DYNATRACE ASSOCIATE CERT EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS NEWEST UPLOADED QUESTIONS
Mission Control - ANSWER ✔ - Managed customers can use this to access their clusters, check for
system updates
SaaS Updates - ANSWER ✔ - SaaS updates are done automatically
ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - Proxy between OneAgent and a database, cloud, etc.
ActiveGate use cases - ANSWER ✔ - Access sealed networks
Large memory dump storage
Collecting large external logs
AWS load distribution monitoring
Monitoring using AG
Virtualized infrastructure
Monitor cloud foundry, Kubernetes
Execute private HTTP monitors
Execute private browsers outside of network
SaaS Needs This Type of ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - None. You can install an environment ActiveGate
if there are security concerns
Cluster ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - Shared between tenants or multiple environments within a cluster.
Remote agents, JS agents, need to communicate with your cluster though a firewall
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,Environment ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - an ActiveGate for one specific environment. If one or more
network segments need their own private ActiveGate for whatever reason.
Environment and Cluster ActiveGates accept incoming ocnnections on this port - ANSWER ✔ - 9999
Environment and Cluster ActiveGates make outgoing connections to the Dynatrace Server on this
port - ANSWER ✔ - 443
Customers must do this to make sure ActiveGates work properly - ANSWER ✔ - configure firewall
settings to permit communication through these ports
ActiveGate installation requirements - ANSWER ✔ - 1 GB Free Disk Space, 1 dual core processor, 64
bit physical or virtual host (no container), Oracle Java 1.6 or higher
2GB RAM (4GB Recommended)
Account User - ANSWER ✔ - These are users who are involved in managing account details such as
company addresses, billing, payment information, and user management.
Account Users - types of user permission groups - ANSWER ✔ - Account Manager, Finance
Administrator, Account Viewer: Support
Environment User - ANSWER ✔ - These are users who work with Dynatrace to monitor the health of
the hosts, services, and infrastructure in their application environments.
Environment Users - types of user permission groups - ANSWER ✔ - Monitoring administrator,
confidential data administrtor, deployment administrator, monitoring viewer, log viewer
Account Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - has access to environment consumption data, Help, and Support. No
access to credit card data, invoices, or company/billing address info. Can't edit groups or assign users
to groups.
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,Financial Admin - ANSWER ✔ - can enter credit card data and review invoices. Has access to
environment consumption data, Help, and Support. Can't edit groups or assign users to groups. No
access to company/billing address info.
Account Manager - ANSWER ✔ - has full account access. Can view and edit company data, enter
credit card data, review invoices, create and edit groups, and add users to groups. Also has access to
environment consumption data, Help, and Support.
Monitoring Admin - ANSWER ✔ - has full environment access. Can change monitoring settings. Can
download and install OneAgent.
Deployment Admin - ANSWER ✔ - can download and install OneAgent. Has read-only access to the
environment. Can't change settings.
Confidential data admin - ANSWER ✔ - can view personal data (for example, method arguments) and
configure request-data capture rules.
Monitoring Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - can access the environment in read-only mode. Can't change
settings. Can't download or install OneAgent.
Log Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - can access and view the contents of log files. Reserved for users who need
access to sensitive log file data. No other access rights.
Must have the following to deploy OneAgent - ANSWER ✔ - Dynatrace login, Server Admin rights,
Permissions to restart services, firewall admin rights, disk space requirements, any necessary
ActiveGates installed
Process Groups - ANSWER ✔ - a logical cluster of processes that belong to the same application or
deployment unit and perform the same function across multiple hosts
Clustered Services - ANSWER ✔ - Same service in multiple processes - SAME process group
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, Separate Services - ANSWER ✔ - Same service in multiple processes - MULTIPLE process groups
Merged Services - ANSWER ✔ - Services in the same process group, with the same technology, but
may exist across separate nodes
Opaque Services - ANSWER ✔ - Cannot be monitored but can be detected by requests made by
other services
Key Requests - ANSWER ✔ - You can measure mission-critical requests or functionality, based on
certain text or information or header in a request. You can have custom alerting thresholds
Request Attributes - ANSWER ✔ - You can define certain request attributes to allow for filtering,
sorting, and searching in the Dynatrace dashboard.
Tagging and Alerting - ANSWER ✔ - You can do manual or automatic tagging. Automatic is better for
larger environments
Davis AI Event Categories in Descending order - ANSWER ✔ - Availability
Error
Slowdown
Resource
Custom Alerts
Information Only Events (no alarms)
Optional Dynatrace Components - ANSWER ✔ - ActiveGate
Amazon Web Services
Synthetic Checks
PaaS integrations
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ANSWERS NEWEST UPLOADED QUESTIONS
Mission Control - ANSWER ✔ - Managed customers can use this to access their clusters, check for
system updates
SaaS Updates - ANSWER ✔ - SaaS updates are done automatically
ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - Proxy between OneAgent and a database, cloud, etc.
ActiveGate use cases - ANSWER ✔ - Access sealed networks
Large memory dump storage
Collecting large external logs
AWS load distribution monitoring
Monitoring using AG
Virtualized infrastructure
Monitor cloud foundry, Kubernetes
Execute private HTTP monitors
Execute private browsers outside of network
SaaS Needs This Type of ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - None. You can install an environment ActiveGate
if there are security concerns
Cluster ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - Shared between tenants or multiple environments within a cluster.
Remote agents, JS agents, need to communicate with your cluster though a firewall
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,Environment ActiveGate - ANSWER ✔ - an ActiveGate for one specific environment. If one or more
network segments need their own private ActiveGate for whatever reason.
Environment and Cluster ActiveGates accept incoming ocnnections on this port - ANSWER ✔ - 9999
Environment and Cluster ActiveGates make outgoing connections to the Dynatrace Server on this
port - ANSWER ✔ - 443
Customers must do this to make sure ActiveGates work properly - ANSWER ✔ - configure firewall
settings to permit communication through these ports
ActiveGate installation requirements - ANSWER ✔ - 1 GB Free Disk Space, 1 dual core processor, 64
bit physical or virtual host (no container), Oracle Java 1.6 or higher
2GB RAM (4GB Recommended)
Account User - ANSWER ✔ - These are users who are involved in managing account details such as
company addresses, billing, payment information, and user management.
Account Users - types of user permission groups - ANSWER ✔ - Account Manager, Finance
Administrator, Account Viewer: Support
Environment User - ANSWER ✔ - These are users who work with Dynatrace to monitor the health of
the hosts, services, and infrastructure in their application environments.
Environment Users - types of user permission groups - ANSWER ✔ - Monitoring administrator,
confidential data administrtor, deployment administrator, monitoring viewer, log viewer
Account Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - has access to environment consumption data, Help, and Support. No
access to credit card data, invoices, or company/billing address info. Can't edit groups or assign users
to groups.
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,Financial Admin - ANSWER ✔ - can enter credit card data and review invoices. Has access to
environment consumption data, Help, and Support. Can't edit groups or assign users to groups. No
access to company/billing address info.
Account Manager - ANSWER ✔ - has full account access. Can view and edit company data, enter
credit card data, review invoices, create and edit groups, and add users to groups. Also has access to
environment consumption data, Help, and Support.
Monitoring Admin - ANSWER ✔ - has full environment access. Can change monitoring settings. Can
download and install OneAgent.
Deployment Admin - ANSWER ✔ - can download and install OneAgent. Has read-only access to the
environment. Can't change settings.
Confidential data admin - ANSWER ✔ - can view personal data (for example, method arguments) and
configure request-data capture rules.
Monitoring Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - can access the environment in read-only mode. Can't change
settings. Can't download or install OneAgent.
Log Viewer - ANSWER ✔ - can access and view the contents of log files. Reserved for users who need
access to sensitive log file data. No other access rights.
Must have the following to deploy OneAgent - ANSWER ✔ - Dynatrace login, Server Admin rights,
Permissions to restart services, firewall admin rights, disk space requirements, any necessary
ActiveGates installed
Process Groups - ANSWER ✔ - a logical cluster of processes that belong to the same application or
deployment unit and perform the same function across multiple hosts
Clustered Services - ANSWER ✔ - Same service in multiple processes - SAME process group
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, Separate Services - ANSWER ✔ - Same service in multiple processes - MULTIPLE process groups
Merged Services - ANSWER ✔ - Services in the same process group, with the same technology, but
may exist across separate nodes
Opaque Services - ANSWER ✔ - Cannot be monitored but can be detected by requests made by
other services
Key Requests - ANSWER ✔ - You can measure mission-critical requests or functionality, based on
certain text or information or header in a request. You can have custom alerting thresholds
Request Attributes - ANSWER ✔ - You can define certain request attributes to allow for filtering,
sorting, and searching in the Dynatrace dashboard.
Tagging and Alerting - ANSWER ✔ - You can do manual or automatic tagging. Automatic is better for
larger environments
Davis AI Event Categories in Descending order - ANSWER ✔ - Availability
Error
Slowdown
Resource
Custom Alerts
Information Only Events (no alarms)
Optional Dynatrace Components - ANSWER ✔ - ActiveGate
Amazon Web Services
Synthetic Checks
PaaS integrations
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