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?

The requirements for a web application state that it must be architected for high availability. The web application consists of front-end web server and back-end database server components respectively. Which of the following describes a solution that meets this requirement, while minimizing costs?

Which of the following cloud services would MOST likely be selected by a software development company that needs a cloud in which to develop software and does not have infrastructure requirements?

A new service request asks for all members of the finance department to have access to the accounting department's file server VMs on the private cloud environment.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to fulfill this service request?

An upgrade to a web application, which supports 400 users at four sites, is being tested. The application runs on four servers behind a load balancer.
The following test plan is proposed:
Have 50 users from site A connect to server 1

Have 50 users from site B connect to server 2

Have 50 users from site C connect to server 3

Have 50 users from site D connect to server 4

Which of the following parameters is being properly tested by this plan?