IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

Q27. Your team member cannot see any reports in the Orion Console. What can cause this issue?

Q28. You inherit an environment with NPM and begin to receive High Traffic Utilization alerts from interfaces. When you view the alert, the issue is resolved. How do you modify NPM to receive fewer false alerts?

Q29. Your network has critical devices on the opposite side of a WAN link from you SolarWinds server. You do not want alerts about the devices if the router (name = “target”) that connects your SolarWinds server to the remote site is down. How do you configure Alert Suppression?

Q30. You want to limit a user to only monitor Windows servers and not be able to view other devices that NPM monitors. How can you do this?

Q31. You run ten reports on three assorted weekly schedules and send the results to the network operations distribution list. The email address for the distribution list changed, and you must update the new email address to send the reports. How do you implement this update?

Q32. For any node you monitor, you can use Network Discovery to automatically add child volumes or interfaces for monitoring.

Q33. You need to add a new subnet of 500 devices for monitoring. What is the first step to incorporate these devices into NPM?

Q34. You can make bulk changes, such as changing the polling method, to nodes.

Q35. What is the average resource consumption of an agent?

Q36. You receive an alert that one of your routers is experiencing critical level CPU utilization. The router details in the web console show as critical utilization, but you do not consider the utilization on that router to be at a critical level.
What change can you make in NPM to reflect a CPU utilization level you consider to be critical for the device?

Q37. You run a Network Discovery and discover devices that you do not want to monitor. What feature can you use to exclude those devices from future discoveries?

Q38. You need to build an Orion Map to show the relationships and connections between your Cloud servers and on premise infrastructure. You add the nodes but discover that the Orion Platform is not automatically mapping the connection between your cloud server and on premise router. You have verified that layer 2 and layer 3 topologies are being polled on the devices. How do you resolve this issue?

Q39. How are Orion agents licensed?

Q40. What is required of your nodes to detect duplex mismatches? (Choose all that apply.)

Q41. You can apply Universal Device Pollers to which object types? (Choose all that apply.)

Q42. Network performance over an inter-campus Ethernet link is slow. One side of the connection is experiencing a high number of packet drops. What information in NPM can you review to help discover the cause of the issue?

Q43. You want to create a custom poller for a device. When you select the OID you get an “OID not supported” error. What does this mean?

Q44. You start a new job where NPM is already in use. As soon as you are added to the alert list, you begin receiving “high traffic utilization” alerts from a handful of interfaces.
When you check the alert, the traffic spike has ended. Your new colleagues advise you to ignore these alerts because the spikes rarely last for more than a couple of minutes and are only a concern if they last longer.
How should NPM be modified so you receive fewer false alerts?