Dynatrace Associate Certification Actual Questions and
Correct Answers
Q1
How long does it take for automatic baselines to be available?
Answer: 2 hours
Q2
How is user session duration calculated?
Answer: The elapsed time between initiation of the first user action in a session and
the completion of the last user action in the session
Q3
Which event type has the highest severity level?
Answer: Availability events
Q4
What are advantages of making a request a "key request"?
Answer: Longer data retention (35 days vs 10 days) Trend lines are retained forever
Available through the timeseries API Custom alerting thresholds Increases visibility
and alerting for low-volume requests
Q5
What are the event types in DT?
Answer: Ordered from most to least severity level: Availability Error Slowdown
Resource Custom Info
Q6
DT synthetic supports three types of synthetic monitoring, they are...
Answer: Single-URL browser monitor Browser clickpath HTTP monitor
, Q7
Why is it a best practice to define extra metadata, and not tags, on a host system?
Answer: 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
Q8
What options are available for adjusting anomaly detection for database services?
Answer: Response time degradations Increases in failure rate Service load drops
Service load spikes Failed database connects
Q9
Why is it important to include Dynatrace network monitoring metrics as part of a performance
analysis?
Answer: The network is part of your application's underlying infrastructure Network
performance can be a root cause for an application problem
Q10
Which feature in the Dynatrace user interface allows you to select a period of time to display
across all view and pages you visit?
Answer: Timeframe selector
Q11
What is required to create a browser clickpath synthetic monitor?
Answer: Google chrome with the synthetic recorder extension installed The "Allow in
incognito" permission enabled
Q12
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.?
Answer: Add an additional processing step
Correct Answers
Q1
How long does it take for automatic baselines to be available?
Answer: 2 hours
Q2
How is user session duration calculated?
Answer: The elapsed time between initiation of the first user action in a session and
the completion of the last user action in the session
Q3
Which event type has the highest severity level?
Answer: Availability events
Q4
What are advantages of making a request a "key request"?
Answer: Longer data retention (35 days vs 10 days) Trend lines are retained forever
Available through the timeseries API Custom alerting thresholds Increases visibility
and alerting for low-volume requests
Q5
What are the event types in DT?
Answer: Ordered from most to least severity level: Availability Error Slowdown
Resource Custom Info
Q6
DT synthetic supports three types of synthetic monitoring, they are...
Answer: Single-URL browser monitor Browser clickpath HTTP monitor
, Q7
Why is it a best practice to define extra metadata, and not tags, on a host system?
Answer: 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
Q8
What options are available for adjusting anomaly detection for database services?
Answer: Response time degradations Increases in failure rate Service load drops
Service load spikes Failed database connects
Q9
Why is it important to include Dynatrace network monitoring metrics as part of a performance
analysis?
Answer: The network is part of your application's underlying infrastructure Network
performance can be a root cause for an application problem
Q10
Which feature in the Dynatrace user interface allows you to select a period of time to display
across all view and pages you visit?
Answer: Timeframe selector
Q11
What is required to create a browser clickpath synthetic monitor?
Answer: Google chrome with the synthetic recorder extension installed The "Allow in
incognito" permission enabled
Q12
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.?
Answer: Add an additional processing step
