Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam 1 Questions and Answers 2023/2024

How long does it take for automatic baselines to be available? 2 hours How is user session duration calculated? The elapsed time between initiation of the first user action in a session and the completion of the last user action in the session Which event type has the highest severity level? Availability events What are advantages of making a request a "key request"? a. Longer data retention (35 days vs 10 days) b. Trend lines are retained forever c. Available through the timeseries API d. Custom alerting thresholds e. Increases visibility and alerting for low-volume requests What are the event types in DT? Ordered from most to least severity level: a. Availability b. Error c. Slowdown d. Resource e. Custom f. Info DT synthetic supports three types of synthetic monitoring, they are... a. Single-URL browser monitor b. Browser clickpath c. HTTP monitor Why is it a best practice to define extra metadata, and not tags, on a host system? Tags defined on the system can be cumbersome to change and require pre-planning, but DT can use the metadata to define tags and management zones, or use the metadata dynamically within charts and dashboard What options are available for adjusting anomaly detection for database services? a. Response time degradations b. Increases in failure rate c. Service load drops d. Service load spikes e. Failed database connects Why is it important to include Dynatrace network monitoring metrics as part of a performance analysis? a. The network is part of your application's underlying infrastructure b. Network performance can be a root cause for an application problem Which feature in the Dynatrace user interface allows you to select a period of time to display across all view and pages you visit? Timeframe selector What is required to create a browser clickpath synthetic monitor? a. Google chrome with the synthetic recorder extension installed b. The "Allow in incognito" permission enabled You are creating a user action naming rule and you want to show the "trip id" followed by the ID number. You have previewed your rule and see the following user action names: trip_id161&success=1 and trip_id 1920&success=0. What do you need to do to only show trip_id 161, etc.? Add an additional processing step Which key performance metrics are visible on the network overview page? a. Traffic b. Connectivity c. Retransmissions Which event type has the lowest severity level? Information events How can you tell which services can be merged into a single service in DT? DT automatically identifies mergeable services for you and displays them on the Merged service monitoring page - Only services included in this list can be merged What are server-side services? Services that process requests like web requests, web service calls, and messaging, and can span multiple machines How does DT group mobile app crashes? By stack trace and source code What is the purpose of request attributes? To pull captured data from requests that provide key values and enable enhanced filtering of requests using these values Which statement about root cause analysis in DT is true? Root cause is computed by AI that understands cause and effect relationships of all monitored entities In the SmartScape, what can you tell from dashed lines between a service and another service? Dashed lines mean there has been communication between services in the past, but not recently (last 2 hours) What is the purpose of configuring a user tag rule? To assign a more meaningful username to user experience tracking Which three concepts does DT consider when identifying and naming web request services a. Web server name b. Context root c. Web application ID What is the data retention period for RUM session replay data? Configurable up to 35 days Which metrics are used to calculate overall network connectivity metrics, that is, the percentage of connections that have been successfully established? a. Number of TCP connection timeout errors b. Total number of connection attempts c. Number of TCP connection refused errors What are private synthetic locations in DT? Used to execute browser and HTTP monitors from your own infrastructure When would Agentless RUM be used in a DT environment? Only when the DT OneAgent cannot be installed on a host How long is real user monitoring data for user sessions stored? 35 days What are the components on a host that are monitored by OneAgent a. CPU b. Memory c. Disk d. NIC e. Network services What can you do to change how process groups are detected? Create your own process group detection rules An important metric in determining host health is memory health. Which metrics are used to determine memory health? a. Memory used b. Page faults How do you configure agentless RUM for an application? You manually insert a JS tag or code snippet into each of your application's pages Why would you adjust performance thresholds for different key user actions? Acceptable performance for an action can vary based on user expectations or the time needed to perform its function What information is shown in a Smartscape? The visual representation of all entities automatically discovered in the observed environment and the dependencies between them Which ports are used for OneAgent traffic to a managed DT node? 8443 or 443