Akamai Web Performance case studies
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The Akamai Web Performance exam is a multiple-choice certification-style assessment aimed at web operations engineers, front-end and performance engineers, DevOps and SRE staff, and technical architects who configure and tune content delivery on the Akamai platform. It tests whether you can reason about how a CDN actually behaves, not just recite product names. Coverage spans six areas: web performance fundamentals and CDN concepts; platform configuration and property management; caching and content delivery optimization; front-end and edge performance optimization; measurement, monitoring, and troubleshooting; and security, reliability, and operational best practices. Expect scenario questions that describe a symptom - slow TTFB on one geography, a low cache hit ratio, a misbehaving rule tree - and ask you to pick the most likely cause or the correct configuration change. The Akamai Web Performance case studies are 5 cases and about 2,317 words.
1Origin TTL Conflict After a Cache-Hit Rate Drop
A retail site serves product pages through a CDN property. The origin team sets Cache-Control: max-age=300 on HTML responses.
456 words, about 2 min2Image-heavy Landing Page Slow on Mobile Despite CDN
A media company's article landing page loads 38 hero and thumbnail images, all served through the CDN with long TTLs and a 99% hit rate. Lab tests on desktop show a 1.2s LCP.
520 words, about 3 min3Bursty Video Manifest Traffic Overwhelms Origin
A streaming service launches a live event. Playback manifests are small JSON files fetched every 2 seconds per viewer.
461 words, about 2 min4Securing a Property Against Hotlinking and Abuse Without Breaking Partners
A SaaS company serves customer-uploaded documents and images through a CDN property. Bandwidth costs are rising because third-party sites embed their image URLs (hotlinking).
440 words, about 2 min5Intermittent 5xx Spikes Traced to a Single POP
An e-commerce site sees intermittent 5xx errors during peak hours. Overall error rate is 0.8%, but spikes to 6% for 2-4 minutes several times an hour.
440 words, about 2 min