SCP-500 Test 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What problem is SolarWinds High Availability (HA) designed to address?
- Power outages at the primary data center facility
- Orion server or service failures that cause monitoring gaps (Correct answer)
- Network device failures that cause data corruption
- Database hardware failures causing backup loss
Correct answer: Orion server or service failures that cause monitoring gaps
SolarWinds HA provides automatic failover to a standby Orion server when the primary server experiences a failure, minimizing monitoring downtime.
Question 2: Which SolarWinds module is specifically designed to track and manage IP address allocations and DHCP scopes?
- NPM
- NCM
- IPAM (Correct answer)
- UDT
Correct answer: IPAM
IP Address Manager (IPAM) tracks IP address usage, manages DHCP scopes, and integrates DNS management in a unified interface.
Question 3: In SolarWinds NCM, what does the 'Config Archive' store?
- Backup copies of network device configurations (Correct answer)
- Historical alert records for compliance auditing
- Archived scheduled reports in compressed format
- Saved custom dashboard layout definitions
Correct answer: Backup copies of network device configurations
NCM's Config Archive stores timestamped backup copies of device configurations, enabling rollback and change auditing over time.
Question 4: Which SolarWinds tool analyzes bandwidth usage broken down by application, protocol, or endpoint conversation?
- Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- Server & Application Monitor (SAM)
- NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) (Correct answer)
- Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
Correct answer: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) collects NetFlow and sFlow data to provide visibility into who is using bandwidth, for what applications, and at what volume.
Question 5: When troubleshooting a node showing 'Unknown' status in SolarWinds, what should be the first step?
- Reinstall the SolarWinds agent on the affected node
- Verify SNMP credentials and network connectivity from the polling engine to the node (Correct answer)
- Restart the SolarWinds Orion service on the main server
- Delete and re-add the node to trigger fresh discovery
Correct answer: Verify SNMP credentials and network connectivity from the polling engine to the node
'Unknown' status typically results from a polling failure, so verifying SNMP credentials and connectivity is the most direct first diagnostic step.
Question 6: What is the SolarWinds Orion SDK primarily used for?
- Developing native mobile applications for Orion dashboards
- Programmatically querying and manipulating Orion data via API (Correct answer)
- Creating custom SNMP MIB definition files for new devices
- Building hardware-level polling engines for proprietary devices
Correct answer: Programmatically querying and manipulating Orion data via API
The Orion SDK provides a REST and SWQL-based API enabling administrators and developers to build integrations, automate tasks, and query Orion data programmatically.
Question 7: Which query language is used to retrieve data from the SolarWinds Orion Information Service (OIS)?
- OQL (Orion Query Language)
- SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language) (Correct answer)
- NSQL (Network Structured Query Language)
- SNML (SolarWinds Network Markup Language)
Correct answer: SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language)
SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language) is a SQL-like language used to query the Orion Information Service for monitoring and configuration data.
SCP-500 Test 5
What problem is SolarWinds High Availability (HA) designed to address?