Server and Hardware Architecture Questions

Covers physical and virtual server architecture and underlying hardware considerations. Topics include central processing unit architecture, memory and memory addressing, storage technologies and input output performance, networking interfaces, motherboards and peripheral cards, storage redundancy strategies, raid concepts, virtualization and server roles such as web servers application servers and database servers, and data center organization. Candidates should be able to explain how hardware choices affect system performance, diagnose hardware related bottlenecks, and consider trade offs when selecting hardware or virtualized infrastructure.