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TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 · Question #40

How can a ticket-based system slow down infrastructure provisioning and limit the ability to scale? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is A. End-users have to request infrastructure changes D. The more resources your organization needs, the more tickets your infrastructure team has to. A slows down provisioning because manual ticket submissions introduce delays. Users cannot self-serve, forcing reliance on a centralized team to approve and fulfill every request. D limits scalability because as demand grows, the infrastructure team becomes overwhelmed by the vol

Submitted by dimitri_ru· Apr 18, 2026Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts

Question

How can a ticket-based system slow down infrastructure provisioning and limit the ability to scale? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AEnd-users have to request infrastructure changes
  • BTicket based systems generate a full audit trail of the request and fulfillment process
  • CUsers can access catalog of approved resources from drop down list in a request form
  • DThe more resources your organization needs, the more tickets your infrastructure team has to

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    90% (36)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    3% (1)

Explanation

A slows down provisioning because manual ticket submissions introduce delays. Users cannot self-serve, forcing reliance on a centralized team to approve and fulfill every request. D limits scalability because as demand grows, the infrastructure team becomes overwhelmed by the volume of tickets, creating bottlenecks.

Topics

#Traditional Provisioning#Manual Processes#Scalability Issues#IaC Motivation

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