A company needs to deploy 50 identical virtual machines. They require the ability to automatically increase the number of VMs during peak hours and decrease them during off-hours. Which Azure compute service should they use?

Answer options:

Azure Availability Sets

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Azure App Service

Azure Container Instances

How to approach this question

Identify the service designed for deploying identical VMs with auto-scaling capabilities.

Full Answer

B.Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets✓ Correct

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) allow you to deploy and manage a set of identical, auto-scaling virtual machines. You define rules (like CPU usage) to automatically add or remove VMs.

Common mistakes

Confusing Availability Sets (for fault tolerance) with Scale Sets (for auto-scaling).

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A company needs to deploy 50 identical virtual machines. They require the ability to automatically increase the number of VMs during peak hours and decrease them during off-hours. Which Azure compute service should they use?

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