CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) — Question 48

A cloud engineer is migrating a company-hosted application to a cloud provider. The data needs to be secure while stored on the third-party system. Which of the following would best ensure that the data is secure? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Hashing
• B. Encoding
• C. SAML
• D. AES
• E. TLS
• F. SSL

Correct answer: A, D

Explanation

Hashing (A) and AES (D) are both strong methods for ensuring data security; hashing provides data integrity, while AES offers encryption to protect data confidentiality. Encoding (B) does not secure data; it merely transforms it into a different format. SAML (C) is a protocol for single sign-on, and TLS (E) and SSL (F) are encryption protocols for data in transit, not for data at rest.