Which task best demonstrates manageability in the cloud?
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Answer: B
Manageability in the cloud is about operating workloads efficiently: monitoring health, staying on top of alerts, and using automation such as autoscaling to keep an application healthy and correctly sized. Manageability of the cloud complements it, meaning you control everything through the portal, CLI, PowerShell, APIs, and infrastructure as code. Monitoring an application and scaling it automatically demonstrates both dimensions at once.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Pre-purchasing physical servers before the application exists is the classic capital-heavy on-premises pattern, the opposite of cloud manageability.
- C. The customer, not the provider, owns the application and its operation; shifting application ownership to the provider is not what manageability describes.
- D. Switching off operational alerts removes your visibility into the workload and undermines day-to-day manageability.