chapter 10: Dealing with performace Issues Flashcards
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A ______ is when a component limits overall performance?
Bottleneck
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_______ is the overall effectiveness of how data moves through the system?
Performance
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______ combined your computer’s RAM with temporary space on your hard disk to increase the amount of available memory?
Virtual Memory
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Windows ______ is a powerful tool for understanding how your system resources are used by processes and services
Power Management
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______ is the process of balancing battery life with performance?
Power plan
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The default page file size is _____ times the total RAM?
1.5
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A _______ is when a program grabs some memory for some reason and is not able to release the memory when it is done with it?
Memory Leak
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A _____ is done by analyzing the performance when the system is running normally and within design specification
Baseline
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______ is the amount of committed virtual memory for a a process that can be written to another storage medium, such as the hard disk?
Page pool
Virtual memory in windows 7 is known as a
Paging file
What program gives you a quick glance at a system’s performance and provides information about programs and processes running on your computer?
Task Manager
To terminate a process, you would use a?
Task manager
What MMC snap-in provides tools in a analysing system performance?
Performance Monitor
The Processor utilization should not be consistently above?
80%
the average disk queue length should not be more than?
2
Which power plan does NOT com with Windows 7?
Performance saver
What should the maximum pages/sec?
20
What can make your disk appear slow over time?
Disk Fragmentation
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Paging files are close to or the same speed are regular memory?
False
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Sometimes be relieving one bottleneck, you may trigger another bottleneck?
True
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If paging file usage is larger than 1.5 time, you should increase the memory?
True
True or False
to determine where a bottleneck is occurring, you should compare to a base line
False
True or False
A page fault occurs when a process attempts to access a virtual memory page that is not available in its working set of RAM?
True
