DYNATRACE PRO CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is "Navigate" in synthetic monitor events? - ✔✔Simulates navigating to a URL
in search bar
✔✔in a browser clickpath, what is global login authentication/credentials vault? -
✔✔Allows a synthetic monitor to use predefined credentials to login to pages in the
clickpath
✔✔Three environments in AWS (prod, staging and dev). Teams must not access each
other's data. Minimal overhead what are your recommendations - ✔✔SaaS ->
Management Zones
✔✔When is a user session a bounce? - ✔✔One user action
✔✔Does a user session end after 35 mins of inactivity with browser still open? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are new users in mobile app monitoring? Does it relate to user sessions? -
✔✔Users who launched the app for the first time during the timeframe. This metric
counts PER DEVICE, not per user
✔✔What does a ServiceNow integration allow? pushing events from ServiceNow to
Dynatrace? Other way round? - ✔✔Dynatrace pushes all events of a problem to SNOW
ITOM, SNOW pulls host, service and process info
✔✔What are the default permissions for a Deployment Admin? - ✔✔Access
environment, Replay session data, Download/install OneAgent
✔✔What is ESXi??? What is vCenter??? How does it relate to VMWare? ---- The
question had something to do with correlation between data from a OneAgent and data
in ESXi/vCenter - ✔✔ESXi and vCenter are part of a suite of virtualization tools. ESXi is
used to create/host virtual machines like virtualBox and vCenter is used to manage
them at scale.
Can either monitor each individual ESXi server or can monitor vCenter as well for more
information
✔✔OneAgent upgrade options? Can you only autoupdate a certain version? - ✔✔Don't
think so. Autoupdate is either on or it isnt. Auto update can be enabled and disabled
globally, at the host group level or at the host level
✔✔How do you use a Webhook for 3rd party notification? - ✔✔Webhook triggers an
HTTP POST request to a target URL
, ✔✔Which keywords are required for a USQL query? SELECT, FROM, WHERE,
GROUP BY, something else - ✔✔SELECT, FROM
✔✔JMX? Java MBean? - ✔✔JMX is Java through Mbean
JMX is a standard used for monitoring MBeans. MBeans are essentially exposed
components of an application allowing for a JMX agent, in our case Dynatrace, to
monitor MBean metrics and states
✔✔Session properties - ✔✔With API, date, double, long, string
In UI only String, double, long
✔✔A and B ActiveGate question. Cluster or Environment? - ✔✔A Environment, B
Cluster (See image)
✔✔Does OneAgent purge logs? - ✔✔Purges oldest files when total directory size is
greater than 300mb or directory contains more than 1000 files otherwise it Purges files
older than 14 days
✔✔Database statement (trimming) - ✔✔must be smaller than 4kb (or trimmed to 4kb)
✔✔Managed cluster update can be delayed, not skipped - ✔✔
✔✔How often is Cassandra backed up? Is it incremental? - ✔✔Daily, Not incremental
✔✔How often is Elasticsearch backed up? Is it incremental? - ✔✔Every 2 hours,
incremental
✔✔Is it a security concern to have an API token in your URL? - ✔✔Yes, URLs might be
logged
✔✔Frequent issues: When are alerts sent out? When are they deescalated? - ✔✔alert if
duration (severity) increases. Deescelated if
✔✔How long until a browser monitor shows a site is unavailable? - ✔✔3 of the 5 most
recent executions breach threshold (unless maintenance window)
✔✔How are live sessions displayed in User sessions? Different table? Different colour?
Etc - ✔✔Same table, different colours. Live is light purple, finished is deep purple
✔✔Error Budget in SLOs - ✔✔Percentage remaining until SLO is breached
✔✔No communication from a cluster to MC? - ✔✔After 14 days license overages will be
disabled and email sent to admin after approx 1 hour. Licensed monitoring will not be
affected.
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is "Navigate" in synthetic monitor events? - ✔✔Simulates navigating to a URL
in search bar
✔✔in a browser clickpath, what is global login authentication/credentials vault? -
✔✔Allows a synthetic monitor to use predefined credentials to login to pages in the
clickpath
✔✔Three environments in AWS (prod, staging and dev). Teams must not access each
other's data. Minimal overhead what are your recommendations - ✔✔SaaS ->
Management Zones
✔✔When is a user session a bounce? - ✔✔One user action
✔✔Does a user session end after 35 mins of inactivity with browser still open? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are new users in mobile app monitoring? Does it relate to user sessions? -
✔✔Users who launched the app for the first time during the timeframe. This metric
counts PER DEVICE, not per user
✔✔What does a ServiceNow integration allow? pushing events from ServiceNow to
Dynatrace? Other way round? - ✔✔Dynatrace pushes all events of a problem to SNOW
ITOM, SNOW pulls host, service and process info
✔✔What are the default permissions for a Deployment Admin? - ✔✔Access
environment, Replay session data, Download/install OneAgent
✔✔What is ESXi??? What is vCenter??? How does it relate to VMWare? ---- The
question had something to do with correlation between data from a OneAgent and data
in ESXi/vCenter - ✔✔ESXi and vCenter are part of a suite of virtualization tools. ESXi is
used to create/host virtual machines like virtualBox and vCenter is used to manage
them at scale.
Can either monitor each individual ESXi server or can monitor vCenter as well for more
information
✔✔OneAgent upgrade options? Can you only autoupdate a certain version? - ✔✔Don't
think so. Autoupdate is either on or it isnt. Auto update can be enabled and disabled
globally, at the host group level or at the host level
✔✔How do you use a Webhook for 3rd party notification? - ✔✔Webhook triggers an
HTTP POST request to a target URL
, ✔✔Which keywords are required for a USQL query? SELECT, FROM, WHERE,
GROUP BY, something else - ✔✔SELECT, FROM
✔✔JMX? Java MBean? - ✔✔JMX is Java through Mbean
JMX is a standard used for monitoring MBeans. MBeans are essentially exposed
components of an application allowing for a JMX agent, in our case Dynatrace, to
monitor MBean metrics and states
✔✔Session properties - ✔✔With API, date, double, long, string
In UI only String, double, long
✔✔A and B ActiveGate question. Cluster or Environment? - ✔✔A Environment, B
Cluster (See image)
✔✔Does OneAgent purge logs? - ✔✔Purges oldest files when total directory size is
greater than 300mb or directory contains more than 1000 files otherwise it Purges files
older than 14 days
✔✔Database statement (trimming) - ✔✔must be smaller than 4kb (or trimmed to 4kb)
✔✔Managed cluster update can be delayed, not skipped - ✔✔
✔✔How often is Cassandra backed up? Is it incremental? - ✔✔Daily, Not incremental
✔✔How often is Elasticsearch backed up? Is it incremental? - ✔✔Every 2 hours,
incremental
✔✔Is it a security concern to have an API token in your URL? - ✔✔Yes, URLs might be
logged
✔✔Frequent issues: When are alerts sent out? When are they deescalated? - ✔✔alert if
duration (severity) increases. Deescelated if
✔✔How long until a browser monitor shows a site is unavailable? - ✔✔3 of the 5 most
recent executions breach threshold (unless maintenance window)
✔✔How are live sessions displayed in User sessions? Different table? Different colour?
Etc - ✔✔Same table, different colours. Live is light purple, finished is deep purple
✔✔Error Budget in SLOs - ✔✔Percentage remaining until SLO is breached
✔✔No communication from a cluster to MC? - ✔✔After 14 days license overages will be
disabled and email sent to admin after approx 1 hour. Licensed monitoring will not be
affected.
