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N10-005 · Question #780

The company's main server is using 98% of its available resources and Joe needs to evenly distribute the work to another server using which of the following?

The correct answer is D. Load balancer. A load balancer distributes incoming network traffic or workloads evenly across multiple servers to prevent any single server from being overwhelmed.

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Question

The company's main server is using 98% of its available resources and Joe needs to evenly distribute the work to another server using which of the following?

Options

  • AVPN concentrator
  • BContent filter
  • CProxy server
  • DLoad balancer

How the community answered

(65 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    3% (2)
  • C
    6% (4)
  • D
    89% (58)

Why each option

A load balancer distributes incoming network traffic or workloads evenly across multiple servers to prevent any single server from being overwhelmed.

AVPN concentrator

A VPN concentrator aggregates multiple VPN tunnels from remote users into the corporate network - it does not distribute processing workloads between servers.

BContent filter

A content filter inspects and restricts web or application content based on policy - it plays no role in distributing server workloads.

CProxy server

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between clients and servers and can cache content, but it does not evenly distribute a server's existing workload to additional servers.

DLoad balancerCorrect

A load balancer sits in front of a server pool and uses algorithms such as round-robin or least-connections to evenly distribute requests across available servers, directly solving the problem of one server consuming 98% of its resources by offloading traffic to additional servers.

Concept tested: Load balancing for server resource distribution

Source: https://www.f5.com/glossary/load-balancer

Topics

#load balancer#server resources#traffic distribution#high availability

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