The CompTIA Cloud Certification Exam - Deploying and Managing a Cloud Infrastructure - page 413

Objective Corresponding Topic Chapter

6.2 Given a scenario, diagnose, remediate and optimize
physical host performance.

Chapter 8

Disk performance

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Disk tuning

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Disk latency

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Swap disk space

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I/O tuning

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Performance management and monitoring tools

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Establish baseline and create documentation with
appropriate tools

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Hypervisor configuration best practices
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Memory ballooning

I/O throttling

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CPU wait time

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Impact of configuration changes to the virtual
environment

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Common issues
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Disk failure

HBA failure

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Memory failure

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NIC failure

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CPU failure

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6.3 Explain common performance concepts as they
relate to the host and the guest.

Chapter 8

IOPS

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Read vs. write files

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File system performance

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Metadata performance

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Caching

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Bandwidth

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Throughput (bonding/teaming)

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Jumbo frames

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Network latency

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Hop counts

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QoS

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Multipathing

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Load balancing

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Scaling
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Vertical vs. horizontal vs. diagonal