AZ104-Q: scale stateless VM capacity
A stateless web tier needs to add and remove identical VM instances based on sustained CPU demand. What should the team use?
- A) A single large VM.
- B) An availability set without scaling rules.
- C) A Virtual Machine Scale Set with an autoscale rule based on a monitored metric. ✓
- D) Azure Files snapshots. Answer: C. VM Scale Sets manage homogeneous instances and can scale from metric-based rules. Why not the others: The alternatives do not provide automatic fleet scaling.