Chap 8

Question 1

You are the Sys Admin of a small, but spread out warehousing company. A user in uptown finance are is complaining that the computers in finance are slow and a new one needs to be bought. He want you to pull some metrics on his systems, so he can take it to the company owner. How do you look at the performance metrics of the machines in his division?

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Answer 1

Performance Monitor.

Performance Monitor is able to look at local computers AND remote computers.

Question 2

What is the recommended time to establish Baselines?

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Answer 2

When the system is first configured, with out any load.
When System hardware is changed.
Regular intervals of typical use.

Question 3

What are some recommendations, when testing configurations and hardware?
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Answer 3

Make one change at a time, then test.
Check ‘Event Viewer’ logs as changes are done.
Repeat monitoring with each change.

Question 4

An alert can be given when performance degrades. For this to happen you have to do what?
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Answer 4

Utilizing the Data Collector sets, and Performance Monitor. Threshold need to be set, but the data collected can be used to alert you when those conditions are met..

Question 5

What are the 4 major default monitored subsystems?

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Answer 5

CPU Dish Network Memory

Question 6

When you setup a performance counter, where does it appear so you know it’s active?
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Answer 6

Bottom of the Performance Monitor Window

Question 7

When you select a performance counter, and it is highlighted,the window above it changes to what?
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Answer 7

It will show the data of that counter, and what it has recorded so far.

Question 8

There are 2 primary key counters in Memory Performance, and 3 secondary counters for Memory Management. Name 1 Primary and 2 secondary counters.
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Answer 8

Primary: Physical Memory, Page File
Secondary: Available MBytes, Page/Sec, % Usage,

Question 9

Bottle-necking of threads can hurt performance. On client systems, they usually are not a problem, but if they were to look at this, what specific areas would you look at?
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Answer 9

% processor time-
Interrupts/Sec-
Processor Queue length-

Question 10

If you were to optimize the processor performance, and the background services. What are the steps you need to do to get to adjust these settings?
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Answer 10

1) Click Start–>R Click Computer–>Properties. Select Adv System Settings.
2) Click Adv Tab–> Performance section, click Settings button
3) Adv Tab–> Performance Options section, select Background services