A company wants to ensure production data is not exposed during a functional and load testing exercise, as it will be the source of the data. Which of the following techniques should the cloud adminis

Data masking is the technique used to obscure sensitive information within a dataset while maintaining the original data's format and referential integrity. This allows the modified data to be used for non-production purposes, such as functional and load testing, without exposing actual confidential production data.

Data deduplication is a process to eliminate redundant copies of data to save storage space, not to protect sensitive information from exposure during testing.

Data mirroring creates an exact, real-time copy of data for redundancy or high availability, which would still contain all the sensitive production information and expose it during testing.

Data replication involves creating and maintaining multiple copies of data, often for availability or disaster recovery, but these copies would also contain the sensitive production data.