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ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

Your SaaS platform runs a stateless REST API on two cloud VMs behind a load balancer. Marketing drives unpredictable traffic surges that overload the servers and cause 503 errors. The company uses pay-as-you-go billing and wants minimal operations effort. Which architecture change most improves availability through scalability?

  • Schedule nightly image backups of the existing VMs to an off-site repository

  • Enable strict rate limiting on the load balancer to drop requests above a set threshold

  • Replace the two VMs with one larger VM that has double the CPU and memory

  • Create an auto-scaling group that launches extra VM instances when average CPU exceeds a defined threshold

ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
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