Dynatrace Professional Certification
Written Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
What are the 4 parts included in the plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins?
- Correct answer-Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? - Correct 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? - Correct answer-Once per minute
Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module? - Correct
answer-Yes
What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? - Correct answer-
Environment ActiveGate
Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment ActiveGate that's
configured for multi-environment support? - Correct answer-No
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,Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? - Correct answer-Technology
overview page
What is a "device group"? - Correct answer-A technology tile that derives its data
from an ActiveGate plugin.
Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin? - Correct answer-
Define important metrics to be displayed in technology overview page.
What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? - Correct answer-
Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
What can device groups represent? - Correct answer-Clusters, regions, groups of
servers, etc.
What is a custom device group entity? - Correct answer-Bind metrics and
properties to monitor device group metrics
How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-plugin.json
What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? - Correct answer-
Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices? - Correct answer-
Yes!
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,How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices (ActiveGate plugin)? -
Correct answer-Metric threshold violation in JSON definition. (Automatically
sends events, not problems)
How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-Python API - raise performance, availability, error, and resource contention
problems
Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace server and
ActiveGates? - Correct 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)? - Correct
answer-Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-Define additional events, create custom properties.
How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster? - Correct answer-
One per cluster.
What is each managed cluster associated with? - Correct answer-One or more
nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored environments
(with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
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, What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed installer? - Correct
answer-Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Embedded ActiveGate,
NGINX
What can you do with CMC? - Correct answer-Create user accounts and groups,
add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? - Correct answer-At
least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be running? -
Correct answer-Majority (50%+)
What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed cluster nodes? -
Correct answer-10ms or less
Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level visibility etc.)
replicated across managed cluster nodes? - Correct answer-No - evenly distributed
across all nodes
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is
the max amount of nodes that Dynatrace recommends per data center? - Correct
answer-No more than 2 nodes per data center
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Written Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
What are the 4 parts included in the plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins?
- Correct answer-Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? - Correct 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? - Correct answer-Once per minute
Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module? - Correct
answer-Yes
What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? - Correct answer-
Environment ActiveGate
Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment ActiveGate that's
configured for multi-environment support? - Correct answer-No
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,Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? - Correct answer-Technology
overview page
What is a "device group"? - Correct answer-A technology tile that derives its data
from an ActiveGate plugin.
Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin? - Correct answer-
Define important metrics to be displayed in technology overview page.
What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? - Correct answer-
Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
What can device groups represent? - Correct answer-Clusters, regions, groups of
servers, etc.
What is a custom device group entity? - Correct answer-Bind metrics and
properties to monitor device group metrics
How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-plugin.json
What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? - Correct answer-
Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices? - Correct answer-
Yes!
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,How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices (ActiveGate plugin)? -
Correct answer-Metric threshold violation in JSON definition. (Automatically
sends events, not problems)
How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-Python API - raise performance, availability, error, and resource contention
problems
Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace server and
ActiveGates? - Correct 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)? - Correct
answer-Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins? - Correct
answer-Define additional events, create custom properties.
How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster? - Correct answer-
One per cluster.
What is each managed cluster associated with? - Correct answer-One or more
nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored environments
(with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
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, What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed installer? - Correct
answer-Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Embedded ActiveGate,
NGINX
What can you do with CMC? - Correct answer-Create user accounts and groups,
add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? - Correct answer-At
least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be running? -
Correct answer-Majority (50%+)
What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed cluster nodes? -
Correct answer-10ms or less
Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level visibility etc.)
replicated across managed cluster nodes? - Correct answer-No - evenly distributed
across all nodes
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is
the max amount of nodes that Dynatrace recommends per data center? - Correct
answer-No more than 2 nodes per data center
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