Performance Bottleneck Analysis Quiz

Quiz covering Performance Improvement

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   Which of the following is the most common first step when identifying a performance bottleneck in an existing software application?

2. 2

   If your application profiling shows that 80% of execution time is spent waiting on database queries, what is the most logical next step?

3. 3

   You observe that CPU usage is consistently low, but request latency is high. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

4. 4

   When addressing a memory bottleneck caused by a memory leak in a managed-language application, what is the most effective way to identify the source of the leak?

5. 5

   You are debugging a distributed system where a specific service periodically experiences 'hiccups' in latency. During these spikes, the service's logs show no errors, but downstream dependencies report timeouts. What is the most likely cause and appropriate diagnostic tool?