Question 1

Scenario: Contoso Ltd is planning to migrate its on-premises infrastructure to Azure. They currently experience unpredictable traffic spikes during holiday seasons, causing their on-premises servers to crash. They want to minimize upfront hardware costs and only pay for what they use. Additionally, they need to ensure their web application remains available even if an entire Azure data center fails.

Which cloud benefit directly addresses Contoso's issue with unpredictable traffic spikes?

Accepted Answer

Identify the cloud characteristic that deals with dynamic, unpredictable workloads.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AZ-900 question?

Accepted Answer

Confusing elasticity with scalability. Scalability is the general ability to grow; elasticity implies automatic, dynamic scaling based on unpredictable demand.

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