4. Architecture and Design
Scalability And Performance — Quiz
Test your understanding of scalability and performance with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which of the following architectural styles is inherently designed to address scalability and performance challenges in large-scale distributed systems by breaking down applications into smaller, independent services?
Question 2
When designing a system for high throughput, which of the following factors is generally the most critical to optimize?
Question 3
A system experiences a sudden and significant increase in user requests, causing its response time to degrade from $50$ ms to $500$ ms. This scenario primarily indicates a failure in which aspect of the system's design?
Question 4
Which of the following techniques is most effective in reducing latency for users geographically distant from a central server?
Question 5
Consider a system where the average time to process a single request is $T$ and the system can handle $N$ concurrent requests. Which of the following expressions best approximates the maximum throughput ($\text{requests per second}$) of the system?