A recent advertisement campaign has increased traffic to an e-commerce application that is hosted within a public cloud environment. Customers are reporting that it takes too long to load their pages and submit orders.
A cloud administrator looks at the metrics from the environment and sees high utilization of the CPU and memory resources. The cloud provider offers several preconfigured sizes for server template: x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and 2x-large.

Given an expected increase in workload, which of the following is the BEST solution to improve application performance?

Ann, the lead product developer for a company, just hired three new developers. Ann asked the cloud administrator to give these developers access to the fileshares in the public cloud environment. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take?

Which of the following can be used to physically restrict employees from accessing a datacenter?

Tenants in a shared datacenter environment are concerned with the privacy of their data as it moves from the application to the database servers in clear text. Which of the following can the provider implement to isolate tenants' data?

An administrator suspects malware has infected a server. Which of the following should be used to check services communicating with external servers?