APM & Distributed Tracing

Fundamentals Practice Exam

1) The Live Search view will display all ingested traces for 7) The Datadog Continuous Profiler can always be enabled
how long? with which method?
A. 15 minutes A. in-code configuration
B. 24 hours B. environment variable
C. 15 days C. both environment variable and in-code configuration

2) Which tags are NOT available with tracing application 8) Which of the following tags is used to track service
metrics? deployments?
A. env, service, versionw A. service
B. custom tags B. env
C. second primary tag C. version

3) What is the MINIMUM information contained on every 9) What are the three tags used to provide information
span? about errors when using the tracing libraries?
A. name, duration, and environment A. error.msg, error.type, and error.stack
B. type, duration, and start time B. error.message, error.type, and error.stacktrace
C. name, duration, and start time C. err.msg, err.type, and err.stack

4) What is the PRIMARY challenge to monitoring the 10) Which filter is always on to retain a subset of important
performance of typical distributed application spans?
environments?
A. App Analytics Retention Filter
A. Services are written in many languages and run on B. Datadog Intelligent Retention Filter
many platforms. C. Custom Retention Filter
B. Services are encrypted by several types of
encryption.
11) When configuring the RUM SDK to correlate browser
C. Services take a very long time to respond to
requests with APM traces, what is the origin that
requests.
allowedTracingOrigins should allow?
A. calls made by the browser application
5) Which of the following options BEST describes the
B. calls made by the receiving backend web server to
percentile distribution metrics that are available for
a third party application
distribution metrics in APM?
C. calls for the endpoints used by the receiving
A. p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 backend web server
B. p01, p05, p10, and p25
C. any arbitrary percentile
12) A java application needs to be configured with profiling.
Where must `-javaagent` be placed and why?
6) The default APM pricing plan includes 1 million indexed
A. Anywhere after the `java` command; The placement
spans per month, retained for how long?
does not matter because the profiler library will be
A. 7 days loaded in any order.
B. 15 days B. After the `-jar` command; To ensure that the profiler
C. 30 days is loaded as late as possible for profiling to occur.
C. Before the `-jar` command; To ensure that the profiler
is loaded as early as possible for profiling to occur.

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13) What is the environment variable that enables profiling 21) One way to add a service summary page’s Latency
for the tracing libraries that support this option? graph to a dashboard is to
A. DD_PROFILING_ENABLED A. right-click on the graph, select Save As, and specify
B. DD_APM_PROFILER_ENABLED a dashboard name.
C. DD_APM_PROFILING_ENABLED B. hold the mouse pointer over the graph, press Ctrl/
cmd+C top copy it, open the clipboard, and select
the target dashboard to export it to.
14) Which tag is used to track deployments?
C. click the Service Config button and specify the
A. deployment dashboard name in the Dashboards list.
B. version
C. code.ver
22) A user is looking at some unusual measurements in a
graph of a service’s latency metric, and wants to see
15) Which search technique returns certain profiles on the if there are similar unusual things happening in other
Search Profile page? metrics that Datadog is collecting at the same time (for
example, from integrations). To see this information,
A. using facets
they should click on the graph and select:
B. using scopes
C. filtering out profiles on the Datadog Agent A. “Find correlated metrics”.
B. “View related logs”.
C. “View related profiles”.
16) What filters allow indexed spans to be available in a
Notebook or Dashboard after 15 minutes?
23) What does an Apdex score measure?
A. spans retained by the Custom Retention Filter only
B. spans retained by the Datadog Intelligent Retention A. user satisfaction with the performance of a service in
Filter only terms of ratio of requests that return without error.
C. spans retained by the Datadog Intelligent Retention B. the relative performance of a service compared to its
Filter and the Custom Retention Filter past performance.
C. user satisfaction with the performance of a service,
in terms of the ratio of requests that are met within a
17) Assume that an increase in errors has been spotted on
specified time threshold.
the Errors graph of the Service Page. After the incident
is resolved what data is used in the resulting post
mortem notebook?
A. trace metric
B. indexed spans
C. screenshot

18) Monitors will be linked to services in the service map and

on dashboards if the query is scoped with which tag?
A. env
B. service
C. version

19) What is the type of instrumentation that would be

needed to write custom spans?
A. Manual Instrumentation
B. Custom Instrumentation
C. Dynamic Instrumentation

20) What can be used to create spans for an unsupported

language?
A. Community Tracers
B. Datadog Agent
C. Datadog Tracer

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Fundamentals Practice Exam Key

1) A 13) A

2) B 14) B

3) C 15) A

4) A 16) C

5) A 17) A

6) B 18) B

7) A 19) B

8) C 20) A

9) A 21) B

10) B 22) A

11) A 23) C

12) C

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