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