CompTIA Cloud+ (CV1-003) — Question 41

Due to a policy change, a few of a customer's application VMs have been migrated to synchronously replicated storage. The customer now reports that performance is lower. The systems administrator checks the resource usage and discovers CPU utilization is at 60% and available memory is at 30%.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Answer options

• A. There is not enough vCPU assigned
• B. The application is not compatible with the new settings
• C. The new configuration is adding latency
• D. The memory of the VM is underallocated

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The most likely cause of the performance degradation is increased latency due to the new configuration (C), which is common when using synchronously replicated storage. The CPU utilization at 60% and memory availability at 30% suggest that the virtual machines have sufficient resources, so options A, B, and D are less likely to be the root cause of the issue.