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Spid's Tue (10/29) Win2k Pro. QoD
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| Trick question Tuesday 
Denis_baribeau wants to monitor PhysicalDisk performance counters of a logical drive. With a standard intallation of Windows 2000 Professional, what additional operation must he perform to enable the monitoring of the PhysicalDisk counters? Hmmmmmm????
A. Install Network Monitor.
B. Run diskperf -y
C. Install Network Monitor and run diskperf -yv
D. Do nothing. The PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer! | |
| NetChild1985 2002-10-29, 8:11 am |
| The correct answer is "D"! | |
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| Slinky 2002-10-29, 9:44 am |
| After some research, its B. | |
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Originally posted by Slinky
After some research, its B.
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| soccer4net 2002-10-29, 12:16 pm |
| The answer is D, netmon has nothing to do with the question, and B enables both logical and physical counters. But you only asked for the physical counters on which logical drives happen to reside.
Physical counters are enabled by default. | |
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The answer is D, netmon has nothing to do with the question, and B enables both logical and physical counters. But you only asked for the physical counters on which logical drives happen to reside.
Physical counters are enabled by default.
Hmmmm... soccer4net sounds pretty confident in his answer, what do you all think? | |
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Originally posted by Slinky
Spid,
I was going to say C because, but the Network Monitor (netmon) thing threw me off. I think you mean Performance Monitor (perfmon).
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...;EN-US;Q253251&
Well I did call today "Tricky Question Tuesday"  | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-10-29, 1:28 pm |
| I would of answer
D. Do nothing. The PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default.
Played with Perfmon from run bar(nice and colorfull).Still need to know more on that. | |
| Slinky 2002-10-29, 1:36 pm |
| Guys, it's most definately not D. Did anybody check out that link that I posted? | |
| Slinky 2002-10-29, 1:38 pm |
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Originally posted by Spid
Well I did call today "Tricky Question Tuesday"
With that in mind I'll stick with what the link says and go with C and that will be my final answer. | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-10-29, 1:51 pm |
| Ok read it and agree with you ,It is a trick question.
I better learn to read more carefull.
Final answer (C) Lordy Lordy | |
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Guys, it's most definately not D. Did anybody check out that link that I posted?
Oh BooHoo! You guys spoil all my fun 
The question is not asking about measuring LogicalDisk counters. All it is stating is that he has a logical disk. It is not stating that the logical disk is the disk he wants to measure performance on. It only states he wants to measure PhysicalDisk counters. What needs to be done?
Maybe I was trying to be too tricky (like they sing about in SSX Tricky, it's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky ) | |
| oldsaltdoggie 2002-10-29, 3:26 pm |
| I say "B" then restart the system! assuming that he is monitering the same computer that he is at. | |
| Slinky 2002-10-29, 6:02 pm |
| Did somebody forget to take out the garbage, because this question stinks. | |
| namrak 2002-10-29, 7:49 pm |
| After much soul-searching and going out on the proverbial limb, I am settling on answer (D) Do nothing. The PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default.
The key phrase in Spid's question is "Denis_baribeau wants to monitor PhysicalDisk performance counters of a logical drive."
By default, physical disk counters are turned on in Windows 2000 so Denis doesn't need to do anything here to collect information.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...Pmonperf_19.htm
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http://windows.about.com/library/tips/bltip415.htm
Why you make my brain hurt again Spid? I still haven't gotten over the last one. And Flext just got done beating up on people with his last Friday A+ QotD (I think) | |
| hazz_bin 2002-10-30, 3:36 am |
| Well namrak and Slinky, I too have a severe brain cramp over this. Checked Slinky's link and MS says it's there by default. W2K help doesn't mention that but shows the command and switches. Using logic, A and C are not right because the Network Monitor is the little icon on the task bar that shows you basically nothing. The Performance Monitor is already installed and allows Physical disk monitoring, and as Spid pointed out, the semantics of the question don't say that Denis wants to monitor a Logical Disk. So B isn't really necessary, so that leaves D. | |
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Originally posted by Spid
Trick question Tuesday
Denis_baribeau wants to monitor PhysicalDisk performance counters of a logical drive. With a standard intallation of Windows 2000 Professional, what additional operation must he perform to enable the monitoring of the PhysicalDisk counters? Hmmmmmm????
A. Install Network Monitor.
B. Run diskperf -y
C. Install Network Monitor and run diskperf -yv
D. Do nothing. The PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!
Oh what a good time we all had with this one
The answer to this tricky question is....D
Namrak and Hazz_bin were spot on with there reasoning.
PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default in Windows 2000. They were NOT enabled by default in Windows NT.
We all agree "A" is wrong, Network monitor has nothing to do with disk monitoring. "B" and the last part of "C" would work to, but it is not necessary because the PhysicalDisk counters are enabled by default.
Bottomline - check out the articles that Slinky and Namrak posted, and you'll be alright. | |
| heck2000 2002-10-30, 5:44 pm |
| Nice research Slinky
it is "D" | |
| heck2000 2002-10-30, 5:51 pm |
| my answer is C. Only because I missed about being a LOGICAL Drive
ha!
Still good research Slinky |
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