You are responsible for a Microsoft based network. Your servers are all clustered. Which of the following are the likely reasons for the clustering? Each correct answer represents a complete…

Clustering requires multiple servers to run simultaneously and typically increases total power consumption rather than reducing it, making power savings an incorrect reason.

Clustering adds significant architectural and operational complexity - including shared storage, quorum management, and multi-node coordination - rather than simplifying maintenance tasks.

Load balancing in a cluster distributes incoming client requests or computational workloads across multiple nodes, preventing any single server from becoming a performance bottleneck and improving overall throughput.

Failover clustering provides high availability by automatically detecting node failures and transferring workloads to surviving healthy nodes, minimizing service downtime for critical applications.