Question 1

How can the Universal Device Poller (UnDP) be launched?

Accepted Answer

A)  as an executable application 
B)  from the web console if advanced options are enabled 
C)  from the web console if you are the administrator 
D)  by right clicking on any device name in Orion

Question 2

Over the course of 24 hours, a node was sent 200 ping requests in an effort to monitor its availability. Of those 200 ping requests there were: 100 responses of less than 10ms 50 responses of greater than 20ms 50 requests with no responses What was the availability of that node during this period of time?

Accepted Answer

A)  60% 
B)  70% 
C)  75% 
D)  80%

Question 3

As your Orion NPM deployment grows, you need to add pollers to the system, but due to budgetary constraints, you are unable to do so. What should you do in the short term to allow you to add a few more elements?

Accepted Answer

A)  adjust polling intervals 
B)  adjust data retentions 
C)  reduce the number of reports 
D)  reduce the number of users

Question 4

When monitoring the performance of the WAN connection to a remote site, you notice that latency varies from 10 to 1700 milliseconds and that bandwidth utilization is commonly over 90%. Which type of traffic would be the most adversely affected by this situation?

Accepted Answer

A)  email 
B)  SNMP polling 
C)  VoIP 
D)  Syslog

Question 5

Which traffic type should be allowed through the network in order to leverage SNMP for network monitoring?

Accepted Answer

A)  UDP traffic on port 53 
B)  UDP traffic on port 161 
C)  TCP traffic on port 161 
D)  TCP traffic on port 162

Question 6

Your company outsources CRM to a SaaS company. Users are complaining that the CRM is down. You verify that Internet connectivity is good and that other Internet sites can be accessed. You contact the CRM provider and find that none of their other customers are having issues. You attempt to ping this IP address from your network management system (NMS), but the ping fails. After reviewing recent changes to your outside router's configuration, you find that several access control lists (ACLs) have been updated. What should you do to verify that the problem is related to the ACL updates?

Accepted Answer

A)  remove the ACLs and retest for connectivity to the CRM 
B)  contact your ISP to see if they can access the CRM from their site 
C)  telnet to the outside router and ping the CRM from the router's outside interface 
D)  re-ping the CRM from your NMS with a special flag so the ping will pass through the ACLs

Question 7

While attempting to add a device to Orion for monitoring, you find that Orion can communicate with the device for latency measurements, but is not able to pull data such as CPU load or interface traffic. What should you verify first?

Accepted Answer

A)  that ICMP is allowed to and from the device 
B)  that the device is configured to send SNMP traps to Orion 
C)  that you have the correct SNMP community string for the device 
D)  that Orion is running the correct version of SNMP

Question 8

Users at a remote site report that Internet access is slower than usual. What should you check to investigate the cause of this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  availability reports 
B)  CPU reports 
C)  memory reports 
D)  bandwidth reports

Question 9

Which protocol should a network engineer enable on routers and switches to collect utilization statistics?

Accepted Answer

A)  ICMP 
B)  SNMP 
C)  SMTP 
D)  WMI

Question 10

Lower than normal throughput is being experienced between two routers. What can be seen on the router interface that may be contributing to this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  discards due to router access control lists (ACLs) 
B)  drops from malformed packets 
C)  when the traffic change occurred 
D)  routing changes

Question 11

Which advantage do SNMP traps and Syslog have over SNMP polling?

Accepted Answer

A)  reliability of event detection 
B)  ability to poll events in real-time 
C)  ease of configuration 
D)  speed of event detection

Question 12

What would cause an NOC user's account to stay logged in indefinitely?

Accepted Answer

A)  using Account Manager to give administrator rights to the NOC user 
B)  using Orion Web Console settings to increase timeout on the NOC user 
C)  using Account Manager to disable timeout on the NOC user 
D)  using the Orion NPM settings to change the default timeout

Question 13

What are two supported ways to integrate Orion NPM with other network management solutions? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  TCL/TK 
B)  Python API 
C)  J2EE 
D)  Syslog 
E)  SNMP traps

Question 14

A firewall separates Orion NPM and the network devices it is monitoring. Only encrypted communication will be allowed from the server for polling and configuration management. Which two ports will need to be allowed through the firewall? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  22 
B)  23 
C)  69 
D)  80 
E)  161
F) 2055

Question 15

Your service level agreement (SLA) dictates that you must be able to notify the appropriate parties when systems are down for over2 minutes and report on data for the last120 days. Your network management system (NMS) has been configured to collect status every 10minutes and summarizes and retains data for 90 days. Which two settings should you change in the NMS to meet the business requirements? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  increase data retention to 120 days 
B)  configure status polling to occur every5 minutes 
C)  summarize hourly data into weekly data every 120 days 
D)  configure status polling to occur every minute 
E)  summarize hourly data into weekly data every 90 days

Question 16

An executive in your company wants to see reports from the Orion website. However, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) rules preclude you from giving them an account for the website. Which type of access should you use to allow them to see reports that are sent to them?

Accepted Answer

A)  PassLink 
B)  PassThrough 
C)  Guest 
D)  DirectLink

Question 17

You are monitoring a Windows 2003 Server via SNMP. Which service must be enabled on the target server to allow the network management service (NMS) to collect CPU load data?

Accepted Answer

A)  SNMP Trap Service 
B)  SNMP Service 
C)  WMI 
D)  Events to Traps Translator Service

Question 18

The IT planning department has asked for a report to help them understand when they need to implement IPv6. Which report would offer them the greatest amount of relevant information?

Accepted Answer

A)  unique NetFlow exporters 
B)  DHCP server CPU utilization 
C)  number of subnets 
D)  IP address utilization trends

Question 19

An Orion NPM web user has requested that a link to an external website be added to the Orion Web Console when looking at devices. However, you want to avoid making global changes to all web users. Which two steps are required to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  add the resource User Links to the Network Summary view 
B)  add the resource Custom HTML or Test to the Interface Details view 
C)  assign a custom Node Details view to this user's account 
D)  add the resource User Defined Links to the Node Details view 
E)  assigns an Account Limitation to all other user accounts

Question 20

Which network management system (NMS) statistic is most likely to indicate a potential network growth issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  bandwidth utilizations 
B)  uptime 
C)  response time 
D)  packet losses

Exam 1: SolarWinds Certified Professional