A business is demanding faster IT services turnaround from its IT groups. The current lead time between request and delivery is three weeks for a task that would take a competitor two days. An architect is asked to develop a solution to reduce the lead time of the request while ensuring adherence to the company policies. Which of the following is the BEST approach to achieve the stated objective?

A company has an internal SLA for CPU and RAM oversubscription that should stay below 120%.
Storage utilization should stay below 90% with oversubscription below 160%. Given the following:

Which of the following should be done to meet the SLA?

A cloud administrator is reviewing the annual contracts for all hosted solutions. Upon review of the contract for the hosted mail solution, the administrator notes the monthly subscription rate has increased every year. The provider has been in place for ten years, and there is a large amount of data being hosted. Which of the following is a barrier to switching providers?

At 2:00 a.m each day, the database team runs a batch job to import the sales data for the day, index it, and generate sales reports for the next day. The team has informed the cloud administrator that sales data is expected to increase in the next month and will take longer to complete. The current environment uses several batch servers that process chunks of data individually.
Which of the following is the BEST approach for the cloud administrator to take to handle the increased load?

A hosting company provides 10 VM web servers for a financial institution. The financial institution recently introduced a new web application and now their web traffic has significantly increased.
Which of the following could the administrator implement to assist in reducing the load on the web servers?