SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Exam (SCP-NPM) Free Practice Test

Question 1

The finance department asks to view select reports from NPM. Because of compliance policies, you cannot create accounts in the Web Console for users outside of the IT department. How do you allow the finance department to view reports without a user account?

A. Create a DirectLink account in the Web Console

B. Enable the Link only option on the report

C. Enable the Guest account

D. Create a service account for Finance

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

You run a Network Discovery and discover devices that you do not want to monitor. What feature can you use to exclude those devices from future discoveries?

A. Discovery Ignore List

B. Discovery White List

C. Discovery Watch List

D. Discovery Trash List

Correct Answer: A

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Question 3

The Universal Device Poller retrieves management data in which format?

A. ANSI 1

B. WMI

C. XML

D. OID

Correct Answer: D

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Question 4

When you configure a report, you can limit access to specific users.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Correct Answer: B

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Question 5

You need to add a new subnet of 500 devices for monitoring. What is the first step to incorporate these devices into NPM?

A. Add the nodes using the Add Node feature in Manage Nodes

B. Measure network-wide bandwidth consumption

C. Perform a Network Discovery

D. Collect NetFlow from a core router

Correct Answer: C

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Question 6

You added a device for NPM to monitor. You can see CPU and memory statistics, but want to see a statistic that NPM does not support out of the box. Which features can you use to collect the statistics you want from the device? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Application monitor templates

B. Manage Pollers in Device Studio

C. Device templates

D. Universal Device Pollers (UnDP)

Correct Answer: B,D

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Question 7

A custom poller has polled some results from nodes. Which of the following is a possible reason for NOT being able to show the polled results as charts on the Orion Web Console?

A. You must use Device Studio to build the poller

B. Charts are only supported by out-of-the-box pollers

C. The poller is not enabled and assigned to the devices

D. You did not set the poller to collect historical statistics

Correct Answer: D

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Question 8

You're troubleshooting a complex network issue and need to build a comparison of several metrics across multiple devices and SolarWinds products to identify the problem. What feature can you use?

A. AppStack

B. Network Insight

C. NetPath

D. PerfStack

Correct Answer: D

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