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Pregunta 1

What method of checking is initiated by the monitoring system to collect data?

  • Metric
  • Passive check
  • Alert
  • Active check

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

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

Pregunta 6

What does security monitoring check for?

  • Infrastructure problems
  • Vulnerabilities and threats
  • Application issues
  • Business metrics

Pregunta 7

What are some examples of metrics that monitoring tools collect?

  • Disk space, memory, SSL expiration
  • Severity levels
  • Events
  • Up/down status

Pregunta 8

What kind of monitoring tool is Nagios?

  • Popular first generation, open source
  • Specialized application performance
  • Specialized log aggregation
  • General purpose SaaS

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

 Explicación general: Runbooks outline procedures for on-call personnel to respond to alerts in Datadog.

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

Pregunta 32

What does Infrastructure monitoring focus on? Business KPIs Application code and services Security threats Health of infrastructure components

Pregunta 33

What would you do during a downtime window?

  • Resolve the underlying issue
  • Disable alerting temporarily
  • Create a runbook
  • Enable additional alerting
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