Synthia is the administrator of a web site running Microsoft Windows NT. She notices
since her web site was advertised on another popular web site the number of visits has
increased diagrammatically. Synthia site appears to be running and she suspects that the
slow down is hardware related. Which step Synthia should take first to investigate the
slow down?

A.
Analyze the system performance using the Windows NT performance monitor.

B.
Purchase another server to speed up the bottleneck.

C.
Rewrite the application code to better use the hardware that is in place.

D.
Use a site diagnostic tool such as web trends to monitor site statistics and discover that
which pages are running most slowly.

Explanation:
We have a hardware slowdown, and the best way under Windows NT
to analyze the situation is to use the performance monitor and determine where the
bottlenecks are. From this she can determine which hardware resources are
insufficient and overloaded.
Incorrect Answers:
B: Purchasing another server is premature, when it is not known where the bottleneckactually I
occurring.
C: There is limited performance gains form code rewrites. However, you can’t tackle theproblems
until you can run diagnostics and see what the actual bottleneck is. Forexample, you rewrite the
code for gains in CPU usage, but the actual bottleneck wasmemory. You are shooting in the dark.
D: The site diagnostics here do not have access to the necessary performance variables
todetermine hardware resource usage. The bottlenecks will not be properly identified.