Trish has been analyzing the company's resources on the cloud service provider her company uses. She sees that a cluster is running at near capacity and decides to add another virtual machine to the cluster. Which of the following would describe this scenario?
A) Scale up
B) Scale out
C) Scale down
D) Scale in

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Adding another virtual machine to a cluster to handle increased load or capacity needs is described as "scaling out." This involves increasing the number of resources or nodes in a system to handle the load, as opposed to "scaling up," which would involve increasing the resources of the existing machines.

Trish Has Been Analyzing the Company's Resources on the Cloud