A banking firm is considering moving some large computing jobs to a cloud provider and is considering a number of issues that come with doing so. Which of the following characteristics of cloud and virtual computing could potentially allow sensitive data to be scraped from the hardware platform?

A. elastic resource allocation
B. shared storage
C. LUN masking
D. asynchronous replication

A
Explanation: When elastic resource allocation is used, virtual resources are created and destroyed on the fly as needed , meaning at any point in time data that was "deleted" but not overwritten could be still be residing on the hardware.

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