ITPEC IP October 2018 Question 16
ITPEC IP October 2018 — Question 16 of 100
A component that constrains the performance of the entire system is a bottleneck. Its limited capacity or speed prevents other components from being fully utilized, so improving unrelated parts may provide little overall benefit.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- throughput is the quantity of work completed per unit time
- defragmentation reorganizes fragmented stored data
- a flowchart represents the sequence and branching of a process or algorithm
Key rule: Overall performance is governed by the limiting resource; identify and improve that bottleneck before optimizing non-limiting components.
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