201-01 Riverbed Certified Solutions Associate - Network Performance Management Questions and Answers

Every 15 seconds

Every 15 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 1 minute

Every 1 hour

A Notice that an Event has occurred

A Notice that a report is ready to be emailed

A Notice that a Policy has initialized

A Notice that a query has completed

All of the Above

None of the Above

Users within the same group can view the dashboard.

Users within the same group cannot view the dashboard.

Dashboards are created as public by default.

Dashboards are created as private by default.

There is no concept of dashboard visibility.

Cascade Profiler has “Out-of-the-box” WAN reports which provide Optimization benefits reports based upon bandwidth consumed by optimizable applications.

With Cascade Profiler you can run reports by Bandwidth to determine which WAN links are congested.

With Cascade Profiler you can run reports on interfaces that break down how much bandwidth is used by business critical applications to understand which interfaces to focus on for optimization.

All of the above.

Seven days

Three days

It depends on the flow rate.

Twenty-four hours

None of the above

Front-end request to back-end connection mapping in Citrix XenApp environments.

User-to-Citrix desktop mapping in Citrix XenDesktop environments.

Citrix desktop server resource utilization measurements.

Optimized traffic response times through the Riverbed SteelHead CX model appliances.

Real-time Citrix decodes.

Virtualization and Data Center Mobility

Rationalization and Irrationalization

Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

Remote Site monitoring and Packet Exportation

Data Import and Data Export

Cascade Shark appliance can monitor 10GE interface traffic but Cascade Sensor cannot.

Cascade Sensor can provide flow data to Cascade Profiler but Cascade Shark appliance cannot.

Cascade Shark appliance has much higher write-to-disk rates than the Cascade Sensor and is the appropriate appliance when packet capture is the primary requirement.

Cascade Sensor can recognize the application type by its DPI signature database but Cascade Shark appliance cannot.

Inclusion of a pie chart

Inclusion of a flow list

Data resolution (1 min, 15 min, 1 hr, etc.)

Columns that are included in the summary table

Sort order of the summary table

All of the above

A logical collection of IP Addresses that can be grouped by region, application, and function.

A set of netflow collectors.

NetFlow senders.

A group of Ports.

A collection of MAC Addresses.

NetExpress

Any Windows server platform

NetProfiler

Riverbed License Portal

NetShark

250GB

500GB

750GB

1TB

User Defined Policies

SNMP Polling

Dashboards

Services

Navigate Network

A packet filter

A disk space allocation

One capture port or one aggregated port

Trend/indexing parameters

All of the above

When one host on the network attaches to a network printer-scanner device and is able to exploit the printer-scanner to download all material scanned on the device.

When one host on the network is infected with malware and the malware scans all of the files resident on the infected system looking for exploits.

When several hosts on the network send a high volume of traffic to a single host to try to exhaust the resources of the host.

When one host on the network send ping packets or other packet types to multiple other devices on the network to determine which hosts are available for further exploit.

MSSQL

Informix

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

DB2

A new capture job is created on the Cascade Shark appliance.

A new trace clip is created on the Cascade Shark appliance, using the time frame that was specified for the Cascade Profiler traffic report, and including a filter for the IP addresses or TCP ports that the drill down was launched from.

A new trace clip is created on the Cascade Shark appliance, using the timeframe that was specified for the Profiler traffic report.

The underlying packets associated with the Cascade Profiler traffic report are downloaded to Wireshark.

The underlying packets associated with the Cascade Profiler traffic report are saved as a PCAP file on the Cascade Shark appliance.

No additional value, deployed only as a necessity when NetFlow is not available.

The Sensor adds synthetic transactions to track response time.

The Sensor adds trace-route capability to map out Application paths.

The Sensor adds Application identification and Response time metrics for TCP sessions.

Is a graphic object used to show selected and global time windows for the applied View.

Can be applied to both live captures and saved pcap files.

Is a feature that allows a user to be notified when a specified event occurs on the network.

Can send a syslog message when an event is triggered.

Applications

TCP Ports

Port Groups

QoS Name

Host Group Name

All the above

ByLocation

ByHostGroup

ByPortsAndApplications

ByFunction

ByTimeZone

Start Cascade Pilot and add a Probe.

Always use port 61898 in the Probe window.

Enter the 'admin' credentials, connect, and then change the user.

Start Cascade Pilot and connect to a previously connected probe using the “remote” ribbon tab.

NetFlow v9

sFlow

Federated Data Records (FDR)

IPFix

CascadeFlow from Steelhead

All of the above

You MUST connect to the Cascade Shark through its web interface, export packets to a packet capture (pcap) file, then from within Cascade Pilot you can open the pcap file.

You MUST use a Cascade Gateway to view packet data on Cascade Shark.

You MUST use a Cascade Profiler to view packet data on Cascade Shark.

You can simply connect to the Cascade Shark appliance directly from Cascade Pilot provided that proper network communication is available between Cascade Pilot and Cascade Shark.

You can simply connect to the Cascade Shark appliance directly from Cascade Pilot provided that a capture job has already been configured from the Cascade Shark Web Interface and proper network communication is available.

Overall Service Performance Report

Service Performance Report

Service Incident Report

All three of the reports above include an Event List

None of the three reports above include an Event List. Only an Event report will generate Event Lists

Is fixed at 2 Gbps

Is fixed at 20 Gbps

Is fixed at 32 TB

Is measured in TB and dependent upon the Cascade Shark Base Appliance used

Is measured in Gbps and dependent upon the Cascade Shark Base Appliance used

Application Performance, Interface Performance, and Security.

Application Performance, Application Availability, Interface Performance, and Interface Availability.

Application Performance, and Interface Performance.

Application Performance, Application Availability, Interface Performance, Interface Availability, Service Monitoring and Security.

Attach the trace clip.

Unlock the trace clip.

Lock the trace clip.

Send the trace clip to a file.

Detach the trace clip.

A set of graphs showing top interfaces, top hosts, top users, and top protocols from which you can run reports.

A configurable set of content blocks for watched and top items (items including hosts, network interfaces, ports, protocols, and applications), which are updated with current information and from which you can run reports.

A configurable set of connection graphs for watched and top items (items including hosts, network interfaces, ports, protocols, and applications), which are updated with current information and from which you can run reports

A configurable set of fixed logarithmic graphs for watched and top items (items including hosts, network interfaces, ports, protocols, and applications), which are updated with current information and from which you can run reports.

admin/admin

root/sharkappliance

root/root

root/riverbed

admin/cacetech

Ensure Internet connectivity and activate the application online during installation.

Install the application and activate it through the phone.

Install the application on your Linux or Windows system and then launch it.

Install the application on your Windows machine and then launch it.

Default Host Group Type to use on the User Interface and Reports

Whether hosts will be displayed by IP address or DNS/DHCP hostname

User’s Timezone to use for the User Interface and Reports

Option to control whether bandwidth is reported in Bits or Bytes

Host group definitions for mapping IP subnets into Custom host groups

5.5

5.0

5.1

4.0