Vault Enterprise Scaling Vault For Performance Practice Question
Which THREE factors influence the performance of a Performance Secondary cluster?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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The speed of the network between primary and secondary.
Disk I/O, network latency, and the number of active requests are primary factors.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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The speed of the network between primary and secondary.
Why this is correct
Latency affects replication lag.
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The storage backend performance on the secondary.
Why this is correct
Secondary must write incoming replication data to its own backend.
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The number of Performance Standby nodes on the Primary cluster.
Why it's wrong here
This does not affect the secondary.
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The number of root tokens in the system.
Why it's wrong here
Number of tokens does not directly dictate performance unless excessively large.
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The rate of write operations on the Primary cluster.
Why this is correct
High write rates increase replication workload.
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