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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding CA UIM 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration

Foundations 200Describe CA UIM

6%

Configuring Basic Data Monitoring 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Configure Basic Data Monitoring

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Examining Monitored Data 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Examine Monitored Data

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Configuring Basic NAS Functions 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Configure Basic NAS Functions

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Extending Monitoring Capabilities 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Extend Monitoring Capabilities

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Creating and Deploying Packages and SuperPackages

13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Create and Deploy Packages and SuperPackages

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Performing Advanced Robot Configurations 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Perform Advanced Robot Configurations

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Performing Advanced Alarm Activities 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Perform Advanced Alarm Activities

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Performing SLM Tasks 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Perform SLM Tasks

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Configuring Reporting Capabilities Using PRD, List Views, and Custom Dashboards

13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Configure Reporting Capabilities Using PRD, List Views, and Custom Dashboards

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusConfiguring the UMP and Portal Views 13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration

Foundations 200 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field ExperienceConfigure the UMP and Portal Views

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Performing Advanced Probe Configurations and Troubleshooting

13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 Perform Advanced Probe Configurations and Troubleshooting

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Understanding the UMP 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience UMP Overview and Review

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Creating Portal Views 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Portal Views

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Understanding Unified Services Manager 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Unified Services Manager

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Designing List Views and Performance Reports

13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 List Views and Performance Reports

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Designing Custom Dashboards 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300Custom Dashboards

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Administering Liferay 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Liferay Administration

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Customizing the User Experience 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Customize the User Experience

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Skinning UMP with CSS and Using Virtual Hosts

13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Skin UMP with CSS and Use Virtual Hosts

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Understanding Advanced UMP Considerations

13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300Advanced UMP Considerations

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding UR and iReport 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and

Reporting 300UR and iReport Overview

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Exploring the CA UIM Database 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Explore the CA UIM Database

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Building a Custom Report 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Build a Custom Report

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Deploying a Report to the UR Repository 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Deploy a Report to the UR Repository

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Making Reports Account-Aware 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Making Reports Account-Aware

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Exploring Ad Hoc Views 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Explore Ad Hoc Views

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Scheduling Unified Reports 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300Schedule Unified Reports

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Exploring UR Repository Permissions 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Explore UR Repository Permissions

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Exploring Advanced Reporting Topics 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Explore Advanced Reporting Topics

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Understanding CA UIM Multi-tenancy Features

13NMS20051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: System Administration Foundations 200 13NMS30051 CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0: Advanced Presentation and Reporting 300 Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Describe CA UIM Multi-tenancy Features

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Deploying Robots Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience Deploy Robots

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Question 1Before you deploy CA UIM, you meet with your team to plan your monitoring governance strategy. Which key factors should you consider at this stage? (Choose two)

A. What is alarm worthy B. How many communities you will create C. Which preprocessing rules you will configure D. Which metrics will need to be published for historical performance

Question 2After you connect two hubs on a network level, what do you establish to enable messages to flow between them?

A. Pipes B. Queues C. Linked lists D. SMTP channels

Question 3In the Admin Console, if you choose to deploy probe packages from the Web Archive, the probes:

A. will be first downloaded to the Local Archive before being deployed to the robot. B. will only work for a trial period unless you register them on the CA UIM support site. C. will be deployed directly from the Web to the robot and will have limited local configuration options. D. will always need to be configured using the UMP instead of the Infrastructure Manager configuration interface.

Question 4When you create a dynamic group:

A. its membership will be automatically updated every 15 minutes. B. it can only be added to a container group if you convert it to a static group. C. its default membership update interval can be set in the discovery_server probe settings. D. it will not appear in Unified Service Manager (USM) until you add at least one child group.

Question 5In Performance Reports Designer (PRD), chart functionality provides the ability to: (Choose three)

A. change the source host of the data. B. drag a chart to Infrastructure Manager. C. drag a data series from one chart to another. D. plot only the data that matches specified filters on the chart. E. configure graphical views of managed elements and their relationships.

Question 6You want to validate that auto-acknowledgment is working correctly. Which step do you perform?

A. Send a test message. B. Run the finger command. C. Restart the sysloggtw probe. D. Check the Register Resource settings.

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Question 7You need to create a maintenance schedule to suppress alarms while a VMware host is offline. Where do you define the schedule?

A. In the Alarm Console B. In the Admin Console C. In Infrastructure Manager D. In Unified Services Manager (USM)

Question 8You are configuring a dynamic alarm threshold. You want to set each threshold as a constant value from the computed baseline. Which algorithm should you select?

A. Scalar B. Percent C. Percentile D. Standard Deviation

Question 9Which probe helps you to gather basic response metrics?

A. zones B. netappC. tcp_proxyD. net_connect

Question 10In which circumstances is it appropriate to create a SuperPackage? (Choose three)

A. When you need to manually install robots on Linux B. When you want to enable users to install probes using a GUI-based wizard C. When you want to ensure that any dependent probes are automatically installed D. When you need to deploy multiple probes and configuration files in a single package E. When you want to deploy a single probe configuration to several robots simultaneously

Question 11When you are planning hub-to-hub communications, which factors should you consider? (Choose two)

A. For UNIX systems, the hub limit is approximately 10 with approximately 20 subscribers. B. Installing a secondary hub before the CA UIM server software is installed will help avoid problems such as queues not clearing. C. Bulk sizing should be left at the default configuration until you are presented with a problem such as a queue that is not clearing. D. Static hubs can be used for traversing subnet breaks if you do not need to consider advanced elements such as WANs, firewalls, and hub-to-hub tunnels.

Question 12When you configure an Auto-Operator (AO) profile, you can select an action mode. An example of an action mode is:

A. invisible. B. post_message. C. Sliding Window. D. On overdue age.

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Question 13The alarm_enrichment probe: (Choose three)

A. processes messages sent to it from the nas probe. B. is a pre-processor probe for the qos_processor probe. C. is particularly useful for addressing problems related to multi-tenancy. D. attaches itself to a permanent queue and receives alarm messages distributed by the hub. E. corrects the origin value on alarms by looking up the correct value in a user-defined database table.

Question 14A Service Level Agreement (SLA) contains one or more:

A. Object Identifiers (OIDs). B. Configuration Items (CIs). C. Service Level Monitors (SLMs). D. Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Question 15When you create a list, you can select a host, Quality of Service (QoS), and target. What is the purpose of the target?

A. To specify which type of list you will create B. To identify which column will show the QoS object C. To identify the QoS metric name, such as Total (CPU) or C:\ (disk) D. To identify where the data came from, such as the name of the server or device

Question 16In the UMP, what can you configure to present users and account contacts with information appropriate to their role or organization?

A. Portal views B. User domains C. Group partitions D. Geo communities

Question 17What should you do if a firewall is blocking hub communication with probes on a passive robot? (Choose two)

A. Rerun the DMZ wizard. B. Enable proxy mode on the passive robot. C. Open the port for the passive robot in the firewall. D. Remove the robot from the Registered Robots list for the hub.

Question 18When you create portal views, which factor should you consider?

A. Using private pages instead of sites makes maintenance easier. B. Limiting portal views to groups of users reduces administration effort and increases scalability. C. Limiting the number of portlets on each page might improve the layout but will not affect performance. D. Using public pages for the Sign In portlet is a poor practice because it makes the UMP vulnerable to security issues.

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Question 19When you create a performance report, which best practice should you apply?

A. Avoid filters when building drill-down reports. B. Only build drill-down reports if you are using more than one host. C. Use filters whenever possible to maintain multi-tenancy support. D. When dealing with filters and large data sets, build the charts while logged in as an administrator.

Question 20When you configure Liferay Portal, which factor should you consider?

A. Personal pages need to be assigned to each user. B. Site pages are used only for global configuration across the UMP. C. A Liferay user account must be created for each CA UIM or UMP contact before that user can log in. D. Public pages are non-authenticated, and in CA UIM, they are used for the SignIn or Web Content portlets only.

Question 21When you implement the UMP, which best practice should you apply in Portal Settings?

A. Import .lar files as public pages. B. Associate the Power User role with each account administrator. C. Remove the Power User role from the default user associations. D. Replace the default user groups with any accounts you have added.

Question 22You are creating a white-label experience for a particular account. When you skin the public (Sign in) page of a site with cascading style sheets (CSS), which guideline should you follow?

A. Make sure that you have configured a virtual host. B. If you are using images, avoid image links where possible. C. Add a reference to the CSS page in the Friendly URL field for the site. D. Make sure that you host all images on the UMP server under the webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes folder.

Question 23You need to change the UMP login type from screenName to emailaddress. To accomplish this, which steps will you need to perform? (Choose three)

A. Deactivate the wasp probe. B. Export the site pages to a LAR file. C. Restart the dashboard_engine probe. D. In portal-ext.properties, update the company.security.auth.type property. E. Check the contents of the rows in the portletpreferences table in the CA_UIM database.

Question 24When you configure repository permissions, which best practice should you apply?

A. Make sure that you set all account-specific folders to Execute Only. B. Make sure that you restrict access to root, data sources, public, organizations, and temp. C. Set role-based permissions in the AccountAdmin portlet and user-based permissions in Unified Reports. D. Create account-specific folders one level below the root folder rather than immediately below the root folder itself.

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Question 25You are creating groupings in an alarm history report. For the group header, you can: (Choose two)

A. select or clear a frame. B. select a user or role option. C. expand or collapse the Variables node. D. select or clear the Keep Together check box.

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