Learn About Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
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1 | 2 | 3 | These questions are based on 70-400: TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring
A Self Test Software Practice Test
Objective: Configure System Center Operations Manager 2007.
Sub-objective: Manage roles.
Multiple answer, multiple-choice
You have the System Center Operations Manager 2007 environment. You are the Management Pack author, and you are creating a task that works with the credentials of the Operations Manager. A group of users added to the Operators user role will need to run this task.
What should you do? (Choose all that apply. Each answer represents part of the solution.)
A. Add the users to the local administrators group.
B. Create a Run As Profile and associate it with the task.
C. Add the users to the Report Security Administrator user role and create a Run As Profile with the appropriate credentials.
D. Create a Run As Account configured with the credentials of Operations Manager.
E. Add the users to Advanced Operators user role.
Answer:
B, D
Tutorial:
The following steps should be performed to ensure users in the Operators role will be able to run the task with the credentials of the Operations Manager:
1. Create the Run As Profile and associate it with the task module.
2. Create a Run As Account by the Operations Manager 2007 administrator and configure it with the credentials required to run the ask.
3. Add the Run As Account to the Run As Profile that will be used by the task.
You should not add users to the local administrators group. The users would not be able to run the task, even with local administrative privileges, because the task cannot be run without the credentials of the Operations Manager.
You should not add users to the Report Security Administrator user role and create a Run As Profile with the appropriate credentials. The Report Security Administrator user role is used to enable integration of SQL Reporting Services security with the Operations Manager roles. In addition, the credentials to run the task are configured in Run As Account, not Run As Profile.
You should not add users to the Advanced Operators user role. Membership in this role would not enable these users to run the desired task. In this scenario, the task requires credentials of Operations Manager.
Reference:
Objective: Deploy and configure Management Packs.
Sub-objective: Create a self-tuning threshold.
Single answer, multiple-choice
You are the systems administrator for your company. You configure System Center Operations Manager 2007 to create a static threshold monitor and a Self-Tuning Threshold monitor. You want to create a parent monitor and a static monitor and a Self-Tuning Threshold monitor as its child monitors. The parent monitor must reflect the healthiest state of any of the child monitors. What should you do?
A. Create a Windows Services Unit monitor.
B. Create a Correlated Windows Event Unit monitor.
C. Create an aggregate rollup monitor.
D. Create a dependency rollup monitor.
Answer:
C
Tutorial:
You should create an aggregate rollup monitor to achieve the objective in this scenario. With the use of Self-Tuning Thresholds in Operations Manager 2007, you can monitor a computer's counter activities, such as processor utilization, which eliminates the requirement of manually configuring thresholds for alerts. Operations Manager 2007 can be used to create and update a performance baseline, which represents normal activity for the counter.
Self-tuning monitors require a learning period, which is the time period during which Operations Manager 2007 automatically establishes a baseline. This baseline represents a computer's expected and regular activity. The established baseline accurately reflects the use of the IT infrastructure, such as an increase in-processor utilization for a specific date and time.
An aggregate rollup monitor in Operations Manager 2007 is used to display the dependency rollup, a state of a unit or any other aggregate rollup monitors that are targeted to an object. Aggregate rollup monitors typically are used for grouping multiple monitors into one single group that can later be used to set up a health state and generate an alert. An aggregate rollup monitor in Operations Manager 2007 consists of series of child monitors, where one aggregate rollup monitor is designated as the parent monitor.
You can configure the state of an aggregate rollup monitor to reflect the best-case or worst-case state of the child monitors. The best-case state shows the best aggregate state of any of the child monitors, whereas the worst-case state shows the worst aggregate state of any of the child monitors. You can create an aggregate rollup monitor by navigating to Operations Console > Authoring > Management Pack Objects > Monitors > Create Monitor > Aggregate Rollup Monitor.
You should not create a Windows services unit monitor to achieve the objective in this scenario. A Windows services-unit monitor measures whether the service is running.
You should not create a correlated Windows event-unit monitor to achieve the objective in this scenario. A correlated Windows event-unit monitor defines a health state of two dissimilar events that may occur within a short span of time.
You should not create a dependency rollup monitor to achieve the objective in this scenario; this type of rollup monitor is used to roll up health states from any target linked by a hosting relationship or a containment relationship. The Management Packs define the hosting and containment relationships for a target. With the combination of aggregate rollup and unit monitors, you can monitor the health status of every target.
Reference:
Objective: Build and deploy custom Management Packs.
Sub-objective: Create monitors and rules.
Single answer, multiple-choice
You are working in a System Center Operations Manager 2007 environment. You are creating a single threshold monitor to check free disk drive space. You have set the threshold to 2 GB and the interval to 30 minutes. You want an alert to be generated when someone adds or removes 2 GB of data. What should you do?
A. Create an average threshold monitor.
B. Create a simple threshold monitor.
C. Create a Self-Tuning Threshold monitor.
D. Create a delta threshold monitor.
E. Create a dependency rollup monitor.
Answer:
D
