SCP Exam Overview
Format: 75 multiple-choice questions
Time allotment: 90 minutes
Study Resources
Each category in this guide includes links to topics with information. The intention of the resources in this guide are to supplement your years of experience and hands-on training with SolarWinds’ products. The included resources are not all-inclusive and should only aid as a starting place for your studies.
Use the available documentation to learn about common procedures and functions of NPM.
NPM Getting Started Guide
NPM Installation and Upgrade Guide
NPM Administrator Guide
For additional study resources, visit THWACK or our Customer Success Center.
Category: Administration & Troubleshooting
Learn more about administration and troubleshooting with NPM.
Troubleshooting environmental issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
Create troubleshooting projects with the Performance Analysis (PerfStack™) dashboard. Troubleshooting projects visually correlate historical time series data from multiple SolarWinds products and entity types in a single view.
Use alerts to monitor your environment
Schedule alerts to monitor your network during a specific time and create alerts that notify different people based on alert duration.
High Availability in SolarWinds products
SolarWinds High Availability (HA) provides failover protection for your Orion server and additional polling engines to reduce data loss. If your primary server fails, the HA feature allows your secondary server to take over all services, such as polling and alerting, with minimal downtime.
Troubleshooting agent installation, deployment, and connections
A list of questions to help you troubleshoot if your agent does not deploy correctly. If your agent does not deploy correctly, use the following questions to help you troubleshoot the issue. You can also install the agent manually to the target computer.
Identify and troubleshoot an interface that has a problem
Troubleshoot alerts that have triggered because an interface has a problem, such as high utilization or the interface going down.
How to use this study aid 3
1.0 Orion 4
2.0 Cloud Services 6
3.0 Interfaces 7
4.0 NetPath 9
5.0 Orion Maps 10
6.0 Capacity Planning 11
7.0 Custom SNMP Polling 13
8.0 Hardware Health Monitoring 15
9.0 Network Insight 16
10.0 SNMP Trapping and Syslog Management 19
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Sample Question Answer Key
QUESTION 1
Which is not true for Device Studio Poller?
A. Collects data from Orion Failover Engine or Hot Standby Engines
B. Can perform logical operations or transformations on the polled data
C. Polled values are displayed in existing resources
D. Can poll multiple OIDs for a given technology
Explanation:
QUESTION 2
How does NPM calculate capacity usage trends?
A. Volume capacity
B. Average calculation
C. Capacity forecasting widget
D. Historical data
Answer: D
QUESTION 3
You can display Palo Alto firewalls on Orion Maps.
A. False
B. True
Explanation:
Answer: B
QUESTION 4
You inherit an environment with NPM and begin to receive High Traffic Utilization alerts from interfaces.
When you view the alert, the issue is resolved. How do you modify NPM to receive fewer false alerts?
A. Configure the alert so that it triggers only when traffic utilization remains high for a sustained period
B. Configure the alert so that it resets only when traffic utilization remains high for a sustained period
C. Increase the status polling frequency on the problematic interfaces
D. Increase the statistics polling frequency on the problematic interfaces
Answer: D
QUESTION 5
You use NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team decides to virtualize these servers using VMware. Which part of your virtual infrastructure will NPM no longer be able to monitor?
A. Virtualization host hardware health
B. VM sprawl monitoring
C. Virtualization host and VM performance metrics
D. Virtualization environment tree
Answer: A
QUESTION 6
When a router monitored by NPM reboots, the interface indexes statuses change to unknown in
NPM. What do you do after you remove the unknown interfaces?
A. Update the NPM internal ID numbers
B. Manually update the interface indexes
C. Rum a list of resources on that node and add the interfaces with the updated index IDs
D. Run the Configuration Wizard to update the interface indexes
Answer: B
QUESTION 7
After you create an NPM report with custom charts for availability and response time metrics,
you schedule the report and add an action to export it. But you cannot export it as an Excel file. What is the likely reason?
A. You must link the report with a URL in an email action to run live in the web console
B. Excel file formats are not supported
C. The custom charts only support a PDF export
D. You do not have the permissions to export the report
Answer: B