Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand.

Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?
A . Elasticity
B . Scalability
C . High availability
D . Redundancy

Answer: A

Explanation:

Elasticity is defined as “the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible”.