Microsoft Internet Information Server Quality Control & Assurance 4

Question 1

Which IIS feature enables administrators to capture a failed request trace (FREB) to diagnose intermittent quality issues that are hard to reproduce?

Accepted Answer

Failed Request Tracing (FRT)

Answer

Failed Request Tracing in IIS captures detailed XML traces for requests that meet specified failure conditions, storing them as viewable HTML files.

Question 2

A QA checklist requires verifying that directory browsing is disabled on all IIS sites. Where is this setting configured in IIS Manager?

Accepted Answer

Directory Browsing feature at the site or server level

Answer

The Directory Browsing feature in IIS Manager must be set to Disabled to prevent listing directory contents when no default document is present.

Question 3

To measure and assert that IIS response times stay below an SLA threshold during QA load tests, which Windows performance counter should be monitored?

Accepted Answer

Web Service\ISAPI Extension Requests/sec and Time Taken

Answer

Web Service performance counters track IIS-specific metrics like request rates and processing times, which directly map to response-time SLAs.

Question 4

Which IIS configuration validates that output caching does not serve stale responses by defining the maximum staleness interval for cached content?

Accepted Answer

Output Cache duration and maxAge attributes

Answer

The Output Cache feature's duration and maxAge settings control how long cached responses are considered fresh before IIS fetches updated content.

Question 5

During a QA audit, you must confirm that IIS logs are stored in a non-system drive to prevent disk-full events from crashing the OS. Which IIS setting controls the log file directory?

Accepted Answer

Log File Directory path in IIS Logging feature

Answer

The Logging feature in IIS Manager allows you to specify a custom directory for W3C log files, separating them from the system drive.

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Microsoft Internet Information Server Quality Control & Assurance 4