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chapter 10: Dealing with performace Issues Flashcards

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A ______ is when a component limits overall performance?

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Bottleneck

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_______ is the overall effectiveness of how data moves through the system?

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Performance

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______ combined your computer’s RAM with temporary space on your hard disk to increase the amount of available memory?

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Virtual Memory

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Windows ______ is a powerful tool for understanding how your system resources are used by processes and services

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Power Management

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______ is the process of balancing battery life with performance?

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Power plan

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The default page file size is _____ times the total RAM?

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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?

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Memory Leak

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A _____ is done by analyzing the performance when the system is running normally and within design specification

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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?

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Page pool

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Virtual memory in windows 7 is known as a

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Paging file

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What program gives you a quick glance at a system’s performance and provides information about programs and processes running on your computer?

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Task Manager

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To terminate a process, you would use a?

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Task manager

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What MMC snap-in provides tools in a analysing system performance?

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Performance Monitor

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The Processor utilization should not be consistently above?

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80%

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the average disk queue length should not be more than?

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2

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Which power plan does NOT com with Windows 7?

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Performance saver

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What should the maximum pages/sec?

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20

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What can make your disk appear slow over time?

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Disk Fragmentation

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True or False

Paging files are close to or the same speed are regular memory?

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False

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True or False

Sometimes be relieving one bottleneck, you may trigger another bottleneck?

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True

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True or False

If paging file usage is larger than 1.5 time, you should increase the memory?

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True

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True or False

to determine where a bottleneck is occurring, you should compare to a base line

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False

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A page fault occurs when a process attempts to access a virtual memory page that is not available in its working set of RAM?

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True

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