SCP - NPM Exam

Question 1

Your weekly scheduled discoveries consistently detect 24 Windows 10 workstations. What can you do to remove those devices from being discovered in the future?

A) Add to Watch List
B) Add to Black List
C) Add to White List
D) Add to Ignore List

Answer 1

Add to Ignore List

(Network elements are found during a Network Discovery Sweep that you do not intend to monitor with SolarWinds. Discovery Ignore List is a record of all such elements on your network. By Placing them on this list, you can minimize the SNMP processing load associated with discovering elements you do not intend to monitor. You can utilize the Discovery Ignore List under Network Sonar Discovery)

Question 2

What is the difference between an Operationally Up interface, and an Operationally Down interface?

A) Operationally Up is an interfrace that is up and running, Operationally Down is an interface that has a different VLAN
B) Operationally Up is an interfrace that is available to use but is not being used, Operationally Down is an interface that is not available to use
C) Operationally Up is an interfrace that is up and running and being used, Operationally Down is an interface that is available to use but not being used
D) Operationally Up is an interfrace that is up and running and being used, Operationally Down is an interface that is disabled in the device configuration file

Answer 2

Operationally Up is an interface that is up and running and being used, Operationally Down is an interface that is available to use but not being used.

(‘Operationally Up’ means the logical port was configurated to be open “No shut/enabled” for transmitting data, and a physical cable is connected to the physical switch port (e.g., eth04). Whereas the ‘Operationally Down’ interface means that logical port was configured open, but there is no physical cable connection to the physical switchport)

Question 3

You can only poll and status and response time using only ICMP when SNMP is disabled and ICMP is enabled on the device. True or false?

Answer 3

True

(If SNMP is unavailable, and the requirement is to get only the status, response time, or packet loss of a specific device, ICMP will handle the process just fine)

Question 4

Which agent is required to run NetPath services?

A) AIX Agent
B) Linux Agent
C) Windows Agent

Answer 4

Windows Agent

(Since the Orion system requires the Windows Operating system to work, and NetPath technology does only work in the Orion platform, it requires a Windows agent to probe and discover elements within your environment)

Question 5

NethPath service are monitored by what type of technology?

A) Network Traffic Analysis
B) Probes
C) Wireshark

Answer 5

Probes

(NetPath services are monitored by probes. Orion automatically installs a prone on each polling engine, and you can install a probe on any Windows computer. No other software is required on the path. A probe is the source you are testing from. It is always the start of the path. Think of a probe as a representative of a user. SolarWinds recommends deploying probes where you have users, for example at each of your office locations. Take note that your probe must be a Windows computer)

Question 6

The Administrator is trying to set up their network by presenting it by floor plan. Will this be possible to show in the Orion Maps? True or false?

Answer 6

True

(To do this, group all the devices by where the devices are physically installed. The, name each group either by its floor number or name. Then link each unlink. Also, there are other ways to do this by nested maps, group[s, of via custom properties)

Question 7

How do you configure Global Automatic Geolocation in the Worldwide Map?

A) Configure Latitude and Longitude custom properties and enable Automatic Geolocation
B) Enable Automatic Geolocation on the Manage Maps
C) Configure the polling statistics and turn on Automatic Geolocation
D) Edit the nodes and turn of Automatic Geolocation

Answer 7

Configure Latitude and Longitude custom properties and enable Automatic Geolocation

(If you have defined the longitude and latitude for your nodes or groups, you can use the coordinates to place the nodes or groups on the WorldWide Map. Manually illustrated or imported Longitude (Wolrd Map) and Latitude (World Map) are applied and will not be overwritten if you enable Automatic Geolocation.
Remember that automatic geolocation does not change locations for manually placed objects. If you move an automatically placed location, its position will not be updated if you change the values for longitude and latitude)

Question 8

What is the default interface poll interval? This checks the response time and status every configured time interval

A) 3 minutes
B) 1 minute
C) 2 minutes
D) 5 minutes

Answer 8

2 minutes

(The default setting configured is 120 seconds or 2 minutes)

Question 9

You can export the CPU Capacity Forecast chart data in all these formats, except?

A) HTML
B) XLS
C) CSV

Answer 9

CSV

(You can export data via XLS and HTML)

Question 10

In which settings you will be able to see the details of the total number of elements polled in your Orion Web Console?

A) Polling Interval
B) Polling Engines
C) License Details

Answer 10

License Details

Question 11

You are using NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team has decided to virtualize these servers using VMWare. Which aspect of your virtual infrastructure will NPM NOT be able to monitor?

A) VM Sprawl Monitoring
B) VM Instance
C) Top 10 VM Over/Underallocated CPUs

Answer 11

VM Sprawl Monitoring

(If you want to see your VM’s performance, you need to have VMAN installed in your infrastructure)

Question 12

When creating an alert, how can you ensure that the trigger action will behave as you expect?

A) Edit the Reset Action
B) Click “Simulate” on the assigned trigger action
C) Click “Execute” in the ‘Summary’ page

Answer 12

Click “Simulate” on the assigned trigger action

(You’ll do this under the Trigger Actions, and look for the ‘lightning’ icon to choose either simulate or execute. Execute means you’ll look for an object to where you’ll evaluate your action variables)

Question 13

SolarWinds Job Engine v2 or SolarWinds Cortex is the system or service that process sending and receiving SNMP information. What socket port is this that must be enabled in your servers, ect?

A) TCP/456
B) UDP/514
C) UDP/161

Answer 13

UDP 161

(This port is responsible in making sure that encryptions are correct since SNMP v1 and v2 are unencrypted, and the v3 uses AES and 3DES types of encryption)

Question 14

What polling method should a network engineer choose if he will be adding a Windows 2019 Server in their Orion Environment

A) SNMP
B) VMware
C) WMI and ICMP

Answer 14

WMI and ICMP

(This is recommended when polling agentless for Windows servers)

Question 15

You are required to report on hourly average response time of the last 60 days. How should you configure your data collection and summarization parameters to meet these requirements without unnecessarily using database size?

A) Collect response time data every hour, summarize hourly data into daily data after 30 days
B) Summarize detailed data into hourly data after 30 days, summarize hourly data into daily date after 60 days
C) Summarize detailed data into hourly data after 60 days, summarize hourly data into daily data after 90 days
D) Collect response time data every hour, summarize hourly data into daily date after 60 days

Answer 15

Summarize detailed data into hourly data after 30 days, summarize hourly data into daily data after 60 days

(You should summarize your detailed data into hourly data then summarize your hourly data into daily statistic. You can achieve this by going to Settings > All Settings > Polling Settings > Database Settings)

Question 16

You deployed Orion agents on several Windows and Linux servers in your environment. Which port do you need to open on your network to ensure that secure, agent-initiated communication from Windows and Linux agents can get through?

A) 17790
B) 17778
C) 17791
D) 17777

Answer 16

Port 17778

(This communication method is also known as an active agent. In active move, there are no listening ports on the agent. Any communication between your SolarWinds Platform server or additional polling engines and the agent service is initiated by the agent service itself)

Question 17

You need to deploy the Orion agent software en masse via Active Directory Group Policy. You’ve already created the Group Policy but you need the MST file. What’s the quickest way to get the MST file?

A) Download it from http://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/
B) Find the download link in THWACK
C) From the Manage Agent page of the Orion Web Console
D) From the SolarWinds installation folder

Answer 17

From the Manage Agent page of the Orion Web Console

(You can go to Settings > All Settings > Manage Agents > Download Agent Software. From this page, select Mass Deploy to Mutliple Machines (e.g. Group Policy))

Question 18

You are creating an alert for a Universal Device Poller (UnDP). Which of the following trigger condition helps you target the custom poller you want?

A) A trigger condition where the custom poller MIB is equal to the MIB used in your UnDP
B) A trigger condition where the custom poller Unique Name is equal to the name of your UnDP
C) A trigger condition where the custom poller enabled is equal to TRUE
D) A trigger condition where the custom poller SNMP get type is equal to GetNext

Answer 18

A trigger condition where the custom poller Unique Name is equal to the name of your UnDP

(You can use the Unique Name parameter to complete your trigger condition for alerting on the target custom poller)

Question 19

You want to avoid reaching a certain usage level on a number of critical devices. Which forecast calculation method should you use on these devices for Capacity Planning?

A) Automatic Calculation
B) Manual Calculation
C) Peak Calculation
D) Average Calculation

Answer 19

Peak Calculation

(This option forecasts trends using daily maximum values. This is suitable for important/critical devices to prevent reaching certain functionality thresholds. Go to Settings > All Settings > Thresholds and Polling > Orion Thresholds)

Question 20

You want to reduce the number of decimal places returned by an UnDP you created. Which Transform would you use to do this?

A) Maximum
B) Minimum
C) ColumnMaximum
D) Truncate

Answer 20

Truncate

(You can use the truncate option in the UnDP to reduce the decimal places when working with your custom pollers)

Question 21

Which of the following two object types can you apply in Universal Device Poller? Choose two

A) Nodes
B) Interfaces
C) Volumes
D) Components

Answer 21

Node, Interface

(You can create a poller for your nodes and interfaces using UnDP for NPM)

Question 22

For an upcoming maintenance window, you want to ensure that alerts about affected devices do not trigger. What should you do?

A) Unmanage the device for the duration of the maintenance window
B) Delete the node. Add it back after the maintenance window
C) Go to List Interfaces and deselect all the interfaces of the device
D) Nothing, this is the default Orion setting

Answer 22

Unmanage the device for the duration of maintenance window

(Unmanaging the node will ensure that alerts will not trigger and still keep the historical data of the node, interfaces, and volumes)

Question 23

You need to ensure that an Orion user account can make changes to resources and views as needed. Which permission will allow the user account to do this with the least amount of privilege?

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

Answer 23

Allow View Customization must be enabled

(This option allows a user to add, edit, and remove resources and widgets to a view)

Question 24

When you create a manual dependency in NPM, a group can be designated as a child object, but NOT as a parent object. Parent objects must not be a member of any group in order to be designated as a parent object. True or false?

Answer 24

False

(A group can be designated as a parent object and a parent object can be a member of any group)

Question 25

You need to ensure that each NPM user has exclusive access to reports he is responsible for. How could you achieve this?

A) Save the reports in different sub-directories under \Reports and set those as the Report Folder for each account
B) Save the reports in different sub0directories and set the permissions for each user
C) Create the reports while logged in as each user and set the appropriate permissions
D) Use Report Limitation Category

Answer 25

Use Report Limitation Category

(You can use the report limitation category to provide restrictions to users. This allows us to avoid users to access certain reports in your organization. You can achieve this by going to Settings > All Settings > Accounts < Edit Account)

Question 26

While manually adding a single node, it is not possible to assign Universal Device Pollers from the Add Nodes page. You can only assign Universal Device Pollers from the Universal Device Pollers application. True or false?

Answer 26

Flase

(You can add Universal Device Pollers before completing the Add Node wizard. This ensures that we can monitor the needed metrics after adding the node)

Question 27

You sent a link to a report you created in NPM to key stakeholders. These individuals do not have an account in the Orion Web Console. You want them to be able to view the reports without having to create an account for them. What should you do?

A) Create a service account that they can share
B) Enable the Link Only option on the report
C) Allow the Guest account to access the report
D) Create a DirectLink account in the Orion Web Console

Answer 27

Create a DirectLink account in the Orion Web Console

(To share Orion Web Console views with users who do not have an Orion Web Console account, set up a DirectLink account that bypasses the login screen and logs the user into the DirectLink account)

Question 28

Instead of the SolarWinds logo, you want your company logo to display on the banner area of the Orion Web Console. How would you achieve this?

A) Use the Custom Property Editor and apply your company logo to all monitored nodes
B) Use the Web Console setting to upload your company logo
C) Use Network Atlas to display your company images and branding
D) Use Manage Views to add a custom HTML resource that contains your logo

Answer 28

Use Web Console settings to upload your company logo

Question 29

What port is used for SNMP queries?

Answer 29

UDP/161

Question 30

What port is used for receiving SNMP traps?

Answer 30

UDP/162

Question 31

What port is the default SMTP port?

Answer 31

TCP/25

Question 32

What is an external node?

Answer 32

It’s a node added to the NPM inventory that will neither be pinged nor polled.

Question 33

What is a MIB?

Answer 33

Management Information Base

In the case of enterprise MIBs (1.3.6.1.4.1.*) they’re enterprise-supplied text files with all the details about their own devices.

In the case of standard information (1.3.6.1.2.1.*) they’re defined in RFC3418 (e.g., system name, system location, system description).

Question 34

What is a OID?

Answer 34

Object Identifier

These are the individual data points offered via SNMP by devices that support it. OIDs are documented in MIB (management information base) files.

Question 35

If you want to stop getting alerts but continue to get ping and statistics results for a device, what do you do?

Answer 35

Set the device to muted for the duration in question.

Question 36

Agents are available for what OS(s)?

Answer 36

Windows, Linux, AIX

Question 37

How do you add escalation to alerts?

Answer 37

1. Alert
2. Trigger Actions
3. Add Escalation
4. Select how long to wait before escalating
5. Add action for new escalation level

Question 38

What port is used for Agent Installer (Inbound)?

Answer 38

1. TCP/135 (DCE/RPC Locator Service) Microsoft EPMAP
2. TCP/445 (Microsoft-DS SMB File Sharing)

WMI is only needed for deploying the agent to a Windows server with the Add Node or Add Agent wizard. If you do not want to open WMI ports required for software deployment, you can use another deployment method for the Agent.

WMI also uses any random TCP port greater than 1024.

Question 39

What port is used for SolarWinds Agent (Inbound) - Server-Initiated?

Answer 39

TCP/17790

Question 40

What port is used for SolarWinds Agent (Outbound) - Agent-Initiated?

Answer 40

TCP/17778

Question 41

What port is used for SQL Server connections?

Answer 41

TCP/1433

Question 42

What port is used for SQL Server Browser Service queries?

Answer 42

TCP/1434

This is the service that will determine which instance you’re asking for and then redirect to you to that other port at 1024+.

Question 43

What port is used for WMI (After Initial Request)?

Answer 43

TCP/1024-65535

Question 44

What is the permission required to acknowledge alerts?

Answer 44

Allow Account to Clear/Acknowledge Orion Messages

Question 45

What port is used for WMI (Initial Request)?

Answer 45

TCP/135

Question 46

How do you limit access to reports?

Answer 46

New reports may be assigned to individual accounts by creating Report Limitation Categories in the web console Report Wizard and then set in the Manage Accounts area.

Question 47

When monitoring VMware ESX/ESXi what two things are fetched with SNMP instead of the API?

Answer 47

Volumes and Interfaces

Question 48

Which of the following actions do NOT require previous configuration?

1. Send an email or page in the Orion Platform
2. Dial a paging or SMS service in the Orion Platform
3. Log event to a file
4. Play a sound when an alert is triggered in the Orion
   Platform
5. Log the event to the NetPerfMon event log
6. Send an SNMP trap in the Orion Platform
7. Use the speech synthesizer to read alerts in the Orion Platform

Answer 48

3 and 5

Question 49

What are the report format options?

Answer 49

CSV, HTML, PDF, and XLS

Question 50

For correct device identification with SNMP, what must the device provide?

Answer 50

SysObjectID

Question 51

For Windows servers, SolarWinds recommends using WMI polling. True or flase?

Answer 51

True

Question 52

WMI uses more bandwidth, CPU, and memory than SNMP per poll. True false?

Answer 52

True

Question 53

Windows mount points and application metrics can be collected with WMI, so there’s no need to use SNMP. True or false?

Answer 53

False

Cannot collect Windows mount point statistics or application level metrics with SNMP.

Question 54

Discoveries can be one of four types. What are they?

Answer 54

1. IP Ranges
2. Subnets
3. IP Addresses
4. Active Directory

Question 55

The Web Console has multiple _____(s) with multiple _____(s) which display information about your ______(s).

Answer 55

Views, Widgets, Entities

Question 56

What SNMP versions does NPM support?

Answer 56

All of them - v1, v2c, and v3.

Question 57

What is the SNMP equivalent of a password?

Answer 57

Community

Question 58

How can you encrypt the username, password,
and data between your NPM server and the Orion
database?

A. Use Windows authentication to encrypt the
username, password, and data
B. Use SSL to encrypt the username, password,
and data
C. Use Windows authentication to encrypt data
and SSL to encrypt the username and
password
D. Use Windows authentication to encrypt the
user name and password and SSL to encrypt
the data

Answer 58

D. Use Windows authentication to encrypt the
user name and password and SSL to encrypt
the data

Question 59

Where can you find information on
instances/VMs by cloud account and region?

A. Cloud Asset Summary
B. Cloud Server Infrastructure
C. Cloud Instances Status Summary
D. Active Cloud Alerts

Answer 59

B. Cloud Server Infrastructure

Question 60

You can only monitor Virtual Network
Gateways with NPM.

A. True
B. False

Answer 60

A. True

Question 61

You can use Orion Groups in Maps.

A. True
B. False

Answer 61

A. True

Question 62

By default, what is the longest time period taken into
account for calculating the capacity forecast?

A. 24 hours
B. 30 days
C. 180 days
D. 365 days

Answer 62

C. 180 days

Question 63

You can view interface, node, and volume
information in one capacity forecasting widget.

A. True
B. False

Answer 63

B. False

Question 64

What can you use custom pollers for? Select all that
apply.

A. Monitor a specific metric which is not
monitored out-of-the box
B. Monitor special equipment
C. Monitor objects although the number of
monitored objects exceeds a poller’s capacity
limitation
D. Monitor capacity usage trends on the network

Answer 64

A, B, & C

Question 65

Which data source can you not use for polling
devices?

A. A polled value or values reported by a device
on an OID
B. A calculated value that results from the
transformation of polled values
C. A fixed value in the form of a constant
number or text
D. A custom property value through on the Orion
Web Console

Answer 65

D. A custom property value through on the Orion
Web Console

Question 66

By default, all sensors available in the selected MIB
are monitored on devices with enabled hardware
health monitoring.

A. True
B. False

Answer 66

A. True

Question 67

Hardware health information is collected only for
______ where the hardware sensors are enabled.

A. Indexes
B. Volumes
C. Nodes
D. Interfaces

Answer 67

C. Nodes

Question 68

How do you verify you have vPCs configured for
Nexus devices?

A. Enable CLI polling and review the node details
view
B. Run ‘show vpc brief’ command on the device
C. Enable Nexus VPC in Status & Response Time
D. Check the Interfaces subview

Answer 68

B. Run ‘show vpc brief’ command on the device

Question 69

How do you enable the Network Insight for Palo
Alto Site-to-Site VPNs and GlobalProtect VPN sub
views?

A. Enable Palo Alto sub views in the Additional
Monitoring options
B. Enable polling of Palo Alto devices monitored
in NPM via the Palo Alto REST API
C. Access the Orion Web Console using an
administrative account with permissions set
for the XML API
D. Add the sub view by configuring the Left
Navigation pane

Answer 69

B. Enable polling of Palo Alto devices monitored
in NPM via the Palo Alto REST API

Question 70

Why might you receive unreadable trap messages
from NPM? Select all that apply

A. A firewall between the device and the NPM
server is blocking SNMP
B. The device MIBs are not in your MIB database
C. The device does not support SNMP
D. The device uses SNMPv3 and has not been
added as a monitored node for authentication

Answer 70

B & D

Question 71

What is the default retention for Syslog Messages
before messages are deleted from the database?

A. 7 days
B. 30 days
C. 180 days
D. 365 days

Answer 71

A. 7 days