MS2275 U2

1. Your goal is to monitor all your Windows Server 2003 servers so that they can be defragmented on a regular schedule, and as efficiently as possible. The disk defragmentation program that you use requires at least 20% free disk space on each volume in order to defragment properly. What should you do? 

Answer: Configure Performance Logs And Alerts on a workstation (or less-utilized server) to monitor all the remote servers’ LogicalDisk object, % Free Space counter for each instance on that computer. In addition, configure each counter as an Alert with a threshold of Below 20% free space. Finally, configure each of the Alerts to send a message to the administrator (and any other user accounts that you want to receive the message).

2. You have been monitoring one of your Windows Server 2003 servers due to poor performance on the network. The following data is representative of your findings:
.Processor: % Processor Time: High
.Physical Disk: % Disk Time: Low
.Memory: Pages/sec: Low
.Processor: Interrupts/sec: High
.Process: % Processor Time (for non-service processes): Low
.Process: % Processor Time (for system services): Low
What is the most likely explanation for the problem?

Answer: It is likely that the Network Interface Card (or another device) is experiencing a problem at the device level. The high number of interrupts per second would cause the processor to be busy processing requests for service from the network interface. With all other counters being low, it is unlikely that an application or any System service is at fault.

3. What information can Task Manager provide about the performance of applications? 

Answer: Task Manager can provide processor, memory usage (including the page file), and basic Input/ Output on a process-by-process basis.