Topic 1 · Question 11

Answer is No.

Operating expenditures are ongoing costs of doing business. Consuming cloud services in a pay-as-you-go model could qualify as an operating expenditure.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/business-outcomes/fiscal-outcomes

* Scalable * environments only care about increasing capacity to accommodate an increasing workload.
* Elastic * environments care about being able to meet current demands without under/over provisioning, in an autonomic fashion.

Scalable systems don't necessarily mean they will scale back down - it's only about being able to reach peak loads.
Elastic workloads, however, will recognize dynamic demands and adapt to them, even if that means reducing capacity.