Simple adjustments to server settings and parameters can have a huge affect on performance. With the right tuning and server management tactics, you can keep your data center humming at peak performance.

Our interactive classroom on fine-tuning Windows Server performance covers those topics, as well as Active Directory design tactics and some helpful performance monitoring tools. Now it's time to see how well you were paying attention!

Take this brief quiz to test your knowledge of how to optimize your Windows Server performance.

Windows Server Performance Quiz

1. Defragmenting Active Directory can reduce the size of its database by:

• 10%
• 15% to 20%
• 30% to 40%
• 50% to 60%

2. What Active Directory process allows changes to propagate across distributed enterprises?

• Replication
• Resilience
• Redundancy
• Relocation

3. Which of the following is NOT a result of optimizing a Windows Server?

• Enhanced stability for the OS and applications
• Mitigate server power/cooling requirements
• Extending technology refresh cycles
• Dramatically reduced server costs

4. In what instance do processor upgrades make the most sense?

• Anytime a new processor version comes out
• Just after you patch the server's firmware
• When unused (open) processor sockets are available
• All of the above

5. When do you need to test and requalify servers?

• When you update server hardware or firmware
• When you update the OS
• When you update the application/workload
• All of the above

6. When should you apply performance baselines to optimized servers?

• After updating server hardware
• After updating the OS
• When you update the application or workload
• All of the above

7. What is the advantage of deploying service packs to an operating system rather than applying individual patches or updates?

• All previous or recent patches are included in the service pack
• It's faster to install the service pack
• There are fewer errors or bugs in a service pack
• None of the above

8. Which changes can NOT be applied to operating systems like Windows Server 2008 R2?

• Relocate or disable the Windows pagefile
• Update graphics cards for better application virtualization
• Configure receive-side scaling
• Select an optimum stripe size and set disk I/O priorities

9. Administrators can use Performance Monitor to not only diagnose performance problems but also to prevent them.

• True
• False

10. Which tool can monitor, manage and read event log files?

• PerfMon
• EventSentry
• fLogViewer
• LogParser

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