Performance Metrics and Baselines Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which of the following metrics is most commonly used to measure the responsiveness of an application by tracking the time it takes to process a single request?
2. When establishing a performance baseline for a new service, why is it critical to collect data during both 'peak' and 'off-peak' hours?
3. Your team is analyzing a service where the average response time is 200ms, but 5% of users are experiencing response times over 5 seconds. Which metric should you focus on to identify this issue?
4. A system's throughput has reached a plateau despite increasing the number of concurrent users. What is the most likely cause?
5. You are performing a load test to determine the 'knee of the curve' for a microservice. What does this point represent in terms of system performance?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.