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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding CA Performance Management 20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200

Describe CA Performance Management 8%

Observing a Basic Use Case: Device Health 20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200 Observe a Basic Use Case: Device Health

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Discovering Devices 20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200 Discover Devices

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Configuring Monitoring 20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200 Configure Monitoring

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Understanding Grouping Strategy, Users, and Notifications

20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200 Examine Grouping Strategy, Users, and Notifications

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Customizing the User Interface 20APF20161 CA Performance Management r2.7: Foundations 200 Customize the User Interface

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Troubleshooting CA Performance Management

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Understanding Multi-Tenancy 20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Multi-Tenancy 300 Describe Multi-Tenancy

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Configuring a Multi-Tenant Deployment Using CA Performance Center

20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Multi-Tenancy 300 Configure a Multi-Tenant Deployment Using CA Performance Center

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Configuring Tenant-aware Monitoring 20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Multi-Tenancy 300 Configure Tenant-aware Monitoring

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Configuring Service Tiers for Tenants 20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Multi-Tenancy 300 Configure Service Tiers for Tenants

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Understanding Troubleshooting Tips 20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Multi-Tenancy 300Describe Troubleshooting Tips

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Understanding Self‐Certification 20APF30061 CA Performance Management r2.7: Self-Certification 300 Describe Self‐Certification

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding the Self-Certification Process 20APF30071 CA Performance Management r2.7: Self-Certification 300

Examine the Self-Certification Process6%

Extending Out-of-the-box Metric Families and Vendor Certifications

20APF30071 CA Performance Management r2.7: Self-Certification 300 Extend Out-of-the-box Metric Families and Vendor Certifications

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Creating Custom Vendor Certifications 20APF30071 CA Performance Management r2.7: Self-Certification 300 Create Custom Vendor Certifications

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Creating Custom Components and Custom Metric Families

20APF30071 CA Performance Management r2.7: Self-Certification 300 Create Custom Components and Custom Metric Families

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Understanding Advanced Self-Certification Topics

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Question 1CA Performance Management enables you to segregate the population of infrastructure devices between:• Multiple customers of a provider • Multiple organizations/sites within a single business

Which CA Performance Management feature do you use to accomplish this?

A. Multi-tenancyB. Device certificationC. ScalabilityD. Self-monitoring

Question 2Which statement about discovery profiles is TRUE?

A. They run automatically upon creation.B. A single discovery profile can be run on multiple Data Collectors.C. There is a one-to-one correspondence between discovery profiles and IP domains.D. They create devices and components.

Question 3Paul Martin, a system administrator, has reconfigured a key device in his infrastructure to support a higher-priority vendor certification for a metric family. Paul wants the polling of this device to immediately include the additional data offered by this new certification. To accomplish this, what does Paul need to do?

A. Refresh the component table on the Polled Metric Families tab in the Data Aggregator.B. Change the higher-priority vendor certification to a lower-priority vendor certification.C. Use the Update Metric Family button on the Polled Metric Families tab in the Data Aggregator.D. Use the Update Vendor Certification button on the Polled Metric Families tab in the Data Aggregator.

Question 4How is component filtering defined?

A. On a per-metric family basis in the context of a monitoring profileB. On a per-vendor certification basis in the context of a metric familyC. On a per-metric family basisD. On a per-vendor certification basis

Question 5Which mechanism is used to restrict menu access in CA Performance Center?

A. RolesB. UsersC. TenantsD. Product privileges

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Question 6As an administrator of tenants at a Managed Service Provider (MSP) , you have decided to use the Shared Collection model for two tenants. What will this involve?

A. Coordination with each tenant for remote hosting of a Data Collector at the tenant's siteB. Working with each tenant to secure the WAN polling between its infrastructure and an MSP-hosted Data CollectorC. Determination of which Data Collector will be dedicated to each tenantD. Discussion with each tenant on how the tenant will administer its own inventory discovery

Question 7What is the purpose of service provider groups in multi-tenancy?

A. To specify the IP addresses to discoverB. To designate which devices will be transferred from the Default Space to a dedicated tenant spaceC. To define the set of devices that will be polled by a specific Data Collector in the Shared Collection modelD. To specify which items in the Default Space are visible to a specific tenant

Question 8Sam Stoneburg is the administrator for a tenant that uses the Dedicated Collection model. Sam informs you that the infrastructure has an overlapping set of two IP address spaces. To discover this infrastructure, which step needs to be performed?

A. Create a single discovery profile.B. Create SNMP profiles in the Default Space.C. Coordinate with the Managed Service Provider’s (MSP's) Global Administrator to assign the tenant multiple Data Collectors with unique IP domains.D. No step; discovering overlapping IP addresses is not possible in the Dedicated Collection model.

Question 9What are TWO characteristics of lower service tiers? (Choose two)

A. Tenant control of monitoring behaviorB. Extended set of monitored metricsC. Lower device discovery frequencyD. Managed Service Provider (MSP) control of inventory discovery

Question 10Which differentiating features of service tiers are controlled by monitoring profiles? (Choose three)

A. Device discovery frequencyB. Change detection behaviorC. Polling frequencyD. Whether the Managed Service Provider (MSP) or tenant controls monitoring behaviorE. Monitored metrics selection

Question 11What are the main types that are used in the self-certification data model? (Choose three)

A. Vendor certificationsB. CollectionsC. Monitoring profilesD. ComponentsE. Metric families

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Question 12What are some characteristics of an endpoint URL? (Choose three)

A. It designates an entire set of a given type.B. It designates a single instance of a given type.C. Type-specific documentation can be accessed by appending /documentation.D. It ends in an internal name.E. Its initial portion is a type URL.

Question 13Which HTTP methods are used in the extension workflow? (Choose two)

A. GETB. PUTC. POSTD. DELETE

Question 14Which features characterize the CA Performance Management On-Demand Certification Portal? (Choose three)

A. It provides a small environment in which you can test the customizations.B. It provides custom views supporting new metrics.C. It provides easy lookup by vendor and device.D. It enables you to check that the self-certification changes you need have not already been done by someone else.E. It provides a standard ZIP file format for ease of installation and a supporting installation utility which can be downloaded directly from the Data Aggregator.

Question 15Sanna Richardson is creating a new custom component and wants to be sure the component has a separate category under the top-level Inventory tab in CA Performance Center. To accomplish this, Sanna needs to set one of the ItemSyncDefinition tag properties to TRUE. Which property does she need to set?

A. groupByB. categorizeC. itemTypeLabelD. context

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Question 1 = AQuestion 2 = BQuestion 3 = CQuestion 4 = A Question 5 = A Question 6 = BQuestion 7 = DQuestion 8 = CQuestion 9 = C and DQuestion 10 = B, C, and EQuestion 11 = A, D, and EQuestion 12 = B, D, and EQuestion 13 = A and BQuestion 14 = C, D, and EQuestion 15 = A

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