Your organization is planning to deploy a new e$-$commerce website. Management anticipates heavy processing requirements for a back$-$end application used by the website. The current design will use one web server and multiple application servers. Additionally, when beginning a session, a user will connect to an application server and remain connected to the same application server for the entire session.

Which of the following BEST describes the configuration of the application servers?

Load balancing

Active$/$active

Active$/$passive

Persistence