A cloud administrator has implemented a cost-savings policy to reduce the number of servers running at a given time. This policy will shut down all servers at 3:30 a.m. and restart them at 8:30 a.m. every morning. The management team has recently communicated that the daily reports are no longer available for the 9:00 a.m. meeting.

Which of the following would be BEST for the administrator to implement?

A manufacturing company has the following DR requirements for its IaaS environment:
RPO of 24 hours
RTO of 8 hours
The company experiences a disaster and has a two-site hot/cold configuration. Which of the following is the BEST way for the company to recover?

Performance on a new private cloud deployment is not meeting expectations. An engineer has determined the virtualization host is experiencing high ready/wait times. VMs with the following configurations and metrics currently reside on the host:

Which of the following troubleshooting choices would MOST likely be used to bring the high ready/wait times to meet the expected baseline?

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?

Which of the following BEST describes the process of restoring service to a primary datacenter in a controlled manner, following a disaster?