70-680 Configuring Windows 7 Lab Manual

LAB 11
MANAGING AND
MONITORING
PERFORMANCE
Exercise 11.1

Using Event Viewer

Overview

In Exercise 11.1, you demonstrate some methods for isolating the most
important events in the Windows 7 logs.

Completion time

10 minutes

Question
1

How many events appear in the System log?

Question
2

How many events appear in the System log now?

Question
3

How many events appear in the Critical & Warning custom

view?

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12. Take a screen shot of the Event Viewer console, showing the Critical & Warning
custom view, by pressing Ctrl+Prt Scr and then paste the resulting image into the
Lab11_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 11.2

Creating Event Subscriptions

Overview

In Exercise 11.2, you demonstrate some methods for isolating the most
important events in the Windows 7 logs.

Completion time

20 minutes

22. Take a screen shot of the Event Viewer console, showing the new subscription
you created, by pressing Ctrl+Prt Scr and then paste the resulting image into the
Lab11_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 11.3

Using Performance Monitor

Overview

The technical specialists at Contoso, Ltd. routinely use the

Performance Monitor tool to examine the performance levels of
Windows 7 workstations. However, each technician uses
Performance Monitor in a different way. The IT director wants to
create a standard set of performance counters that are easily visible
in a single Performance Monitor line graph that would enable the
support staff to compare the performance levels of different
computer models. You have been given the task of selecting the
performance counters for this standard Performance Monitor
configuration and testing their visibility on the graph.

Completion time

15 minutes

Question
4

What counter appears in the Performance Monitor display by

default?

Question
5

What happens?

Question
6

Does this selection of counters make for an effective graph?

Why or why not?

Question
7

How would using the report view instead of the line graph
view affect the compatibility of the performance counters you
select?

Question
8

What effect does launching the programs have on the

Performance Monitor graph?

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13. Take a screen shot of the Performance Monitor console showing the line graph
by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the
Lab11_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Question
9

Does this modification make the graph easier or more difficult

to read? Why or why not?

Question
10

Does this selection of counters make for an effective graph?

Why or why not?

Exercise 11.4

Logging Performance Data

Overview

To properly gauge the performance level of a computer, it is helpful to

have a baseline reading that youve taken under normal operating
conditions that you can use to compare with the levels when the
computer is under the stress of a workload. You have been given the
task of taking baseline performance level readings on a new computer
using the Performance Monitor console. In Exercise 11.4, you use the
Data Collector Sets tool to create a counter log for the computer,
saving the baseline levels to a file for later examination.

Completion time

15 minutes

Question
11

When creating a performance counter data collector set,

under what circumstances would it be necessary to specify a
user name and password in the Run As section of the
collector sets Properties sheet?

Question
12

What happens when the Start Time you configured arrives?

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LAB CHALLENGE 11.1: VIEWING A PERFORMANCE COUNTER LOG

Completion time

10 minutes

In Exercise 11.4, you created a performance counter data collector set for the purpose
of gathering baseline performance data for your Windows 7 workstation. To complete
this challenge, you must use the Performance Monitor console to display the data you
gathered for the counters in the Memory performance object that you collected. Write
out the procedure you used to display the data and take a screen shot of the console
showing the collector set data by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting
image into the Lab11_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.