A telecom industry application is to be deployed on a 24 CPU, 24 GB RAM server in Production. There was no test environment equivalent of this capacity. Out of due diligence, developers tested the application on development server with 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM with 24 times reduced data volumes. The application crashed in Production while crunching billing data for millions of customers. Which amongst the following was a bigger mistake?

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  1. Project team should have gone for a failover architecture like 2 servers of 12 CPU, 12 GB RAM instead of single server

  2. Project team trusted server vendor who guaranteed excellent performance and scalability

  3. Project team overlooked the fact that results derived on a single CPU machine cannot be extrapolated to 24 CPU servers

  4. It's sheer bad luck that the application crashed; there's no mistake, at least they tried

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Correct Option: C

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