70-350 Implementing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 Practice Exam

Demo Question 1.

You work as the network administrator for EliteCertify.com. The EliteCertify.com network consist of a single Active Directory domain named EliteCertify.com. Your duties include administering an ISA Server 2004 computer named EliteCertify -SR21. EliteCertify.com is divided into several departments. EliteCertify -SR21 provides forward Web caching for the employees on the Internal network. EliteCertify -SR21 has a 512 MB of RAM and a single 60-GB hard disk and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) database logging is enabled. One morning you receive a report from a Sales department employee named Kara Lang complaining that is takes longer than usual for Web pages to appear. You need to identify the source of the slow performance. To this end you should choose the appropriate System Monitor performance counters that will enable you to identify the source of the slow performance. What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose TWO.)

A. Select the Memory\Pages/sec System Monitor performance counter.
B. Select the Memory\Pool Nonpaged Bytes System Monitor performance counter.
C. Select the MSSQL$MSFW:Databases(*)\Transactions/sec System Monitor performance counter.
D. Select the MSSQL$MSFW:MemoryManager\Target Server Memory (K System Monitor performance counter.
E. Select the Physical Disk\Avg. Disk Queue Length System Monitor performance counter.
F. Select the Physical Disk\SplitIO/sec System Monitor performance counter.


Display Answer

Answer: A, E

Explanation: You can view the performance objects and their associated performance counters in real time in System Monitor. System Monitor is a monitoring tool that is included with Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Memory\Pages/sec - Pages/sec is the rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults. This counter is a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause system-wide delays. Memory\Pool Nonpaged Bytes - Pool Nonpaged Bytes is the size, in bytes, of the nonpaged pool, an area of system memory (physical memory used by the operating system) for objects that cannot be written to disk, but must remain in physical memory as long as they are allocated. Physical Disk\Avg. Disk Queue Length - Is the average number of both read and write requests that were queued for the selected disk during the sample interval. MSSQL$MSFW:Databases(*)\Transactions/sec - Number of transactions started for the database. MSSQL$MSFW:MemoryManager\Target Server Memory - Total amount of dynamic memory the server is willing to consume.