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System Architecture & Design Flashcards

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  1. When designing a digital imaging workflow for a newspaper with strict 30-minute deadlines, which system architecture consideration is most critical?

    Answer: End-to-end latency and fault tolerance

    In time-critical workflows, minimizing end-to-end latency and ensuring fault tolerance are paramount so deadlines are met even during component failures.

  2. In a digital imaging system, what is the function of a load balancer placed in front of image processing servers?

    Answer: To distribute incoming processing requests evenly across multiple servers

    A load balancer distributes client requests across multiple processing servers to prevent any single server from becoming a bottleneck.

  3. Which metadata standard is most widely used for embedding technical and descriptive information directly into digital image files across different software platforms?

    Answer: XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform)

    XMP is an Adobe-developed metadata standard embedded in image files and supported across virtually all professional imaging applications.

  4. A DIS professional is designing a backup strategy for a 20TB digital archive. Which backup approach minimizes daily backup window while ensuring full recoverability?

    Answer: Weekly full + daily incremental backups

    Weekly full plus daily incremental backups minimize the daily backup window by only capturing changes since the last backup, while enabling full recovery.

  5. What is the primary advantage of using a content-addressable storage (CAS) system for a large digital image archive?

    Answer: It automatically eliminates duplicate image files by addressing content by hash

    CAS systems use a cryptographic hash of the file content as its address, automatically deduplicating identical files and ensuring data integrity.

  6. In a digital imaging system, which protocol is most appropriate for transferring large image files (>1GB) across a WAN with high packet loss?

    Answer: Aspera FASP or similar UDP-based accelerated transfer protocol

    FASP and similar protocols use UDP with proprietary error correction and congestion control, achieving near line-rate speeds even on high-latency, lossy WAN links.

  7. A digital imaging system uses a tiered storage architecture. Which criteria should primarily determine when an image asset moves from Tier 1 (SSD) to Tier 2 (spinning disk)?

    Answer: Access frequency dropping below a defined threshold over a set time period

    Tiered storage decisions are based on access frequency and recency — infrequently accessed assets migrate to slower, cheaper storage to optimize cost and performance.