200.2 - Predict Future Resource Needs

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Description: Candidates should be able to monitor resource usage to predict future resource needs.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Use monitoring and measurement tools to monitor IT infrastructure usage.
Predict capacity break point of a configuration
Observe growth rate of capacity usage
Graph the trend of capacity usage
Awareness of monitoring solutions such as Icinga2, Nagios, collectd, MRTG and Cacti

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: