CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) — Question 304

A large pharmaceutical company needs to ensure it is in compliance with the following requirements:

• An application must run on its own virtual machine.
• The hardware the application is hosted on does not change.

Which of the following will BEST ensure compliance?

Answer options

• A. Containers
• B. A firewall
• C. Affinity rules
• D. Load balancers

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Affinity rules are designed to keep applications on the same physical hosts, ensuring that they run on the same hardware and comply with the requirement. Containers do not guarantee hardware consistency as they can be moved between different hosts, while firewalls and load balancers do not address the requirement of the application running on its own virtual machine.