SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Sample Questions:

1. You want to create an Orion Map that shows the connections between your on-site devices and your servers in the Cloud. You can see the connections between all of the devices on site, but do not have visibility to the connections to your cloud servers.
How do you resolve this?

A) Manually configure connections between onsite and cloud resources in Orion Maps
B) Switch to SNMP polling for all devices to show the connections between on site and cloud resources
C) Open additional firewall ports between the cloud servers and the on-site devices
D) Increase the polling intervals between Orion and the cloud servers

2. In which scenario is an agent the best solution?

A) If Native GLX log file monitoring is required
B) If the WMI ports are already in use on Linux
C) If you cannot allow ICMP polling on your routers
D) If hosts in distributed networks have overlapping IP addresses

3. How can you quickly generate a report in NPM to show the top 50 interfaces by percent utilization?

A) Create a web-based report and filter the data to restrict to the top 50 interfaces
B) Create an advanced SQL query report
C) Copy a similar default report and edit it for the top 50 interfaces
D) Copy a similar default report and edit it for different time-frames

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

A) Update the MIB database
B) Contact the router vendor fora firmware update
C) Review your firewall rules to ensure the traps are not blocked
D) Verify that NPM is using the correct SNMP community strings

5. Which statistic should you use to determine peak network traffic?

A) Network latency
B) Packet loss
C) Protocol distribution
D) Bandwidth usage

Solutions: