Teri logs into the cloud service provider's portal and reviews the reports that are available as part of her monthly analysis. She sees that one of the web applications currently using four web servers is experiencing an increase in traffic after a recent marketing campaign by the company, and she decides to add another two virtual machines to act as more web servers to help ease the load on the existing ones. Which of the following describes the procedure Teri performed?
A) Horizontal scaling
B) Vertical scaling
C) Triangular scaling
D) Linear scaling

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Horizontal scaling involves adding more machines or setting up a cluster of machines to distribute the load, which is exactly what Teri did by adding two more virtual machines to act as web servers.

Teri Logs into the Cloud Service Provider's Portal and Reviews