DYNATRACE EXAMS ACTUAL EXAM PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS WITH 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 QUESTIONS WITH 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
