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 substitutes real production data values with realistic but fake equivalents, preserving data format and relationships for accurate functional and load testing while preventing exposure of sensitive information. It is the standard technique used specifically to protect production data during non-production activities like testing.

Data deduplication removes redundant copies of data to save storage space and does not anonymize or protect sensitive data from exposure.

Data mirroring creates an exact real-time replica of production data for redundancy or availability, which would still expose the sensitive data during testing.

Data replication copies data to another location for availability or disaster recovery purposes but does not alter or protect the sensitive values within the data.