Multiple choice technology performance

During analysis of a scenario, you realize that the throughput becomes flat as Vusers continue to increase. What is the likely cause?

  1. Bandwidth problem

  2. A database server problem

  3. A web server connection problem

  4. An application server connection problem
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Explanation

When throughput plateaus (becomes flat) despite increasing virtual users, the most common cause is bandwidth saturation - the network pipe is maxed out. Database, web server, or application server connection issues typically cause errors or degraded response times rather than flat throughput. Bandwidth constraints create a hard ceiling on throughput.

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