SCP DUMPS - Question and Answers Volume 12




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

You need to write a report that shows network response time on an hourly basis for the past 30 days. When you try to set the summarization setting in the report to hourly, you get a reporting error. What is a possible cause of this issue?
A. Hourly data are being summarized into weekly data every 15 days.
B. Response time data are only being collected every 30 minutes.
C. Response time data are only being collected every60 minutes.
D. Hourly data are being summarized into weekly data every 40 days.
Answer: A

A network engineer has created a custom report in Orion NPM with the following parameters:
1. Fields are set to "Node ID, Node Name, Average Response Time."
2. Timeframe is set to "Last30 days."
3. Summarization is set to "Month."
What is an accurate representation of what this report will display?
A. average response time for the last month on all devices and interfaces
B. average response time for the last month on all devices
C. average response time per day of the last month on all devices and interfaces
D. average response time per day of the last month on all devices
Answer: B
Q: 19
Every Monday morning, you need to provide a report on the previous weeks network-wide availability. Which component should you use to accomplish this task?
A. Orion Report Writer
B. Orion Report Scheduler
C. Windows Task Scheduler
D. Orion Web Console Scheduler
Answer: B

Your auditors require you to run monthly network performance reports and to save that data for three years.
Using Orion NPM, how should you meet this requirement while optimizing the system around performance and database size?
A. build monthly reports, run them every month, save the output for three years
B. build monthly reports, run them monthly, retain the data in the database for three years
C. build annual reports that break the data out by month, run the reports annually, save the output forthree years
D. build monthly reports, run them anytime the auditors request, retain the data in the database forthree years
Answer: A


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

A network engineer using Orion NPM notices that a node on a top level map is green, even though half of the items in the associated nested map are down. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
A. Availability thresholds for devices have been set to above 50%.
B. Map status thresholds have been set to above 50%.
C. Map status thresholds have been set to below 50%.
D. Availability thresholds for devices have been set to below 50%.
Answer: C

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.
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
Answer: A,B

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. by manually compiling the MIB into the Orion MIB database
E. by manually compiling the OID into the Orion MIB database
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
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. SNMPv1
B. SNMPv2c
C. SNMPv3
D. SNMPv4
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
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
Answer: A,E

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

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
Answer: 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

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. updates the source address for Net Flow 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
Answer: A,E

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.
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
Answer: A,B

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'sOID 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. by manually compiling the MIB into the Orion MIB database
E. by manually compiling the OID into the Orion MIB database
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
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. SNMPv1
B. SNMPv2c
C. SNMPv3
D. SNMPv4
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
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
Answer: A,E

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

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
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
Answer: B,C

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
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 if InOctets
B. verify status via the if Table
C. verify that SNMP agent is responding
D. verify the performance via if Speed
Answer: A

Orion NPM is monitoring the performance of DS-3 utilizing standard MIBs in the if Table. 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
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
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
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
Answer: C,E

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

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 devices and the Syslog server to use SNMPv3                    
                 B) Configure the devices and the Syslog server to use TCP-based Syslog                      
                 C) Configure the Syslog server to discard unwanted messages                       
                 D) Configure the Syslog server to capture SNMP traps instead of Syslog

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

Which management protocol should you use to analyze network traffic in and out of a router    interface?
                 A)                            WMI                          
                 B)                     sFlow                
                 C)                            IP service level agreement (SLA)                           
                 D)                            Syslog                       

Orion NPM is monitoring the performance of a DS-3 utilizing standard MIBs in the ifTable. Occasionally, the reported traffic rates for this interface spike well above 45 Mbps.
What is the most likely cause?
                 A)                            carrier misconfiguration                       
                 B)                            database issues                       
                 C)                            heavy network traffic                            
              D)                     counter rollovers

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)                     16 Kbps                          
                 B)                            1 Kbps                      
                 C)                            26 Kbps                                    
                 D)                            3 Kbps

Business requirements dictate that network operations must have the capability to report hourly average response time over the last 60 days.
 Given these requirements, how should you set your data collection and summarization parameters in a network management system (NMS) like Orion NPM to optimize database size?
           A) summarize detailed data into hourly data after 60 days, summarize hourly data into daily data after 90 days
           B) collect response time data every hour, summarize hourly data into daily data after 30 days                    
           C) summarize detailed data into hourly data after 30 days, summarize hourly data into daily data after 60 days  
             D) collect response time data every hour, summarize hourly data into daily data after 60 days

Finance and sales departments share a single WAN circuit. When WAN circuit bandwidth utilization exceeds 70%, some finance applications will start failing. When WAN circuit bandwidth utilization exceeds 80%, some sales applications will start failing.
At which levels should you configure your warning and critical thresholds to ensure you are alerted before downtime occurs?
                 A)                            Warning alert at 80%, Critical alert at 90%                         
                 B)                     Warning alert at 60%, Critical alert at 70%                    
                 C)                            Warning alert at 60%, Critical alert at 80%                         
                 D)                            Warning alert at 70%, Critical alert at 80%

9)   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 the remote connection as a dependency for each of the servers                         
                 C)                            set up alerts on the remote router status                           
                 D)                     set up alerts on the remote connection status                           
                 E)                             set each of the servers as dependencies for each other

10)   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)                     IP address utilization trends                  
                 C)                            DHCP server CPU utilization                                 
                 D)                            number of subnets




11)   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)                            LAN interface utilization                        
                 B)                     WAN interface utilization                       
                 C)                            available switch ports                            
                 D)                            router inventory

The IP address of a network management system (NMS) is 10.1.5.2, and the IP 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 subnet mask of the server is misconfigured                         
                 B)                            The firewall is blocking SNMP and ICMP                            
                 C)                            The MAC address of the NMS has changed                        
                 D)                            The ARP table of the router has not refreshed

 13)   A managed service provider (MSP) is planning to deploy a network management system (NMS) to monitor multiple customer networks. The MSP must choose between a centralized or distributed management architecture.
 What are the two most important factors to consider? (Choose two)
                 A)                            choice of SSL versus VPN tunnel for communication                       
                 B)                     overlapping IP address space between customers                      
                 C)                            total number of devices to be managed                             
                 D)                            choice of SNMP version for polling                    
                 E)                     available bandwidth between the MSP and customers



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

15)   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)                     use router redistribution                       
                 B)                            move to static routing for all routers                                  
                 C)                            change the routing protocol on company A's routers to RIP                          
                 D)                            configure company A's routers to run RIP along with OSPF

16)   A network management system (NMS) located within a high security zone manages systems within lower security zones.
Which two protocols are pushed, and therefore, blocked by the firewall in a default configuration? (Choose two)
                 A)                     NetFlow                          
             B)                     SNMP                      
                 C)                            ICMP                         
                 D)                            Telnet                       
                 E)                             Syslog

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

18)          Which type of Syslog message indicates the lowest severity level?
                 A)                     debugging                      
                 B)                            errors                       
                 C)                            alerts                        
                 D)                            critical                      
                 E)                             notifications                            
                 F)                             informational                          


19)  Your firewall currently allows port 6343 traffic to your network management system (NMS).
What is the port most likely being used for?
                 A)                            SMTP                        
                 B)                           sFlow                        
                 C)                            ICMP                         
                 D)                            IP service level agreement (SLA)

20)   Refer to the following configuration snippet of a Cisco IOS router:
 snmp-server community private RO 60
 snmp-server host 192.168.15.4 private
 access-list 60 deny 192.168.12.0 255.255.240.0
 access-list 60 permit snmp 192.168.15.4

 The network management system (NMS) IP address is 192.168.15.4, and it is receiving SNMP traps from the router, but it is not able to poll the router.

 Why is the NMS unable to poll the router?
                 A)                            SNMP is not enabled on the router                    
                 B)                     The access-list is denying SNMP access from the NMS                           
                 C)                            No public community string is configured                         
                 D)                            The NMS requires a read-write community string

21)   Your network management system (NMS) leverages WMI to pull management data from Windows 2003 Servers. You have not deployed Active Directory, but your servers belong to a common workgroup.
What should you do to ensure that your NMS has permission to query these servers?
                 A)            ensure that all of the servers are on the same service pack level                                   
                 B)            ensure that the account and password you are using is the same on all of the servers                
                 C)             ensure that all of the servers have the .NET framework 3.5 installed                            
                 D)         ensure that the account you are using exists on all of the servers

22)   Which command should you use to create a loopback interface on a Cisco router?
                 A)                     interface loopback 0 ip address 1.1.1.1 no shut                        
                 B)                            ip unnumbered loopback 0                                  
                 C)                            interface loopback 0                              
                 D)                            interface loopback 127.0.0.1

23)  Which host statistic typically predicts the need for additional virtualization hosts?
                 A)                            CPU temperature                                    
                 B)                            interface utilization                                
                 C)                     CPU utilization                           
                 D)                            power consumption



24)           Which trend analysis report would most accurately predict user count growth?
                 A)                            number of active switch ports                             
                 B)                     network-wide bandwidth utilization                   
                 C)                            network-wide availability                      
                 D)                            number of active WAN interfaces

25)   Which two metrics should be monitored to determine if a network device is overloaded? (Choose two)
                 A)                            response time                         
                 B)                            bandwidth utilization                             
                 C)                     CPU utilization                           
             D)                     memory utilization                           
                 E)                             packet loss

26)   What is the maximum allowable downtime for a node with a "four nines" (99.99%) service level agreement (SLA) for availability, based on a 30-day month?
                 A)                            four hours                               
                 B)                            four days                                 
                 C)                     four minutes                  
                 D)                            four seconds
27)   You have been tasked with implementing service level agreement (SLA) reporting for a new hosted data center service.
Which SLA performance metric should you track?
                 A)                            interface discards                                   
                 B)                            CPU utilization                        
                 C)                     response time                
                 D)                            memory utilization

28)  Without regard to reliability, what is the fastest method for detecting network faults?
                 A)                            querying with WMI                                
                 B)                     listening for SNMP traps                        
                 C)                            analyzing traffic with NetFlow                              
                 D)                            querying with SNMP

29)  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)                            During network congestion, ICMP packets are being dropped                       
                 B)                            Orion NPM is not configured to poll frequently enough                                 
                 C)                     Orion NPM is configured to poll too frequently                         
                 D)                            Firewall rules are periodically blocking ICMP packets

30)          You need to know when the aggregate size of SQL log files has crossed a threshold.
 How can you accomplish this?
                 A)                            monitor the usage of the drive the SQL logs reside on                    
                 B)                            use NetFlow to monitor the number of messages sent to the logs                                 
                 C)                            monitor Windows Events to track SQL log messages                        
                 D)                     use NetFlow to monitor the amount of SQL traffic to the SQL server

31)  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

32)   Why are management loopback interfaces important when managing routers, switches, and firewalls?
                 A)                            They have an IP address of 127.0.0.1, and therefore, are not routable                        
                 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

33)          Which port status is caused by users disconnecting their machines from an Ethernet switch?
                 A)                            unknown                                 
                 B)                     down                  
                 C)                            testing                      
                 D)                            shutdown

34)  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

35)          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

36)   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"

37)          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

38)  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

39)  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

40)  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





41)  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 these servers                                   
                 D)                            Orion will be unable to collect interface traffic data from these servers

42)   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

43)   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

44)          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

45)  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

46)   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

47)          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
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