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Listening: The Morning After in Seattle

Audiție: Discuție despre o cădere de sistem. Ascultă o conversație de la birou despre un incident neașteptat și răspunde la întrebări pentru a verifica înțelegerea detaliilor tehnice.

Аудирование: Беседа о сбое систем. Прослушайте разговор в офисе о неожиданном инциденте и ответьте на вопросы, чтобы проверить понимание технических деталей.

The Morning After in Seattle

Ben and Laura discuss the chaotic database failure from the previous night while making coffee in the office kitchen.

Listening: The Morning After in Seattle — The night the database died

The Morning After in Seattle

Listen and choose the right answer

Where was Laura when the alert started?

  • At her office desk
  • At a wedding in Portland
  • Asleep in her bed

Why did the automatic failover fail?

  • Because of a network timeout and full disk space
  • Because the power went out in Seattle
  • Because nobody was in the office

What was Ben doing when the system started to page?

  • He was dancing
  • He was fast asleep
  • He was writing a script

What caused the database crash in the end?

  • A hacker attack
  • A temporary script written two years ago
  • A hardware failure

Listen again and complete the sentences

  • Laura: What a disaster! The primary database died completely, and the automatic ____ didn't work.
  • Ben: I know. The disk space was completely full because of ____ log files and slow queries.
  • Laura: We had a massive deadlock. The read-only ____ couldn't handle any traffic either.
  • Ben: It was terrible. Every single ____ began to time out within seconds.

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