: Technical support, but generally not the full proactive architecture guidance required here.
• Professional Direct: Includes proactive guidance and architecture recommendations.
• Premier: Also supports this, but is not the minimum-cost option.

• Filtering or reshaping columns
• Joining with an analysis-specific dataset
• Creating calculated fields
• Applying business logic for a particular project

• Data blending: Combining different data sources, not specifically the final processing step.
• Data enhancement: A broad term for enriching data.
• Data testing: Checking data quality or pipeline correctness.
• Last-mile ETL: The precise term for additional transformations performed after the main pipeline, often directly before analytics or reporting.

sql 
GRANT ALTER ON SCHEMA::schemaA TO User1;

• TRUNCATE TABLE is a DDL operation, not a normal DELETE.
• Having DELETE permission on a table is not sufficient to truncate it.
• The minimum relevant permission is ALTER on the table.
• Granting ALTER on SCHEMA::schemaA allows the user to truncate tables within schemaA.
• It does not grant equivalent permissions on schemaB or schemaC, satisfying least privilege.

• Drop violating frames
• Log or alert on the violation
• Shut down or restrict the port

• Load balancer: Distributes application traffic; it does not control switch MAC learning.
• IPS: May detect some network attacks but is not the primary control for switch MAC-table exhaustion.
• NGFW: Protects traffic crossing network boundaries, while MAC flooding occurs at the switching/LAN layer.

• Answer: C – netstat -an

• netstat -an lists all active connections and listening ports with numeric addresses, without resolving names. This lets you spot DoS patterns such as a flood of connections to a specific port or many connections from a single or few IPs.
• The other options don’t help as directly:

• Windows: netstat -an and look for numerous ESTABLISHED connections to a service or many SYNs to a port.
• Filter by port, e.g., netstat -an | findstr :80, or on Linux: ss -tunap | grep ':80'.

• Netstat provides a snapshot. DoS detection often benefits from continuous monitoring, flow data, and IDS/IPS logs.

• ADF: Automatic Document Feeder; a printer/scanner hardware component.
• USB: A short-range wired connection, not a protocol for accessing a remote shared folder.
• PCL: Printer Control Language; it describes how print jobs are formatted, not how files or printers are shared over a network.

• Due Date
• Order Date
• Delivery Date

DAX 
Order Date = 'Due Date' 
Delivery Date = 'Due Date'

• Due Date[Date] ? Sales[Due Date]
• Order Date[Date] ? Sales[Order Date]
• Delivery Date[Date] ? Sales[Delivery Date]

• R-squared (R²): mede quanto da variação dos valores reais é explicada pelo modelo. É mais usado em regressão, não em classificação.

• Accuracy (acurácia): mede a proporção de previsões corretas em relação ao total. É adequada para a classificação de imagens da questão.

• RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error): mede o tamanho médio dos erros entre valores previstos e reais, penalizando erros maiores. É usado principalmente em regressão.

• Learning rate (taxa de aprendizado): controla o tamanho dos ajustes feitos pelo modelo durante o treinamento. Não é uma métrica de avaliação; é um hiperparâmetro.

• Define the contractor’s deliverables, responsibilities, acceptance criteria, and deadlines.
• Agree on a reporting cadence to monitor progress.
• Allow the local company to use its expertise and manage its own work.

• A: “Under the supervision of the project manager” suggests excessive direct control and is less empowering.
• B: Micromanaging prevents the contractor from functioning independently and is inefficient.
• D: Deploying the contractor’s staff under the PM’s supervision creates a staffing/control arrangement rather than empowering the contracted company.

• Context: You’re configuring a Windows Autopilot deployment profile (Profile1) for Windows 11 devices. The hotspot asks you to pick the correct behavior for two statements based on the profile’s settings.

• Box 1: “can modify the desktop settings only for themselves”

• Box 2: “Cortana settings” with options like computer name, keyboard layout, etc.

• prompt: the input or instruction given to the model
• completion: the desired response

json 
{"prompt":"Summarize this customer complaint.","completion":"The customer reports a delayed shipment."}

• B: A .txt file containing CSV-style lines is not automatically a valid fine-tuning dataset. The required structure and format must match the selected Bedrock model.
• C: Provisioned Throughput provides dedicated inference capacity; it does not fine-tune a model.
• D: Journals and textbooks might support domain adaptation or pretraining, but they do not provide the prompt-to-answer examples typically required for supervised fine-tuning.

• The target API uses HTTPS, so Mule must validate the server’s TLS certificate.
• The TLS configuration is set to None, meaning no custom truststore is configured.
• Mule therefore uses the JRE’s default truststore to determine whether the target certificate is trusted.
• If the issuing CA certificate is in that truststore, the TLS handshake can succeed.
• If it is absent—or the certificate is otherwise invalid—the request fails with a TLS/handshake error.

• nomes de pessoas;
• organizações;
• locais;
• datas;
• números de processos;
• leis ou contratos.

• NER = identifica informações específicas e classificáveis.
• Sumarização = reduz um documento e apresenta seus pontos principais.

• A. Configure prompt modifications to enforce tone, disclaimers, and refusal behavior at the system level.

• D. Configure Power Platform DLP policies to restrict unauthorized data connectors.

• B: Manual topic-by-topic disclaimer edits are specifically discouraged.
• C: Channel settings do not replace agent-level Responsible AI controls.
• E: Publishing before enabling safety filters violates the stated deployment sequence. Responsible AI filters should be enabled before publication, not afterward.

sql 
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table;

• A: It does not normally need to scan all data files for this operation.
• B: Results are not simply reused from a query cache every time. Caching is separate from Delta’s metadata optimization.
• D: The relevant metadata is maintained through the Delta transaction log, not directly treated as a Parquet-file metadata operation in this context.

• Works across SaaS and internal applications: TOTP is widely supported by authentication systems and can be integrated into many applications.
• Device manufacturer agnostic: A hardware token or authenticator application can generate the code without depending on a specific computer or phone manufacturer.
• Offline capability: The code is generated locally using a shared secret and the current time; an internet connection or cellular service is not required.

• Username and password: May work offline but provides weaker authentication and does not meet the intended improvement in security.
• Biometrics: Can depend on device hardware, operating-system support, and enrollment mechanisms.
• SMS verification: Requires cellular connectivity and is vulnerable to threats such as SIM swapping.

• A: Using an external OAuth 2.0 identity provider could provide unified identity, but it does not specifically address Salesforce capacity or high-volume login limits.
• B: Making the Experience Cloud community a SAML identity provider and using JIT provisioning is a possible federation pattern, but it may not be appropriate for this scale without Salesforce validation.
• C: A default account is unrelated to solving identity unification and high login throughput. Person Accounts can be supported in appropriate B2C Commerce integrations.

• A separate scope using a /32 subnet: A /32 identifies one host, but it is not a practical DHCP scope for this purpose.
• A static IP within the DHCP range: This can cause an IP address conflict if DHCP assigns that address to another device.
• SLAAC: Used for automatic IPv6 address configuration, not for assigning a predictable IPv4 address through DHCP.

• IaaS: You manage the virtual machine’s operating system, configuration, applications, and data. Azure manages the physical infrastructure and virtualization platform.
• PaaS: You deploy applications without managing the underlying operating system or servers.
• SaaS: You consume a complete application managed by the provider, such as Microsoft 365.

1. Ingestion Lambda receives requests from API Gateway and places messages in an SQS queue.
2. Processing Lambda is triggered by the queue and loads records into Aurora PostgreSQL.

• Decoupling: API request handling is separated from database loading.
• Buffering: SQS absorbs bursts when incoming traffic exceeds the database’s processing capacity.
• Controlled concurrency: Configure the SQS-triggered Lambda’s concurrency and batch size to avoid overwhelming Aurora or exhausting database connections.
• Automatic retries: Messages that fail processing can return to the queue and be retried. A dead-letter queue can capture persistent failures.
• Lower operational effort: The solution remains serverless and avoids managing EC2 servers or Kubernetes clusters.

• A: EC2 and Tomcat add server-management overhead.
• B: DynamoDB/DAX would require changing the database model and does not solve the Aurora ingestion design.
• C: SNS is useful for notifications and fanout, but SQS is better for durable buffering and backpressure in this producer-consumer workflow.

• Leaf switches provide access ports for servers, endpoints, and other devices.
• Spine switches form the fabric’s backbone.
• Every leaf connects to every spine, creating a predictable, high-bandwidth, low-latency path.

• A: Adding both a spine and leaf is unnecessary for simply adding access ports.
• B: Adding a spine does not directly provide endpoint access ports.
• D: A single connection to one spine creates a bottleneck and a single point of failure.

1. Get Data ? Folder in Power BI Desktop.
2. In Power Query Editor, expand the Attributes column to expose metadata such as hidden status and other file attributes.
3. Remove the Content column (and any other data columns you do not need).

• Name
• Extension
• Date accessed
• Date modified
• Folder Path
• Attributes
• Content

• A: Person Accounts cannot be merged directly with standard Contact records.
• C: There is no Account Setup option that automatically merges Person Account duplicates.
• D: Matching rules and duplicate rules can help identify or prevent duplicates, but they do not automatically merge Person Accounts. Also, relationship considerations do not change the basic merge capability.

• Updating the CRL: Revokes compromised certificates, but does not fix the CA flaw that allowed them to be created.
• Changing passwords: May be necessary if accounts were compromised, but it does not address the certificate-generation vulnerability.
• Implementing SOAR: Improves security automation and response; it does not remediate the underlying PKI weakness.

• Disabling GPS: Affects location services, not email connectivity.
• Configuring 4G usage only: Does not enable international data access and could prevent connectivity if 4G is unavailable.
• Connecting using a hotspot: Could provide data, but it is not the most direct solution and depends on another network or device.

• Geo-redundant storage (GRS) replicates data to a secondary Azure region, but the secondary copy is normally unavailable for read access.
• RA-GRS provides geo-replication and read-only access to the secondary region, satisfying all requirements.
• Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates data across availability zones within the same Azure region, not separate geographic regions.
• Locally redundant storage (LRS) keeps copies within a single datacenter or region and does not provide geographic resiliency.

• A. Extranet
• B. VLAN
• C. Intranet
• D. VPN

• A recipient who already has a Microsoft account or an organizational account can authenticate by signing in.
• A recipient without a usable Microsoft identity may receive a one-time passcode by email.
• The passcode is sent to the same email address that was invited and is used to verify ownership of that address.

1. Create a new AMI or copy the existing AMI while specifying EBS encryption and an appropriate AWS KMS key.
2. This creates an encrypted AMI backed by encrypted EBS snapshots.
3. Copy the encrypted AMI to the destination Region, using a KMS key available there.
4. Launch the application stack from the encrypted AMI.

• B: AWS KMS does not encrypt an existing unencrypted AMI in place. You must create an encrypted copy.
• C: AWS Certificate Manager manages TLS certificates, not EBS or AMI encryption.
• D: Enabling encryption by default affects newly created EBS volumes and snapshots; it does not encrypt an existing unencrypted AMI during copying.

• Looking up accounts, contacts, and opportunities
• Logging calls and updating Salesforce records
• Accessing previously available customer information when temporarily offline

• Salesforce Touch App: Primarily an older tablet-focused experience, not the best general solution for the sales team.
• Custom hybrid app: Unnecessary development when Salesforce provides the required capabilities natively.
• SalesforceA: Intended mainly for Salesforce administrators, not sales representatives.

• Admin access to the deployment pipeline (B) – lets the developers use the pipeline and deploy content.
• Contributor access to the Development and Test workspaces (E) – required to deploy items into those workspaces.
• Viewer access to the Production workspace (D) – lets them view Production content without allowing deployment or modification.

• Contributor access to Production (F), because that could allow changes or deployment there.
• Viewer access to Development/Test (C), because Viewer is insufficient for deployment.
• Build permission to Production semantic models (A), because building reports on a semantic model is not required merely to view Production items.

• Correct answer: A) Hashing

• Why: Hashing produces a fixed-size digest of the software. If the final build is altered in any way, the hash will change, enabling you to detect tampering by comparing the stored digest with a freshly computed one.

• Why not the others:

• Forecasting lets sales leaders predict revenue for upcoming fiscal periods, compare forecasts with targets, and review performance by salesperson or team.
• Opportunity Stages help determine the likelihood that opportunities will close. Each stage can have a probability, which contributes to forecast calculations.

• Sales Quotes: Used to present pricing or product proposals to customers; they do not provide revenue forecasting.
• Opportunity List View: Helps users filter and view opportunities, but it is not the forecasting tool.

• Creating and managing users and roles
• Granting and revoking roles and privileges
• Managing access-control responsibilities

• SYSADMIN: Manages warehouses, databases, schemas, and other objects—not primarily users and roles.
• PUBLIC: Automatically granted to every user; it is not an administrative role.
• ACCOUNTADMIN: Has the highest level of access, but should be reserved for account-level administration and emergencies rather than routine security tasks.

• principal represents the source or initiating system.
• principal.port is the source port.
• target represents the destination system.
• target.port is the destination port.

text 
principal.port = 5555

• network.ApplicationProtocol = HTTP identifies HTTP traffic but not the backdoor specifically.
• target.port = 5555 finds traffic going to port 5555, rather than originating from it.
• network.ip_protocol = TCP is too broad because many services use TCP.

• The user authenticates with the external Identity Provider.
• Salesforce receives the SAML assertion.
• Salesforce uses attributes in that assertion—such as username, email, first name, last name, and profile/community information—to create the user during the first login.
• On later logins, Salesforce updates or uses the existing user record.

• On-the-fly provisioning is a general phrase; the Salesforce capability being tested is specifically JIT provisioning.
• Salesforce APIs would require a separate integration and provisioning process.
• Identity Connect is designed primarily to synchronize users from an identity directory, not to create users at the moment of their first SAML login.

• Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed NoSQL database service. It stores and retrieves application data, but it does not provide the tools needed to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics models.
• Azure Machine Learning—including the historical Azure Machine Learning Studio—is designed for the machine-learning lifecycle:

• The Subscribe to Reports user permission.
• At least Viewer access to the report’s folder.
• Access to the report itself.

• Subscribe to Reports: Run Reports is not the relevant Salesforce permission.
• Chatter Subscribe to Reports is not a Salesforce permission.
• Set Running User relates to configuring the user whose permissions determine report results—not subscribing to a report.