You are planning the deployment of a SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) server farm.

The farm will have the Excel Services service application and the Managed Metadata Service service application deployed.

You need to identify the minimum number of servers that must be purchased to meet the following requirements:

– The service applications must be load balanced.
– Hardware and software costs must be minimized.
– Site collections must be available if a single server fails.
– Microsoft SQL Server must not be installed on any front-end Web servers.

How many servers should you identify?

A.
3

B.
4

C.
5

D.
6