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SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP-500) VIP Practice Exam

SCP-500 — The SCP-500 is the SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP) exam, administered through PSI/Pearson VUE, covering SolarWinds Orion platform architecture, network performance monitoring, server and application monitoring, NetFlow traffic analysis, network configuration management, IP address management, security event management, and IT operations — typically 75–85 questions in 90 minutes with a ~75% passing threshold.

28
Questions
90m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 28👑 VIP

A large enterprise network team manages 6,000 nodes across 12 data centers globally. The main Orion server is showing high CPU utilization during polling cycles, and several nodes are intermittently reporting 'Unknown' status due to polling timeouts. The team wants to scale out polling capacity without replacing the primary server. What is the correct architectural solution?

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