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 company is migrating its application to a cloud provider. Six months before going live, a representative from each stakeholder group validated the functionality and performance in the QA environment and did not identify any issues. After going live, the system response time is slower that the testing environment. Which of the following is the MOST likely gap in the testing plan?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has summoned an administrator due to the datacenter power bill being significantly higher than normal. The administrator explains that a new array was installed for a 20TB CRM application. Which of the following solutions would provide a new performance benefit and also reduce power consumption?

Some users are experiencing high latency when accessing their virtual desktops or retrieving saved documents. The administrator notices that two virtual desktops in the department are reserved for database processing applications that run several times a day. These machines are assigned to different hosts in the resource pool to provide a level of redundancy. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to remedy the situation?

A customer wants to schedule a backup job that compares and saves changes from the last full backup. Which of the following backup types should be used?