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. When monitoring performance metrics on one of your servers, you notice that the server is utilizing 100 percent of the network bandwidth available to it. What modification could you make to the server that will most likely address the problem?

   1. Add memory to the system.
   2. Install a second network adapter.
   3. Update the network adapter’s firmware.
   4. Install a second processor.

2. Which of the following is not a statistic that you would typically find in a server performance baseline?

   1. CPU utilization
   2. Disk transfer rate
   3. Network transmissions speed
   4. OS update history
   5. Memory utilization

3. What type of scaling involves replacing an existing server with another that has more capabilities?

   1. Horizontal
   2. Round-robin
   3. Elasticity
   4. Autoscale...