DYNATRACE PROFESSIONAL STUDY GUIDE
2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? Answer: The plugin SDK is
free. Dynatrace partners can develop plugin for you, will depend on
contract. Whatever custom metrics are used will be charged.
● How frequently do ActiveGate plugins execute? Answer: Once per
minute
● Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module?
Answer: Yes
● What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? Answer:
Environment ActiveGate
● Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment
ActiveGate that's configured for multi-environment support? Answer:
No
,● Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? Answer:
Technology overview page
● What is a "device group"? Answer: A technology tile that derives its
data from an ActiveGate plugin.
● Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin?
Answer: Define important metrics to be displayed in technology
overview page.
● What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? Answer:
Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
● What can device groups represent? Answer: Clusters, regions, groups
of servers, etc.
● What is a custom device group entity? Answer: Bind metrics and
properties to monitor device group metrics
● How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins?
Answer: plugin.json
● What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? Answer:
Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
,● Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices?
Answer: Yes!
● How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices
(ActiveGate plugin)? Answer: Metric threshold violation in JSON
definition. (Automatically sends events, not problems)
● How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate
plugins? Answer: Python API - raise performance, availability, error,
and resource contention problems
● Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace
server and ActiveGates? Answer: No, you need to deploy them on
ActiveGate and upload them to server.
● In general, what is the point of plugins.json (ActiveGate plugins)?
Answer: Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
● In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins?
Answer: Define additional events, create custom properties.
● How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster?
Answer: One per cluster.
, ● What is each managed cluster associated with? Answer: One or more
nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored
environments (with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
● What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed
installer? Answer: Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch,
Embedded ActiveGate, NGINX
● What can you do with CMC? Answer: Create user accounts and
groups, add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
● How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? Answer: At
least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
● What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be
running? Answer: Majority (50%+)
● What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed
cluster nodes? Answer: 10ms or less
● Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level
visibility etc.) replicated across managed cluster nodes? Answer: No -
evenly distributed across all nodes
2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? Answer: The plugin SDK is
free. Dynatrace partners can develop plugin for you, will depend on
contract. Whatever custom metrics are used will be charged.
● How frequently do ActiveGate plugins execute? Answer: Once per
minute
● Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module?
Answer: Yes
● What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? Answer:
Environment ActiveGate
● Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment
ActiveGate that's configured for multi-environment support? Answer:
No
,● Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? Answer:
Technology overview page
● What is a "device group"? Answer: A technology tile that derives its
data from an ActiveGate plugin.
● Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin?
Answer: Define important metrics to be displayed in technology
overview page.
● What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? Answer:
Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
● What can device groups represent? Answer: Clusters, regions, groups
of servers, etc.
● What is a custom device group entity? Answer: Bind metrics and
properties to monitor device group metrics
● How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins?
Answer: plugin.json
● What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? Answer:
Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
,● Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices?
Answer: Yes!
● How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices
(ActiveGate plugin)? Answer: Metric threshold violation in JSON
definition. (Automatically sends events, not problems)
● How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate
plugins? Answer: Python API - raise performance, availability, error,
and resource contention problems
● Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace
server and ActiveGates? Answer: No, you need to deploy them on
ActiveGate and upload them to server.
● In general, what is the point of plugins.json (ActiveGate plugins)?
Answer: Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
● In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins?
Answer: Define additional events, create custom properties.
● How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster?
Answer: One per cluster.
, ● What is each managed cluster associated with? Answer: One or more
nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored
environments (with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
● What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed
installer? Answer: Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch,
Embedded ActiveGate, NGINX
● What can you do with CMC? Answer: Create user accounts and
groups, add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
● How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? Answer: At
least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
● What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be
running? Answer: Majority (50%+)
● What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed
cluster nodes? Answer: 10ms or less
● Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level
visibility etc.) replicated across managed cluster nodes? Answer: No -
evenly distributed across all nodes
