Troubleshooting Performance Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering Performance Testing Strategy

What you'll be asked

  1. Which of the following is the primary goal of performance testing?
  2. During a load test, you notice that the average response time increases significantly as the number of concurrent users grows. What is the most likely cause?
  3. When analyzing performance results, what does a 'spike' in response time usually indicate?
  4. You are running a stress test and the application server starts returning 503 Service Unavailable errors. What should be your first troubleshooting step?
  5. In a complex distributed system, you observe that the database CPU is at 95% while the web server CPU is at 20%. If you increase the number of web servers, what is the expected outcome?

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