Free Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst Exam 500-420 Exam Practice Test

A Performance Analyst has noticed a significant decrease in an application's workload (calls/min) and is trying to identify the root cause. Which option will give the Performance Analyst insight into the behavior of the affected Business Transactions?

• Review Business Transactions and enable Show Trends
• In Metric Browser Plot Calls/min for the Application
• Review Top Business Transactions by Load in the Application Dashboard
• Review the Transaction Score for the Application
• Review all elements in the Application Flow Map and identify variations in load

What does the Live Preview option in a Business Transaction Discovery Session allow a user to do?

• See if new Transaction Discovery Rules work
• Provide streaming logs from the application agent
• Search classes and methods currently running on the system
• Stream entry points in your application

Which values can be used to identify a split exit point?

• Tetration application values
• dynamic application values
• static application values
• variable application values

What is the purpose of a transaction snapshot?

• To analyze issues with a specific business transaction
• To analyze issues only with a transaction flagged as stalled
• To analyze issues with a specific instances of a transaction
• To analyze issues only with a transaction flagged as slow

Which three pieces of information are required when creating a new database collector? (Choose three.)

• Primary table name
• Database hostname/IP address
• System table name
• Database Type
• Port number

A team of developers deploys new Java servlet code that should create new business transactions in AppDynamics. After applying load on the new code function, there are no new Business Transactions on the Business Transaction Dashboard. Which two options should the developers check inAppDynamics to make sure the Business Transactions can be discovered? [Choose two.)

• The metric browser to see if the new transactions appear under Business Transaction Performance.
• The tier with the new code does not have any rules excluding it.
• Auto discovery for service endpoints is turned on.
• There is a health rule created to check for transaction performance.
• Auto Discovery for servlet is turned on for Java agents.

When should URI Segments be used in Transaction Detection rules?

• When identifying business transactions using particular parts of the SMTP request
• When the application uses message-oriented technologies
• When the application is a Web-Oriented Technology
• When the agent names the business transaction for the Web service name plus the operation name

What must a Performance Analyst first configure in order to monitor end-to-end latency performance metrics in AppDynamics?

• additional demarcator methods
• define the end-to-end latency transaction
• slow end-point identity markers
• endpoints for asynchronous transactions

When using the REST interlace where would a Performance Analyst go to see all of the captured endpoints by service?

• Navigate to the Metric Browser then to the specific metric. Copy the REST URL from the Metric Browser and then use a wildcard query to get the metrics for other SEPs.
• Navigate to the Applications browser then drill down the requested endpoint with the available Dashboard & Metrics indicators then selected the desired metric.
• Navigate to the Metric Browser then to the Consumed Endpoints location. Drill down in the metric browser on the specific endpoint to call out its services.
• Access the MySQL database and find all the endpoints in an app. where can drill down to the tier and transactions using the endpoints. Select the appropriate REST feature enabled by the service endpoint.

A Performance Analyst has a third-party event management system API and wants to use the event management system to send alerts to Level 1.Which actions are available in the AppDynamics Actions Menu to set this up?

• Send an SMS
• HTTP Request
• Remediation
• Send an Email