DYNATRACE ASSOCIATE CERT COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔If you don't see any of your applications or RUM data in Dynatrace, what is the
FIRST thing you should check? - ✔✔Confirm that there is traffic in your web front-end
processes by interacting with an application page.
✔✔Which statement about Root Cause Analysis in Dynatrace is true? - ✔✔The root
cause is computed by artificial intelligence that understands cause and effect
relationships of all monitored entities.
✔✔How can you chart User Sessions that include a particular action? - ✔✔Add a filter
for the user action
✔✔How do you configure agentless RUM for an application? - ✔✔You manually insert a
JavaScript tag or code snippet into each of your application's pages
✔✔What is a request attribute? - ✔✔Request attributes are key/value pairs associated
with a particular service request.
✔✔Which of the following are benefits of Dynatrace database monitoring? - ✔✔You can
see how much load is placed on your database by individual services
You can find expensive database calls, for example those that read a lot of data
,You can find out which services talk to each database most frequently.
See which users execute SQL statements
✔✔What can you do to change how process groups are detected? - ✔✔You can create
your own process group detection rules.
✔✔You have set up ActiveGates in your environment. How can you check the
installation status? - ✔✔From the Dynatrace Deployment status page, you can review
the Dynatrace ActiveGates and view the installed version of each AG.
✔✔What is the smallest interval at which an HTTP monitor can execute? - ✔✔1 minute
✔✔Select the components on a host that are monitored by OneAgent. (Infrastructure
metrics, not necessarily all the host level) - ✔✔Disk: commonly hard or flat, round
plates. Used to store encoded data on the computers storage system.
NIC: network interface controller. Computer hardware component that connects a
computer to the internet through ethernet or WiFi. (Network health)
CPU: central processing unit. Primary component of a computer that processes
instructions, and contains at least one processor and is composed of the main memory,
control unit and arithmetic-logic unit.
Memory: the device used to store information for immediate use in a computer or
related computer hardware device.
✔✔What options are available for setting up customer user tagging? - ✔✔Via page
metadata
Via the Dynatrace JavaScript API
✔✔What is visualized in a Service flow? - ✔✔The sequence of service calls triggered by
a single service request
✔✔Why would you adjust performance thresholds for different key user actions? -
✔✔The acceptable performance for an action can vary based on user expectation or
the time needed to perform its function.
✔✔By using an ActiveGate, firewall settings can be simplified because _____. -
✔✔Only the host running the ActiveGate needs to be connected to the Dynatrace
Server.
✔✔For VMware monitoring, an _____ ActiveGate is required when using Dynatrace
SaaS. - ✔✔Environment
, ✔✔The ActiveGate _____ the OneAgent traffic. - ✔✔bundles it
✔✔Which of the following can conversion goals be set up to capture? - ✔✔Destination
Session Duration
User Action
✔✔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 Dynatrace can use the metadata to define tags and management zones,
or use the metadata dynamically within charts and dashboards.
✔✔Where do you find details about crashes in a monitor mobile application? - ✔✔The
Details page of the mobile application
✔✔Why is it important to include Dynatrace network monitoring metrics as part of a
performance analysis? - ✔✔The network is part of your application's underlying
infrastructure. As well, network performance can be a root cause for an application
problem.
✔✔Which event type has the highest severity level? - ✔✔Availability events
✔✔When creating a rule for an alerting profile, which of the following is NOT an option
for the problem severity level? - ✔✔Bounce Rate
✔✔When would Agentless RUM be used in a Dynatrace environment? - ✔✔Agentless
RUM should be used only when OneAgent cannot be installed on a host.
✔✔What feature can you use to help organize and manage things like anomaly
detection and OneAgent updates for hosts in your environment? - ✔✔Host groups
✔✔What are some options for recurrence of Maintenance windows? - ✔✔Day of week
Day of the month
Daily
✔✔You want to ensure that certain content is loading on a web page for users in
Europe. How can you check this? - ✔✔Create a browser monitor with a location in
Europe and a content validation rule that passes if the website content contains the
elements you are concerned with.
✔✔Which metrics are visible on the Network Overview page? - ✔✔Connectivity
Retransmissions
Traffic
Dropped Packets
EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔If you don't see any of your applications or RUM data in Dynatrace, what is the
FIRST thing you should check? - ✔✔Confirm that there is traffic in your web front-end
processes by interacting with an application page.
✔✔Which statement about Root Cause Analysis in Dynatrace is true? - ✔✔The root
cause is computed by artificial intelligence that understands cause and effect
relationships of all monitored entities.
✔✔How can you chart User Sessions that include a particular action? - ✔✔Add a filter
for the user action
✔✔How do you configure agentless RUM for an application? - ✔✔You manually insert a
JavaScript tag or code snippet into each of your application's pages
✔✔What is a request attribute? - ✔✔Request attributes are key/value pairs associated
with a particular service request.
✔✔Which of the following are benefits of Dynatrace database monitoring? - ✔✔You can
see how much load is placed on your database by individual services
You can find expensive database calls, for example those that read a lot of data
,You can find out which services talk to each database most frequently.
See which users execute SQL statements
✔✔What can you do to change how process groups are detected? - ✔✔You can create
your own process group detection rules.
✔✔You have set up ActiveGates in your environment. How can you check the
installation status? - ✔✔From the Dynatrace Deployment status page, you can review
the Dynatrace ActiveGates and view the installed version of each AG.
✔✔What is the smallest interval at which an HTTP monitor can execute? - ✔✔1 minute
✔✔Select the components on a host that are monitored by OneAgent. (Infrastructure
metrics, not necessarily all the host level) - ✔✔Disk: commonly hard or flat, round
plates. Used to store encoded data on the computers storage system.
NIC: network interface controller. Computer hardware component that connects a
computer to the internet through ethernet or WiFi. (Network health)
CPU: central processing unit. Primary component of a computer that processes
instructions, and contains at least one processor and is composed of the main memory,
control unit and arithmetic-logic unit.
Memory: the device used to store information for immediate use in a computer or
related computer hardware device.
✔✔What options are available for setting up customer user tagging? - ✔✔Via page
metadata
Via the Dynatrace JavaScript API
✔✔What is visualized in a Service flow? - ✔✔The sequence of service calls triggered by
a single service request
✔✔Why would you adjust performance thresholds for different key user actions? -
✔✔The acceptable performance for an action can vary based on user expectation or
the time needed to perform its function.
✔✔By using an ActiveGate, firewall settings can be simplified because _____. -
✔✔Only the host running the ActiveGate needs to be connected to the Dynatrace
Server.
✔✔For VMware monitoring, an _____ ActiveGate is required when using Dynatrace
SaaS. - ✔✔Environment
, ✔✔The ActiveGate _____ the OneAgent traffic. - ✔✔bundles it
✔✔Which of the following can conversion goals be set up to capture? - ✔✔Destination
Session Duration
User Action
✔✔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 Dynatrace can use the metadata to define tags and management zones,
or use the metadata dynamically within charts and dashboards.
✔✔Where do you find details about crashes in a monitor mobile application? - ✔✔The
Details page of the mobile application
✔✔Why is it important to include Dynatrace network monitoring metrics as part of a
performance analysis? - ✔✔The network is part of your application's underlying
infrastructure. As well, network performance can be a root cause for an application
problem.
✔✔Which event type has the highest severity level? - ✔✔Availability events
✔✔When creating a rule for an alerting profile, which of the following is NOT an option
for the problem severity level? - ✔✔Bounce Rate
✔✔When would Agentless RUM be used in a Dynatrace environment? - ✔✔Agentless
RUM should be used only when OneAgent cannot be installed on a host.
✔✔What feature can you use to help organize and manage things like anomaly
detection and OneAgent updates for hosts in your environment? - ✔✔Host groups
✔✔What are some options for recurrence of Maintenance windows? - ✔✔Day of week
Day of the month
Daily
✔✔You want to ensure that certain content is loading on a web page for users in
Europe. How can you check this? - ✔✔Create a browser monitor with a location in
Europe and a content validation rule that passes if the website content contains the
elements you are concerned with.
✔✔Which metrics are visible on the Network Overview page? - ✔✔Connectivity
Retransmissions
Traffic
Dropped Packets
