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CCSP Practice Question: Ensure that its cloud infrastructure can…
A company wants to ensure that its cloud infrastructure can automatically add capacity during traffic spikes and remove capacity during low demand. Which cloud characteristic is primarily needed?
⚠ Common exam trap
ISC2 often tests the distinction between rapid elasticity and resource pooling, where candidates mistakenly think that sharing resources (pooling) inherently enables scaling, but pooling is about multi-tenancy, not dynamic capacity adjustment.
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Why each option matters
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Rapid elasticity
Rapid elasticity is the cloud characteristic that enables automatic scaling of resources up or down in response to demand, often leveraging orchestration tools like AWS Auto Scaling or Azure VM Scale Sets. This ensures that capacity matches workload spikes and troughs without manual intervention, directly addressing the requirement for dynamic capacity adjustment.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Broad network access
Why it's wrong here
Broad network access refers to accessibility over networks.
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Measured service
Why it's wrong here
Measured service is about metering usage.
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Rapid elasticity
Why this is correct
Correct: Allows automatic scaling of resources.
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Resource pooling
Why it's wrong here
Resource pooling is about multi-tenancy, not scaling.
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