Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question

The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) automatically adjusts the number of pod replicas in a Kubernetes deployment based on observed CPU utilization or other select metrics. This allows your application to scale out or in depending on the current load, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization. The Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler adjusts the number of nodes in the cluster, not the number of pod replicas, so it does not meet the requirement. Azure Scale Sets manage virtual machines, not pods in AKS. Azure Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA) scales pods based on event triggers, such as messages in a queue, not specifically based on CPU utilization.