A private cloud customer is considering using the public cloud to accommodate the peak utilization workload. Which of the following would be considered the ideal scaling solution?

A cloud application development team needs to consider the following requirements to the built in as part of the application's authentication process:
- Customers should have the flexibility to use their own identity stores within the authentication process.
- Customers should not be asked to provide the credentials repeatedly for different applications with different permission sets.
Which of the following solutions would BEST help the team achieve the above business objectives? (Choose two.)

The on-premises database server is experiencing high memory and CPU utilization over the course of a month. The current on-premises infrastructure is at capacity with no ability to scale up. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has asked the CSA to provide a solution without any capital expenditure. Which of the following is the BEST solution to resolve the issue?

An organization is converting a physical SQL server into a virtual server.
The SQL database has been in use for several years and contains critical data for the organization.
Which of the following conversion methods would be MOST appropriate?

As part of a nightly testing process, new version of an application is deployed to the set of web servers in the development environment.
Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure the test environment is consistent with the previous night's test?