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SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Exam Question and Answers

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Exam

Last Update May 4, 2024
Total Questions : 75

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Questions 1

How do you prevent alerts when an interface is down, without influencing the status of the parent node?

Options:

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

Discussion 0
Questions 2

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?

Options:

A.  

Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and the headquarters

B.  

Verify that the accounting servers’ CPU utilization are not abnormally high

C.  

Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and remote sites B and C

D.  

Verify that the accounting servers are up

Discussion 0
Questions 3

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?

Options:

A.  

Suppress alert when all of the following apply: Node Name is equal to “target” / Interface Status is equal to “Warning”

B.  

Suppress alert when any of the following apply: Node Name is equal to “target” / Node Status is equal to “Warning”

C.  

Suppress alert when any of the following apply: Node Name is equal to “target” / Interface Status is equal to “Down”

D.  

Suppress alert when all of the following apply: Node Name is equal to “target” / Node Status is equal ta “Down”

Discussion 0
Questions 4

You want a user to be able to acknowledge alerts. Which permissions do you assign to the user account?

Options:

A.  

Allow Account to Unmanage Objects

B.  

Allow Node Management Rights

C.  

Allow Account to Clear Events and Acknowledge Alerts and Syslogs

D.  

Allow Administrator Rights

Discussion 0
Questions 5

How do you assign users access to select reports?

Options:

A.  

Create the reports while logged in as each user and set permissions

B.  

Use custom properties and account limitations to control report access

C.  

Configure the report and add a Report Limitation. Assign the limitation to users who need access to the report

D.  

Save the reports in different sub-directories and set the permissions for each user

Discussion 0
Questions 6

All users can create their own Orion Maps. How do you limit a user from seeing or working with select monitored entities through the SolarWinds server?

Options:

A.  

Unmanage entities to remove access to the Orion user account

B.  

Configure permissions on the monitored entity to remove access to the Orion user account

C.  

Configure Alert imitations to remove access to the Orion user account

D.  

Configure Account limitations to remove access to the Orion user account

Discussion 0
Questions 7

You have two groups of users – one in Sydney and one in Perth. How do you limit the users within the Orion Platform so they only have access to the devices in their location?

Options:

A.  

Group devices into geographical Orion groups and use single group Account limitations to limit user access

B.  

Configure Network Atlas to show only devices in their geographical location

C.  

Use the Orion Service Manager to limit user access to nodes only in their location

D.  

Configure the Orion Web Console settings to show only devices in the user’s geographical location

Discussion 0
Questions 8

In which scenario is an agent the best solution?

Options:

A.  

If you cannot allow ICMP polling on your routers

B.  

If hosts in distributed networks have overlapping IP addresses

C.  

If the WMI ports are already in use on Linux

D.  

If Native GLX log file monitoring is required

Discussion 0
Questions 9

You can import device-specific MIBs into the SolarWinds MIB Database, but you cannot import UnDP pollers based on OIDs from device-specific MIBs.

Options:

A.  

True

B.  

False

Discussion 0
Questions 10

You receive traps from your network devices and want to alert on a select message. How do you accomplish this?

Options:

A.  

You cannot alert on traps through the Orion Platform

B.  

Configure Syslog alert actions on the Alert Actions tab

C.  

Use Traps in Orion Alerts to configure the default trap alert to fire on the trap message you select to alert on

D.  

Go to the Traps view and configure a new Log Viewer rule

Discussion 0
Questions 11

How can you ensure the trigger actions you set on an alert will work?

Options:

A.  

Use the Database Manager to trigger and test the alert

B.  

Simulate a performance interruption on a network device to test the alert trigger

C.  

Click Simulate on the assigned trigger action

D.  

Test the alert from within Alert View of the Web Console

Discussion 0
Questions 12

Network performance over an inter-campus Ethernet link is slow. One side of the connection is experiencing a high number of packet drops. What information in NPM can you review to help discover the cause of the issue?

Options:

A.  

Packet loss on the nodes on either side of the connection

B.  

MTU of each side of the link

C.  

Possible Duplex Mismatches

D.  

Routing tables on each side of the link

Discussion 0
Questions 13

How can you add entities from NPM to monitor for all registered devices in your company domain?

Options:

A.  

Select to query Domain Controllers in a Network Discovery and then select the Organizational Units (OUs) with the registered devices you want to scan

B.  

Add each registered device individually, and then select the entities you want to monitor

C.  

Add each of your Domain Controllers as nodes to NPM and scan Active Directory Organization Units (OUs) for the registered devices

D.  

Use the NPM Active Directory Discovery tool to find all registered devices on the domain

Discussion 0
Questions 14

You can share with others the PerfStack URL of any troubleshooting project you save.

Options:

A.  

FALSE

B.  

TRUE

Discussion 0
Questions 15

You created a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) but cannot find an OID in the MIB tree. How do you resolve this issue?

Options:

A.  

Restart the Universal Device Poller

B.  

Update the MIB database

C.  

Rediscover the node via Network Sonar Discovery

D.  

Add the node to NPM for monitoring

Discussion 0
Questions 16

The finance department asks to view select reports from NPM. Because of compliance policies, you cannot create accounts in the Web Console for users outside of the IT department. How do you allow the finance department to view reports without a user account?

Options:

A.  

Create a DirectLink account in the Web Console

B.  

Enable the Guest account

C.  

Create a service account for Finance

D.  

Enable the Link only option on the report

Discussion 0
Questions 17

You deploy a new router on your network. What should you do to ensure NPM correctly interprets SNMP traps from the device?

Options:

A.  

Verify that NPM is using the correct SNMP community strings

B.  

Contact the router vendor fora firmware update

C.  

Update the MIB database

D.  

Review your firewall rules to ensure the traps are not blocked

Discussion 0
Questions 18

You run a Network Discovery and discover devices that you do not want to monitor. What feature can you use to exclude those devices from future discoveries?

Options:

A.  

Discovery White List

B.  

Discovery Trash List

C.  

Discovery Watch List

D.  

Discovery Ignore List

Discussion 0
Questions 19

How are Orion agents licensed?

Options:

A.  

Agents requite the SolarWinds Agent Provisioning module SAP

B.  

Licenses are available in a set of one upon request

C.  

No separate license is required

D.  

Only Windows agents need to be licensed, Linux is free

Discussion 0
Questions 20

You want to create an alert that notifies you when packet loss meets or exceeds 50%, but only for a select set of nodes in your network. How do you accomplish this?

Options:

A.  

Set the scope of the alert to only apply to nodes to be included in the alert

B.  

Set the alert trigger evaluation to evaluate nodes to be included in the alert

C.  

Create separate SWQL trigger condition for each node to be included in the alert

D.  

Set an alert limitation for the nodes to be included in the alert

Discussion 0
Questions 21

Which is the best way to monitor an SNMP metric that NPM is not monitoring out-of-the-box?

Options:

A.  

Create a custom poller

B.  

Node Management utility

C.  

Update the SolarWinds MIB database

D.  

Enable CLI polling

Discussion 0
Questions 22

NetPath can analyze paths to which network segments?

Options:

A.  

On-premise networks

B.  

Cloud Networks

C.  

Hybrid Networks

D.  

All of the above

Discussion 0