SCP DUMPS - Question and Answers Volume 1

What is a concern when monitoring a layer 3 (hierarchical) network that is not a concern when monitoring a layer 2 (flat) network?   

A. access control lists blocking management traffic
B. bottlenecking caused by STP path selection
C. restricted SNMP permissions
D. troubleshooting complexity caused by BPDUs
Answer: A

A network engineer would recommend decreasing polling frequency in order to address which topology-based issue?
A. high CPU values on WAN routers
B. WAN bandwidth availability
C. SQL database scalability issues
D. redundancy for single-homed sites
Answer: B

A firewall separates Orion NPM and the network devices it is monitoring. Only encrypted communication will be allowed from the server for polling and configuration management.
Which two ports will need to be allowed through the firewall? (Choose two.)
A.22
B.23
C.69
D.80
E.161
F.2055
Answer: A,E

                  
Companies A and B have merged and are both using the 10.10.x..x /16 networks. Company A uses Orion NPM and would like to monitor two key servers within company B's network.
Which solution for this situation involves the fewest configuration steps?
A. use static NAT
B. use dynamic NAT
C. re-address company B's network
D. use DNS for accessing the servers
Answer: A

Company A and company B have merged and are currently planning to combine their network backbones. All 18 of company A's routers run OSPF, but company B's hardware only supports RIPv2. You need to monitor both networks from a single NMS.

Which solution involves the fewest configuration steps to meet these monitoring requirements?
A. move to static routing for all routers
B. change the routing protocol on company A's routers to RIP
C. use router redistribution
D. configure company A's routers to run RIP along with OSPF
Answer: C

How should you visually represent service level agreement (SLA) interface utilization thresholds within the Orion NPM Web Console?
A. export data from the Orion database to a spreadsheet, use its graphing functions to chart the data, and draw a line for the SLA level
B. define SLA as a custom property in the Orion database, and populate it with the correct SLA values
C. export the charts to a visual editing tool and hand draw the SLA level on the charts
D. use SQL Reporting Services to export the data
Answer: B

Over the course of 24 hours, a node was sent 200 ping requests in an effort to monitor its availability.
Of those 200 ping requests there were:
100 responses of less than 10ms
50 responses of greater than 20ms
50 requests with no responses
What was the availability of that node during this period of time?
A.60%
B.70%
C.75%
D.80%
Answer: C

From your core site, your network management system (NMS) has detected that both the WAN router and the switch in one of your remote sites are unreachable.
What should be your first step in identifying the root cause?
A. examine the state of the adjacent core router's interface
B. examine the switch configuration at the core site
C. examine the router configuration at the remote site
D. examine the state of the remote router's WAN interface
Answer: A

Network usage consistently increases to near saturation levels on your Internet connection from 12:00pm to 1:00pm on most days of the week. What should you do?
A .increase Internet bandwidth from your ISP
B. check the ping times to your core router
C. examine Net Flow data for that time period
D. turn off Internet access and see who complains
Answer: C

While monitoring your network with Orion NPM, you notice that several of the devices in your remote offices periodically go into a "warning" state, but then quickly go back into an "up" state.
While the devices are in "warning" state, the users at those sites report normal operations.
What is the most likely cause of this occurrence?
A. Orion NPM is configured to poll too frequently.
B. During network congestion, ICMP packets are being dropped.
C. Orion NPM is not configured to poll frequently enough.
D. Firewall rules are periodically blocking ICMP packets.
Answer: B

You are using NetFlow to analyze the traffic on your network. You notice that you have a large amount of traffic originating from various systems in your network destined to a single unrecognized off-net IP address during otherwise off-peak hours. What is the most likely cause?
A. a new, popular YouTube video being sent around the office
B. a malware or virus breakout on your network
C. automated server backups occurring within your network
D. higher than average VoIP usage from your overseas sites
Answer: B

What is a potential root cause of a slow response time across a WAN circuit?
A. interface re-indexing on a WAN router
B. high disk queue length on the SQL server
C. database replication across the circuit
D. large database re-indexing
Answer: C

You are investigating sudden slowness throughout the network. The routing tables are changing continuously and routes to many areas of the network are appearing and disappearing with each update. How should you investigate the cause of this issue?
A. examine the available memory
B. analyze routing protocol packets
C. look for switch ports that are off
D. look for WAN interfaces changing status
Answer: D

What is the most direct way to measure an application's performance?
A. ping the application server
B. collect application data in NetFlow
C. time application transactions
D. collect application server CPU and memory statistics
Answer: C

When monitoring the performance of the WAN connection to a remote site, you notice that latency varies from 10 to 1700 milliseconds and that bandwidth utilization is commonly over 90%.
Which type of traffic would be the most adversely affected by this situation?
A. email
B.SNMP polling
C. VoIP
D. Syslog
Answer: C

To add previously unmonitored humidity statistics to a report, which two components should you use? (Choose two.)
A. Universal Device Poller (UnDP)
B.MIB Walker
C. System Manager
D. Report Writer
E. Report Scheduler
F. Web Console
Answer: A,D