Question

Point out the correct statement.

(a) Most load balancers allow you to weight the requests going to a specific server with the goal of serving more requests to less powerful systems and fewer requests to more powerful systems

(b) Most load balancers allow you to weight the requests going to a specific server with the goal of serving more requests to more powerful systems and fewer requests to less powerful systems

(c) Most load balancers allow you to weight the requests going to a specific server with the goal of serving fewer requests to more powerful systems and more requests to less powerful systems

(d) All of the mentioned

This question was addressed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

Question is taken from Resource Ceilings in section Abstraction and Virtualization Layer and Capacity Planning of Cloud Computing

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Most load balancers allow you to weight the requests going to a specific server with the goal of serving more requests to more powerful systems and fewer requests to less powerful systems

Easiest explanation: When you have multiple virtual servers that are part of a server farm and have a load balancer in front of them, you can use your load balancer to test your servers’ resource ceilings.