You are employed as an administrator at ABC.com. ABC.com makes use of Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2013 in their environment.
You are responsible for overseeing ABC.com’s SharePoint environment. You are running a
training exercise for new SharePoint administrators. You are currently discussing the accumulation
of a web application’s health data.
Which of the following is used to achieve this?
A.
perfmon.exe.
B.
The Event log.
C.
The Trace log.
D.
Timer jobs.
Explanation:
why is timer job ?
SharePoint Health Analyzer uses timer jobs to collect health data and then writes the data to the logging folder and to the Logging database. This data is used in reports to display health of the farm servers. You can reschedule these timer jobs, run them immediately, or enable or disable them.
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