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1) What is the LoadRunner term that describes the time a user pauses between steps?
Pacing
User Delay
Think time
Navigation time
2) What is the first stage of load testing process?
Plan the load test
Create the scenario
Execute the scenario
Create VuGen scripts
3) When analyzing a technical aspect of a system under test, which group is a helpful source of information?
End users
Functional experts
Application experts
Corporate executives
4) Which file type has an extension .lrr?
Script
Results
Analysis
Scenario
5) You are a LoadRunner expert consultant and have been assigned to a client that needs to performance test an application that has not yet been released. How can you obtain information about the application anticipated load?
Estimate how the application will be used
Obtain the necessary information from web logs
Look in the application’s database to determine the anticipated load
Consult with the business experts to determine the anticipated load
6) Which LoadRunner component runs the vuser that generates the load?
VuGen
Analysis
Controller
Load Generator/host
7) You are running a 3-tier web application. With which component must the load generator(s) communicate?
VuGen
Analysis
Controller
Database server
8) Which statement is an example of a conceptual goal?
The application’s update function should still work under heavy load
The update transaction must attain 200 concurrent users during peak time
The search transaction should respond within 5 seconds during normal usage
The login transaction should respond within 4 seconds or less during heavy usage
9) Which term defines the end-to-end measurement of time when one or more steps are completed?
Transaction.
Action section
Business Process
Business Verification.
10) During the analysis of a scenario, you realize that the hits per second become flat as Vusers continue to increase. What is likely to cause?
A bandwidth problem
A database server problem
A web server connection problem
An application server connection problem
11) Which scenario type helps you plan for future growth and provides a safety factor with the application?
Debug
Full Load
Top Time
Scalability
12) What is an example of a stress test?
Purchasing at an e-commerce site
Updating orders on a client/server system
Viewing upcoming flight itineraries on a flight reservation application
Displaying the home page immediately after a marketing promotion has been run
13) What is the first indication of a performance problem?
The network delay time is above 15ms.
The DNS is not resolving the machine name.
The Web server's available memory drops below 1 GB.
The end user experiences higher than expected response time
14) You are meeting a new LoadRunner customer. The application under test is a call center application used by the customer representatives. The representatives are located in Phoenix, AZ and Columbus, OH. A large customer base resides in Flagstaff, AZ an
Phoenix, AZ
Flagstaff, AZ
Cincinnati, OH
Washington, DC
15) Which file defines the Vusers to execute, the number of Vusers to run, the goals of the test, the computer that hosts the Vusers, and the conditions under which to run the load test?
Script
Group
Session
Scenario
16) What is an external data source?
User ID
Password
E-mail address
Purchase order number
17) What are the main types of service level agreements available in the Controller and Analysis?
Per Time Interval
Errors per Second
Average Hits per Run
Average Throughput per Run
18) Which performance test objective is met when determining the cause of performance degradation?
Reliability
Regression
Acceptance
Bottleneck identification
19) What is NOT an advantages of using automated load tests over manual load tests?
Repeatability
Easier to scale
Improved validity
Increased hardware resources
20) Which tool is used to manage and maintain a scenario?
VuGen
Analysis
Controller
Load generator
21) Which Analysis graph details transaction response times throughout the test?
Transactions per Second
Average Transaction Response Time
Transaction Response Time Under Load
Transaction Response Time (distribution)
22) Which types of reports can be automatically generated in the Analysis tool?
Adobe PDF
MS Excel
MS Word
Crystal Report
23) Which graph can analyze each web page component's relative server and network time?
Throughput
Windows Resources
Time to First Buffer Breakdown
Transaction Performance Summary
24) What does the image shown in the exhibit represent?
Auto Correlation
Service Level Agreement
Transaction Performance Summary
Transaction Response Time (distribution)
25) Which option in the Analysis tool allows you to focus on a specific measurement within your graph?
Drill Down
Apply Filter
Merge Graphs
Auto Correlate
26) Which Analysis graph identifies web pages that take the most time; isolates where time is spent; and helps in identifying DNS resolution, SSL, and connection issues?
Windows Resource
Network Delay Time
Time to First Buffer Breakdown
Page Download Time Breakdown
27) You are running a test and notice that during the ramp up, the response times are beginning to drastically increase. How can you instruct LoadRunner to stop ramping up Vusers and hold the current number?
Press the STOP button on the Controller's main window
Press the PAUSE button on the Interactive Schedule graph
Select the option to wait for the current iteration to end before stopping
Select the Vusers in the Ready state from the Vusers window and click the STOP button
28) During the run of a scenario, which LoadRunner component stores the performance monitoring data?
Analysis
Controller
File server
Load generator/host
29) Which scenario allows LoadRunner to automatically manage the Vusers?
Manual
Goal-oriented
User-Defined
Session
30) Which scenario execution run is used to verity the load limit before more resources are required?
Debug
Full Load
Top Time
Scalability
31) Where in the Run-time settings can you define to only send messages when an error occurs?
General: Log
General: Run Logic
General: Miscellaneous
General: Additional Attributes
32) Which LoadRunner tool captures the communication between the browser and web server?
VuGen
Analysis
Controller
Load Generator/host
33) Which performance test objective is met when determining if the system is stable enough to go into production?
Regression
Acceptance
Capacity planning
Product evaluation
34) When you specify to iterate a script 10 times, which sections of the script are iterated?
Group
Action
Vuser_init
Vuser_end
35) View the Business Process Profile table for the e-commerce site shown in the exhibit. Which business processes are the most critical to record?
Sign in
Checkout
Contact Us
View sale items
36) When you define a rendezvous point in a scenario, where should the Ir_start transaction function be placed?
At the end of the action section
At the beginning of the action section
Immediately after the rendezvous function
Immediately before the rendezvous function
37) Which step comes after scenario execution in the load testing process?
Analyze Results
Rerun the Scenario
Record the Process
Fine Tune the System
38) A script was recorded with an average think time for an advanced user. An advanced user pauses 5 seconds between clicks. A first-time user pauses an average of 10 seconds between clicks. How can you modify the think time run-time settings to emulate a
Set the think time to s recorded
Set the think time to multiply the recorded think time by 4
Set the think time to a random percentage between 150% - 250%
Set the think time to replay as recorded, but limit the think time to 10 seconds
39) How can you validate that the LoadRunner Agent is running on the load generator?
Port 443 will be open.
The MIFW.exe process will be running.
The radar dish wall appear in the system tray.
The load generator will be pinged using the name/DNS/IP.
40) Which scenario execution run allows you to look for potential transactions that require significantly longer times to complete?
Debug
Full Load
Scalability
Top Time Transaction
41) You run a load test & the performance does not agree with your goals. What is the next step that should be taken?
Consult with subject matter experts
Add an additional web server to the environment
Add additional memory to the hardware under test
Change your run time settings and return the scenario
42) Which level of concurrency identifies how many users are currently in the process of buying a ticket?
System
Application
Transaction
Business process
43) You are analyzing the results for a Debug run and realize that response times are better than SLAs. What should you do?
Re-run the scenario again to validate the transaction response times
Inform the project manager that additional performance tests are not necessary
Ignore the transaction response times because they are meaningless in a Debug run
Prepare for overload/scalability testing because the application is ready for additional users
44) You want to control the delay between iterations. Where do you set this in the IZun-time settings?
General: Pacing
General; Think Time
Network: Speed Simulation
Browser: Browser Emulation
45) Which LoadRunner component is supported on UNIX?
VuGen
Analysis
Controller
Load generator
46) Which option in the Analysis tool allows you to compare a measurement in a graph with other measurements during a specific time range of a scenario and view similar trends?
Drill Down
Apply Filter
Merge Graphs
Auto Correlate
47) What is an intersection point in a business process?
Scenario
Rendezvous
Transaction
Service level agreement
48) Which Analysis graph details the delay for the complete path between the source and destination machines?
MS IIS
Windows Resource
Network Delay Time
Time to First Buffer Breakdown
49) What does the elapsed time in the Scenario Status window refer to?
The time that has elapsed from when all Vusers have finished Initializing
The time that has elapsed from when all Vusers were in the running state
The time that has elapsed from when you press the start Scenario button
The time that has elapsed from when the first Vusers entered the running state
50) While running a script in the Controller you notice a scripting error. While the scenario is still open, you return to VuGen, make the coding modification & save the script. What do you need to do before running the scenario again?
Save the scenario
Refresh the script in the Controller
Refresh the Run-time settings in the Controller
Do nothing. The script will automatically refresh.
51) You configure a scenario to start with a delay of (HH:MM:SS) just before leaving from work. You return the next morning to find that the scenario did not run. Why would this happen?
You failed to save the scenario.
You failed to save the schedule.
You failed to connect to the load generators.
You failed to press the START SCENARIO button.
52) Which performance test objective is met when determining if the new version of the software adversely affects response time?
Reliability
Regression
Acceptance
Capacity planning
53) What displays business processes and volume across a time line?
Business process profile
Task distribution diagram
Business process mapping
System configuration analysis
54) What is the appropriate scenario outline if your quantitative goal is to attain 2,500 concurrent users for the Update transaction during peak time?
Load test should achieve 2,500 users only.
Script should define the Update transaction only.
Script should define the Update transaction, and the load test should achieve 2,500 users.
Script should define the Update transaction, and the load test should achieve 2,500 concurrent users.
55) What is the first stage of the load testing process?
Plan the load test
Create the Scenario
Execute the Scenario
Create VuGen Scripts
56) On which platform can the Controller be installed?
UNIX
Linux
Windows
Sun Solaris
57) During a top time transaction run, what is the recommended load percentage?
20%
35%
50%
100%
58) Script should define the Update transaction, and the load test should achieve 2,500 concurrent users.
150
200
400
475
59) What allows you to gather performance metrics for a variety of major backend system components including firewalls, application servers, and database servers?
Monitors
Scenarios
Transactions
Service level agreement
60) What is the LoadRunner term for varying values defined in a placeholder that replaces the hard-coded values?
Variable
Constant
Parameter
Correlation
61) Which performance test finds the behavior and performance of each tier?
Load test
Volume test
Scalability test
Component test
62) Which performance test is used to find the system breaking point?
Load test
Volume test
Scalability test
Component test
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