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Given the problem of increasing latency on the network, what solution would you recommend? Explain your thought process.
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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"I'll have to admit that this is a topic with which I'm not familiar. I manage many aspects of a network, including design, maintenance, and performance. However, other members of our team focused on the latency issue. Whenever I encounter a topic that I'm not familiar with, I have several ways of finding the information and implementing a solution. These include an online search, contacting representatives from the manufacturer's hardware support team, or posting a question on one of the many network support forums I participate in. I'm usually able to find the answer quickly using one of these methodologies."
William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
This is another technical question geared towards determining your competency and specific network management duties. As an experienced network administrator, you should be able to answer this type of questions easily. However, if for some reason, you don't know the answer, you should admit this and then explain to the interviewer how you would go about finding and implementing the solution.
William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"A good way to overcome distance-related network latency is to use a content delivery network (CDN). CDNs have a network of geographically distributed edge locations near the end-users. By decreasing the distance that data has to travel CDNs reduce latency and by extension page load times. The challenge with this type of solution is keeping the information residing on the edge locations updated and synced with the other locations."
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