SolarWinds SCP Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Practice Test

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• Which credential protocol is recommended for securing NPM configurations?
• What is a primary benefit of data retention rollups in NPM?
• How do you verify you have vPCs configured for Nexus devices?
• What defines SolarWinds NPM licensing and how does it affect scalability?
• What is a potential impact of extending data retention in NPM?
• What is Orion High Availability (HA), and what benefits does it provide for NPM?
• What type of time-series data does NPM store and where is it stored?
• What is PerfStack and how is it used to correlate metrics across devices?
• To prevent alerts for devices behind your core router during a reboot, what should you configure?
• Which SNMP v3 security features does NPM support?
• In an Orion NPM alert scenario, you want an email when the problem occurs and another when it is fixed, with the alert remaining active while unfixed. What is the next step required to accomplish this?
• How does NPM perform device discovery and what credential types are supported?
• What is the purpose of configuring SNMP retries in global settings?
• What is the quickest way to obtain the MST file for AD Group Policy deployment in Orion?
• Which practice is recommended to manage database growth in a large NPM deployment?
• Which command verifies vPC configuration on Nexus devices?
• What are best practices for backing up and restoring SolarWinds NPM Orion server data?
• What is the role of the poller in NPM, and how does poller count affect scalability?
• What is the difference between an Operationally Up interface, and an Operationally Down interface?
• How do you create a report on bandwidth utilization during office hours over the previous month?
• To avoid reaching a certain usage level on critical devices, which forecast calculation method should you use?
• If you want to display your own branding in the Orion banner, which action should you perform?
• Which statement accurately describes exporting performance reports from NPM?
• To build a bandwidth utilization report for office hours in the previous month, what data and filtering steps are required?
• Where are IP SLA probe results stored and how can they be used?
• You can use Orion Groups in Maps.
• How does data collection differ between SNMP polling and WMI on Windows hosts in NPM?
• You notice you are no longer receiving volume statistics from Windows servers; what is the most likely cause?
• You want stakeholders without an Orion account to view a report. What should you do?
• What steps would you take to tune thresholds to reduce false positives in a busy data center?
• What is the quickest way to obtain the MST file for deploying the Orion agent via Active Directory Group Policy?
• Where are alert actions configured in NPM?
• Which API path is used to enable Network Insight for Palo Alto VPN sub views?
• How does NPM manage data retention for performance, trap, and flow data, and what considerations drive retention policy?
• What is the recommended upgrade procedure for SolarWinds NPM to minimize downtime?
• Licensing in SolarWinds NPM is typically managed how, and how does node count affect features?
• For a maintenance window, what should you do so that alerts about affected devices do not trigger?
• How do you configure Automatic Geolocation in the Worldwide Map?
• Which practice helps maintain the accuracy and usefulness of NPM dashboards and alerts?
• What is the purpose of pins and bookmarks in NPM dashboards?
• Which practice is recommended for optimizing NPM performance in large environments?
• By default, all sensors available in the selected MIB are monitored on devices with enabled hardware health monitoring. True or false?
• Which action would ensure that alerts do not fire during a maintenance window for a specific device?
• Which interface statistics are typically monitored by NPM and how are they interpreted?
• How does NPM relate IP SLA, NetPath, and NetFlow data to identify root causes?
• How does NPM discover devices on the network, and what protocols are typically used?
• Which device types can NPM monitor effectively with SNMP, and what implication does that have for credentials?
• An Orion NPM administrator enables audible alerts. Assuming you are on a view that shows alerts, when will the audible alert be triggered?
• How can NPM assist in monitoring WAN links and identifying congestion points?
• Which statement accurately describes NetFlow data collection in NetFlow Traffic Analyzer?
• What types of reports are available in NPM and how can you create custom reports?
• Which data formats does NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) handle?
• During an upgrade, which artifact should be reviewed to anticipate changes and potential issues?
• Can NPM monitor remote sites via VPN, and what considerations apply for secure monitoring?
• What are dynamic or smart thresholds, and why would you enable them in NPM?
• What component provides path analysis in the network performance monitoring suite?
• Where can you find information on instances/VMs by cloud account and region?
• Where are credentials stored in NPM and what credential types does the system support?
• Which feature should be used to globally change the node details view for a certain device type?
• In NPM dashboards, which widgets are commonly used to visualize health and performance?
• Before upgrading, which preparatory actions are recommended?
• What is the primary role of SolarWinds NPM within the Orion Platform architecture?
• Which statement best describes PerfStack's role?
• In NPM, network maps help visualize topology by showing what data?
• What is the purpose of archiving or data rollups when data retention is extended?
• Which data collection methods are used by NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to monitor traffic data?
• From which device should you start PerfStack analysis when a hub site is experiencing slow performance?
• Why are vendor MIBs and OIDs important for SNMP monitoring in NPM?
• Where do you go to change the calculation method used for capacity forecasting across all monitored interfaces?
• What is the impact of data retention on the NPM database?
• Which node-level health metrics are tracked and how can they inform capacity planning?
• How do you create and use custom reports or SSRS-based reports in NPM to meet business requirements?
• In the described alert scenario, which statement best describes the lifecycle of an alert?
• By default, what is the longest time period taken into account for calculating the capacity forecast?
• What are the trade-offs involved in setting longer data retention for performance data?
• Where can custom properties be used in NPM?
• In an Orion HA setup, what occurs during a failover event?
• How do backups and restores work for an NPM deployment?
• How does NPM handle duplicate alerts?
• What is the default retention for Syslog Messages before messages are deleted from the database?
• If trap messages are unreadable, which scenario could explain this besides missing device MIBs?
• Can NPM monitor devices in cloud environments, and what are the typical limitations?
• Which action is NOT a recommended routine maintenance task for NPM?
• Which command-line tools or logs are useful when troubleshooting an NPM deployment?
• To give a user the ability to customize views without broad admin rights, which permission must be enabled?
• IP SLA tests in NPM simulate what types of network transactions to measure performance?
• What metrics can PerfStack correlate across devices?
• What can you use custom pollers for? Select what doesn't apply.
• What is the best way to ensure alerts fire only after sustained high usage?
• Which credentialing practice helps minimize exposure when configuring SNMP access in NPM?
• What is the purpose of the Credentials Manager in NPM and what credential types does it store?
• Which data sources are used by NPM to assess path performance and detect issues in network routing?
• NetPath in SolarWinds NPM and what path information does it provide?
• The statement 'You can view interface, node, and volume information in one capacity forecasting widget' is true or false?
• Which data source can you not use for polling devices?
• How does NetPath integration with NTA complement NPM in monitoring network performance?
• What is the purpose of a Reset Condition in an alert rule?
• In hardware health monitoring, when enabled, which sensors are monitored by default?
• You can only poll status and response time using only ICMP when SNMP is disabled and ICMP is enabled on the device.
• What is the recommended approach to scheduling maintenance windows in NPM?
• What approach is recommended to ensure that reports are accessible only to the intended users who own them?
• NetPath path monitoring relies on which construct to measure network paths?
• Which MIBs are commonly leveraged by NPM for device monitoring, and why are they important?
• Outline a structured troubleshooting approach in NPM for a latency spike.
• What security best practices should be applied when deploying NPM in production?
• What is a typical benefit of using data rollups in NPM?
• Which statement about NetPath is false?
• NetPath prerequisites include which of the following?
• To ensure that each NPM user has exclusive access to the reports they are responsible for, which approach should you use?
• Your weekly scheduled discoveries consistently detect 5 Windows 10 workstations. What can you do to remove those devices from being discovered in the future?
• How does NPM receive and map alerts from SNMP traps and syslog messages?
• Where can you view the total number of elements polled in the Orion Web Console?
• If you want to assign Universal Device Pollers to a node during setup, which tool should you use?
• How do alert dependencies and blackout windows help reduce alert fatigue?
• In Universal Device Poller, which object types are supported? Select the two possible correct types.
• Which settings menu will show the details of total number of elements polled in your Orion Web Console?
• How does NPM detect and alert on interface state changes and threshold breaches?
• What are custom properties in NPM used for, and how do they help with organization and reporting?
• NetPath in NPM provides all of the following EXCEPT which?
• Which features help reduce alert noise in NPM?
• What is a maintenance window (blackout) in NPM?
• Which two types of data does Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer collect from network devices?
• How do you enable the Network Insight for Palo Alto Site-to-Site VPNs and GlobalProtect VPN sub views?
• How does the Node Polling Interval affect data granularity and system load in NPM?
• Under which condition does ICMP polling for status and response time work according to the material?
• How do you use PerfStack to analyze cross-device latency and correlate with CPU or memory?
• Why is time synchronization important in an NPM environment and how do you configure it?
• IP SLA data contribute to NPM's performance measurements by?
• Why is time synchronization important for NPM data, and how is it achieved?
• What is NetPath in SolarWinds NPM used for?
• How should you modify alert definitions so that they fire only when high traffic utilization is sustained for 10 minutes or more?
• What are the report options in NPM, and how can you generate custom performance reports?
• Which port is used for secure, agent-initiated communication when deploying Orion agents (Windows and Linux)?
• Which action is most appropriate to prevent future discoveries of the same devices (for example, five Windows 10 workstations) from appearing in discovery results?
• What is the recommended upgrade approach for SolarWinds NPM and Orion Platform components?
• Which statement best describes how PerfStack supports diagnosing performance issues?
• NetPath path analysis prerequisites in NPM include which of the following?
• To ensure users see a different node details page for all Extreme Network switches, how should this be implemented globally?
• How can DNS and network name resolution issues affect NPM monitoring?
• What threshold in the example triggers the initial disk space alert?
• When adding a Windows 2019 Server, which polling methods should be considered?
• What polling method should a network engineer choose if he will be adding a Windows 2019 Server in their Orion environment?
• NetPath visibility in NPM is best described as what?
• How does High Availability (HA) work with Orion/NPM, and what components are involved?
• Which steps would diagnose time skew between an NPM server and monitored devices?
• NetPath services are monitored by ____.
• Hardware health information is collected only for which devices where the hardware sensors are enabled?
• How can NPM monitor devices that do not support SNMP?
• NetFlow/IPFIX data capabilities and required module?
• Which typical cloud-related limitation can affect NPM monitoring of cloud-hosted devices?
• How can you encrypt the username, password, and data between your NPM server and the Orion database?
• Which feature helps visualize network health and performance in NPM dashboards?
• To display your company logo on the banner area of the Orion Web Console, which action enables this?
• What is the role of NetFlow data in NPM, and what configurations are typically required?
• How does role-based access control (RBAC) work in NPM, and why is it important?
• What is the default interface polling interval for response time and status?
• Which statement best describes keeping an alert visible in the Orion NPM Web Console while the issue is unresolved?
• Hardware health information is collected only for ______ where the hardware sensors are enabled.
• Which is a typical global setting you should review to ensure stable monitoring?
• When creating an alert for a Universal Device Poller (UnDP), which trigger condition helps you target the custom poller you want?
• 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?
• In SolarWinds, licensing is typically managed how?
• What is the recommended approach to ensuring adequate capacity in an Orion Polling Engine deployment?
• How does NPM monitor remote or cloud-based devices, and what considerations apply?
• Dynamic groups in NPM automatically include devices based on what?
• Where can custom properties be defined in NPM?
• Which statements describe how thresholds can be defined in NPM?
• What is the primary purpose of node polling in NPM?
• Which reporting options does NPM offer for external delivery?
• You can only monitor Virtual Network Gateways with NPM
• After creating a trigger such as 'Volume Space Used is greater than 90%', what is the recommended next step?
• Which WAN analysis component helps identify where congestion occurs along the path?
• What should be considered when monitoring cloud or remote devices with NPM?
• Which protocol is commonly used by NPM to gather inventory and credentials on Windows hosts during discovery?
• Which built-in reports are commonly used for network availability and capacity planning in NPM?
• How can you create and share custom dashboards in NPM?
• What is a likely consequence if the NTP time sources are misconfigured across the Orion environment?
• To access a web-based ticketing tool without leaving Orion Web Console, how do you accomplish this?
• What is the default retention period for Syslog Messages before deletion?
• What capability is enabled by selecting Enable Nested Maps on the site details map?
• What considerations apply when the NPM Orion database is hosted on SQL Server?
• NetPath in NPM can be limited by which factors?
• Which statements describe how thresholds are defined in NPM?
• Which agent is required to run NetPath services?
• How can NPM help with network performance compliance reporting (uptime, SLA metrics)?
• You created nested maps in Network Atlas. You want the top-level map to show as down when half of the objects under it are down. How do you accomplish this?
• Which of the following are typical database maintenance best practices for NPM?
• What is a recommended practice for testing disaster recovery readiness for NPM?
• To reduce the number of decimal places returned by a Universal Device Poller (UnDP), which Transform should you apply?
• Which permission will allow an Orion user account to make changes to resources and views as needed with the least amount of privilege?
• What is the role of the poller in NPM and how does it affect scalability?
• Which statement is true about NetPath monitoring?
• When manually adding a single node, is it possible to assign Universal Device Pollers from the Add Nodes page?
• NetFlow data in NPM influences which aspects of network management?
• In NPM dashboard design, which element is used to display data on a page?
• Which interface performance metrics does NPM monitor and how is utilization calculated?
• You can export CPU Capacity Forecast chart in all of the following formats, except:
• What is the purpose of dashboards in NPM, and how can you tailor them to operators?
• Which PerfStack statistics help you correlate traffic volume with how close an interface is to saturation?
• In a Net Performance alert, which element is considered a key component?
• How is NPM scalability achieved?
• In PerfStack analysis, what does node health indicate?
• What are the core components of the SolarWinds Orion Platform as used by Network Performance Monitor (NPM)?
• If you want an alert to send an email on initial occurrence, which trigger condition best accomplishes this?
• What is PerfStack and how does it help in troubleshooting performance issues?
• What is the primary benefit of placing the NPM database on a dedicated server in large environments?
• What is the difference between auto-discovery and manual device addition in NPM?
• What routine tasks should an NPM administrator perform regularly?
• What is the purpose of dependency-based alerts and suppression in NPM?
• Why might you receive unreadable trap messages from NPM?
• How is IP SLA monitoring configured in NPM and what metrics can be collected?
• To display link statuses on a map in Network Atlas, what action is required?
• To ensure that an NPM user is only able to see Windows devices in any and all views, what steps will allow you to do this? Choose two.
• How does NPM handle interface naming and user-defined mapping?
• What must be configured on devices to ensure NPM can generate alerts from traps and syslog?
• How do maintenance windows affect alerting in NPM?
• Which statement best describes scalability considerations for large NPM deployments?
• What RESTful API capabilities exist in the SolarWinds Orion Platform for NPM automation?
• What steps are essential when upgrading NPM within the Orion Platform?
• What is a key benefit of distributing polling tasks across multiple servers?
• Which of the following object types can you apply in Universal Device Poller? Choose two.
• Which statement best describes manual dependencies in NPM?
• How are device credentials stored and managed in NPM, and what security considerations apply?
• What actions can be configured in NPM alerts?
• Which SNMP versions are commonly supported by NPM, and what distinguishes them for monitoring?
• What is required to create a nested map in Orion NPM? Select the option that does NOT apply.
• To restrict Windows device visibility to Windows devices, which two steps are required? Choose the correct combined option.
• How can you diagnose performance issues in NPM using the Orion Console and PerfStack?
• What are common troubleshooting steps when a node is not polled or shows Unknown in NPM?
• Which two features, when used together, allow you to ensure each site can only view and manage devices in their site?
• What is the purpose of a maintenance window in alert management?
• What effect do data rollups have on long-term performance data analysis in NPM?
• What is the primary purpose of Orion Export/Import in NPM?
• When upgrading NPM, which approach helps ensure a safe and smooth transition?
• Which practice helps manage capacity in a large NPM deployment?