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

• Metric
• Passive check
• Alert
• Active check

What are two benefits of proactive monitoring?

• Set thresholds for metrics
• Avoid outages, optimize systems
• Integrations provide metrics
• Easy to write custom plugins

Splunk specializes in what type of monitoring?

• Specialized log aggregation
• Infrastructure monitoring
• General purpose SaaS
• Business monitoring

How can custom metrics be viewed in Datadog after publishing?

• Trace Explorer
• Log Explorer
• Cassandra Explorer
• Metrics Explorer

What does Business monitoring provide early feedback on?

• Progress towards business goals
• Application functionality
• Infrastructure health
• Security threats

What does security monitoring check for?

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

What are some examples of metrics that monitoring tools collect?

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

What kind of monitoring tool is Nagios?

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

What does Catchpoint monitor?

• Business KPIs
• Infrastructure
• App code
• External application accessibility

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

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

What process is used to collect metric values periodically for time-series data? Integration Monitor Threshold Check

What command tests SNMP connectivity on localhost? datadog-agent jmx list localhost snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic localhost jmxtool localhost snmpget -v2c -cpublic localhost

Which support level would product support be? L1 None L3 L2

What does Application monitoring help to check?

• Monitoring infrastructure
• Business goals are met
• Application is functioning correctly
• Health of infrastructure

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

What provides steps for on-call staff to respond to alerts?

• Severity Level
• Downtime
• Runbook
• Threshold

What type of monitoring focuses on servers, storage, load balancers, etc?

• Infrastructure monitoring
• Application monitoring
• Business monitoring
• Platform monitoring

What is the main SNMP configuration file edited on Ubuntu?

• /etc/jmxtool.conf
• /etc/snmp/snmp.conf
• /etc/datadog.conf
• /etc/snmpd.conf

What command-line tool is commonly used to scan SNMP-enabled devices?

• snmpwalk
• curl
• jmxtool
• snmpget

What does Catchpoint/Apica provide?

• Log aggregation
• Infrastructure monitoring
• APM
• “Last mile” monitoring from locations

What port does DogStatsD listen on by default?

• 8125
• 8080
• 7199
• 2003

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

What technology allows Java applications to expose metrics?

• HTTP
• JMX
• SNMP
• StatsD

What file stores metrics collected by the SNMP agent?

• conf.yaml
• Management Information Base (MIB)
• metrics.csv
• snmp.log

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

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

What technology allows publishing custom metrics to Datadog?

• JMX
• DogStatsD
• Apache Cassandra
• SNMP

What does the “TICK” stack include?

• Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor
• Datadog, AppDynamics, Catchpoint, Apica
• Tick, Tock, Click, Clack
• Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Elasticsearch

What protocol is used to monitor network devices like routers and switches?

• SMTP
• SNMP
• HTTP
• JMX

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

What does Infrastructure monitoring focus on?

• Business KPIs
• Application code and services
• Security threats
• Health of infrastructure components

What would you do during a downtime window?

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