Exam Essentials

Understand the methodology behind troubleshooting performance.

By following a set of steps that involve making measurements and finding bottlenecks, you can perform systematic troubleshooting of performance problems.

Be familiar with the features and capabilities of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Performance Monitor tool for troubleshooting performance problems.

Using the Performance administrative tool is a very powerful method for collecting data about all areas of system performance. Through the use of performance objects, counters, and instances, you can choose to collect and record only the data of interest and use this information for pinpointing performance problems.

Know the importance of common performance counters.

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