Q7 Redis Domain 2 · 25–30% of exam Priority · Real Exam

Which metric most directly indicates that a cache is undersized?

  1. A A high eviction rate combined with a falling hit ratio (correct answer)
  2. B High CPU
  3. C Connected client count
  4. D Network bandwidth

Shortcut: Evictions mean Redis is discarding data to stay within maxmemory. When that coincides with a declining hit ratio, the working set exceeds the allocated memory.