11.1.3 practice questions CIS 53

Which of the following is a best practice when establishing a baseline?

Determine baselines over time by analyzing network traffic.

Which of the following could be to blame if your computer is regularly crashing or restarting?

The processor is too hot.

Which of the following is true about processor performance?

A healthy system's CPU utilization should average around 40%.

Where can you check your CPU's temperature?

BIOS

Which of the following is the term for when a system is unable to keep up with the demands placed on it?

Bottleneck

Which of the following is the term for a calculation of how often bits are damaged in transit due to electromagnetic interference?

Error rate

When packets arrive at their destination at different speeds, they sometimes arrive out of order. What does this cause?

Jitter

What is the definition of bandwidth?

The amount of data that can be transferred from one place to another in a specific amount of time.

What is the definition of latency?

The speed at which data packets travel from source to destination and back.

Your computer seems to be running slowly. In particular, you notice that the hard drive activity light remains lit when you run multiple applications and switch between open windows. This happens even though you aren't saving large files. What should you do to troubleshoot the problem?

Use Resource Monitor to monitor memory utilization.