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Answer: Provision a higher capacity to account for possible demand spikes
Options A, B, and D are recommended practices for capacity planning. Monitoring and alerting enable timely remedial actions, graceful degradation ensures the application remains functional under heavy load by selectively rejecting requests, and load testing assesses how the application scales or fails under load. Option C is not recommended because it involves unnecessary costs without guaranteeing the need for such resources. Reference: [Google SRE Best Practices](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//static/pdf/login_winter20_10_torres.pdf)
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Your team is developing a globally accessible web-facing application for your organization. As part of the capacity planning, which of the following approaches does not align with Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices for capacity management?
A
Implement monitoring and alerting
B
Design for graceful degradation
C
Provision a higher capacity to account for possible demand spikes
D
Carry out load testing