CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) — Question 562

A growing organization, which hosts an externally accessible application, adds multiple virtual servers to improve application performance and decrease the resource usage on individual servers. Which of the following solutions is the organization most likely to employ to further increase performance and availability?

Answer options

Correct answer: A

Explanation

A load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple servers, ensuring no single server becomes overwhelmed, which improves performance and availability. The other options, such as a jump server, are used for secure access, a proxy server acts as an intermediary, and SD-WAN focuses on optimizing wide area network performance, but none specifically enhance server load management like a load balancer does.