SCP-500 Test 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In SolarWinds NPM, what does 'interface bandwidth utilization' measure?
- The physical cable capacity of a network link in Mbps
- The percentage of available bandwidth currently consumed by traffic (Correct answer)
- The number of packets dropped per second on an interface
- The total number of MAC addresses learned on a port
Correct answer: The percentage of available bandwidth currently consumed by traffic
Interface bandwidth utilization expresses what percentage of a link's total capacity is currently being used by traffic.
Question 2: Which SNMP version provides both authentication and encryption for secure communication?
- SNMP v1
- SNMP v2c
- SNMP v3 (Correct answer)
- SNMP v2u
Correct answer: SNMP v3
SNMP v3 is the only version offering both authentication (to verify identity) and encryption (to protect data in transit).
Question 3: What is the purpose of SNMP Traps in a network monitoring environment?
- To poll devices on a regular schedule for status updates
- To allow devices to proactively send event notifications to an NMS (Correct answer)
- To encrypt SNMP communication between the NMS and devices
- To automatically discover new devices on the network
Correct answer: To allow devices to proactively send event notifications to an NMS
SNMP Traps let network devices proactively send unsolicited event notifications to a Network Management System when specific conditions occur.
Question 4: What is an Additional Polling Engine (APE) used for in SolarWinds Orion?
- Adding redundant SQL databases for high availability
- Scaling monitoring capacity across large or geographically distributed networks (Correct answer)
- Providing web interface failover when the main server is offline
- Performing deep packet inspection on monitored segments
Correct answer: Scaling monitoring capacity across large or geographically distributed networks
APEs distribute polling workload across multiple servers, allowing SolarWinds to scale beyond what a single Orion server can handle.
Question 5: What does the SolarWinds NPM 'NetPath' feature help you analyze?
- Routing tables on a specific monitored network device
- Hop-by-hop path and performance metrics between two endpoints (Correct answer)
- NetFlow traffic patterns exported from a specific source device
- Network device configuration compliance against a baseline
Correct answer: Hop-by-hop path and performance metrics between two endpoints
NetPath provides continuous hop-by-hop visibility into the network path between two endpoints, showing latency and packet loss at each hop.
Question 6: Which SolarWinds product extends monitoring beyond network devices to include application and service health on servers?
- Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- Server & Application Monitor (SAM) (Correct answer)
- NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
Correct answer: Server & Application Monitor (SAM)
Server & Application Monitor (SAM) extends SolarWinds monitoring to cover applications, services, processes, and hardware health on servers.
Question 7: What does the SolarWinds Orion 'Discovery' feature do?
- Analyzes packet captures from monitored segments for threats
- Automatically scans IP ranges to find and onboard network devices (Correct answer)
- Generates topology diagrams from existing node relationship data
- Identifies software vulnerabilities on agent-monitored hosts
Correct answer: Automatically scans IP ranges to find and onboard network devices
The Discovery feature scans specified IP ranges using SNMP and ICMP to automatically find network devices and add them to Orion for monitoring.
SCP-500 Test 4
In SolarWinds NPM, what does 'interface bandwidth utilization' measure?