CV0-002 · Question #444
It is taking an unusually long time for a financial division to run monthly reports on its SaaS- based, multitenant application. The cloud provider has grown exponentially, and more financial industry
The correct answer is C. The CSP did not keep up with the growth and the appropriate supporting infrastructure.. The most probable cause for slow performance in a multitenant SaaS application, especially with exponential provider growth and increased client load, is that the cloud service provider's underlying infrastructure has not scaled sufficiently to meet the increased demand.
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It is taking an unusually long time for a financial division to run monthly reports on its SaaS- based, multitenant application. The cloud provider has grown exponentially, and more financial industry clients have moved their processing to the SaaS provider. Which of the following is the MOST probable cause of the issue?
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- AThe SSL certificate used by the SaaS provider has expired and is no longer valid.
- BSome of the new tenants are not from the financial industry and are causing data integrity issues.
- CThe CSP did not keep up with the growth and the appropriate supporting infrastructure.
- DThe licensing limit has been exceeded on the SaaS-based, multitenant application server.
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A3% (1)
- B9% (3)
- C82% (27)
- D6% (2)
Why each option
The most probable cause for slow performance in a multitenant SaaS application, especially with exponential provider growth and increased client load, is that the cloud service provider's underlying infrastructure has not scaled sufficiently to meet the increased demand.
An expired SSL certificate would prevent users from accessing the application due to security warnings, not primarily cause slow report generation.
The industry of new tenants typically does not directly cause data integrity issues or slow performance for other tenants in a properly isolated multitenant system; performance issues are usually resource-related.
In a multitenant SaaS environment, if the cloud provider experiences exponential growth in clients, particularly those with demanding workloads like financial reporting, and fails to adequately scale its underlying infrastructure, resource contention will occur. This resource contention directly leads to degraded performance for all tenants, resulting in slower report generation times.
While licensing limits can affect functionality or access, they are less likely to manifest as a general slowdown in reporting specifically due to increased tenant load on the server, which points more to resource exhaustion rather than a hard license cap on application server usage.
Concept tested: Performance degradation in multitenant SaaS due to underscaling
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/design-principles/scale-out
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