Question

An IS auditor reviewing a production e-commerce environment finds that web traffic is distributed across multiple application servers by a single load balancer appliance. All servers are healthy and capacity is adequate. Which risk should the auditor flag as MOST significant regarding system resiliency?

Accepted Answer

The load balancer represents a single point of failure that could make the entire application unavailable

Answer

Distributing traffic across multiple servers increases the complexity of capacity planning

Answer

Session data may need to be replicated between application servers

Answer

The application servers may become underutilized during off-peak hours