ITPEC FE Morning October 2020 Question 14
ITPEC FE Morning October 2020 — Question 14 of 80
Web & AP Server Separation — benefit of placing web server and application server on different physical servers.
The main advantage is load distribution:
- •Web server handles static content (HTML, CSS, images) — lightweight requests
- •AP server handles dynamic content (business logic, DB queries) — heavy processing
This separation allows each server to be optimized and scaled independently for its workload type.
Why not others:
- (a) — incorrectly places business logic on the web server; in reality it resides on the AP server
- (b) — character encoding differences are resolved via charset settings, not physical server separation
- (c) — describes a thin-client concept unrelated to the benefit of physically separating web and AP servers
Key rule: Physical separation of web and AP servers = load distribution by request type (static vs dynamic).
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