SCP-500

SCP-500 practice questions, page 5 of 6, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

Which advantage do SNMP traps and Syslog have over SNMP polling?

  1. reliability of event detection
  2. ability to poll events in real-time
  3. ease of configuration
  4. speed of event detection

Question 22

How can you use a network management system (NMS) to ensure service level agreement (SLA) parameters are realistic for your environment?

  1. increase data collection period
  2. configuredata summarization
  3. reducedata retention period
  4. baseline network performance

Question 23

Your service level agreement (SLA) dictates that you must be able to notify the appropriate parties when systems are down for over2 minutes and report on data for the last120 days. Your network management system (NMS) has been configured to collect status every 10minutes and summarizes and retains data for 90 days. Which two settings should you change in the NMS to meet the business requirements? (Choose two.)

  1. increase data retention to 120 days
  2. configure status polling to occur every5 minutes
  3. summarize hourly data into weekly data every 120 days
  4. configure status polling to occur every minute
  5. summarize hourly data into weekly data every 90 days

Question 24

What should you do to track whether a new configuration has alleviated slow network performance?

  1. compare ICMP availability before and after the change
  2. compare application responsiveness before and after the change
  3. monitor the affected devices for stability
  4. monitor bandwidth utilization on affected interfaces

Question 25

The IT budgeting department has asked you for reports that will help them better plan for increases in monthly recurring costs. Which report should you set up to help the IT udgeting department meet this objective?

  1. router inventory
  2. WAN interface utilization
  3. LAN interface utilization
  4. available switch ports