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DYNATRACE ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION
EXAM 2026 UPDATED | A+ GRADED,
GUARANTEED PASS (LATEST EDITION)
COMPLETE VERIFIED DYNATRACE
ASSOCIATE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS & DETAILED
OBSERVABILITY RATIONALES | EXPERT-
REVIEWED DYNATRACE CERTIFICATION
STUDY GUIDE
Code-level details: Requests and request attributes -
data retention
>>answer>>35 days
Code-level details: Distributed trace and code
insights - data retention
>>answer>>10 days
Metrics powered by Grail - data retention
>>answer>>15 months (1 min intervals) with option
to increase up to 10 years
Real User Monitoring (RUM): User sessions and
mobile crashes - data retention
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>>answer>>35 days
RUM - User action data and session replay - data
retention
>>answer>>35 days
RUM - Waterfall analysis - data retention
>>answer>>10 days
Synthetic Monitoring - data retention
>>answer>>35 days
Log Management and Analytics - data retention
>>answer>>Up to 10 years
Activegates
>>answer>>Environment (only needed for SaaS)
Cluster
Monitoring Modes (also known as hosting
monitoring, oneagent monitoring mode)
>>answer>>Discovery
Infrastructure
Full Stack (Infrastructure + K8s Platform)
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Process group instance
>>answer>>Single process that belongs to a
designated Process Group
Process group
>>answer>>Logical cluster of processes that belong
to the same application or deployment unit and
perform the same function across multiple hosts.
Does NOT show in Smartscape.
Availability problem
>>answer>>Triggered when:
* Any process instance in the process group
becomes unavailable
* a user-defined threshold for the minimum number
of running processes within a Process Group is not
met.
Services
>>answer>>A set of code or classes that performs
some type of business logic.
Common types:
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* Web requests
* Web services
* DB calls
* Message Queues
* Custom services
Services (in Smartscape)
>>answer>>Services are request-centric so typically
span across multiple machines in a data center
Opaque services
>>answer>>-Services detected on the calling side for
which code-level visibility isn't available with
unsupported/unrecognized technology
External Dependencies (services)
>>answer>>Services that represent outgoing calls to
systems that aren't monitored in the environment.
Types of external dependencies:
1 - calls to public networks (public IPs/domains)
2 - calls to unmonitored hosts (internal IP)
Service flow
DYNATRACE ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION
EXAM 2026 UPDATED | A+ GRADED,
GUARANTEED PASS (LATEST EDITION)
COMPLETE VERIFIED DYNATRACE
ASSOCIATE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS & DETAILED
OBSERVABILITY RATIONALES | EXPERT-
REVIEWED DYNATRACE CERTIFICATION
STUDY GUIDE
Code-level details: Requests and request attributes -
data retention
>>answer>>35 days
Code-level details: Distributed trace and code
insights - data retention
>>answer>>10 days
Metrics powered by Grail - data retention
>>answer>>15 months (1 min intervals) with option
to increase up to 10 years
Real User Monitoring (RUM): User sessions and
mobile crashes - data retention
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>>answer>>35 days
RUM - User action data and session replay - data
retention
>>answer>>35 days
RUM - Waterfall analysis - data retention
>>answer>>10 days
Synthetic Monitoring - data retention
>>answer>>35 days
Log Management and Analytics - data retention
>>answer>>Up to 10 years
Activegates
>>answer>>Environment (only needed for SaaS)
Cluster
Monitoring Modes (also known as hosting
monitoring, oneagent monitoring mode)
>>answer>>Discovery
Infrastructure
Full Stack (Infrastructure + K8s Platform)
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Process group instance
>>answer>>Single process that belongs to a
designated Process Group
Process group
>>answer>>Logical cluster of processes that belong
to the same application or deployment unit and
perform the same function across multiple hosts.
Does NOT show in Smartscape.
Availability problem
>>answer>>Triggered when:
* Any process instance in the process group
becomes unavailable
* a user-defined threshold for the minimum number
of running processes within a Process Group is not
met.
Services
>>answer>>A set of code or classes that performs
some type of business logic.
Common types:
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* Web requests
* Web services
* DB calls
* Message Queues
* Custom services
Services (in Smartscape)
>>answer>>Services are request-centric so typically
span across multiple machines in a data center
Opaque services
>>answer>>-Services detected on the calling side for
which code-level visibility isn't available with
unsupported/unrecognized technology
External Dependencies (services)
>>answer>>Services that represent outgoing calls to
systems that aren't monitored in the environment.
Types of external dependencies:
1 - calls to public networks (public IPs/domains)
2 - calls to unmonitored hosts (internal IP)
Service flow
