IT CERTIFICATION DUMPS: SCP DUMPS - Question and Answers Volume 11

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 the devices

D) unmanage 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

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 want to get an alert when disk space used on a server exceeds 90%, but you will not consider the problem fixed until the space used drops below 60%. You want to get an email when the problem occurs, but you also want an email when the problem is fixed. While the problem remains unfixed, you want the alert to stay active in the Orion NPM Web Console. If you create an alert with a trigger condition such as "Volume Space Used is greater than 90%", you will get an email when the initial problem occurs.What is the next step that is required to accomplish this goal?

A) add a Reset Condition like "Volume Space Used is Less than 60%"

B) add a Trigger Condition like "Volume Space Used is Less than 60%"

C) add an Alert Escalation Condition like "Volume Space Used is Less than 60%"

D) add an Alert Suppression Condition like "Volume Space Used is Less than 60%

A corporation's internal auditors require that they retain Syslog messages for a minimum of 90 days. Two weeks after deploying Orion NPM, you notice in the Orion Web Console that Syslog messages over a week old are missing.

What is the most likely cause?

A) Default Syslog retention period is seven days

B) Default Syslog web filter is seven days

C) Detailed records are summarized after seven days

D) Database compaction runs weekly

You fail to receive any SNMP traps on the Orion NPM Server for 24 hours.

What should you check first?

A) firewall rules

B) bandwidth utilization

C) polling frequency

D) Windows services

In the Orion Web Console, the Orion NPM administrator needs to ensure that a user can only see Cisco 6500 Switches. How can you accomplish a global limitation to their Orion Web Console account?

A) use Manage Views to limit the user to the custom property group

B) use Account Views to limit the user's rights to node access

C) use Account Manager to create an Account Limitation

D) use Account Limitation Builder to edit machine type

An Orion NPM administrator needs to customize the Orion Web Console to reflect the company's name and image.

Which action accomplishes this?

A) use the Web Console settings to change the banner logo and site text

B) use the Custom Property Editor to group nodes by location names

C) use Map Maker to portray company images and branding

D) use Manage Views to add custom HTML resources

The Orion NPM administrator wants to add the company ticketing website as a menu item within the Web Console.

What is the most time-efficient way to accomplish this goal for all user accounts?

A) add an external website to the Menu bar

B) add user-defined links to the Menu bar

C) add a custom link to the Modules bar

D) add a custom html resource to the Summary view

On an Orion NPM map, you click on particular device and navigate to a map instead of to the expected Node Details view. What are the two most likely causes? (Choose two)

A) The hyperlink has been manually changed

B) The nested map was misconfigured

C) The device was removed from the map

D) The map layout was rearranged

E) The tool tip has been misconfigured

A user is unable to see all nodes on a network map from the Orion NPM Web Console, while other users report no issues.

How should you resolve this issue?

A) set up appropriate drill-down views for the map

B) create an account limitation

C) edit permissions for the map

D) grant permission to the Orion map creation tool

Which two factors could affect whether an additional Orion NPM Poller is required? (Choose two)

A) local network utilization

B) number of Orion users

C) WAN bandwidth utilization

D) node reachability

E) monitored network elements

When planning the deployment of the database server for Orion NPM, what are two primary considerations? (Choose two)

A) type of NIC card used

B) CPU and memory size

C) database clustering

D) type of RAM

E) RAID configurations

What are two supported ways to integrate Orion NPM with other network management solutions? (Choose two)

A) Syslog

B) SNMP traps

C) J2EE

D) Python API

E) TCL/TK

Which two types of data does Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer collect from network devices? (Choose two)

A) NetFlow

B) NBAR

C) IP service level agreement (SLA)

D) sFlow

E) SNMP

What is the most efficient way to share a custom report with other Orion NPM users?

A) export a report from Report Writer and then upload it to the Thwack content sharing zone
B) upload a report to Thwack directly from System Manager
C) download a model report from Thwack, and then paste it in your custom SQL query

D) upload a report to Thwack from the Orion Web Console Report view

What is the most efficient method to receive notification that your Thwack post has been answered?

A) subscribe to the forum's RSS feed

B) select "email me replies to this post"

C) subscribe to the forum where you posted

D) select "Add to Favorites" for your post

The data center team requires that they be alerted if any of the servers in a remote site go down. However, they do NOT want to receive alerts when the remote site connection goes down.
Which two configuration steps should you take within your network management system (NMS) to meet these requirements?
(Choose two.)
A. set up alerts on server status
B. set up alerts on the remote connection status
C. set each of the servers as dependencies for each other
D. set up the remote connection as a dependency for each of the servers
E. set up alerts on the remote router status
Correct Answer: AD

What is an advantage of using SNMPv2c over using SNMPv1?
A. username parameter
B. get bulk command
C. get next command
D. 32 bit counters
E. authentication and encryption
Correct Answer: B

Which two variables are used in the calculation of Percent Utilization? (Choose two.)
A. configured bandwidth
B. packets per second
C. buffer overruns
D. interface discards
E. bits per second
Correct Answer: AE

QUESTION 4
Due to a server crash, you had to move Orion to a new server with a new IP address.
Which two changes should you make to ensure that Orion functions properly from the new server and IP address? (Choose two.)
A. update the access control lists (ACLs) that restrict management protocols
B. change the IP address specified in the snmpd.conf file on the Orion server
C. update the source address for NetFlow packets exported to Orion
D. notify ARIN of the Orion server's new IP address
E. update the destination IP address for Syslog and SNMP traps on your managed devices
Correct Answer: AE

You are monitoring your Internet connection, and your ISP has guaranteed512 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 WAN router is misconfigured.
C. The NAT table is overloaded.
D. QoS is dropping low priority traffic.
Correct Answer: A

Your current deployment has multiple Orion NPM servers monitoring multiple locations from a single site.
This is producing inaccurate data and high WAN bandwidth utilization.
What are the two most efficient ways to address this issue? (Choose two.)
A. deploy Orion NPMat each remote location
B. deploy Orion Enterprise Operations Console
C. deploy an additional Orion Poller
D. deploy an additional Orion Web Server
E. deploy an Orion Hot Standby
Correct Answer: AB

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 associating the device's OID to Orion
B. by keeping a copy of the device's MIB on the Orion NPM Server
C. by automatically searching the common MIB repositories and updating Orion
D. bymanually compiling the MIB into the Orion MIB database
E. bymanually compiling the OID into the Orion MIB database
Correct Answer: A

Which protocol should a network engineer enable on routers and switches to collect utilization statistics?

A. ICMP
B. SNMP
C. SMTP
D. WMI
Correct Answer: B

A network engineer is enabling SNMP on their network devices and needs to ensure it will use message
integrity.
Which version of SNMP should they use?
A. SNMPv
B. SNMPv2c
C. SNMPv3
D. SNMPv4
Correct Answer: C

A network engineer notices the Syslog server's database is growing significantly in size due to the large
number of devices sending Syslog messages.
What should the engineer do to control database growth?
A. configure the Syslog server to discard unwanted messages
B. configure the devices and the Syslog server to use TCP-based Syslog
C. configure the devices and the Syslog server to use SNMPv3
D. configure the Syslog server to capture SNMP traps instead of Syslog
Correct Answer: A

You have recently implemented a VoIP infrastructure within the company network. You are receiving
trouble tickets indicating calls are dropping between their New York and San Francisco offices.
Which two IP service level agreement (SLA) measurements should you use to identify the cause of the
issue?
A. latency
B. SIP
C. NetFlow
D. available bandwidth
E. jitter
Correct Answer: AE

Which two performance metrics can be affected by proper QoS implementation? (Choose two.)
A. jitter
B. shaping
C. marking
D. queuing
E. latency
Correct Answer: AE

Which network protocols are used by Solar Winds products during network discoveries?
A. ICMP and SMTP
B. DHCP and TFTP
C. PPTP and IMAP
D. ICMP and SNMP
Correct Answer: D

Which two management protocols should you use to measure the effectiveness of your QoS
implementation? (Choose two.)
A. Syslog
B. SNMP
C. NetFlow
D. WMI
E. SSHv2
Correct Answer: BC

Which management protocol should you use to analyze network traffic in and out of a router interface?

A. WMI
B. Syslog
C. IP service level agreement (SLA)
D. sFlow
Correct Answer: D

Users are complaining that a network connection is slow.
How should SNMP be used to verify performance of the interface?
A. verify bandwidth usage via ifInOctets
B. verify status via the ifTable
C. verify that SNMP agent is responding
D. verify the performance via ifSpeed
Correct Answer: A

Orion NPM is monitoring the performance of DS-3 utilizing standard MIBs in the ifTable. Occasionally, the reported traffic rates for this interface spike well above45 Mbps.
What is the most likely cause?
A. heavy network traffic
B. carrier misconfiguration
C. counter rollovers
D. database issues
Correct Answer: C

Orion NPM is using SNMP to poll a router and track interface traffic rates. The data are collected every 5 minutes, and the most recent values collected for a specific interface are 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 octets.
What is the approximate average rate of traffic for this interface?
A. 1 Kbps
B. 3 Kbps
C. 16 Kbps
D. 26 Kbps
Correct Answer: D

When using a network management system (NMS) to monitor network interfaces on a router, you notice that statistics are wrong after an interface card is physically removed from the device.
What has most likely caused this problem?
A. interface re-indexing
B. device configuration
C. counter rollovers
D. access lists
Correct Answer: A

Which two reporting requirements should you consider when specifying data roll-up settings for a network
management system (NMS)? (Choose two.)
A. data encryption
B. data format
C. data granularity
D. monitoring coverage
E. data retention
Correct Answer: CE

Which advantage do SNMP traps and Syslog have over SNMP polling?
A. reliability of event detection
B. ability to poll events in real-time
C. ease of configuration
D. speed of event detection
Correct Answer: D

How can you use a network management system (NMS)to ensure service level agreement (SLA)
parameters are realistic for your environment?
A. increase data collection period
B. configure data summarization
C. reduce data retention period
D. baseline network performance
Correct Answer: D

Your service level agreement (SLA) dictates that you must be able to notify the appropriate parties when systems are down for over2 minutes and report on data for the last120 days. Your network management system (NMS) has been configured to collect status every 10minutes and summarize and retain data for 90 days.
Which two settings should you change in the NMS to meet the business requirements? (Choose two.)
A. increase data retention to 120 days
B. configure status polling to occur every5 minutes
C. summarize hourly data into weekly data every 120 days
D. configure status polling to occur every minute
E. summarize hourly data into weekly data every 90 days
Correct Answer: AD

What should you do to track whether a new configuration has alleviated slow network performance?
A. compare ICMP availability before and after the change
B. compare application responsiveness before and after the change
C. monitor the affected devices for stability
D. monitor bandwidth utilization on affected interfaces
Correct Answer: B

The IT budgeting department has asked you for reports that will help them better plan for increases in
monthly recurring costs.
Which report should you set up to help the IT budgeting department meet this objective?
A. router inventory
B. WAN interface utilization
C. LAN interface utilization
D. available switch ports
Correct Answer: B

IT management wants to know how they can lower their total power consumption by consolidating
equipment and shutting off unnecessary equipment.
Which type of report can you create to help them plan for this?
A. bandwidth utilization
B. available switch ports
C. router CPU utilization
D. total NetFlow endpoints
Correct Answer: B

The IT planning department has asked for a report to help them understand when they need to implement IPv6.
Which report would offer them the greatest amount of relevant information?
A. unique NetFlow exporters
B. DHCP server CPU utilization
C. number of subnets
D. IP address utilization trends
Correct Answer: D

You are planning a network management implementation where the network has several low bandwidth WAN links. Which two network management protocols are most likely to cause heavy traffic on WANs and should therefore be considered carefully before deployment? (Choose two.)
A. Syslog
B. SSH
C. SMTP
D. NetFlow
E. ICMP
Correct Answer: AD

Which two sources provide detailed visibility into router interface traffic? (Choose two.)
A. SNMP statistics
B. SNMP traps
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C. NetFlow
D. Syslog
E. CDP
Correct Answer: AC

A network engineer is planning to deploy a network management system (NMS) to monitor a network. Which two UDP ports should be enabled in router access control lists and firewalls so the NMS can effectively monitor devices?(Choose two.)
A. 160
B. 161
C. 162
D. 163
E. 164
Correct Answer: BC

A network engineer is planning to deploy a network management system (NMS) to monitor a large campus network. What is the most secure way to isolate the NMS network traffic to all monitored routers and switches?
A. add the NMS IP address to the permissions for each device
B. create a management VLAN for the NMS
C. open onlythe appropriate ports on the routers and firewalls
D. enable SNMPv3 on the switches
Correct Answer: B

The IP address of a network management system (NMS) is 10.1.5.2, and theIP address of a new server that it is monitoring on the same VLAN is 10.1.5.129. The NMS cannot reach the server with SNMP or ICMP.
What is the most likely cause?
A. The firewall is blocking SNMP and ICMP.
B. The subnet mask of the server is misconfigured.
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C. The ARP table of the router has not refreshed.
D. The MAC address of the NMS has changed.
Correct Answer: B

What can you determine from a packet capture that you CANNOT learn from NetFlow data?
A. network traffic statistics
B. router Telnet password
C. client to server communication ports
D. device up/down status
Correct Answer: B

When monitoring a remote router with a network management system (NMS), which interface provides the
most reliable connectivity?
A. the WAN interface on the router
B. the LAN interface on the NMS
C. the loopback interface on the router
D. the loopback interface on the NMS
Correct Answer: C

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. bottle necking caused by STP path selection
C. restricted SNMP permissions
D. troubleshooting complexity caused by BPDUs
Correct Answer: A

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

Your company outsources CRM to a SaaS company. Users are complaining that the CRM is down. You verify that Internet connectivity is good and that other Internet sites can be accessed. You contact the CRM provider and find that none of their other customers are having issues. You attempt to ping this IP address from your network management system (NMS), but the ping fails. After reviewing recent changes to your outside router’s configuration, you find that several access control lists (ACLs) have been updated. What should you do to verify that the problem is related to the ACL updates?

remove the ACLs and retest for connectivity to the CRM
contact your ISP to see if they can access the CRM from their site
telnet to the outside router and ping the CRM from the router’s outside interface
re-ping the CRM from your NMS with a special flag so the ping will pass through the ACLs

Answer : C

Which two steps are required to create a nested map using Orion NPM? (Choose two.)

create a single map that includes both site overview and site details
add a hyperlink from the site details map to the site overview
select "Enable Nested Maps" on the site details map
drag and drop the site details map onto the site over view map
create a site overview map and a separate site details map

Answer : D, E

You need to know when the aggregate size of SQL log files has crossed a threshold. How can you accomplish this?

monitor the usage of the drive the SQL logs reside on
use NetFlow to monitor the amount of SQL traffic to the SQL server
monitor Windows Events to track SQL log messages
use NetFlow to monitor the number of messages sent to the logs

Answer : A

How does the Orion Universal Device Poller (UnDP) monitor a device's statistics that are not included in the standard Orion NPM MIB database?

by manually associating the device's OID to Orion
by keeping a copy of the device's MIB on the Orion NPM Server
by automatically searching the common MIB repositories and updating Orion
by manually compiling the MIB into the Orion MIB database
by manually compiling the OID into the Orion MIB database

Answer : A

While isolating a bandwidth issue using your network management system (NMS), you discover that the percent utilization for an interface is over 100%. What is the possible cause?

A:there is duplex mismarch on the interface

B: the nms id configured with wrong interface speed

C: the nms monitors too many interface

D:packet loss is high

While attempting to add a device to Orion for monitoring, you find that Orion can communicate with the device for latency measurements, but is not able to pull data such as CPU load or interface traffic. What should you verify first?

that ICMP is allowed to and from the device
that the device is configured to send SNMP traps to Orion
that you have the correct SNMP community string for the device
that Orion is running the correct version of SNMP

Answer : C

Which command enables a Cisco IOS router to send an SNMP trap to the Orion NPM Server?

set snmp trap 10.199.3.1 public
logging 10.199.3.1 public
snmp-trap forward 10.199.3.1 public
snmp-server host 10.199.3.1 public

Answer : D

The data center team requires that they be alerted if any of the servers in a remote site go down.

However, they do NOT want to receive alerts when the remote site connection goes down. Which

two configuration steps should you take within your network management system (NMS) to meet

these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. set up alerts on server status

B. set up alerts on the remote connection status

C. set each of the servers as dependencies for each other

D. set up the remote connection as a dependency for each of the servers

E. set up alerts on the remote router status

Answer: A,D

What is an advantage of using SNMPv2c over using SNMPv1?

A. username parameter

B. get bulk command

C. get next command

D. 32 bit counters

E. authentication and encryption

Answer: B

Which two variables are used in the calculation of Percent Utilization? (Choose two.)

A. configured bandwidth

B. packets per second

C. buffer overruns

D. interface discards

E. bits per second

Answer: A,E

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