PCNE Configuring Network Services Practice Question
Which Traffic Director feature ensures that a service does not receive more requests than it can handle by setting a maximum number of concurrent requests or connections?
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Why each option matters
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Circuit breakers
Circuit breakers are used to limit the number of concurrent connections or requests to a service to prevent overload. Fault injection is for testing. Traffic splitting is for gradual rollouts. mTLS is for mutual TLS authentication.
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Traffic splitting
Why it's wrong here
Traffic splitting distributes traffic, but does not limit requests.
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Circuit breakers
Why this is correct
Circuit breakers enforce limits on connections/requests to prevent overload.
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mTLS
Why it's wrong here
mTLS is for mutual authentication, not request limiting.
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Fault injection
Why it's wrong here
Fault injection introduces errors, not capacity limits.
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