Dynatrace Professional Certification
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What are the 4 parts included in the plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? CORRECT ANSWERS The plugin SDK is free. Dynatrace partners can develop plugin for you, will depend on contract. Whatever custom metrics are used will be charged.
How frequently do ActiveGate plugins execute? CORRECT ANSWERS Once per minute
Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module? CORRECT ANSWERS Yes
What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS Environment ActiveGate
Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment ActiveGate that's configured
for multi-environment support? CORRECT ANSWERS No
Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? CORRECT ANSWERS Technology overview page
What is a "device group"? CORRECT ANSWERS A technology tile that derives its data from an ActiveGate plugin.
Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin? CORRECT ANSWERS Define important metrics to be displayed in technology overview page.
What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? CORRECT ANSWERS Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
What can device groups represent? CORRECT ANSWERS Clusters, regions, groups of
servers, etc.
What is a custom device group entity? CORRECT ANSWERS Bind metrics and properties to monitor device group metrics
How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS plugin.json What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices? CORRECT ANSWERS Yes!
How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices (ActiveGate plugin)? CORRECT ANSWERS Metric threshold violation in JSON definition. (Automatically sends events, not problems)
How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS Python API - raise performance, availability, error, and resource contention problems
Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace server and ActiveGates? CORRECT ANSWERS No, you need to deploy them on ActiveGate and upload them to server.
In general, what is the point of plugins.json (ActiveGate plugins)? CORRECT ANSWERS Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins? CORRECT ANSWERS Define additional events, create custom properties.
How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster? CORRECT ANSWERS One per cluster.
What is each managed cluster associated with? CORRECT ANSWERS One or more nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored environments (with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed installer? CORRECT ANSWERS Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Embedded ActiveGate, NGINX
What can you do with CMC? CORRECT ANSWERS Create user accounts and groups, add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? CORRECT ANSWERS At least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be running? CORRECT ANSWERS Majority (50%+) What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed cluster nodes? CORRECT ANSWERS 10ms or less
Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level visibility etc.) replicated
across managed cluster nodes? CORRECT ANSWERS No - evenly distributed across all nodes
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is the max amount of nodes that Dynatrace recommends per data center? CORRECT ANSWERS No more than 2 nodes per data center
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is the min amount of data centers that Dynatrace recommends? CORRECT ANSWERS At least 3 data centers (1 can fail)
Why does Dynatrace recommend that each managed cluster node be deployed on a separate physical disk? CORRECT ANSWERS To prevent loss of monitoring data.
Why does Dynatrace recommend deploying managed cluster nodes on systems with the same hardware characteristics? CORRECT ANSWERS To minimize performance loss
What should you keep in mind when building your manged cluster? CORRECT ANSWERS Build cluster with additional capacity and possible node failure in mind.
What happens when a managed cluster node fails? CORRECT ANSWERS NGINX automatically load balances and redirects all OneAgent traffic to the remaining working nodes.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 1: Basic setup? CORRECT ANSWERS If you want your managed cluster to only be accessible internally.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 2: Pure Dynatrace Managed setup? CORRECT ANSWERS If you want to enable DEM services and communication from external sources.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 3: integration with existing IT landscape? CORRECT ANSWERS When customer already has environment with load balancers and proxies in place.
In Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 1: basic setup, is remote access to Mission
Control enabled? CORRECT ANSWERS Yes
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