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CV0-002 · Question #25

During peak times, users are unable to access their online wealth management applications in a timely fashion. The online banking application resides in a community cloud environment. Which of the…

The correct answer is A. Access the cloud services portal and ensure memory ballooning is enabled. Users experiencing slow application access during peak times in a community cloud environment suggests a resource contention issue, which the cloud systems administrator should address by checking memory configuration.

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Question

During peak times, users are unable to access their online wealth management applications in a timely fashion. The online banking application resides in a community cloud environment. Which of the following explains how the cloud systems administrator should start to resolve this issue?

Options

  • AAccess the cloud services portal and ensure memory ballooning is enabled.
  • BAccess the cloud services portal and ensure there is adequate disk space available.
  • CAccess the cloud services portal and ensure all users are accessing it through the same web
  • DAccess the cloud services portal and ensure the ACLs are set correctly for the user community.

How the community answered

(26 responses)
  • A
    81% (21)
  • B
    8% (2)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    8% (2)

Why each option

Users experiencing slow application access during peak times in a community cloud environment suggests a resource contention issue, which the cloud systems administrator should address by checking memory configuration.

AAccess the cloud services portal and ensure memory ballooning is enabled.Correct

Memory ballooning is a hypervisor feature that allows a guest operating system to reclaim unused memory from other virtual machines, dynamically allocating memory resources to where they are most needed. If applications are slow due to memory contention during peak times, ensuring memory ballooning is properly configured and functioning can help optimize memory allocation and improve performance. By checking if memory ballooning is enabled, the administrator can ensure that memory resources are being efficiently managed across the virtual machines to support the online banking application.

BAccess the cloud services portal and ensure there is adequate disk space available.

Inadequate disk space typically leads to application errors or failures to write data, not necessarily slow access during peak times, unless the slowness is due to disk I/O contention which is a different issue than general application slowness implying compute or memory issues first.

CAccess the cloud services portal and ensure all users are accessing it through the same web

Users accessing an application through the same web browser does not directly cause application slowness during peak times; browser choice is generally irrelevant to backend performance issues.

DAccess the cloud services portal and ensure the ACLs are set correctly for the user community.

Incorrect ACLs (Access Control Lists) would typically prevent users from accessing the application entirely or restrict specific functionalities, rather than causing general slowness during peak times.

Concept tested: Cloud resource optimization - memory ballooning

Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc/GUID-C3F71383-D0D9-4BC9-9E86-7CD1F11D0DC5.html

Topics

#performance troubleshooting#memory ballooning#virtualization#resource contention

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