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Exam AZ900 Topics: cloud-concepts Difficulty: easy

An engineering consultancy runs its 3D rendering workload on a single Azure virtual machine. Render jobs are taking too long, so the team decides to add more CPUs and more RAM to that same virtual machine. In cloud terminology, what is the team doing?

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  1. A. Scaling out horizontally by adding more virtual machines to share the rendering jobs
  2. B. Scaling in by removing rendering capacity until the next job arrives
  3. C. Relying on autoscaling, since the platform adjusts the machine size on its own
  4. D. Scaling up vertically by increasing the capabilities of an existing resource
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Correct answer: Scaling up vertically by increasing the capabilities of an existing resource

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-benefits-use-cloud-services/2-high-availability-scalability-cloud

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