Effective capacity planning relies on precise vocabulary. This quiz practises the collocations SREs and platform engineers use when forecasting, provisioning, and right-sizing resources.
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The team uses historical traffic data to ___ demand for the upcoming holiday period.
Forecast demand is the standard capacity-planning collocation — engineers forecast demand using traffic trends and business projections.
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We need to ___ additional compute resources before the product launch next month.
Provision resources is the correct cloud collocation — teams provision resources (VMs, databases, caches) ahead of anticipated load.
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The SRE team will ___ growth scenarios to stress-test the current architecture.
Model growth is the standard collocation — engineers model growth to understand how systems will behave at 2x, 5x, or 10x current load.
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After the load test, we'll ___ the autoscale thresholds based on the results.
Adjust thresholds is the correct collocation — teams adjust thresholds for autoscaling triggers based on observed performance data.
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Our cloud cost review showed we need to ___ infrastructure by consolidating underused nodes.
Right-size infrastructure is the standard cloud cost collocation — right-sizing means matching resource allocation to actual usage.