A company purchased a SaaS CRM application. The signed SLA meets year-round performance requirements. Three months after deployment, customers start reporting a slow application response time.
System availability, connectivity, and proper functionality still meet the SLA. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for the poor response time?

The sales department is preparing to launch a high-demand product for purchase through the company's online store. The senior engineer asks the junior engineer to review the sales cloud resources to plan for a surge in online traffic:

Given the metrics in the table above, which of the following resources should be adjusted to plan for future growth?

Of ten newly deployed VMs from a single template, the cloud administrator notices one VM has direct root access enabled and automatic configuration control disabled. These settings do not comply with the company's policies for production VMs. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

A cloud administrator is building a company's payment system in the public cloud.
Which of the following security standards is the cloud administrator MOST likely to apply to comply with industry standards?

A file server is being migrated from physical hardware into a private cloud. Baselining of the server shows the disks average 90% full at all times. The contents of the file server consist mostly of compressed audio files.
Multiple copies of the same files are often saved in different locations on the same disk. Which of the following storage technologies is MOST likely to help minimize storage utilization when moving this server to the private cloud?