This is a type of performance testing conducted to evaluate the behavior of a system at increasing

workload.

-Load Testing

This determines the maximum user load the software application can handle.

-Scalability

This is a type of software testing that intends to determine how a system performs in terms of
responsiveness and stability under a certain load.

-Performance Testing

This determines whether the application responds quickly.

-Speed

This is a type of performance testing conducted to evaluate the behavior of a system when the load is
suddenly and substantially increased.

-Spike Testing

The goal of Performance Testing is to eliminate these.

-Bottlenecks

This is a type of performance testing conducted to evaluate the behavior of a system when a significant
workload is given continuously.

-Endurance Testing

This determines if the application is stable under varying loads.

-Stability

This is a type of performance testing conducted to evaluate the behavior of a system at or beyond the
limits of its anticipated workload.

-Stress Testing

Its response time, reliability, resource usage, and scalability do matter.

-Software Application's Performance

Performance Testing is a subset of performance engineering.

-True
Performance Testing cannot uncover what needs to be tested and upgraded before the
product goes to the market.

-False

Without Performance Testing, software is likely to suffer from issues such as running slow while several
users use it simultaneously.

-True

Application Testing will determine whether their software meets speed, scalability, and stability
requirements under expected workloads.

-False

Applications sent to market with poor performance metrics due to non-existent or

poor performance testing are likely to gain popularity and new niche in the market.
-False

Mission-critical applications like space launch programs or life-saving medical equipment

should be performance tested to ensure that they run for a long period without deviations.

-True

Only a 1-minute downtime of Google.com (19-Aug-13) is estimated to cost the search giant
as much as $545,000.

-False

It is estimated that companies lost sales worth $1100 per second due to a recent Amazon Web Service
Outage.

-True

Scability Testing is to check software application's performance under varying database

volumes.
-False
Volume Testing helps plan capacity addition to the software system.
-False

Proper loading includes goals and constraints for throughput, _____________ and resource
allocation. It is also necessary to identify project success criteria outside of these goals and
constraints.

-Response Times

This refers to the amount of physical memory available to process on a computer.

-Memory Use

The refers to the amount of virtual memory used.

-Committed Memory
This is the average number of read and write requests queued for the selected disk during a sample
interval.
-Desk Queue Length
A software product suffers from this when it cannot handle the expected number of users or
when it does not accommodate a wide enough range of users.
-Poor Scalability
These are monitored to determine what wait times can be cut down when dealing with the how fast
data is retrieved from memory.
-Top Waits
It has to do with returning unused memory back to the system.

-Garbage Collection

All are common activities of performance bottlenecks except one.

-Software Enhancement

This referred to the time from when a user enters a request until the first character of the
response is received.
-Response Time

The key to fixing a bottlenecking issue is to find the section of code that is causing the
slowdown and delete it entirely.

-False

The number of bytes a process has allocated that can't be shared among other processes.
These are used to measure memory leaks and usage.

-Private Bytes
This is normally the initial time it takes an application to start.
-Long Load Time

This is when either coding errors or hardware issues cause a decrease of throughput under certain
loads.

-Bottlenecking

The key to fixing a ________________ issue is to find the section of code that is causing the slowdown
and try to fix it there.

-Bottlenecking

This shows the bits per second used by a network interface.

-Bandwidth

This is when the code that is not from the current working set is called up from elsewhere and
retrieved from a disk.
-Hard Page Faults

This refers to an amount of time processor spends executing non-idle threads.

-Processor Usage

The IT expert should understand the details of the hardware, software and _________________ used
during testing before beginning the testing process.
-Network Configurations
This is the rate of a computer or what the network can receive a request per second.
-Throughput

An applications health can be measured by the number of threads that are running and currently
active.
-Thread Counts

This has to do with the number of SQL statements that are handled by cached data instead
of expensive I/O operations.
-Hit Ratios

This _____________ adopted for performance testing can vary widely but the objective for
performance tests remain the same.
-Methodology

This is an amount of time when the disk is busy executing a read or write request.
-Disk Time
These referred to the number of pages written to or read from the disk in order to resolve
hard page faults.
-Memory Pages

This should be very quick or else, the user has to wait too long and they lose interest.

-Response Time

Hacking for a cause is called hacktivism.

-True

MAC address spoofing is which type of attack?

---Analysis

---Synthesis

---Duplication

Which of the following statements best describes a white-hat hacker?

-Security Professional

Which of the following is a system, program, or network that is the subject of a security
analysis?
-Target of Evaluation

Name the attack type when a hacker attempts to attack a host via the Internet.
-Remote Attack
Who uses their hacking skills for destructive purposes?
-Cracker
What type of ethical hack tests access to the physical infrastructure?
-Physical Access
Reconnaissance is the last phase of hacking.
-False
A security audit performed on the internal network of an organization by the network
administration is also known as ______________.
-White-Box Testing
The security, functionality, and ease of use triangle illustrates which concept?
-As security decreases, functionality and ease of use increase

The control unit is the part of the processor that interprets the instructions.
-True

The Computer Bus transmits data to different parts of the machine.

-Yes

This is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that
magnetically store data, instructions, and information.
-Hard Drive

1,000,000,000,000 bytes is a terabyte.

-True

The world's largest network is the:

-Internet

Data is a collection of unprocessed items, which can introduce text, numbers, images, audio,
and video.
-True

A built-in connection to other documents, graphics, audio files, videos, web pages, or
websites.
-Hyperlink

The _____________ tells the computer how to perform the functions of loading, storing, and
executing an application program and how to transfer data.
-Operating System

This is the brain of the computer.

-CPU
CPU interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer.
-True
An input device that contains keys you press to enter data into a computer.
-Keyboard
A pointing device that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.
-Mouse
It is a cloud-based, distributed load
testing tool.
-Triscentis Flood
It is a cloud based, distributed load testing solution that ensures applications run reliably
before, during and after DevOps releases.
-Flood IO
It is an easy and cost effective way to test websites, mobile/web applications, web
services and API’s.
-Load Focus
It is a SaaS based performance testing tool powered by Jmeter for the web, API, REST
and mobile app.
-Octoperf
It is fully managed, on-demand load testing tool that allows for completely hassle free load
and stress testing.
-Loadview
LoadUI's easy-to-use graphical interface makes it simple for new users to setup
load scenarios.
-LoadUI NG Pro
Organization wide load and performance testing tool for web
applications.
-Webload
This is a test designed to increase the number of simultaneous requests on a system past a
point where performance degrades, possibly even to a point of complete failure of the
system.
-Stress Test
It provides advanced testing features with Jmeter at
its core.
-SmartMeter.io
They need knowledge of tools and in some complex cases, the programming languages to
perform load testing.
-Testers
It is an open source load testing tool and it is a Java platform
application.
-Apache Jmeter
This is a planned test to perform a specified number of requests to a system in order to test
the performance of the system.
-Load Test
It allows to simulate millions of concurrent users from multiple
geographic locations.
-Cloud
This is an HP product which can be used as a load testing tool. It can handle and create
thousands of virtual users at the same time.
-HP Loadrunner
It is 100% compatible with Apache Jmeter and other open-source tools like Jenkins and
Selenium Webdriver.
-Blazemeter
Which type of person poses the greatest threat to an organization's security?
-Disgruntled Employee
Application software are programs designed to make users more productive and assist them
with personal task.
-True
This is a business conducted electronically.
-eCommerce
API performance tests can be divided into two: functional and
_______________.
-Load Tests
______________are the equivalent of unit tests for
software.
-Functional API Tests
Most API tests also fall under the umbrella term “__________________” because
their purpose is to determine the overall performance of a system under specific
circumstances.
-Performance Tests
For _____________, API testing is essential not just for making promises to
customers (and keeping them) but also for gathering data about API
performance to improve development.
-Developers
APIs should be functionally ____________, as well as available, fast, secure
and reliable.
-Correct
When the deployment works, the tests should return the ____________
everywhere.
-Same Results
Every load test works with _____________, typically abbreviated to VU, which
simulate different clients.
-Virtual Users
It's recommended to run them to verify that deployment doesn't break
functionality.
-Functional API Tests
Load API tests, on the other hand, typically run in production or an
______________.
-Equivalent System
This is because non-functional constraints such as reliability and responsiveness
look differently under various real-world conditions.
-API Load Tests
With Peak Testing you simulate your API at peak times.
-True
The ramp-up ___________ with a single user and grows linearly until reaching the
selected number of users.
-Starts
The idea behind this testing approach is to continuously grow the load to find
the point at which your API becomes either too slow, non-responsive or throws
errors.
-Stress Testing
The idea behind Spike Testing is to _______________ the load in short bursts, much
faster than in a peak test, to see how the system performs to sudden increases
who flatline again.
-Increase
This is testing by the actual users.
-UAT Tests
______________ typically includes simple uptime checks as well as performance or
functional tests.
-API Monitoring
The idea behind ______________ is that sometimes a system seems to perform as
expected under a particular load and then, all of a sudden, it stops working
without any changes in traffic.
-Soak Testing
A soak test is a load test that runs with a high but non-critical number of VUs for
a long time, from several hours to multiple days.
-True
When performance testing, you can call a single URL, or multiple URLs in
succession.
-True
_____________ is done as part of the development, build and deploy process;
______________ is done in regular intervals to catch potential problems with the
system while it's in production.
-Testing, Monitoring
Soak test is also known as ramping up.
-False
To set up an function endpoint test in BlazeMeter you can click
the _______________ button under Create Test and enter your API operation
endpoints.

-URL/API Test
A peak test is typically _____________ a soak test and often includes ramping up
and ramping down to a higher pressure but not as huge as within a stress test.
-Shorter than
hese are the times during which you expect a higher load.
-Peak test
Running out of ______________ due to leaks or not cleaning up logs etc. is a
common reason for it. To discover these errors before they happen, you can
soak test.
-Server memory or disk space
Load tests need proper ______________.
-Planning
Website tests may include client-side browser behavior whereas
_____________ only send network requests.
-API Tests
It's also important to consider the use cases of your API and which load and
changes in API request _______________ you are likely to experience as a result.
-Traffic
Load testing scripts can reuse _____________, executed repeatedly and
simultaneously.
-Functional Tests
When performing ________________, you start with a low to medium number of
VUs and then, step by step, increase their count.
-Stress Testing
A ______________ can simulate multiple VUs through
multithreading.
-Single Machine
In _________________, it is possible to run multiple machines concurrently to
simulate an even higher number of VUs, and therefore test more significant
load.
-Cloud-based test environments
You specify the number of VUs, the test script and the ______________ and all VUs
hit your API continuously during the specified time while the testing tool records
the performance.
-Time to run the test
Load tests provide a much broader range of _______________ than
functional tests.
-KPIs
API testing works similar to
______________.
-Website Testing
Load testers record them for each run to provide statistics such as average,
mean, minimum and maximum response times that the API provider may want
to assert as part of their ___________.
-Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
In BlazeMeter, you can create your _______________ in an open source
testing tool.
-Test Scenario
Functional testers typically don't care about response times as long as there is
_______________.
-No timeout
Example, ______________ supports up to 50 VUs on the free plan and tens of
millions on paid plans.
-BlazeMeter
The term Load Testing refers to a ______________ of the
performance test.
-Standard Version