While diagnosing a network issue, you find that you are able
to reach the troubled device when testing from the same VLAN, but you are not
able to reach that device when testing from a separate VLAN
At which layer of the
OSI model is the issue occurring?
A) 2
B) 1
C) 3
D) 4
Why are management loop back
interfaces important when managing routers, switches, and firewalls?
A) They have an IP address of
127.0.0.1, and therefore, are not rout table
B) They provide unique
statistics on interface traffic
C) They are "up" and reachable as
long as the device itself is reachable
D) They are always available, even if the device is
down
Which port status is caused by
users disconnecting their machines from an Ethernet switch?
A) Unknown
B)
Down
C) Testing
D) Shutdown
Users at both the New York and Los
Angeles sites are complaining that VoIP is not working. Other network services
at those sites and users at other sites seem to be unaffected.
What are the first two things
you should investigate to find the cause of this issue? (Choose two)
A)
The current CPU load for the routers in New York and Los Angeles
B) The
current bandwidth utilization for the circuits to New York and Los Angeles
C) Recent changes to the router configurations in New York and Los
Angeles
D) The software versions on the Call Managers supporting New York and Los
Angeles
E) The current status of the New York and Los Angeles sites
A user is unable to connect to the
corporate network.
What should you review to determine
the scope of the problem?
A) Error conditions on the interface to which the user is connected
B) The history of the user's connectivity
C)
Current network status for other users on the user's VLAN
D) Windows Update history on the user's workstation
Users are complaining that they are
unable to access the corporate Microsoft Exchange Server. Orion has detected
the following:
The switch port connected to the
Exchange Server is "shutdown".
User experience monitors for
the Outlook Web Access component are failing.
The Exchange Server is
"down".
The services that make up
Microsoft Exchange are "down".
What is the root cause of the
users' inability to access the Exchange Server?
A) The Exchange Server is "down"
B)
The switch port connected to the Exchange Server is "shutdown"
C) User experience monitors for the Outlook Web Access (OWA) component
are failing
D) The services that make up Microsoft Exchange are "down"
A backhoe operator has accidentally
cut through a fiber optic cable leading to one of your facilities. All
communications to that site are down.
What should you do to gauge
the impact on the rest of the network?
A) Review network topology maps and other
documentation to determine which corporate assets are down
B) Use Orion Network Discovery to
determine which services are no longer operational
C) Leverage the Orion Universal
Device Poller (UnDP) to create custom SNMP queries for the servers in the
down site
D) Review the triggered alerts and
network maps in Orion to see which other sites are experiencing problems
You are using Orion to monitor a set
of Windows 2003 Servers. The server team has decided to virtualize these
servers using VMware.
Which aspect of your
monitoring capability might be negatively affected?
A) Analysis of individual server status
B) Analysis of aggregate server performance
C)
Analysis of individual server network traffic
D) Analysis of individual server performance
Users at a remote site in Paris are
complaining that access to the company CRM is slow. Orion is collecting data on
this performance, but you need a more real-time perspective on the problem.
What should you do?
A) Launch a real-time tool to measure
and analyze performance while the problem is occurring
B) Install an Orion polling
engine to collect real-time data at the site in Paris
C) Use the Polling Engine Tuner to
increase the Max Polls Per Second settings in Orion
D) Increase the polling
interval in Orion for monitoring of devices in Paris
Users at a remote site in Paris
complain that the Microsoft Exchange Server is down and has been periodically
unavailable. The Exchange Server is centrally located, and users at other sites
are not having any issues.
Which information should you
review to troubleshoot this issue?
A) Network performance data at the Exchange Server site
B) Network performance data for the non-complaining sites
C) Exchange Server performance data
D) Network performance data
for the Paris site
Orion is monitoring a set of Windows
Servers for fault and performance data. The Server Administrator has decided to
delete the Active Directory account that Orion utilizes to communicate with
these servers.
What does this cause?
A)
Orion will now mark all of the servers as being "down"
B)
Orion will now mark all of the
servers as "unknown"
C)
Orion will be unable to collect application status data from theseervers
D)
Orion will be unable to collect interface traffic data from these servers
You are monitoring your Internet
connection, and your ISP has guaranteed 512 Kbps. Historical data shows that
your connection speed holds at 256 Kbps for long periods of time, but never
exceeds this speed.
What does this indicate?
A)
The ISP has misconfigured the link
B)
The NAT table is overloaded
C)
The WAN router is misconfigured
D)
QoS is dropping low priority traffic
What is different about how
network traffic statistics are collected using SNMP versus NetFlow?
A)
SNMP samples network traffic
B)
SNMP traffic is real-time
C)
NetFlow traffic is encrypted
D)
NetFlow is push-based
When querying a device with SNMP,
you receive an error that reads, "OID not supported".
What does this error indicate?
A)
The SNMP string that you used is incorrect
B)
The SNMP agent on the device does not
report on this OID
C)
This OID requires the read/write community string
D)
Your firewall is blocking SNMP requests
Your network management system (NMS)
reports memory consumption on a server to be 95%. You connect to the server and
see a memory consumption of 80%.
What is a possible cause for
this inconsistency?
A) WMI has been misconfigured on the server
B)
The NMS is displaying an average, whereas the server is displaying real-time data
C)
The NMS is displaying real-time data, whereas the server is displaying an
average
D) The NMS is using the wrong version of SNMP to poll the server
The application server team reports
that the SQL servers are NOT responding as they normally do. You check the
interfaces on the SQL servers and see that their bandwidth utilization is
within normal limits.
What is a likely cause for
this SQL application performance disruption?
A)
Low interface discards
B)
SNMP community string change
C)
Access list change
D)
High latency
Users at a remote office are
complaining of slow response times to Internet web-based applications. You have
determined that their router has full connectivity back to the core and that
all other offices have no issues with Internet connectivity.
What is a possible cause of
this issue?
A)
There is excessive bandwidth utilization
on the remote link
B)
The home office switch is misconfigured
C)
The core router access list received changes
D)
SNMP settings on the user workstations are wrong
Users are complaining that the
company's main accounting application is slow. The accounting server is in the
same location as the users.
Which two pieces of data should you
check first to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two)
A)
CPU
load on the accounting server
B)
CPU load on the
Internet router
C)
network traffic between the users and the accounting server
D)
bandwidth
utilization for the site's Internet connection
E)
network
traffic between the users and the Internet
A WAN graph is showing an
unexpectedly large amount of multicast traffic on a particular circuit.
What should you do to isolate
the cause?
A)
Analyze the traffic to identify the broadcast sources
B)
Analyze the multicast traffic to identify the destinations
C)
Define alerts for multicast versus unicast traffic
D)
Analyze the multicast traffic to
identify the sources
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)
Look for WAN interfaces changing status
B)
Analyze routing protocol packets
C)
Look for switch ports that are off
D)
Examine the available memory
What is a potential root cause
of a slow response time across a WAN circuit?
A)
Database replication across the circuit
B)
Large database re-indexing
C)
Interface re-indexing on a WAN router
D)
High disk queue length on the SQL server
You need to create an account that
can see only a subset of the nodes being monitored by Orion NPM.
What would you add to the
account to make this possible?
A)
Account permissions
B)
Account limitations
C)
View permissions
D)
Account views
An Orion NPM web user has requested
that a link to an external website be added to the Orion Web Console when
looking at devices. However, you want to avoid making global changes to all web
users.
Which two steps are required to
accomplish this task? (Choose two)
A)
Add the resource Custom HTML or Test to the Interface Details view
B)
Assign a custom Node Details view to this user's account
C)
Add the resource User Links to the Network Summary view
D)
Assign an Account Limitation to all other user accounts
E)
Add the resource User Defined Links to the Node Details
view
A router monitored by Orion NPM
reboots, and the interface indexes change.
How does Orion handle this
event?
A) Interface indexes must be manually updated using Web Node
Management
B) Orion uses internal ID numbers rather than relying on the
interface indexes
C) Interface indexes are automatically updated by the Orion
scheduled rediscovery process
D)
Interface indexes are automatically updated by re-running Orion Network
Discovery
What
should the network engineer do during scheduled down time to prevent Orion NPM
from triggering alerts on the affected devices?
A)
Edit the alerts to exclude the devices
B)
Suppress the devices
C)
Suppress any alerts that might be triggered by devices
D)
Un manage the devices
Your company has asked you to
expand your network management to include a new site with several hundred
devices, although you are not sure how many. Using Orion Network Discovery,
your top priority is completeness of discovery.
Which two Orion discovery
settings should you use to achieve your goal? (Choose two)
A)
Exclude any new subnets found during the network discovery
B)
Decrease the number of SNMP retries
C)
Include specific IP addresses through a seed file
D)
Decrease the overall speed of the discovery process
E)
Increase the overall speed of the discovery process
F)
Include any new subnets found during the network discovery
Universal Device Pollers (UnDP) can
be applied to which two object types? (Choose two.)
A)
Volumes
B)
Monitors
C)
Applications
D)
Interfaces
E)
Nodes
How does the Orion Universal Device
Poller (UnDP) monitor a device's statistics that are not included in the
standard Orion NPM MIB database?
A)
By manually compiling the MIB
into the Orion MIB database
B)
by
automatically searching the common MIB repositories and updating Orion
C)
by manually compiling the OID
into the Orion MIB database
D)
by keeping a copy of the
device's MIB on the Orion NPM Server
E)
by manually associating the device's
OID to Orion
You have been asked to provide
reports on bandwidth utilization during business hours for each of your remote
sales offices for the last month.
How should you design this
report in Orion NPM?
A)
pull last month's usage data and sort it by time of day
B)
pull last month's usage data and
filter out non-business hours
C)
pull all of the usage data and average it by month
D)
pull this year's usage data and filter by month
You have been asked for a report
that shows the top 50 interfaces by percent utilization.
What is the most time-efficient way
to create this report in Orion NPM?
A) Create
a new advanced SQL query report
B)
Edit default top 25
interfaces by percent utilization report and update to the top 50
C) Run
the default top 25 interfaces by percent utilization over different time frames
D)
Create a new
interface report and restrict to the top 50 using a filter
You have created a custom report
that shows "uptime" for each of your devices and would like to show
the data from this report on the Orion Network Summary View.
How should you accomplish this?
A) Add the "Custom HTML"
resource to the target view and specify a link to the uptime
report
B) Form within Report Writer, select
"Make this report available from the Orion website"
C)
Add the "Report from Orion Report Writer" resource
to the target view and specify the uptime report
D) Add the "List of Reports" resource to the
target view
