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Operations And Monitoring practice questions

This domain covers day-two SD-WAN visibility and fault handling on Cisco vManage-managed fabrics. You must read real-time and historical telemetry, interpret control and data plane state, and act on alarms, events, and logs. Questions present operational symptoms and ask which menu, command, or recovery action applies.

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What the exam tests

What to know about Operations And Monitoring

Be able to open the right vManage Monitor view, read BFD/OMP and application-aware routing telemetry, and choose the correct remediation or HA action. The critical skill is separating overlay symptoms from underlay causes before changing policy or transport.

Navigating vManage Monitor menus for real-time application performance and path quality per site

Interpreting BFD, control connections, and OMP peer state to isolate tunnel flapping

Using alarms, events, and audit logs to trace configuration and reachability faults

Applying HA actions such as soft shutdown and understanding resulting failover behavior

Watch out for

Common Operations And Monitoring exam traps

▸Confusing underlay transport health with overlay tunnel state; BFD flaps can persist on stable circuits due to color, TLOC, or policy mismatches
▸Assuming application-aware routing always selects the preferred path; local exit, SLA class, and tunnel availability can override intent
▸Treating soft shutdown as a full power-off; it gracefully drains and fails over rather than immediately halting the device

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Operations And Monitoring questions

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An administrator needs to verify if an ADEM test is actively monitoring an application. Where can they find the real-time test results?

Trap 1: Administration > Settings > ADEM.

This is for global configuration settings of the ADEM engine.

Trap 2: Tools > Troubleshooting > ADEM.

While troubleshooting tools exist, ADEM data resides in the Monitoring dashboard.

Trap 3: Configuration > Policies > ADEM.

This section is for creating policies, not viewing operational results.

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A
Administration > Settings > ADEM.
Why it fails: This is for global configuration settings of the ADEM engine.
B
Tools > Troubleshooting > ADEM.
Why it fails: While troubleshooting tools exist, ADEM data resides in the Monitoring dashboard.
C
Configuration > Policies > ADEM.
Why it fails: This section is for creating policies, not viewing operational results.
D
Monitoring > ADEM > Test Results.
This is the standard location for viewing ADEM synthetic test metrics.

Operations And Monitoring practice questions

What to know about Operations And Monitoring

Common Operations And Monitoring exam traps

Operations And Monitoring questions

An administrator needs to verify if an ADEM test is actively monitoring an application. Where can they find the real-time test results?

You are troubleshooting an ADEM end-to-end path analysis. The hop-by-hop view shows packet loss at the 'ISP Gateway' segment. What does this indicate?

You are monitoring a site via WAN Clarity. You see that latency fluctuates based on time of day. Which feature should you verify to ensure dynamic path selection is behaving optimally?

You have two vEdge routers in a High Availability (HA) pair. The standby device fails to transition to active mode during a manual failover test. Which command provides the most relevant output to debug the HA state synchronization?

During an HA failover, sessions are dropping. You suspect the state synchronization is not occurring fast enough. Which configuration parameter should you check?

An administrator notices that the WAN Clarity dashboard shows no data for a site. Which is the most likely cause?

You are troubleshooting a scenario where an application is experiencing intermittent packet loss. You notice the WAN Clarity dashboard shows a high jitter metric on a specific transport. Which action should you take to confirm the impact on the application's SLA?

You are monitoring a circuit using ADEM and notice 'Blackholing' in the path. What does this mean?

You need to verify the status of the HA control plane synchronization. Which command confirms that both devices in the pair have the same control plane view?

In a multi-homed DCI scenario, you are seeing asymmetric routing. What is the most likely cause within the OMP domain?

You are monitoring a branch site and notice WAN Clarity reports 'High Loss' on the MPLS circuit. However, the ping tests from the vEdge to the data center are successful. What is the most likely cause?

An ADEM test shows a 'DNS Latency' spike. What does this indicate?

You observe that a device is frequently 'Flapping' between HA active and standby roles. What should you examine first?

When DCI links are used to extend Layer 2, what must you ensure is configured to prevent broadcast storms?

Where do you configure the alert threshold for WAN Clarity metrics in vManage?

During an ADEM test, you identify 'Server Latency'. What does this indicate?

Which TWO actions should an administrator take when configuring a new WAN Clarity monitor?

Which TWO metrics are commonly used to assess the health of a site in the WAN Clarity dashboard?

Which THREE configuration steps are required to implement DCI using Layer 3 extensions?

Which THREE factors must be considered when deploying a high-availability (HA) pair?

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