Recent Lessons

Show all results for ""

Feature Overview

Ace your exams with our all-in-one platform for creating and sharing quizzes and tests.

Quizzes

Create quizzes and tests automatically from your content using AI.

Flashcards

Automatically turn your notes into digital flashcards.

Share, Export & Embed

Share with classmates or export to Excel and your learning management system.

Stats & Reporting

Auto-grading quizzes and tests with detailed stats and reports.

Mobile Apps

The smarter way to study – wherever you are.

Pricing Schools Business

Features Pricing Schools Business

5 Questions

0 Views

Caching in Web Servers

Choose a study mode

Play Quiz

Study Flashcards

Spaced Repetition

Chat to lesson

Podcast

Play an AI-generated podcast conversation about this lesson

Questions and Answers

Which of the following is an important principle of caching?

Cache is only used in software

Information in use is copied from slower to faster storage temporarily (correct)

Cache is only used in hardware

Data is always stored in cache

What is the purpose of a cache in web servers?

To store heavily used pages in main memory

To eliminate the need to go to disk

To improve performance

All of the above (correct)

What is the role of the dispatcher thread in a multi-threaded YAHOO server?

To start the read operation to get the page from the disk

To check if the request can be satisfied from the web page cache

To examine the request and hand it to worker thread

To read incoming requests from the network (correct)

What does the worker thread do in a multi-threaded YAHOO server?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of checking the cache first in a computer system?