Answer:
2) Provides an increase in throughput
Explanation:
Load balancing is the process of distributing network traffic evenly across multiple servers in a server farm. This is to ensure that no single server bears too much load thereby improving application responsiveness. It also helps to increase the availability of applications and websites for end users.
Since the load are spread evenly, it leads to an increase in the traffic passing through the network. So option 2 is true of load balancing.