CAT-440 Online Practice Questions and Answers

When you create or edit a monitoring profile, you can use the Change Detection Rate option to set the frequency at which the Data Aggregator checks for changes. When you set the rate of detection, the Automatically Update Metric Families check box is selected by default. What happens if you clear this check box?

A. The Change Detection Rate field will no longer be editable.

B. The automatic updating of metric families will continue unless you also change settings for specific metric families.

C. The Data Aggregator will continue to automatically monitor new components but will no longer retire old components.

D. The Events Display dashboard will need to be monitored and updates will need to be performed manually on the Polled Metric Families page.

To help ensure that CA Performance Center operations run smoothly, which guidelines should you follow? (Choose three)

A. Check log files daily or at least weekly.

B. Purge log files manually every two weeks to avoid performance and space issues.

C. Test the Vertica database for consistency at least once a week using DBVisualizer.

D. Only change logging levels in the log4j.xml files for a service if advised to do so by CA Technologies support.

E. If you have access to the CA Performance Center server,run the grep-i command with the appropriate keyword to search multiple log files for error instances.

When you are planning Data Repository backups, which factor should you consider?

A. Best practice is to perform backups on a daily basis.

B. Backups can introduce the risk of a simultaneous failure in Vertica.

C. The database backup should be viewed as a best practice and not a requirement.

D. The backup interval depends on the data loss tolerance of the enterprise customer.

Regardless of the deployment size, for CA Performance Center installations:

A. the CPU must be quad core and at least 1 GHz.

B. the web browser you use must run in Compatibility mode.

C. you must use a 32-bit version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

D. you must have 1 GB of free disk space in the /tmp directory and at least 40 GB of free disk space for the database.

In CA Performance Center, groups are organized in the Groups Tree. Which features characterize the Groups Tree? (Choose two)

A. Its root level is called the Root Group node.

B. It is used when an administrator manages groups.

C. It includes the Defined Tenants sub-tree for groups in a tenant space.

D. It includes a sub-node in the Defined Tenants sub-tree for Default Space groups.

In which circumstances is it particularly appropriate to use the multi-tenancy features of CA Performance Management? (Choose two)

A. To administer several customer environments from a single instance of CA Performance Center

B. To make it easier to configure CA Performance Center and its data sources for multiple languages

C. To segregate device monitoring in large business units,departments,or regional offices from each other

D. To have CA Performance Center reconcile the identity of a single managed item that is monitored by multiple data sources into a single item in the inventory

When you configure event notifications, which factor should you always consider?

A. Other users might be able to view the notifications.

B. The action to delete notifications does not affect actual or future events.

C. Notifications will continue to appear when the Event Manager is set to disabled.

D. CA Performance Management needs to be configured to use port 162 to send traps.

After creating a custom vendor certification, you begin to notice unexpected dashboard values. Furthermore, you suspect that discovery is not operating correctly. To troubleshoot this issue, which step should you perform?

A. Create a new custom dashboard and check if the displayed values still indicate a possible error.

B. To verify that the Data Collector is running,access the following URL: http://: /rest

C. Open the log configuration file named log4j.xml for CA Performance Center and set the trace level to Error.

D. Use the poll log to examine the SNMP communication between the Data Collector and the IP address of the monitored device.

Which step enables you to validate the installation of CA Performance Center?

A. Check that the Vertica database can be stopped and restarted.

B. Run ps-aef I grep java and examine the running java processes.

C. Check that the Data Collectors are able to connect to the MySQL database.

D. Successfully log in to the CA Performance Center console from a supported web browser.

How can Data Collector poll logs help you troubleshoot? (Choose two)

A. They help you to address user login problems.

B. They enable you to examine SNMP traffic between a Data Collector and a specific IP address.

C. They help you to debug synchronization problems between CA Performance Center and the Data Aggregator.

D. They help you to resolve issues such as unexpected dashboard values and metric family discovery not working.