Exam 1: SolarWinds Certified Professional

The application team at your company has informed you that they have deployed a new desktop application that communicates over a specific set of ports. What is the first step to determining the impact this application is having on your network?

You are investigating sudden slowness throughout the network. The routing tables are changing continuously and routes to many areas of the network are appearing and disappearing with each update. How should you investigate the cause of this issue?

Your company has asked you to expand your network management to include a new site with several hundred devices, although you are not sure how many. Using Orion Network Discovery, your top priority is completeness of discovery. Which two Orion discovery settings should you use to achieve your goal? (Choose two.)

A network engineer is planning to deploy a network management system (NMS) to monitor a large campus network. What is the most secure way to isolate the NMS network traffic to all monitored routers and switches?

You want to monitor a specific device attribute that Orion NPM does not support by default. Which type of content should you download from the Thwack Content Exchange?

Which two metrics should be monitored to determine if a network device is overloaded? (Choose two.)

Which trend analysis report would most accurately predict user count growth?

You are using a protocol analyzer to capture a packet trace in order to troubleshoot a specific network problem. Which change must you make on the Ethernet switch in order to facilitate the packet capture?

Orion NPM is monitoring the performance of DS-3 utilizing standard MIBs in the ifTable. Occasionally, the reported traffic rates for this interface spike well above45 Mbps. What is the most likely cause?

Which port status is caused by users disconnecting their machines from an Ethernet switch?

A network engineer is planning to deploy a network management system (NMS) to monitor a network. Which two UDP ports should be enabled in router access control lists and firewalls so the NMS can effectively monitor devices? (Choose two.)

Home office users (telecommuters) are complaining that they can no longer access the Corporate intranet site. What should you review to investigate this issue?

You have just changed the community string within the snmpd. conf on a Linux server. What needs to occur to monitor this device in Orion?

An Orion NPM user wants to be able to make changes to the resources as they view them on the Orion Web Console. What must be done to the user's account?

Users at a remote site in Paris are complaining that access to the company CRM is slow. Orion is collecting data on this performance, but you need a more real-time perspective on the problem. What should you do?

Your company leverages Internet-based VPNs to provide connectivity to remote offices. At these sites, the users are connected directly to a layer 2 switch, which is then connected to a VPN concentrator that also provides basic routing functions. How should you analyze the traffic going to and from a remote site?

You are using NetFlow to analyze the traffic on your network. You notice that you have a large amount of traffic originating from various systems in your network destined to a single unrecognized off-net IP address during otherwise off-peak hours. What is the most likely cause?

Without regard to reliability, what is the fastest method for detecting network faults?

You have a hub and spoke network with three sites. The application servers all located within the headquarters, which is the hub of the network. Users in spoke site A complain that they cannot get to the company's accounting server. Users in spoke site Bare not affected. Which two steps should you take in troubleshooting this issue? (Choose two.)

A network engineer notices the Syslog server's database is growing significantly in size due to the large number of devices sending Syslog messages. What should the engineer do to control database growth?