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TEST 2026 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ What cloud vendors are supported for cloud install? Answer:
AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Red Hat Openshift
◉ What two options exist for docker container install? Answer:
Zabbix docker hub or GitHub
◉ What is the only way to deploy Zabbix if you want to use an Oracle
database? Answer: Source code from Zabbix Git repository
◉ What package is required for installing MySQL on a Zabbix server?
Answer: zabbix-server-mysql
◉ What is the one role of the Zabbix web service? Answer:
Generating scheduled reports
◉ What needs to be built before Zabbix deployment? Answer:
Database with Unicode database character set and UTF8 national
character set
, ◉ What are the 5 minimum requirements in the configuration file
required to start the Zabbix server? Answer: Database host address,
name, schema (PostgreSQL), user, password
◉ How do you start Zabbix with a different configuration file?
Answer: zabbix_server -c /tmp/test_zabbix_server.conf
◉ Name one runtime control that the zabbix_server can do? Answer:
zabbix_server -R config_cache_reload
zabbix_server -R housekeeper_execute
zabbix_server -R snmp_cache_reload
zabbix_server -R secrets_reload
zabbix_server -R diaginfo
◉ What is the recommended debug level for a production
environment? Answer: 3 - Warning
◉ What is required if you change the log level in the config file?
Answer: Server restart
◉ How do you increase the log level using runtime controls?
Answer: zabbix_server -R log_level_increase
TEST 2026 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ What cloud vendors are supported for cloud install? Answer:
AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Red Hat Openshift
◉ What two options exist for docker container install? Answer:
Zabbix docker hub or GitHub
◉ What is the only way to deploy Zabbix if you want to use an Oracle
database? Answer: Source code from Zabbix Git repository
◉ What package is required for installing MySQL on a Zabbix server?
Answer: zabbix-server-mysql
◉ What is the one role of the Zabbix web service? Answer:
Generating scheduled reports
◉ What needs to be built before Zabbix deployment? Answer:
Database with Unicode database character set and UTF8 national
character set
, ◉ What are the 5 minimum requirements in the configuration file
required to start the Zabbix server? Answer: Database host address,
name, schema (PostgreSQL), user, password
◉ How do you start Zabbix with a different configuration file?
Answer: zabbix_server -c /tmp/test_zabbix_server.conf
◉ Name one runtime control that the zabbix_server can do? Answer:
zabbix_server -R config_cache_reload
zabbix_server -R housekeeper_execute
zabbix_server -R snmp_cache_reload
zabbix_server -R secrets_reload
zabbix_server -R diaginfo
◉ What is the recommended debug level for a production
environment? Answer: 3 - Warning
◉ What is required if you change the log level in the config file?
Answer: Server restart
◉ How do you increase the log level using runtime controls?
Answer: zabbix_server -R log_level_increase
