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    PracticeAzure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Practice Exam 5Question 05
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1.2: Describe Benefits of Cloud ServicesDomain 1Cloud BenefitsElasticity

    AZ-900 · Question 05 · Domain 1.2: Describe Benefits of Cloud Services

    An e-commerce website experiences a sudden spike in traffic during a holiday sale. The system automatically adds more virtual machines to handle the load and removes them when traffic decreases. Which cloud benefit does this describe?

    Answer options:

    A.

    High availability

    B.

    Elasticity

    C.

    Disaster recovery

    D.

    Predictability

    How to approach this question

    Focus on the words 'automatically adds' and 'removes them when traffic decreases'. This dynamic stretching and shrinking is a specific concept.

    Full Answer

    B.Elasticity✓ Correct
    Elasticity is the ability of a cloud environment to automatically add or remove resources to match the current demand. Scalability is the general ability to increase resources, but elasticity specifically implies the automated, dynamic nature of scaling in and out.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing High Availability. While related, HA is about uptime during faults, whereas Elasticity is about handling varying load efficiently.
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