Zabbix Certified Specialist Day 1 Exam
Questions and Verified Answers Grade A
What are the 3 main types of hosts that Zabbix can gather data from? - ANSWER-
Hardware, OS, VM & Container
What are the 3 other types of hosts that Zabbix can gather data from? - ANSWER-
Cloud hosts
Applications
Business Services
What method is used to monitor Databases? - ANSWER-ODBC
When was Zabbix 1.0 released? - ANSWER-23rd March 2004
How often is a long term support version of Zabbix released? - ANSWER-Every 18
months
When was Zabbix LLC established? - ANSWER-2005
Which parts of Zabbix have been built using C? - ANSWER-Server, Proxy, Agent
What parts of Zabbix have been built using Go? - ANSWER-Zabbix Agent 2, Web
Services
What does Zabbix use PHP for? - ANSWER-Frontend
Does Zabbix support Java? - ANSWER-Yes
Name three commerical services that Zabbix LLC and certified partners provide? -
ANSWER-Technical Support, Remote Tshooting, Consulting, Upgrades, Training, Turn-
key Solutions, Integration, Template Building
What are the 3 main Zabbix components? - ANSWER-Server, Frontend, Database
What are the 3 main functions of Zabbix Server? - ANSWER-Data collection, Problem
detection, Notification
What are 3 advantages of Zabbix proxy? - ANSWER-Monitoring remote locations,
Distributing load between proxies, Limited firewall rules
What processes all collected data? - ANSWER-Zabbix Server
, Zabbix server has several components, name one - ANSWER-Data collectors, internal
processes, caches
What are the 7 components that make up Zabbix Server? - ANSWER-Config Cache,
Config Sync, Data Collectors, Preprocessing, History Cache, Value Cache, History
Syncers
What is the minimum supported version for MySQL? - ANSWER-8.0.x but 8.0.20 is
recommended
Can Zabbix be installed on Windows? - ANSWER-No
What are the additional libraries required when installing Zabbix on Linux? - ANSWER-
Libpcre, libevent, zlib
By default, how long does it take for changes made in the frontend to show up in the
database? - ANSWER-Once per minute
Is it possible to force Zabbix server to read config data with a runtime command? -
ANSWER-Yes
What modes exist for the Zabbix agent and what differentiates them? - ANSWER-
Active, passive. In active mode, all data processing is performed on the agent without
pollers. In passive mode, the poller connects to the agent on TCP port 10050.
What are the four ports that Zabbix uses and what are they each for? - ANSWER-
10050: Zabbix agent. 10051: Server and proxy. 10052: Java gateway. 10053: Web
service.
By default, How often is data collected via the proxy, sent to the Zabbix server? -
ANSWER-Every second
Zabbix proxies can operate in Active mode or Passive mode? What is the difference? -
ANSWER-In active mode, the proxy connects to the server. In passive mode, the server
connects to the proxy.
What is true about the version differences between Zabbix proxy and Zabbix server? -
ANSWER-The major version must match ie 6.1.2 is not compatible with 6.2.0. This
changed in version 6.4, from this version onwards they are all compatible.
What is mandatory before installing Zabbix? - ANSWER-Getting NTP setup and sync'd,
without this you may experience false problem detection, missing data etc
What is the recommended way of installing Zabbix? - ANSWER-Official packages
What cloud vendors are supported for cloud install? - ANSWER-AWS, Azure, Digital
Ocean, Google Cloud, Red Hat Openshift
