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-Pregunta 1+==== Pregunta 1 ====
 What method of checking is initiated by the monitoring system to collect data? What method of checking is initiated by the monitoring system to collect data?
 +  *  Metric
 +  *  Passive check
 +  *  Alert
 +  * **Active check**
  
-Metric+==== Pregunta 2 ==== 
 +What are two benefits of proactive monitoring? 
 +  * Set thresholds for metrics 
 +  * **Avoid outages, optimize systems** 
 +  * Integrations provide metrics 
 +  * Easy to write custom plugins 
 +    
 +==== Pregunta 3 ==== 
 +Splunk specializes in what type of monitoring? 
 +  * **Specialized log aggregation** 
 +  * Infrastructure monitoring 
 +  * General purpose SaaS 
 +  * Business monitoring
  
-Passive check+==== Pregunta 4 ==== 
 +How can custom metrics be viewed in Datadog after publishing? 
 +  * Trace Explorer 
 +  * Log Explorer 
 +  * Cassandra Explorer 
 +  * **Metrics Explorer** 
 +    
 +==== Pregunta 5 ==== 
 +What does Business monitoring provide early feedback on? 
 +  * **Progress towards business goals** 
 +  * Application functionality 
 +  * Infrastructure health 
 +  * Security threats
  
-Alert+==== Pregunta 6 ==== 
 +What does security monitoring check for? 
 +   * Infrastructure problems 
 +  * **Vulnerabilities and threats** 
 +  * Application issues 
 +  * Business metrics
  
-Active check+==== Pregunta 7 ==== 
 +What are some examples of metrics that monitoring tools collect? 
 +   * **Disk space, memory, SSL expiration** 
 +  * Severity levels 
 +  * Events 
 +  * Up/down status
  
-Pregunta 2:+==== Pregunta 8 ==== 
 +What kind of monitoring tool is Nagios? 
 +   * **Popular first generation, open source** 
 +  * Specialized application performance 
 +  * Specialized log aggregation 
 +  * General purpose SaaS
  
-What are two benefits of proactive monitoring?+==== Pregunta 9 ==== 
 +What does Catchpoint monitor? 
 +   * Business KPIs 
 +  * Infrastructure 
 +  * App code 
 +  * **External application accessibility** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 10 ==== 
 +What is the difference between an alert and a notification? 
 +  * Notification contains more details 
 +  * No difference 
 +  * Alert is manual, notification automated 
 +  * **Notification is part of alert, alert triggers actions** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 11 ==== 
 +What command checks if the SNMP daemon is running on Ubuntu? 
 +  * sudo snmpd status 
 +  * sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd status 
 +  * sudo service snmpd status 
 +  * **sudo systemctl status snmpd** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 12 ==== 
 +What process is used to collect metric values periodically for time-series data? 
 +  * Integration 
 +  * Monitor 
 +  * Threshold 
 +  * **Check** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 13 ==== 
 +What command tests SNMP connectivity on localhost? 
 +  * datadog-agent jmx list localhost 
 +  * **snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic localhost** 
 +  * jmxtool localhost 
 +  * snmpget -v2c -cpublic localhost 
 +    
 +==== Pregunta 14 ==== 
 +Which support level would product support be? 
 +  * **L1** 
 +  * None 
 +  * L3 
 +  * L2 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 15 ==== 
 +What does Application monitoring help to check? 
 +   * Monitoring infrastructure 
 +  * Business goals are met 
 +  * **Application is functioning correctly** 
 +  * Health of infrastructure 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 16 ==== 
 +What are the three levels of on-call support? 
 +   * Warning, critical, informational 
 +  * Active, passive, hybrid 
 +  * External, internal, security 
 +  * **L1 product support, L2 SREs, L3 engineers** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 17 ==== 
 +What provides steps for on-call staff to respond to alerts? 
 +   * Severity Level 
 +  * Downtime 
 +  * **Runbook** 
 +  * Threshold 
 +    
 +==== Pregunta 18 ==== 
 +What type of monitoring focuses on servers, storage, load balancers, etc? 
 +   * **Infrastructure monitoring** 
 +  * Application monitoring 
 +  * Business monitoring 
 +  * Platform monitoring 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 19 ==== 
 +What is the main SNMP configuration file edited on Ubuntu? 
 +   * /etc/jmxtool.conf 
 +  * **/etc/snmp/snmp.conf** 
 +  * /etc/datadog.conf 
 +  * /etc/snmpd.conf 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 20 ==== 
 +What command-line tool is commonly used to scan SNMP-enabled devices? 
 +   * **snmpwalk** 
 +  * curl 
 +  * jmxtool 
 +  * snmpget 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 21 ==== 
 +What does Catchpoint/Apica provide? 
 +   * Log aggregation 
 +  * Infrastructure monitoring 
 +  * APM 
 +  * **"Last mile" monitoring from locations** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 22 ==== 
 +What port does DogStatsD listen on by default? 
 +   * **8125** 
 +  * 8080 
 +  * 7199 
 +  * 2003 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 23 ==== 
 +In what way is a notification from an alert? 
 +   * The warning when a threshold is crossed 
 +  * A time window when alerting is disabled 
 +  * Published details about system changes 
 +  * **It's a message sent as part of an alert** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 24 ==== 
 +What technology allows Java applications to expose metrics? 
 +  * HTTP 
 +  * **JMX** 
 +  * SNMP 
 +  * StatsD 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 25 ==== 
 +What file stores metrics collected by the SNMP agent? 
 +   * conf.yaml 
 +  * **Management Information Base (MIB)** 
 +  * metrics.csv 
 +  * snmp.log 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 26 ==== 
 +Which monitoring topology has the infrastructure in data centers but the monitoring backend in the cloud? 
 +   * Multiple Data Centers 
 +  * **Data Center with Cloud Monitoring** 
 +  * Single Data Center 
 +  * All in Cloud with In-House Monitoring 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 27 ==== 
 +What aspect of monitoring focuses on checking software system health to determine availability and detect deterioration early? 
 +  * Overview of monitoring tools 
 +  * Primary focus 
 +  * Key aspects 
 +  * **Types of monitoring** 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 28 ==== 
 +What technology allows publishing custom metrics to Datadog? 
 +  * JMX 
 +  * **DogStatsD** 
 +  * Apache Cassandra 
 +  * SNMP 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 29 ==== 
 +What does the "TICK" stack include? 
 +   * **Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor** 
 +  * Datadog, AppDynamics, Catchpoint, Apica 
 +  * Tick, Tock, Click, Clack 
 +  * Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Elasticsearch 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 30 ==== 
 +What protocol is used to monitor network devices like routers and switches? 
 +  * SMTP 
 +  * **SNMP** 
 +  * HTTP 
 +  * JMX 
 + 
 +==== Pregunta 31 ==== 
 +An up/down status refers to what kind of measurement? 
 +   * Time-bound measurement providing insight 
 +  * Details about changes to a system 
 +  * **Binary status like process/website up/down** 
 +  * Warnings when metrics breach thresholds
  
-Set thresholds for metrics 
  
-Avoid outages, optimize systems+==== Pregunta 32 ==== 
 +What does Infrastructure monitoring focus on? 
 +   * Business KPIs 
 +  * Application code and services 
 +  * Security threats 
 +  * **Health of infrastructure components**
  
-Integrations provide metrics+==== Pregunta 33 ==== 
 +What would you do during a downtime window? 
 +   * Resolve the underlying issue 
 +  * Disable alerting temporarily 
 +  * Create a runbook 
 +  * **Enable additional alerting**
  
-Easy to write custom plugins 
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