Week 1:

Question 1

Date Question opens: 4/3/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: DPA provides historical trending, so it’s easy to see how performance is today versus the “norm.”

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Question 2

Date Question opens: 4/4/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: What architecture allows DPA to keep its overhead to less than 1%?

Hint link:

  • Agentless
  • Client/Server
  • Enterprise Service Bus

Question 3

Date Question opens: 4/5/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: What new feature in DPA allows DBAs to check the health of their Always On environment with one click?

Hint link:

  • AG status button
  • The help link
  • Historical Charts

Question 4

Date Question opens: 4/6/2017

Question type: Multiple choice- select ALL that apply

Question text: The detailed blocking analysis allows a database professional to see____. Select ALL that apply.

Hint link:

  • Blocking by root blocker
  • Impact of blocking on SQL statements
  • Deadlock analysis

Question 5

Date Question opens: 4/7/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: How granular of a timeframe can you zoom into within DPA to see database activity?

Hint link:

  • To the second
  • To the minute
  • To the five minute

Week 2:

Question 6

Date Question opens: 4/10/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: One of the insights DPA in the Orion® Platform brings is a mapping of applications to database instances.

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Question 7

Date Question opens: 4/11/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: The Orion/DPA integration can only map one DPA instance at any given time.

Hint link:

  • False
  • True

Question 8

Date Question opens: 4/12/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: The current integration module maps data between DPA and what Orion module?

Hint link:

  • SRM
  • NPM
  • IPAM

Question 9

Date Question opens: 4/13/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: Advisors can be seen within the Orion DPA module when integrated.

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Question 10

Date Question opens: 4/14/2017

Question type: Multiple choice- select ALL that apply

Question text: Once drilled into a DPA instance in Orion, what response time dimensions can you see data about? Select ALL that apply.

Hint link:

  • SQL and Waits
  • Applications and Databases
  • Nodes and DB Users

Week 3:

Question 11

Date Question opens: 4/17/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: What methodology is a key factor of success for DPA?

Hint link:

  • Response-time analysis
  • Compression
  • Start with what my resources are doing

Question 12

Date Question opens: 4/18/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: Is there a difference between health/resource consumption monitoring and performance analysis?

Hint link:

  • Yes
  • No
  • Maybe

Question 13

Date Question opens: 4/19/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: What skillset improvements will a DBA likely need with cloud-based database infrastructure?

Hint link:

  • Expand core IT skills (like networking knowledge)
  • Deeper performance and tuning expertise
  • All of the above

Question 14

Date Question opens: 4/20/2017

Question type: Multiple choice- select ALL that apply

Question text: DPA can monitor what major RDBMS engines? Select ALL that apply.

Hint link:

  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL (including Aurora)
  • DB2
  • SAP ASE
  • Cloud DBs

Question 15

Date Question opens:4/21/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: An Amazon AMI can be quickly spun up to deploy DPA to AWS.

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Week 4:

Question 16

Date Question opens: 4/24/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: DPA supports two of the largest database in the cloud service offerings, Microsoft® Azure® and Amazon® RDS.

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Question 17

Date Question opens: 4/25/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: DPA 11.0 includes support for what Azure cloud offering?

Hint link:

  • SQL Database
  • Microsoft Access
  • SQL Server running on Rackspace

Question 18

Date Question opens: 4/26/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: DPA 11.0 includes support for what fast growing Amazon RDS cloud offering?

Hint link:

  • Aurora
  • Informix
  • Microsoft Access
  • Teradata

Question 19

Date Question opens: 4/27/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

Question text: Microsoft Azure SQL Database can be used as a DPA repository.

Hint link:

  • True
  • False

Question 20

Date Question opens: 4/28/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

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