In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand.
Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?
- Elasticity
- Scalability
- High availability
- Redundancy
Answer(s): A
Explanation:
Elasticity is defined as "the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible".