Index Design • Room 1

Gathering Requirements

Before designing any architecture, the Architect must gather precise requirements: daily ingestion volume (GB/day), number of concurrent users, search concurrency, retention requirements, and SLAs.

These numbers directly determine hardware sizing, clustering topology, and licensing costs. A 50 GB/day deployment looks nothing like a 10 TB/day deployment.

Always plan for 20-30% growth headroom. If the customer says 100 GB/day today, size for 130 GB/day.

Knowledge Check

Prove your understanding to clear the room (Rewards XP)

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Question 1 of 1

A customer says they need "fast searches." What is the FIRST question an Architect should ask?

AWhat brand of server do you use?

BHow many concurrent searches do you expect, over what time range, and what is your acceptable response time SLA?

CWhat color should the dashboard be?

DDo you prefer Linux or Windows?