Load Balancing Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which component in a load balancing configuration is primarily responsible for performing health checks on back-end servers?
2. You are configuring a Layer 7 load balancer. Which of the following features is uniquely enabled by Layer 7 processing compared to Layer 4?
3. A web application requires that a user's session remains with the same back-end server throughout their interaction. Which load balancing setting should you configure?
4. If you are using a 'Least Connections' load balancing algorithm, how does the load balancer decide where to send the next incoming request?
5. You have a public load balancer with a back-end pool of web servers. Users report intermittent connection timeouts. The health probes are configured with a 5-second interval and a 2-second timeout, and the 'Unhealthy Threshold' is set to 2. What is the minimum amount of time it takes for an unresponsive server to be removed from the load balancer rotation?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.