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

Question 1

You have two groups of users - one in Sydney and one in Perth. How do you limit the users within the Orion Platform so they only have access to the devices in their location?

A. Configure Network Atlas to show only devices in their geographical location

B. Use the Orion Service Manager to limit user access to nodes only in their location

C. Configure the Orion Web Console settings to show only devices in the user's geographical location

D. Group devices into geographical Orion groups and use single group Account limitations to limit user access

Correct Answer: D

Question 2

For any node you monitor, you can use Network Discovery to automatically add child volumes or interfaces for monitoring.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

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

Question 4

You need to build an Orion Map to show the relationships and connections between your Cloud servers and on premise infrastructure. You add the nodes but discover that the Orion Platform is not automatically mapping the connection between your cloud server and on premise router. You have verified that layer 2 and layer 3 topologies are being polled on the devices. How do you resolve this issue?

A. You need to turn off layer 2 and layer 3 topology polling for cloud monitoring

B. You cannot monitor the connection between on premise and off premise devices

C. You need to configure a custom connection between the cloud node and the on premise node

D. You need to open the topology ports in your firewall between the on premise node and the cloud node

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

What is the average resource consumption of an agent?

A. Less than 1% CPU, no storage because the agent is 1% in memory for faster access

B. Agents run as a virtual process and do not require local resources

C. Less than 1% CPU, max 1 MB of memory, 1 MB storage

D. Between 1-2% CPU if the bandwidth is less than 8 KB/s

Correct Answer: C

Question 6

How can you quickly generate a report in NPM to show the top 50 interfaces by percent utilization?

A. Create a web-based report and filter the data to restrict to the top 50 interfaces

B. Create an advanced SQL query report

C. Copy a similar default report and edit it for different time-frames

D. Copy a similar default report and edit it for the top 50 interfaces

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

Your network includes the headquarters and three remote sites. Users from remote site A complain they do not have access to the company's accounting server. Users from remote site B and C have access to the accounting server. How can you find the source of the issue?

A. Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and remote sites B and C

B. Verify that the accounting servers' CPU utilization are not abnormally high

C. Use NetPath to see if there are problem areas between remote site A and the headquarters

D. Verify that the accounting servers are up

Correct Answer: C

Question 8

You add several nodes for monitoring and can see detailed information on those nodes in the Orion Web Console. However, when you look at the nodes in Orion Maps, the connections between the nodes are not showing. What is a likely reason?

A. You did not add the node topology OIDs to the MIB database

B. A firewall is blocking polling between the nodes and the Orion server

C. You did not enable SNMP polling

D. You did not enable Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology polling on those nodes

Correct Answer: D

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