CAF-3 · Chapter 7 · Question 6 of 15
During a massive Black Friday sale event, an e-commerce platform anticipates a 500% surge in web traffic. To handle this, the IT team automatically provisions 20 additional virtual servers in the cloud to distribute the workload. This strategy is an example of:
Test yourself: pick an answer
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B) Horizontal Scaling
Explanation
Horizontal scaling (or scaling out) involves adding more machines or servers to a network to distribute the workload, which is highly common in cloud environments during traffic surges
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