CISCOCisco AppDynamics Associate Administrator
The Cisco AppDynamics Associate Administrator certification validates your ability to configure, manage, and optimize the AppDynamics platform, both in the cloud and on-premises. It is designed for administrators, architects, and consultants who implement and maintain AppDynamics to ensure application performance and business insight. Earning this credential demonstrates your expertise in platform installation, dashboard management, and monitoring optimization.
742 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
6Domains
36Objectives
178Concepts
742Questions
APPDYNAMICS-ASSOCIATE-ADMINISTRATOR Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the APPDYNAMICS-ASSOCIATE-ADMINISTRATOR exam measures.
- Agent installation prerequisites
- Agent installation methods
- Agent configuration basics
- Agent-to-controller connectivity
- Agent lifecycle management
- Agent logging and troubleshooting
- Agent upgrade prerequisites
- Agent upgrade methods
- Agent upgrade process
- Post-upgrade verification
- Agent log locations
- Agent log configuration
- Log rotation and size management
- Troubleshooting with agent logs
- Verify agent registration
- Check agent logs for errors
- Validate agent configuration
- Test agent data flow
- Agent Performance Monitoring
- Agent Connectivity Status
- Agent Logs and Diagnostics
- Agent Health Alerts
- Event Monitoring Overview
- Event Types and Sources
- Event List View
- Event Details and Drill-Down
- Event Filtering and Search
- Event Correlation
- Event Notifications and Actions
- Health Rule Fundamentals
- Creating Health Rules
- Health Rule Evaluation
- Policy Fundamentals
- Creating Policies
- Action Types
- Action Configuration
- Managing Health Rules and Policies
- Testing and Validation
- Report types
- Report creation
- Report scheduling
- Report delivery
- Dashboard creation
- Dashboard customization
- Dashboard sharing
- Dashboard management
- Snapshot capture initiation
- Snapshot configuration
- Snapshot data types
- Snapshot analysis
- Snapshot lifecycle and storage
- Identify health rule violations
- Use health rule violation dashboards
- Analyze violation details
- Correlate violations with metrics and entities
- Prioritize violations for triage
- Identify server performance metrics
- Interpret server performance data
- Use server performance dashboards
- Evaluate server health
- Backend System Configuration Overview
- Creating Backend Configurations
- Configuring Backend Properties
- Managing Backend Configurations
- Validating Backend Configurations
- Backend monitoring overview
- Backend definition and detection
- Backend types
- Backend metrics and health
- Backend correlation with transactions
- Backend configuration and customization
- Troubleshooting backend issues
- Define Data Collectors
- Configure Data Collectors
- Update Data Collectors
- Identify Data Collector security risks
- Implement secure communication
- Manage credentials securely
- Apply least privilege principles
- Monitor and audit Data Collector activity
- Harden Data Collector configurations
- Define Database Collectors
- Configure Database Collectors
- Test Database Collectors
- Database credential storage
- Credential management workflows
- Security best practices for database credentials
- Access control for database credentials
- Encryption and secure transmission
- Audit and compliance considerations
- Business Transaction metrics overview
- Metric types and categories
- Metric collection and aggregation
- Interpreting metric trends and anomalies
- Using metric data for alerting
- Identify performance metrics
- Apply performance metrics
- Define KPIs
- Distinguish KPIs from other metrics
- Select beneficial metrics
- Apply KPIs to alerting
- Alert configuration basics
- Creating health rules
- Configuring policies
- Setting up actions
- Alert severity and escalation
- Testing and validating alerts
- Dashboard KPI Publishing
- Creating KPI Dashboards
- Configuring KPI Widgets
- Sharing and Access Control
- Dashboard Maintenance
- Dashboard maintenance overview
- Editing dashboard widgets
- Adding and removing widgets
- Managing dashboard layout
- Updating dashboard settings
- Saving and versioning dashboards
- Deleting dashboards
- Sharing and permissions for dashboards
- Dashboard Indication Types
- Interpreting Dashboard Indications
- Responding to Indications
- Navigating from Dashboard to Detailed Views
- Prioritizing Indications
- Health rule creation
- Health rule monitoring
- Health rule conditions and severity
- Health rule evaluation and scheduling
- Health rule scope and application
- Health rule violation and alerting
- Action types
- Action configuration
- Policy creation
- Policy-to-action binding
- Action and policy management
- Policy evaluation and execution
- Server Monitoring Overview
- Enabling Server Monitoring
- Viewing Server Metrics
- Interpreting Server Metrics
- Server Monitoring Alerts
- Error and Exception configuration overview
- Creating error detection rules
- Creating exception detection rules
- Maintaining error and exception configurations
- Applying configurations to business transactions
- Testing and validating configurations
- Filtering Errors and Exceptions
- Error and Exception Data Sources
- Using Error Detection Rules
- Leveraging Error Analytics
- Correlating Errors with Transactions
- Snapshot location
- Snapshot search
- Snapshot details
- Establish standards
- Establish policies
- License Monitoring
- License Management
- License Compliance
- License Reporting
- User creation process
- User management operations
- User roles and permissions
- Role creation
- Role permissions
- Role scoping
- Role management
- Group creation
- Group membership management
- Group permissions and roles
- Group editing and deletion
- Permission assignment basics
- Role-based access control
- Assigning permissions to users
- Assigning permissions to roles
- Permission scope and inheritance
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