CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x (CAT

CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x

(CA Nimsoft Monitor)

Implementation Proven Professional Exam

(CAT-540)

Study Guide

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CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA Nimsoft Monitor) 8.x Implementation

Proven Professional Exam Study Guide

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ................................................................................................................. i

1 Exam Information .......................................................................................................... 1

2 Areas for Study .............................................................................................................. 3

3 Sample Certification Exam Questions ............................................................................. 7

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1 Exam Information

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2 Areas for Study

Information from a variety of sources can represent the body of knowledge covered by the exam.

Figure 1.

Learning path and body of knowledge

Experience

Best Practices

4 days

13NMS20051

Green Books and

Green Papers

Prior Knowledge

CA Unified Infrastructure

Management v8: System

support.ca.com

Administration Foundations 200

3 days

communities.ca.com

CA Tech Insider

Management v8: Advanced

Presentation and Reporting 300

13NMS30051

Use Cases & Scenarios

Practical Application of

Course Concepts

CA Unified Infrastructure

Notes:

The CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8 training is also offered OnDemand:

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13NMS20070 - OnDemand CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8: System Administration Foundations

200

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13NMS30070 - OnDemand CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8: Advanced Reporting 300

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13NMS30060 - OnDemand CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8: Advanced Presentation 300

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Table 1

. Exam Objectives

Exam objectives as they map to related courseware and the body of knowledge, including percentage of exam devoted to topics.

Exam Objectives Related Content

Exam

Focus

6% Understanding CA UIM CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration

Foundations 200 (13NMS20051)

Describe CA UIM

CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Configuring Basic Data

Monitoring Foundations 200 (13NMS20051)

Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience

Configure Basic Data Monitoring

Examining Monitored Data CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration


Examine Monitored Data

Configuring Basic NAS

Functions

CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration



Configure Basic NAS Functions

Extending Monitoring

Capabilities

Creating and Deploying

Packages and SuperPackages



Extend Monitoring Capabilities



Create and Deploy Packages and SuperPackages

Performing Advanced Robot

Configurations

Performing Advanced Alarm

Activities

Performing SLM Tasks



Perform Advanced Robot Configurations



Perform Advanced Alarm Activities



Perform SLM Tasks

4%

2%

6%

4%

2%

2%

4%

4%

Configuring Reporting

Capabilities Using PRD, List

Views, and Custom

Dashboards

Configuring the UMP and

Portal Views

Performing Advanced Probe

Configurations and

Troubleshooting

Understanding the UMP




Configure Reporting Capabilities Using PRD, List Views, and Custom

Dashboards




Configure the UMP and Portal Views



Perform Advanced Probe Configurations and Troubleshooting

CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 (13NMS30051)


UMP Overview and Review

6%

4%

4%

6%

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Exam Objectives

Creating Portal Views

Understanding Unified

Services Manager

Designing List Views and

Performance Reports

Designing Custom

Dashboards

Administering Liferay

Customizing the User

Experience

Skinning UMP with CSS and

Using Virtual Hosts

Understanding Advanced

UMP Considerations

Understanding UR and iReport

Exploring the CA UIM

Database

Building a Custom Report

Deploying a Report to the

UR Repository

Making Reports Account-

Aware

Exploring Ad Hoc Views

Scheduling Unified Reports

Exploring UR Repository

Permissions

Related Content


Portal Views


Unified Services Manager


List Views and Performance Reports


Custom Dashboards


Liferay Administration


Customize the User Experience


Skin UMP with CSS and Use Virtual Hosts


Advanced UMP Considerations


UR and iReport Overview



Explore the CA UIM Database


Build a Custom Report


Deploy a Report to the UR Repository


Making Reports Account-Aware


Explore Ad Hoc Views


Schedule Unified Reports


Explore UR Repository Permissions

Exam

Focus

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

4%

2%

6%

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

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Exam Objectives

Exploring Advanced

Reporting Topics

Understanding CA UIM

Multi-tenancy Features

Deploying Robots

Related Content


Explore Advanced Reporting Topics





Describe CA UIM Multi-tenancy Features


Deploy Robots

Exam

Focus

4%

2%

2%

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3 Sample Certification Exam Questions

These sample questions are very similar to the questions in the actual exam. Some questions may include several correct options.

Question 1

Before you deploy CA UIM, you meet with your team to plan your monitoring governance strategy. Which key factors should you consider at this stage? (Choose two)

A. What is alarm worthy

B. How many communities you will create

C. Which preprocessing rules you will configure

D. Which metrics will need to be published for historical performance

Question 2

After you connect two hubs on a network level, what do you establish to enable messages to flow between them?

A. Pipes

B. Queues

C. Linked lists

D. SMTP channels

Question 3

In the Admin Console, if you choose to deploy probe packages from the Web Archive, the probes:

A. will be first downloaded to the Local Archive before being deployed to the robot.

B. will only work for a trial period unless you register them on the CA UIM support site.

C. will be deployed directly from the Web to the robot and will have limited local configuration options.

D. will always need to be configured using the UMP instead of the Infrastructure Manager configuration interface.

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Question 4

When you create a dynamic group:

A. its membership will be automatically updated every 15 minutes.

B. it can only be added to a container group if you convert it to a static group.

C. its default membership update interval can be set in the discovery_server probe settings.

D. it will not appear in Unified Service Manager (USM) until you add at least one child group.

Question 5

In Performance Reports Designer (PRD), chart functionality provides the ability to: (Choose three)

A. change the source host of the data.

B. drag a chart to Infrastructure Manager.

C. drag a data series from one chart to another.

D. plot only the data that matches specified filters on the chart.

E. configure graphical views of managed elements and their relationships.

Question 6

You want to validate that auto-acknowledgment is working correctly. Which step do you perform?

A. Send a test message.

B. Run the finger command.

C. Restart the sysloggtw probe.

D. Check the Register Resource settings.

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Question 7

You need to create a maintenance schedule to suppress alarms while a VMware host is offline. Where do you define the schedule?

A. In the Alarm Console

B. In the Admin Console

C. In Infrastructure Manager

D. In Unified Services Manager (USM)

Question 8

You are configuring a dynamic alarm threshold. You want to set each threshold as a constant value from the computed baseline. Which algorithm should you select?

A. Scalar

B. Percent

C. Percentile

D. Standard Deviation

Question 9

Which probe helps you to gather basic response metrics?

A. zones

B. netapp

C. tcp_proxy

D. net_connect

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Question 10

In which circumstances is it appropriate to create a SuperPackage? (Choose three)

A. When you need to manually install robots on Linux

B. When you want to enable users to install probes using a GUI-based wizard

C. When you want to ensure that any dependent probes are automatically installed

D. When you need to deploy multiple probes and configuration files in a single package

E. When you want to deploy a single probe configuration to several robots simultaneously

Question 11

When you are planning hub-to-hub communications, which factors should you consider? (Choose two)

A. For UNIX systems, the hub limit is approximately 10 with approximately 20 subscribers.

B. Installing a secondary hub before the CA UIM server software is installed will help avoid problems such as queues not clearing.

C. Bulk sizing should be left at the default configuration until you are presented with a problem such as a queue that is not clearing.

D. Static hubs can be used for traversing subnet breaks if you do not need to consider advanced elements such as

WANs, firewalls, and hub-to-hub tunnels.

Question 12

When you configure an Auto-Operator (AO) profile, you can select an action mode. An example of an action mode is:

A. invisible.

B. post_message.

C. Sliding Window.

D. On overdue age.

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Question 13

The alarm_enrichment probe: (Choose three)

A. processes messages sent to it from the nas probe.

B. is a pre-processor probe for the qos_processor probe.

C. is particularly useful for addressing problems related to multi-tenancy.

D. attaches itself to a permanent queue and receives alarm messages distributed by the hub.

E. corrects the origin value on alarms by looking up the correct value in a user-defined database table.

Question 14

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) contains one or more:

A. Object Identifiers (OIDs).

B. Configuration Items (CIs).

C. Service Level Monitors (SLMs).

D. Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Question 15

When you create a list, you can select a host, Quality of Service (QoS), and target. What is the purpose of the target?

A. To specify which type of list you will create

B. To identify which column will show the QoS object

C. To identify the QoS metric name, such as Total (CPU) or C:\ (disk)

D. To identify where the data came from, such as the name of the server or device

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Question 16

In the UMP, what can you configure to present users and account contacts with information appropriate to their role or organization?

A. Portal views

B. User domains

C. Group partitions

D. Geo communities

Question 17

What should you do if a firewall is blocking hub communication with probes on a passive robot? (Choose two)

A. Rerun the DMZ wizard.

B. Enable proxy mode on the passive robot.

C. Open the port for the passive robot in the firewall.

D. Remove the robot from the Registered Robots list for the hub.

Question 18

When you create portal views, which factor should you consider?

A. Using private pages instead of sites makes maintenance easier.

B. Limiting portal views to groups of users reduces administration effort and increases scalability.

C. Limiting the number of portlets on each page might improve the layout but will not affect performance.

D. Using public pages for the Sign In portlet is a poor practice because it makes the UMP vulnerable to security issues.

Question 19

When you create a performance report, which best practice should you apply?

A. Avoid filters when building drill-down reports.

B. Only build drill-down reports if you are using more than one host.

C. Use filters whenever possible to maintain multi-tenancy support.

D. When dealing with filters and large data sets, build the charts while logged in as an administrator.

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Question 20

When you configure Liferay Portal, which factor should you consider?

A. Personal pages need to be assigned to each user.

B. Site pages are used only for global configuration across the UMP.

C. A Liferay user account must be created for each CA UIM or UMP contact before that user can log in.

D. Public pages are non-authenticated, and in CA UIM, they are used for the SignIn or Web Content portlets only.

Question 21

When you implement the UMP, which best practice should you apply in Portal Settings?

A. Import .lar files as public pages.

B. Associate the Power User role with each account administrator.

C. Remove the Power User role from the default user associations.

D. Replace the default user groups with any accounts you have added.

Question 22

You are creating a white-label experience for a particular account. When you skin the public (Sign in) page of a site with cascading style sheets (CSS), which guideline should you follow?

A. Make sure that you have configured a virtual host.

B. If you are using images, avoid image links where possible.

C. Add a reference to the CSS page in the Friendly URL field for the site.

D. Make sure that you host all images on the UMP server under the webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes folder.

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Question 23

You need to change the UMP login type from screenName to emailaddress. To accomplish this, which steps will you need to perform? (Choose three)

A. Deactivate the wasp probe.

B. Export the site pages to a LAR file.

C. Restart the dashboard_engine probe.

D. In portal-ext.properties, update the company.security.auth.type property.

E. Check the contents of the rows in the portletpreferences table in the CA_UIM database.

Question 24

When you configure repository permissions, which best practice should you apply?

A. Make sure that you set all account-specific folders to Execute Only.

B. Make sure that you restrict access to root, data sources, public, organizations, and temp.

C. Set role-based permissions in the AccountAdmin portlet and user-based permissions in Unified Reports.

D. Create account-specific folders one level below the root folder rather than immediately below the root folder itself.

Question 25

You are creating groupings in an alarm history report. For the group header, you can: (Choose two)

A. select or clear a frame.

B. select a user or role option.

C. expand or collapse the Variables node.

D. select or clear the Keep Together check box.

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Answers

Question 1 = A and D

Question 2 = B

Question 3 = A

Question 4 = A

Question 5 = A, C, and D

Question 6 = A

Question 7 = D

Question 8 = A

Question 9 = D

Question 10 = C, D, and E

Question 11 = C and D

Question 12 = D

Question 13 = C, D, and E

Question 14 = D

Question 15 = C

Question 16 = A

Question 17 = B and C

Question 18 = B

Question 19 = C

Question 20 = D

Question 21 = C

Question 22 = A

Question 23 = A, D, and E

Question 24 = D

Question 25 = A and D

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CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x (CAT

CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x

(CA Nimsoft Monitor)

Implementation Proven Professional Exam

(CAT-540)

Study Guide

Table of Contents

1 Exam Information

2 Areas for Study

Figure 1.

Experience

Best Practices

Green Books and

Green Papers

Prior Knowledge

support.ca.com

communities.ca.com

CA Tech Insider

Use Cases & Scenarios

Practical Application of

Course Concepts

Table 1

3 Sample Certification Exam Questions

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CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x (CAT

CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.x

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Implementation Proven Professional Exam

(CAT-540)

Study Guide

Table of Contents

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2 Areas for Study

Figure 1.

Experience

Best Practices

Green Books and

Green Papers

Prior Knowledge

support.ca.com

communities.ca.com

CA Tech Insider

Use Cases & Scenarios

Practical Application of

Course Concepts

Table 1

3 Sample Certification Exam Questions

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