Which action reduces the workload on a server by distributing the load?

Which action reduces the workload on a server by distributing the load?

• A. Enhanced Cooling
• B. Adding more servers
• C. Using Microsoft Edge
• D. Adding Hardware

Answer: (B)

Distributing the workload across multiple machines is the main idea here. When you introduce more servers and route traffic among them, you share the incoming requests rather than sending everything to a single machine. A load balancer sits in front of these servers and directs each request to a server with available capacity, so no one server becomes a bottleneck. For example, if your site handles 100 requests per second and a single server can handle all of them, adding another server allows roughly half the requests to go to each server. That reduces the workload per server and improves responsiveness and fault tolerance. Enhanced cooling helps keep servers from overheating under load, but it doesn’t reduce the workload on any particular server. Browsing with a specific browser (like Edge) is a client-side concern and doesn’t affect server load. Adding hardware could increase total capacity, but unless you distribute traffic across multiple servers (typically with a load balancer), you’re not reducing the workload on individual servers.

Distributing the workload across multiple machines is the main idea here. When you introduce more servers and route traffic among them, you share the incoming requests rather than sending everything to a single machine. A load balancer sits in front of these servers and directs each request to a server with available capacity, so no one server becomes a bottleneck.

For example, if your site handles 100 requests per second and a single server can handle all of them, adding another server allows roughly half the requests to go to each server. That reduces the workload per server and improves responsiveness and fault tolerance.

Enhanced cooling helps keep servers from overheating under load, but it doesn’t reduce the workload on any particular server. Browsing with a specific browser (like Edge) is a client-side concern and doesn’t affect server load. Adding hardware could increase total capacity, but unless you distribute traffic across multiple servers (typically with a load balancer), you’re not reducing the workload on individual servers.