SCP-500 Quality Control & Assurance 3

Question 1

A SolarWinds administrator wants to validate that all monitored nodes are being polled at the expected interval. Which Orion feature provides a per-node polling summary with last-poll timestamps?

Accepted Answer

Node Details page — Polling tab

Answer

The Node Details page includes a Polling tab showing the last successful poll time, polling interval, and which engine is responsible.

Question 2

During QA testing of a SolarWinds High Availability (HA) setup, a failover is triggered. What is the expected behavior of the standby Orion server?

Accepted Answer

It takes over polling and the web interface seamlessly

Answer

In a properly configured HA pair, the standby server automatically takes over polling and web services upon detecting primary failure.

Question 3

When validating SolarWinds WPM (Web Performance Monitor) scripts in QA, which metric confirms that a recorded transaction successfully completed all steps?

Accepted Answer

Step completion count matching the recorded script steps

Answer

Validating that the step completion count matches the total recorded steps confirms the entire transaction executed without early failure.

Question 4

A QA team is auditing SolarWinds alert noise. Which configuration change most effectively reduces duplicate alerts for the same event during an outage?

Accepted Answer

Enable alert suppression or reset conditions with time delays

Answer

Configuring alert reset conditions with appropriate time delays prevents the same alert from repeatedly firing during a sustained outage.

Question 5

In SolarWinds NCM, which QA practice ensures that device configurations captured during compliance audits reflect the actual running configuration and not just the startup configuration?

Accepted Answer

Scheduling NCM downloads to pull running-config explicitly

Answer

NCM should be configured to download the running-config, as startup-config may not reflect changes that haven't been saved to NVRAM.

SCP-500 - Solarwinds Certified Professional Practice Test

SCP-500 - Solarwinds Certified Professional Practice Test

SCP-500 Quality Control & Assurance 3