For a single business transaction, once the performance test environmerit is set, the load tests are to be executed with multiple loads starting from $100$ users. The load scenarios are created with minimal think time of one second and are executed for a short period of $15$ minutes as the objective is to find the peak load.

Which of the following steps need to be performed before the load tests are executed?

Ensure that load generator machines, load controller and target server are on the same network.

Reset the system.

Turn on any antivirus$/$anti$-$spyware software on load$-$generating machines, to match the production environment.

Execute a sanity test to verify correct test scripts are being called and correct target servers are being hit.

Make sure that resources $($processor$,$ memory etc$)$ on load generator machines are sufficient to generate load with maximum capacity.