CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) — Question 207

A small marketing company recently moved all of its storage to a cloud provider. The budget for storage has limited the company to buying a small amount of SSD storage and a lot of spinning disks. The storage administrator needs to find a way to optimize this environment to realize maximum speed. Which of the following would best achieve this?

Answer options

• A. Compression
• B. Automated storage tiering
• C. Deduplication
• D. Autoscaling

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Automated storage tiering is the best option here because it intelligently moves frequently accessed data to the faster SSD storage while keeping less critical data on slower spinning disks, thus maximizing performance. Compression and deduplication help in saving space but do not directly improve speed, while autoscaling is related to adjusting resources based on demand rather than optimizing storage performance.