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| A(n) ____ is an automated watchdog that informs you when a counter crosses a defined threshold, high or low. |
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| Disk bottlenecks are the most likely problem when disk-related counters increase more dramatically than other counters or when disk ____ lengths become unacceptably long. |
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| In object-oriented parlance, ____ have properties. |
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| It is a good idea to spread the paging file across as many ____ as possible. |
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| Make sure the network interface appears higher in the ____ order than a modem or other slower link device. |
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| Processor ____ is assigning a process to execute only on a specific CPU or multiple CPUs. |
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| When you add ____ to a Windows XP Professional machine, be sure to resize the paging file to accommodate the change properly. |
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| ____ permits wholesale manipulation of the priority granted to applications versus services. |
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| Many experts believe that the single most dramatic improvement for an existing Windows XP PC comes from adding ____ to a machine. |
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| One way to access Task Manager is to press Ctrl+Shift+____. |
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| Processor bottlenecks are indicated when the Processor object's % Processor time counter stays consistently above ____% or when the System object's Processor Queue Length counter remains fixed near a value of 2 or more. |
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| Refresh rates apply to group policy, which defaults to ____ on Windows XP. |
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| What is the default interval for counter logs? |
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| You want to make sure that your system baseline itself does not indicate existing ____. |
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| A thread is an internal identifier for some kind of system resource, object, or other component that must be accessed by name. True or False |
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| Counters make it quite easy to gather data about the system while it is running, and they impose surprisingly little overall performance overhead on a system. True Or False |
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| File synchronization can take a while and can consume significant power. True or false |
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| Only users with administrator-level access to Windows XP Professional can run processes at a Realtime priority level. True Or false |
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| The most common type of bottleneck on a Windows XP system is a network bottleneck. True Or False |
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| Using counter logs is a complicated and time-consuming process. True Or False |
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| Visual effects have no impact on system performance. True Or False |
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