SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Sample Questions:
1. Your network has critical devices on the opposite side of a WAN link from you SolarWinds server. You do not want alerts about the devices if the router (name = "target") that connects your SolarWinds server to the remote site is down. How do you configure Alert Suppression?
A) Suppress alert when any of the following apply: Node Name is equal to "target" / Interface Status is equal to "Down"
B) Suppress alert when all of the following apply: Node Name is equal to "target" / Interface Status is equal to "Warning"
C) Suppress alert when any of the following apply: Node Name is equal to "target" / Node Status is equal to "Warning"
D) Suppress alert when all of the following apply: Node Name is equal to "target" / Node Status is equal ta "Down"
2. You need to change the polling method from ICMP to SNMP on 200 nodes you monitor with Orion. How would you best accomplish this?
A) Use the Orion Polling Configuration tool to change polling methods
B) Unmanage all the nodes and remanage them choosing SNMP as the polling method
C) Bulk select nodes in Manage Nodes and change the polling method
D) Edit each individual node and change the polling method
3. How does NPM calculate capacity usage trends?
A) Capacity forecasting widget
B) Historical data
C) Volume capacity
D) Average calculation
4. How do you prevent alerts when an interface is down, without influencing the status of the parent node?
A) Select Unmanage Now in the parent node's Maintenance Mode drop-down
B) Add a dependency with the node as the parent object, and the interface as the child
C) Add a dependency with the interface as the parent object, and the interface as the child
D) Select Display Interface as Unplugged Rather Than Down in the Node Management view
5. Your network includes the headquarters and three remote sites. Users from remote site A complain they do not have access to the company's accounting server. Users from remote site B and C have access to the accounting server. How can you find the source of the issue?
A) Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and the headquarters
B) Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and remote sites B and C
C) Verify that the accounting servers are up
D) Verify that the accounting servers' CPU utilization are not abnormally high
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: B | Question # 4 Answer: B | Question # 5 Answer: A |
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