Question

Assume the following:

1. An organizational unit has 2 database servers, 2 application servers, and 15 clients.
2. Database server performs data storage and data access logic.
3. Application server performs business (or application) logic.
4. One database server and one application server are used to address any client's request.

Question: Such a client-server architecture would be typically classified as:

a. 4-tier architecture (because there are four servers in this network).
b. 5-tier architecture (because there are four servers and one client in the network).
c. 3-tier architecture (because the database server, the application server, and the client each represent one tier respectively).
d. n-tier architecture, where n=19 (because there are 19 computers in the network).

Answer 1

c. 3-tier architecture (because the database server, the application server, and the client each represent one tier respectively).

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a 3 tier client server architecture, it has the 3 major components that makes up this system

It has the client server, an application server and lastly it has the backend database server.

Each of these 3 tiers in this question are assigned one particular task. This would make functionality to be improved and can also help to find issues that may arise during the testing and production stages.