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 consuming a SaaS solution with a large user base and wants to minimize user management, but also ensure access is as secure as possible. Which of the following should the cloud administrator select to help meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A CSA needs to apply new OS security patches to the application cluster server farm in a public cloud provider. The CSA wants to ensure the security patch and configuration are consistent for all members of the server farm. Which of the following deployment practices is the BEST approach to do this?

A cloud administrator is required to implement a solution to handle data-at-rest encryption requirements for a database. Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?

An administrator has configured a new VM with the correct IP, netmask, and default gateway. However, even with the vNIC showing a link and incoming and outgoing packets, the VM is unable to ping its default gateway. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason the VM network connection is not functioning properly?