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Application performance: How much do you know?

25 Sep 2008 | SearchSoftwareQuality.com

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You've read the articles in our guide on Optimizing Performance in the Enterprise, and now it's time to find out how much you know. Take this interactive quiz to test your smarts. Questions come from each section in the guide. If you need help coming up with an answer, click the link provided with each question. The answer can be found in there. (Note: Enter the complete answer in the field, not the letter it corresponds to.)

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  1. What is it about application-to-application transactions that can put enormous pressure on performance monitoring tools?
    a. The transactions are more complex
    b. The transactions occur at much faster rates
    c. The transactions depend on the network on which they run
    d. It's difficult to determine where the applications are

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  2. When monitoring SOA performance you must analyze the metrics in the context of the service relationships in the production environment and display that information in different ways for different audiences.
    a. True
    b. False

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  3. When creating a performance test plan, you should do what?
    a. Focus only on the technical approach
    b. Focus on both the business and technical approaches
    c. Write in long paragraphs
    d. Not consider the performance requirements

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  4. Five approaches have been named in order to deal with XML bottlenecks in SOA deployments. Two of them are XML compression and offloading via accelerators. Name one other.
    a. Caching
    b. Transport-level optimization
    c. Optimized XML processing
    d. All of thee above

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  5. The ability to retrieve auto-generated keys provides flexibility to the JDBC developer and creates performance boosts when accessing data.
    a. True
    b. False

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  6. Application service management is one suggested way to diagnose and resolve SOA performance issues. It enables IT operations teams to do what?
    a. Set performance metrics at the application service level, at the code level, or anywhere in between
    b. Communicate and collaborate with architects and programmers
    c. Go away on vacation
    d. None of thee above

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  7. Performance testing expert Scott Barber uses the mnemonic CCD IS EARI to remember the most common activities conducted during successful performance testing projects. What does "D" stand for?
    a. Diagnose
    b. Design
    c. Duplicate
    d. Doomed

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  8. What is becoming more important as organizations try to ensure high application performance?
    a. Buying the right monitoring tool
    b. Buying the right testing tool
    c. Setting application performance targets and goals
    d. Creating applications that are less complex

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  9. Developers and operations teams do not need to work together to resolve SOA or RIA performance problems.
    a. True
    b. False

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  10. According to Bob Lozano, founder & chief strategist at Appistry, one of the performance issues people are dealing with in applications is what?
    a. Slowness
    b. Capturing metrics
    c. Too-complex designs
    d. Reliability

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