TANIUM ESSENTIALS EXAM SCRIPT
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
●● Tanium Asset Use Case?
Answer: to collect a updated list of hardware and software throughout
the enterprise network.
- ability to inventory all online clients once per hour with 50k or less
machines.
- ability to link to programs like ServiceNow and CMDB data
- ability to report complete list of information of software including the
name, vendor, version, and number of installed instances.
●● Reports
Answer: View predefined reports or create and configure custom reports
based on specific needs
●● Views
Answer: Create Filtered versions of asset data, used for exporting to
destinations outside of tanium
,●● Inventory Management
Answer: Schedule and manage the importing and exporting of asset data
●● Software Inventory & usage
Answer: Manage the tracking of software vendors and product
information installations, versions and usage details.
●● What type of asset data is stored for Reports?
Answer: - installed software
- virtual machines
- Primary user per machine
- hardware associated with specific department users.
●● Entities And Attributes
Answer: determine what data is populated in an asset
●● What do you need to export data to Flexera FNMS
Answer: - Access to connect with user role
-connect 4.3.0 or later
-tanium admin privileges
- have a sql server staging the Flexera data
,●● How do you get to Software Inventory & Usage?
Answer: Asset > Software & Usage > All Products
●● What is the benifit of integrating Tanium Asset and ServiceNow?
Answer: Taniums inventory data for all managed devices, while Service
now provides network device inventory for data center components that
cannot run Tanium. This reduces the amount of ServiceNow midservers.
●● What does ServiceNow cover?
Answer: Discovers network devices, storage arrays, and non-endpoint
data
●● What does Flexera FNMS cover?
Answer: -XenAoo ACL information
- oracle databases
- LPAR Details
- PVU Consumptions
- Hyper-V and Solaris
●● What can you look into if you go to the software Inventory & Usage
tab?
Answer: - Vendor
, - # of total products
- # of tracked products
- # of installations
- each product record shows usage amount, Versions. endpoints
●● What are Product Actions for?
Answer: Actions are also available to configure parameters for a product
or enable/disable product usage reporting
●● What is best practice with regards to duplicating reports?
Answer: to review the purpose of the "new" report and update the report
as necessary.
●● Where are assessments setup in Tanium?
Answer: they are setup in Tanium Comply
●● What is Tanium Comply?
Answer:
●● What do assessments do?
Answer: They are setup and configured to target and continuously scan
endpoints
UPDATED COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
●● Tanium Asset Use Case?
Answer: to collect a updated list of hardware and software throughout
the enterprise network.
- ability to inventory all online clients once per hour with 50k or less
machines.
- ability to link to programs like ServiceNow and CMDB data
- ability to report complete list of information of software including the
name, vendor, version, and number of installed instances.
●● Reports
Answer: View predefined reports or create and configure custom reports
based on specific needs
●● Views
Answer: Create Filtered versions of asset data, used for exporting to
destinations outside of tanium
,●● Inventory Management
Answer: Schedule and manage the importing and exporting of asset data
●● Software Inventory & usage
Answer: Manage the tracking of software vendors and product
information installations, versions and usage details.
●● What type of asset data is stored for Reports?
Answer: - installed software
- virtual machines
- Primary user per machine
- hardware associated with specific department users.
●● Entities And Attributes
Answer: determine what data is populated in an asset
●● What do you need to export data to Flexera FNMS
Answer: - Access to connect with user role
-connect 4.3.0 or later
-tanium admin privileges
- have a sql server staging the Flexera data
,●● How do you get to Software Inventory & Usage?
Answer: Asset > Software & Usage > All Products
●● What is the benifit of integrating Tanium Asset and ServiceNow?
Answer: Taniums inventory data for all managed devices, while Service
now provides network device inventory for data center components that
cannot run Tanium. This reduces the amount of ServiceNow midservers.
●● What does ServiceNow cover?
Answer: Discovers network devices, storage arrays, and non-endpoint
data
●● What does Flexera FNMS cover?
Answer: -XenAoo ACL information
- oracle databases
- LPAR Details
- PVU Consumptions
- Hyper-V and Solaris
●● What can you look into if you go to the software Inventory & Usage
tab?
Answer: - Vendor
, - # of total products
- # of tracked products
- # of installations
- each product record shows usage amount, Versions. endpoints
●● What are Product Actions for?
Answer: Actions are also available to configure parameters for a product
or enable/disable product usage reporting
●● What is best practice with regards to duplicating reports?
Answer: to review the purpose of the "new" report and update the report
as necessary.
●● Where are assessments setup in Tanium?
Answer: they are setup in Tanium Comply
●● What is Tanium Comply?
Answer:
●● What do assessments do?
Answer: They are setup and configured to target and continuously scan
endpoints
