Question 400
An application experiences 20 ms average latency but bursts to 250 ms during each storage transfer, causing user complaints. Which failure mechanism best explains the observed behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The symptoms fit this mechanism. A targeted response is to measure latency distribution and QoS queue contention, then control the interfering transfer class, followed by verification that high-percentile latency and jitter remain within application requirements during transfer windows.
Incorrect Answers
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a data center uplink shows burst loss while average utilization stays below 40 percent. The symptoms here are better explained by an acceptable mean obscures severe queueing spikes correlated with bulk traffic.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a high-density WLAN has a large number of associated idle devices; an operator assumes association count alone proves capacity overload. The symptoms here are better explained by an acceptable mean obscures severe queueing spikes correlated with bulk traffic.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a large class sends video traffic through a 1 Gbps uplink attached to multiple multigigabit APs and the uplink becomes saturated. The symptoms here are better explained by an acceptable mean obscures severe queueing spikes correlated with bulk traffic.