For performance purposes, OS monitoring should include all of the following except:

The correct answer is D. Print spooling. Print spooling (D) is a peripheral I/O service that queues print jobs and has no bearing on overall OS performance metrics. The three legitimate performance monitoring targets are: disk space (A), which affects the OS's ability to write temporary files and swap memory; disk I/O u

Submitted by certguy· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Security Operations

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ADisk space
BDisk I/O usage
CCPU usage
DPrint spooling

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A
3% (1)
B
8% (3)
C
3% (1)
D
86% (32)

Explanation

Print spooling (D) is a peripheral I/O service that queues print jobs and has no bearing on overall OS performance metrics. The three legitimate performance monitoring targets are: disk space (A), which affects the OS's ability to write temporary files and swap memory; disk I/O usage (B), which reveals bottlenecks in read/write throughput; and CPU usage (C), which indicates processing load and potential resource contention. Print spooling is a legacy service that, even if monitored, provides no actionable performance insight for server or cloud OS management.

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