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Modern Application Development I · Quiz 2 · 16 Aug 2026 · May 2026 term

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An e-commerce web application stores user shopping cart information as server-side session state. Each active user session occupies an average of 4 KB of memory. During a flash sale, the application is expected to handle 1.5 million concurrent active sessions, all stored in a centralized Redis cache server. What is the minimum RAM capacity (in GB) required solely to store these session states? (Assume that 1000B=1KB, 1000KB=1MB and so on)

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Question 13 of 13 in the IIT Madras BS Modern Application Development I (MAD 1) Quiz 2 paper sat on 16 Aug 2026, in the May 2026 term (Modern Application Development I 14 Aug 26). It carries 3 marks.

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