A company runs a web application on-premises with an F5 BIG-IP. They want to burst to the cloud for a seasonal peak. They need to ensure that existing sessions are not disrupted and that new sessions are directed to the cloud when on-premises capacity is exhausted. Which traffic management approach should they use?

Use a ratio-based load-balancing method that sends a fixed percentage of traffic to the cloud.

Use a priority-based load-balancing method where cloud members are marked as backup.

Use iRules to redirect traffic to the cloud based on a random percentage.

Use a dynamic load-balancing method like least connections and include cloud members in the pool.

A media company runs video transcoding jobs on-premises. During peak seasons, they burst to the cloud to handle additional jobs. They want to minimize costs while ensuring jobs complete on time. Which strategy should they use?

Use spot instances for all burst workloads to get the lowest price.

Manually start cloud VMs when the queue gets long and stop them when it clears.

Provision a large number of cloud VMs and keep them running 24/7 to handle any spike.

Use an orchestration tool to automatically provision cloud VMs only when the on-premises queue exceeds a threshold, and deprovision them when idle.

What is the role of a load balancer in a cloud bursting solution?

To store data that is used during the burst

To provision new virtual machines in the cloud

To distribute incoming traffic between on-premises and cloud resources

To encrypt all traffic between on-premises and cloud

A gaming company runs a multiplayer game backend on-premises. During new game launches, they burst to the cloud to handle player spikes. They want to ensure performance and avoid over-provisioning. Which monitoring and optimization strategy should they use?

Monitor CPU and memory usage on cloud VMs and manually adjust the number of VMs.

Use a cloud monitoring tool but only review logs after the launch.

Provision a fixed number of VMs for the entire launch period.

Use an orchestration tool with autoscaling based on player count or request latency, and monitor key metrics.

How do traffic management policies help in a cloud bursting solution?

By directing traffic to cloud resources only when on-premises capacity is exceeded

By permanently redirecting all traffic to the cloud

By increasing network latency to slow down traffic

By blocking all traffic during the burst

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A company runs a web application on-premises with an F5 BIG-IP. They want to burst to the cloud for a seasonal peak. They need to ensure that existing sessions are not disrupted and that new sessions are directed to the cloud when on-premises capacity is exhausted. Which traffic management approach should they use?
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A media company runs video transcoding jobs on-premises. During peak seasons, they burst to the cloud to handle additional jobs. They want to minimize costs while ensuring jobs complete on time. Which strategy should they use?
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