Network Performance Monitor

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Question 1 of 32

Which is not true for Device Studio Poller?

Collects data from Orion Failover Engine or Hot Standby Engines

Can perform logical operations or transformations on the polled data

Polled values are displayed in existing resources

Can poll multiple OIDs for a given technology

Correct Answer: C

Question 2 of 32

You inherit an environment with NPM and begin to receive High Traffic Utilization alerts from interfaces. When you view the alert, the issue is resolved. How do you modify NPM to receive fewer false alerts?

Configure the alert so that it triggers only when traffic utilization remains high for a sustained period

Configure the alert so that it resets only when traffic utilization remains high for a sustained period

Increase the status polling frequency on the problematic interfaces

Increase the statistics polling frequency on the problematic interfaces

Correct Answer: D

Question 3 of 32

You use NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team decides to virtualize these servers using VMware. Which part of your virtual infrastructure will NPM no longer be able to monitor?

Virtualization host hardware health

VM sprawl monitoring

Virtualization host and VM performance metrics

Virtualization environment tree

Correct Answer: A

Question 4 of 32

When a router monitored by NPM reboots, the interface indexes statuses change to unknown in NPM. What do you do after you remove the unknown interfaces?

Update the NPM internal ID numbers

Manually update the interface indexes

Rum a list of resources on that node and add the interfaces with the updated index IDs

Run the Configuration Wizard to update the interface indexes

Correct Answer: B

Question 5 of 32

After you create an NPM report with custom charts for availability and response time metrics, you schedule the report and add an action to export it. But you cannot export it as an Excel file. What is the likely reason?

You must link the report with a URL in an email action to run live in the web console

Excel file formats are not supported

The custom charts only support a PDF export

You do not have the permissions to export the report

Correct Answer: B