A DevOps engineer is performing maintenance on the mail servers for a company's web application.

Before making any updates to the production environment, the best course of action is to perform the update in a development or testing environment. Upgrading to version 3.7, which is a minor update, is generally less risky and should be tested first to ensure compatibility and stability before considering the major update to version 4.1.

The process of updating and maintaining servers, including the validation of updates in a non-production environment, is part of the technical operations management covered in CompTIA Cloud+.