Monitor Servers

Question 1

four bottle-necks / subsystems that servers must scale

Answer 1

Processor
memory
disk
network

Question 2

MSFT says that processors become a bottleneck when ___

Answer 2

Processor spikes above 80% regularly

Question 3

MSFT says network is a bottleneck when ____

Answer 3

network bandwidth utilization hits 37%

Question 4

Data collector sets

Answer 4

Collections of counters that target specific topics in the performance monitoring tool

Question 5

User Defined Data Collector Sets

Answer 5

You can create your own sets of counters customized to the functions of the server

Question 6

Two Windows OS modes

Answer 6

Kernel mode

User mode

Question 7

kernel mode

Answer 7

low-level applications and OS components that support the OS (aka privileged time)

Question 8

user mode

Answer 8

applications that run in user-mode sit on top of the OS, kernel (aka user time)

Question 9

MSFT says acceptable kernal utilization / privileged time should be

Answer 9

10%

Question 10

Get-counter

Answer 10

Gets real-time performance counter data from local and remote computers.

Question 11

Import-counter

Answer 11

Exports PerformanceCounterSampleSet objects as performance counter log (.blg, .csv, .tsv) files.

Question 12

Export-counter

Answer 12

Imports performance counter log files and creates objects that represent each counter sample in the log.

Question 13

minimum permissions you must have to configure the Performance Monitor display

Answer 13

You must be in the Administrators group or the Performance Log Users group