Question 200
An application experiences 20 ms average latency but bursts to 250 ms during each storage transfer, causing user complaints. Which immediate engineering change most directly addresses this issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The underlying issue is that an acceptable mean obscures severe queueing spikes correlated with bulk traffic. This intervention addresses that cause directly. A useful result to confirm is: high-percentile latency and jitter remain within application requirements during transfer windows.
Incorrect Answers
This is suited to a different condition, such as when a campus needs voice admission under congestion but the existing profile guarantees QoS to more calls than available airtime. The reported fault instead arises because an acceptable mean obscures severe queueing spikes correlated with bulk traffic.
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