A company has been running tests on a newly developed algorithm to increase the responsiveness of the application. The company's monthly bills for the testing have been much higher than expected.
Which of the following documents should the company examine FIRST?
When a company experiences unexpectedly high charges after running an algorithm, it is most logical to first examine the compute report. Testing a newly developed algorithm is typically processor-intensive, and extensive computing resources can lead to higher costs. Therefore, understanding the usage and expenses in the compute report would give the company insight into why their bills are higher than anticipated.
I also think it is compute report. That is my experience when I have used clouding services like AI. The more I used it the more compute (storage, CPU, etc) it consumes, so it charges more. It does not matter how much time you are logged into the cloud application, but how many times you use it.
Should be B. Algorithms are processor intensive... and the extensively testing of them would increase your computing costs.
Except for the fact that this is an exam on CLOUD essentials. ANYTHING you do, for the most part, is done over the network. And you have underlying processes and protocols that are using the bandwidth, as well. Network is the first thing you check if you notice bills are more than expected.
Network report relates more to latency and speed
Network - this is based in the cloud.
Not enough Information? Depends what is more important the responsiveness of the application or the bill? If the new revenue from increased responsiveness offsets the cost, then the responsiveness of the app is more important. Checking the Network Report can determine how fast the app loads - maybe its a issue with load balancing? (macxsz stated it relates to latency and speed. ) If we are checking application responsiveness we'll be checking the network. But what if we are concerned about the bill more as it may not be offset by future revenue. Is the algorithm run more memory/compute/network/storage intensive (this is not stated). If we are looking for the best answer what assumptions can we make. Assuming this is a load balancing issue that causes delayed response times maybe it'd require more compute cycles to determine which server to query(finding the best alternative algorithm to round robin)?
The question is a little bit tricky, "responsiveness of the application" futher it could be Latency on the ACCESS on both ways. However it also says what to check FIRST. but in real world our Network is set 1 Time constant configuration however we are talking Internet Networking over the cloud so in the base of Cloud matters latency first comes suspected is the link. Network Memory and lastly Compute.