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?

A cloud administrator has configured a connection between two virtual private cloud environments at a public cloud provider that are each in different accounts. The administrator has configured the accounts correctly so they can connect to each other's resources. Both cloud environments have policies that allow anyone from 0.0.0.0/0 on TCP port 22. The following table shows the network configuration information:

However, the administrator is unable to establish an SSH connection from a server in 10.250.40.100 to
10.250.48.214. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?

Asynchronous data replication for a SaaS application occurs between Regions A and B. Users in Region A are reporting that the most current data for an insurance claims application is not available to them until after 11:30 a.m. The cloud administrator for this SaaS provider checks the network utilization and finds that only about
10% of the network bandwidth is being used.
Which of the following describes how the cloud administrator could BEST resolve this issue?

An administrator is deploying a new application platform with the following resource utilization:

Company policy requires that no resource utilization surpasses 80%. Which of the following resources will need to be upgraded prior to deployment?

A backup solution for a new cloud environment must meet the following requirements:
* Use no more than two backup sets for a complete restore.
* Minimize backup space used.
* Support physical and virtual machines.
Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?