Review Questions

The following questions are designed to test your understanding of this chapter’s material. For more information on how to obtain additional questions, please see this book’s Introduction. You can find the answers in Appendix A.

1. Carol is collecting information on objects to monitor in her community cloud deployment. She is interested in establishing a baseline to produce a trend analysis report. What are some objects that she could natively monitor? (Choose all that apply.)

   1. Availability
   2. Instance initialization time
   3. Task runtime
   4. Total storage capacity
   5. MTBF
   6. None of the above
   7. All of the above

2. TipoftheHat.com’s IT department wants to know what its normal day-to-day web hit count is so it can plan for the upcoming holiday selling season. Jim’s job is to measure the incoming web requests and graph them against delay and missed connection counts. What type of data set is Jim producing?

   1. Metric
   2. Variance
   3. Baseline
   4. Smoothing

3. Elaine works...