Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  check ping times of all of the servers 
B)  monitor the new application processes on the servers 
C)  reconfigure the SNMP agents to use the application ports 
D)  configure the NetFlow collector to monitor the application ports

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  examine the available memory 
B)  analyze routing protocol packets 
C)  look for switch ports that are off 
D)  look for WAN interfaces changing status

Question 3

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.)

Accepted Answer

A)  exclude any new subnets found during the network discovery 
B)  include any new subnets found during the network discovery 
C)  include specific IP addresses through a seed file 
D)  decrease the overall speed of the discovery process 
E)  decrease the number of SNMP retries
F) increase the overall speed of the discovery process

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  add the NMS IP address to the permissions for each device 
B)  create a management VLAN for the NMS 
C)  open onlythe appropriate ports on the routers and firewalls 
D)  enable SNMPv3 on the switches

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Universal Device Pollers (UnDP) 
B)  Device Templates 
C)  Application Monitor Templates 
D)  Custom Reports

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  CPU utilization 
B)  bandwidth utilization 
C)  memory utilization 
D)  packet loss 
E)  response time

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  numbers of active switch ports 
B)  network-wide bandwidth utilization 
C)  network-wide availability 
D)  number of active WAN interfaces

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  mirror or span traffic to the switch's console port 
B)  update access lists to allow layer 2 traffic to be transferred to the capture port 
C)  mirror or span traffic to the port where your analyzer is connected 
D)  add the port where your analyzer is connected to the target VLAN

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  heavy network traffic 
B)  carrier misconfiguration 
C)  counter rollovers 
D)  database issues

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  down 
B)  shutdown 
C)  unknown 
D)  testing

Question 11

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.)

Accepted Answer

A)  160 
B)  161 
C)  162 
D)  163 
E)  164

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  configuration of the laptops and home routers for each of the remote users 
B)  recent configuration changes to access control lists (ACLs) and VPN profiles 
C)  recent performance metrics for the intranet server and VPN concentrator 
D)  recent announcements by the users' various ISPs

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  re-add the Linux server to Orion 
B)  restart the SNMP process on the Linux server 
C)  restart the SNMP process on the Orion server 
D)  re-add the Orion server to the Linux server

Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Allow Node Management Rights must be actived. 
B)  Allow Admin Rights must be disabled. 
C)  Allow View Customization must be enabled. 
D)  An Account Limitation must be defined.

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  install an Orion polling engine to collect real-time data at the site in Paris 
B)  increase the polling interval in Orion for monitoring of devices in Paris 
C)  launch a real-time tool to measure and analyze performance while the problem is occurring 
D)  use the Polling Engine Tuner to increase the Max Polls Per Second settings in Orion

Question 16

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  leverage NetFlow data from the outside interface of the VPN concentrator at the remote site 
B)  leverage NetFlow data from the outside interface of the VPN concentrator at your main site 
C)  deploy a protocol analyzer to the remote site between the switch and the concentrator 
D)  deploy a protocol analyzer to the main site between the VPN concentrator and the Internet

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  a new, popular YouTube video being sent around the office 
B)  a malware or virus breakout on your network 
C)  automated server backups occurring within your network 
D)  higher than average VoIP usage from your overseas sites

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  listening for SNMP traps 
B)  querying with SNMP 
C)  analyzing traffic with NetFlow 
D)  querying with WMI

Question 19

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.)

Accepted Answer

A)  verify that user sat the headquarter scan reach the accounting server 
B)  verify that users in site A can access other resources outside of their site 
C)  verify that users in site B can access resources in the headquarters 
D)  verify that the accounting server is online 
E)  verify that the accounting server can access site A

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  configure the Syslog server to discard unwanted messages 
B)  configure the devices and the Syslog server to use TCP-based Syslog 
C)  configure the devices and the Syslog server to use SNMPv3 
D)  configure the Syslog server to capture SNMP traps instead of Syslog

Exam 1: SolarWinds Certified Professional