Broadcom APM Technical Specialist (250-566) Certification Sample Questions

01. A service owner asks for an alert that fires when the processing time of an in-house queue-handling component rises. The operator opens the management module to define it and finds that no metric for that component exists anywhere under the agent.
What must the operator do first?
a) Define the alert now and let it populate once traffic reaches it.
b) Build a calculator that derives the component's processing time.
c) Record the transaction manually so its timings are captured.
d) Extend the directives so the component's methods are probed.

02. An operator inherits a configuration in which every monitored request falls into one broad URL group. That group's average response time has risen by about a third over a week, and the operator escalates it as the whole site has slowed.
What is wrong with that conclusion, and what should be done first?
a) It holds, but a calculator should be added to express the rise as a percentage.
b) It is unsafe, and the traffic should be split into groups by application area.
c) It is unsafe, and the Browser Agent should be added to obtain server-side timings.
d) It holds, and the agents should be moved to a second Enterprise Manager to check.

03. An agent is reporting a large volume of metrics from parts of an application that no dashboard, alert or triage workflow has ever used. The team wants the agent to stop producing them rather than simply hiding them.
What does the operator change?
a) The dashboards, so that the unused metrics are no longer on display.
b) The management module, so the unused metric groupings are gone.
c) The directives, so the unused component code is no longer probed.
d) The calculators, so the unused metrics are no longer derived.

04. BRTM is deployed for the pages of one application. Users complain about a page belonging to a second application whose team never took part in the rollout, and the operator finds no browser timings for that page at all. The Enterprise Manager and the server-side agents are healthy.
What is the operator's correct next step?
a) Bring that team's pages into the BRTM deployment so they report
b) Raise an alert threshold so the missing page timings become visible
c) Check the Enterprise Manager for dropped metrics from the Browser Agent
d) Add a universe in Team Center that includes that team's pages

05. A component that agents are actively monitoring is excluded from the universe an operator's map uses.
Which two statements about that component remain true?
(Choose two.)
a) Its agent stops instrumenting the application it runs in
b) Its metrics continue to reach the Enterprise Manager
c) It is removed from the APM database as unmonitored
d) It disappears from every Team Center map in the deployment
e) Alerts defined against it continue to be evaluated

06. An estate of several thousand components is partitioned along organisational lines, and each operations team may see only its own partition. Within their partitions, teams also need components grouped by the service tier a component supports. Tier assignments change as components are re-purposed.
What is the most workable way to meet the second requirement?
a) Ask each team to record its tier assignments again after every change
b) Create an additional partition for each service tier within each team
c) Maintain service tier as a custom attribute applied by rule
d) Move each component into a different partition when its tier changes

07. To get monitoring in place quickly, an operator recorded a claims-submission transaction manually, starting straight at the submission form. Customers reach the same form only after a search-and-select sequence.
The defined transaction now reports almost no volume and never reflects the failures customers describe. What explains this?
a) The recorded path is not the one customers take, so few transactions match
b) The recording was taken outside the hours when customers are most active
c) The components captured in a manual recording are never marked as included
d) A transaction driven manually by an operator cannot be measured continuously

08. A Java application is deployed with an agent and transaction metrics appear immediately, even though nobody has written any directive covering the application's entry points. On that basis alone the operations team can monitor the application and triage it.
Which agent capability accounts for this?
a) URL group classification
b) Automatic transaction recording
c) Virtual agent metric aggregation
d) Automatic entry point detection

09. An operator must bring the utilisation figures of a storage appliance into CA APM. The appliance runs no Java or .NET application code, so there is no application process for an agent to instrument, but a script on a monitored host can read the figures the appliance publishes.
Which agent should the operator deploy?
a) A Java agent installed on the Enterprise Manager host
b) An EP Agent that reports the values the script produces
c) A .NET agent pointed at the appliance from a nearby host
d) A Browser Agent, since the source lies outside any JVM

10. A team puts forward the following claim: once the snippet is on every page, our existing dashboard will immediately show end-user timings to the operations team.
How should this claim be judged?
a) Sound: a dashboard extends automatically to any newly reported metric
b) Sound: injecting the snippet also builds the matching dashboard view
c) Flawed: the snippet enables measurement but does not display it
d) Flawed: browser timings are never available to a dashboard in any form