Microsoft Interview Question for Program Managers






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keeping additional temp servers isnt cost efficient. It should be a good idea to benchpark the system wrt performance. Then scaliblity testing should be done to see how the performance change as the system is scaled.

Also , load patterns should be determined, like the busy hours in a day, peak load days/months. Further transaction history should be generated for peak loads. e.g: if peak load transactions is more dbase intensive, it makes sense to optimize db server rather than the web sever .

All the above are based on cost constraint which is very realistic ..

- p1 November 04, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Maybe some concept of caching or if economically feasible add more servers and do load balancing on the requests that come in and decide which server should serve the request

- chinni September 15, 2008 | Flag Reply
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You could also increase the RAM and processing power of the server.

- i-booze.com September 23, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Use a farm of webservers sitting behind a hardware loadbalancer with virtual ip. Every time there is need for more capacity, add more webservers.

- HA October 25, 2008 | Flag Reply
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agree with p1...
also can think of using a CDN like akamai... which in fact cnn uses.

- nix November 13, 2008 | Flag Reply


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