Broadcom Automic Automation Technical Specialist (250-564) Certification Sample Questions

01. A team wants a test environment alongside production. To save on database work they plan to point a second Automation Engine installation at the production schema and keep their test objects in Clients of their own.
Why does that not give them a separate environment?
a) Because two systems may share a schema only while they are at the same release, and keeping the two in step would cost more than the arrangement saves.
b) Because the Automation Engine refuses to start against a schema that was loaded by a different installation, so the second environment could never be brought up at all.
c) Because everything a system consists of lives in that schema, so the second set of processes would be operating the same system rather than another one.
d) Because a test system needs Agents of its own, and production's schema has no room to record them.

02. An organization runs three Clients — development, test and production — in a single Automic Automation installation.
Which two of the following belong to the installation as a whole rather than to an individual Client?
(Choose two.)
a) The Automation Engine's own server processes and the way they are configured, since one installation serves every Client from the same set of them.
b) A user's authorizations to work with particular objects and functions, which are granted where that user works.
c) A Workflow definition, which lives in the Client it was built in.
d) An Agent, which is known to the installation before any Client is given the use of it.

03. A host in the environment runs no Automation Engine processes at all. Its only job is to carry out the work the Engine sends to it.
Which two things are installed on that host?
(Choose two.)
a) A database client and a login on the Automation Engine schema, because an Agent writes the results of its tasks straight into the database.
b) The Agent itself, in the build made for that host's operating system.
c) A set of the Engine's work processes.
d) The Automic Web Interface, so the host can be administered locally.
e) A Service Manager, so that the Automic processes on that host can be started and stopped there.

04. Every Agent in an environment has been given its TLS material and restarted. The Automation Engine was left accepting both secured and unsecured connections for the duration of the rollout, and all the Agents show as connected.
Which two steps establish that the rollout is actually finished?
(Choose two.)
a) Confirm that the certificate files are present on each Agent's host, which shows the Agent is using them.
b) Treat every Agent showing as connected as the confirmation, because an Agent whose TLS material was missing or wrong would have been refused and would be showing as disconnected.
c) Check each Agent individually for the kind of connection it is using, since one that did not take up the change keeps working and looks no different.
d) Stop the Automation Engine accepting unsecured connections once every Agent has been confirmed on a secured one.

05. An administrator is enabling TLS on the Automation Engine and on an Agent. Each host ends up holding two distinct collections of certificate material, and only one of them is consulted when a certificate arriving from a peer has to be judged.
Which statement correctly describes the store a component reads in order to decide whether a presented certificate is acceptable?
a) Its truststore, which holds the issuer certificates it is willing to validate a peer against.
b) Its keystore, because the private key kept there is what verifies the signature on a certificate that a peer has presented.
c) Its keystore, because a component judges a peer by comparing the presented certificate against the copy of its own certificate that it stores there.
d) Either store, because the two hold the same material and a component reads whichever one its configuration names first.

06. The Automation Engine is stopped for an ordinary upgrade. On two Agent hosts, long-running Jobs were still executing at the moment it went down.
What becomes of those Jobs?
a) They are canceled as soon as the connection to the Automation Engine drops, work that cannot be tracked not being allowed to continue.
b) They run to their end on the host, and their results are taken up when the Engine is back.
c) They are suspended by the Agent and resumed from where they stopped once the Engine returns, which is part of what the Agent's connection is for.
d) They are started again from the beginning when the Engine comes back, which is why work is quiesced before an upgrade.

07. An Agent loses its connection to the Automation Engine intermittently. The component's log shows the disconnection and the later reconnection, but nothing that explains why it happened.
What does raising a trace add that the log does not give?
a) A trace reproduces the failed connection attempt under controlled conditions and reports on the outcome, so the intermittent fault can be brought on deliberately instead of being waited for.
b) A trace raises the severity of the entries the component already writes, so warnings are recorded as errors and stop being overlooked.
c) A trace keeps the log entries for longer before they are rotated away.
d) A trace records the internal steps the component works through, so the sequence leading up to the disconnection becomes visible rather than only the event it ended in.

08. An upgrade has finished and every component has started.
What best confirms that the environment is actually healthy before it is handed back to its users?
a) The upgrade log contains no errors, which means each component started and there is nothing further to check.
b) Every component's installation directory now carries the new files, which shows the upgrade completed and that the system is ready for use.
c) The Agents have reconnected and a small piece of real work has run end to end.
d) The object count in the database matches what was recorded beforehand.

09. A Job runs a script on a Unix host and must do so as a specific operating-system user. The team is told not to put the user name and password into the Job's own script.
Which two things does a Login object do for them?
(Choose two.)
a) It holds the credentials for the target system centrally and is referenced by name from the Job, so the Job's script never contains them.
b) A password change is made once in the Login object and takes effect for every Job that references it.
c) It grants a user the right to sign in to the Automic Web Interface.
d) It supplies the account that the Agent's own service starts under.
e) It encrypts the traffic between the Agent and the Automation Engine.

10. An Automic Automation host is restarted. Some of the Automic processes installed on it come back up on their own; another one, installed more recently, does not.
What accounts for the difference?
a) The operating system starts each Automic process directly, so the newer component is missing the service entry the installer normally creates
b) The Automation Engine starts the components it can see registered in its database, and the newer one has not yet connected to register itself
c) Only the processes declared to the Service Manager are started by it, and the newer component was never added to those definitions
d) Components start in the order the upgrade last touched them, and one installed after the most recent upgrade waits until the next one