Multiple choice technology performance

Which is considered best practice on selecting components in the Application Under Test (AUT) to monitor?

  1. monitor just the Database server

  2. monitor just the Application server

  3. monitor all system components present in your AUT

  4. use the performance summary instead of monitoring individual components
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Comprehensive monitoring across all components in the Application Under Test is critical because bottlenecks can occur anywhere in the system. Focusing only on the database or application server risks missing issues in other layers like web servers, cache servers, or authentication services. The performance summary provides aggregated data but cannot replace component-level monitoring needed for root cause analysis.

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