Microsoft Internet Information Server Case Studies & Practical Application 2

Question 1

A company's IIS server is serving a mix of static HTML and ASP.NET pages. Users report that static files load fast but ASP.NET pages are slow under load. Which IIS feature should you tune first?

Accepted Answer

Enable output caching for ASP.NET responses

Answer

Enabling output caching for dynamic ASP.NET responses reduces repeated processing and significantly improves throughput under load.

Question 2

An administrator needs to migrate a legacy ASP application from IIS 6 to IIS 10. The application uses COM objects registered in-process. What is the recommended approach?

Accepted Answer

Use the IIS 6 Management Compatibility role and keep Classic pipeline mode

Answer

The IIS 6 Management Compatibility role combined with a Classic pipeline application pool allows legacy ASP and COM-dependent applications to run on modern IIS without rewriting.

Question 3

A web farm operator notices that session state is lost when users are round-robined to different IIS nodes. What is the best solution?

Accepted Answer

Configure a shared SQL Server or Redis session state provider

Answer

A centralized session state provider like SQL Server or Redis ensures all nodes share the same session data regardless of which server handles the request.

Question 4

After enabling SSL on an IIS site, clients using TLS 1.0 can no longer connect. The security team requires TLS 1.2 minimum. Where in Windows do you enforce the TLS version restriction?

Accepted Answer

Windows Registry under SCHANNEL\Protocols

Answer

TLS protocol versions are controlled by the Windows SChannel registry keys under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols.

Question 5

A developer deploys a new ASP.NET Core app to IIS using the in-process hosting model. The site returns HTTP 500.30. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The .NET Core Hosting Bundle is not installed on the server

Answer

HTTP 500.30 indicates the ASP.NET Core in-process handler failed to start, most commonly because the .NET Core Hosting Bundle is missing.

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Microsoft Internet Information Server Case Studies & Practical Application 2