Question

Brandon has configured one of the applications hosted on his cloud service provider to increase the number of resources as needed. Which of the following describes this capability?
a. Continuity
b. Adaptability
c. Vertical scaling
d. Horizontal scaling

Answer 1

Answer:

The description of this capability is:

d. Horizontal scaling

Explanation:

The capability that Brandon has achieved is horizontal scaling, which involves the increasing of the resources of cloud applications to meet his increasing demand for cloud services.  Vertical scaling involves the addition or subtraction of power to a cloud server, which practically upgrades the memory, storage, or processing power.  But to scale horizontally, more resources are added or subtracted.  The purpose of horizontal scaling is to spread out or in the workload of existing resources and either increase or decrease overall performance and capacity.