Describe the Capabilities of AppDynamics When Instrumenting an Application 350-901 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · easy

   What is the first step in troubleshooting a performance issue using AppDynamics instrumentation data?

   • AIdentify the affected business transaction and review its metrics
   • BImmediately enable debug logging on all agents
   • CDelete all baselines to reset the system
   • DRestart the application server
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2. 2application · medium

   A DevOps team is instrumenting a microservices application with AppDynamics. They have multiple services that perform similar functions, and they want to ensure that performance metrics are aggregated logically for reporting. They also need to set up alerting based on dynamic thresholds. What should they configure during agent installation?

   • AUse the default application name and let AppDynamics automatically group all services into one tier.
   • BConfigure each service as a separate application without any tier or node definitions.
   • CAssign a unique application name and define tiers and nodes for each service.
   • DDisable tier and node configuration and rely solely on business transaction names for grouping.
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4. 3application · medium

   A team has a legacy application that does not use a standard web framework. They want to ensure that user logins are tracked as a business transaction, even though the entry point is a custom servlet. What should they do?

   • AUse the Database Agent to monitor login-related SQL queries.
   • BInstall the Browser Agent to capture login requests.
   • CRely on the default auto-discovery of business transactions.
   • DConfigure a custom business transaction entry point for the login servlet.
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5. 4application · medium

   A company has a distributed application where a user request flows through an API gateway, a Java backend, and a Python data-processing service. They need to trace a single user request across all three components to identify where latency is introduced. What AppDynamics feature enables this?

   • AMachine agent metrics to track CPU and memory usage.
   • BDatabase monitoring to analyze SQL query performance.
   • CDistributed tracing with correlation of business transactions across services.
   • DBrowser monitoring to capture client-side page load times.
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6. 5expert · hard

   A support team is troubleshooting a slow checkout process. The AppDynamics dashboard shows that the business transaction 'Checkout' has high response time, but the transaction snapshots do not show any slow method calls. The team suspects the delay is due to a downstream service call. What should they investigate next?

   • ACheck if the downstream service is instrumented and whether the call is correlated in the distributed trace.
   • BIncrease the snapshot collection frequency to capture more details.
   • CReview the machine agent metrics for the checkout server.
   • DDisable the health rule for checkout to avoid false alerts.
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