Platforms and Architecture (20%)

300-445 · 60 questions

• A retailer wants to know whether an outside shopper can open the public storefront the way a visitor would, without a scripted login. Which agent style fits?
• A university wants loss and delay measured on a residence-hall segment, collected where that traffic already is. Which agent style fits?
• A bank wants a repeatable check that logs into the customer portal and runs a search after each change window. Which agent style fits?
• A manufacturer wants the experience of an outside visitor opening the public parts-booking site, without a scripted login. Which agent style fits?
• A hospital campus wants proof that the patient-portal checkout still logs in, fills the required fields, and reaches the confirmation page after each release. Which agent style fits that job?
• A logistics hub needs ongoing visibility of traffic that is already crossing the branch LAN, rather than a new synthetic visit to an application. Which agent style fits that job?
• On a hospital campus, nurses report trouble only while on the ward Wi-Fi, and the same tests from the data center stay healthy. Where should the agent be placed?
• Shoppers at a retailer can use an application from every store except one, where the same application fails only inside that building. Where should the agent be placed?
• Traders at a bank reach the market application from every floor except one, where the same test fails. Where should an agent sit so the test includes that failure?
• A government agency gets complaints from one region and needs a visit that behaves like a person simply opening the service there. Which agent style fits?
• A hotel booking form fails only after the guest submits the second page, and loading the opening page never shows the error. Which agent style should walk that failure?
• Students at a university reach the learning system from classrooms and the library, but the same pages fail only in the residence halls. Where should the team place an agent so the test can see that failure?
• Dock workers at a logistics hub fail to reach the yard application only while they are on the loading network, and the same test succeeds from the office LAN. Where should the agent go?
• A retailer with branch stores must not inject test traffic onto a saturated in-store clinical link. Which measurement approach respects that limit?
• A hospital campus wants one-way delay measured by sending test packets, not by watching flows that are already on the wire. Which method fits that request?
• A government agency sees an application fail for users in a field office while the probe in the capital stays green for the same target. Where should the next agent be placed?
• Guests at a hotel chain reach the booking application from every property except one, where the same pages fail. Where should the team place an agent?
• A manufacturer's plant VLAN cannot reach the maintenance application, while an agent in the headquarters closet still succeeds against the same target. Where should the team place an agent so the test includes the plant failure?
• A manufacturer forbids any generated test packet on its trading floor, yet the network team still needs to see how real host traffic behaves there. Which approach fits that rule?
• A bank needs a controlled test from its network to a SaaS front door, sent when the bank chooses, whether or not a user is active. Which approach produces that test?
• A university wants loss figures for live voice calls and does not want extra synthetic calls placed on the trunk. Which method fits?
• A hotel chain must judge guest-network quality during peak check-in without adding probe traffic on that network. Which method matches the constraint?
• An auditor at a government agency asks which RFC defines active and passive methods for IP performance metrics. Which reference answers the auditor?
• A logistics hub design review asks the team to label active measurement and passive measurement correctly before the monitoring design is approved. Which statement is accurate?
• Branch users at a retailer say Microsoft 365 is slow, and measurements on the store LAN are clean. Which approach shows the SaaS and WAN experience behind that complaint?
• Remote staff at a bank report a slow HR portal, and checks of their local Wi-Fi show a healthy link. Which approach shows the SaaS and WAN experience beyond that link?
• A university wants to see how provider path changes affect experience for a cloud CRM used by admissions staff. Which capability fits that question?
• The operations center at a logistics hub disagrees about which SaaS path degraded this morning. Which capability settles that disagreement?
• A manufacturer is turning up a new WAN circuit and wants to compare the SaaS path and experience before and after the cut. Which capability supports that comparison?
• A hospital campus wants the path and user experience to a SaaS payroll site across the WAN explained for leadership. Which view matches that question?
• A hotel chain is planning WAN capacity and needs to know how each property actually experiences the chain's main SaaS applications. Which approach answers the planning question?
• A government agency lodging property reaches the central reservation system across the WAN, and planners need experience on that path rather than one device counter. Which approach fits?
• A bank wants Meraki branch health and the ThousandEyes tests for those same branches in one operational view. Which approach meets that request?
• A hospital campus already sees device health in Catalyst Center and wants ThousandEyes path data shown beside that health. What should the team do?
• A retailer with branch stores wants the SD-WAN controller included in the assurance picture instead of left as a separate inventory. What should be integrated?
• A university wants Webex call quality to sit next to ThousandEyes path tests so a poor call can be compared with the path. What should be integrated?
• A hotel chain needs call failures investigated with the Webex experience and the network path in the same effort. Which approach fits?
• A logistics hub already keeps its site inventory in Catalyst Center and wants assurance findings in that same system. Which approach fits?
• A manufacturer is rolling Secure Client out to plant laptops and wants endpoint experience data from that same rollout. Which approach fits?
• A retailer with branch stores gets an outage page every night when bandwidth spikes during the known backup window and then falls back to the daytime pattern. What should the assurance team do before calling that spike an incident?
• A university collected one hour of application metrics this afternoon and wants alerting turned on before tonight's peak. What should the team have in place before a spike is treated as an incident?
• A hospital campus sees Monday morning latency that matches every other Monday and sits inside the usual weekly pattern. What should the team do before treating that latency as an incident?
• A logistics hub just deployed an application that has no performance history, and the first afternoon shows a tall spike. What should the team have before calling that spike an incident?
• A bank has watched a latency metric drift slowly for a month and is deciding whether the drift is an incident. What should the team compare that drift with before calling it an incident?
• A manufacturer sees product-launch day traffic that does not resemble an ordinary weekday and must decide whether that day is an incident. What should the team compare the launch-day traffic with before calling it an incident?
• Two hotels in the same chain show different loss on their guest paths, and each site's chart has looked like that for weeks. How should the team decide whether today's loss is an incident?
• A retailer's metrics pipeline asks to receive OpenTelemetry and says it does not want a ticket. Which handoff should the assurance team use?
• A hospital's service desk wants a ticket opened whenever an assurance condition becomes true. Which handoff matches that request?
• A hospital campus wants to know whether the path to a clinical application is losing packets and where along that path the loss occurs. Which assurance view answers that question?
• A manufacturer's service desk works only from its ticket queue and has said it will not read a telemetry stream. Which handoff should assurance use for that desk?
• A bank's on-call rotation wants a page when a threshold is crossed and does not want a ticket or a telemetry feed. Which handoff fits?
• A hotel chain NOC wallboard already polls assurance APIs to fill its tiles, and the NOC has asked not to receive any more email. Which handoff should keep feeding that wallboard?
• A university already runs a dashboard that will poll an API for assurance data. Which handoff matches that design?
• At a logistics hub, the data-science group refuses tickets and wants measurements pushed continuously into the pipeline it already runs, not a poll it would have to build. Which handoff matches that request?
• Manufacturing leaders ask which SaaS paths got worse this week, and they are not asking about one web object or one laptop. Which assurance view matches their question?
• A bank network team wants a running stream of routing and reachability events rather than a study of one web page. Which assurance view matches that request?
• Hotel security asks for event evidence that a prefix was hijacked, and they do not want a page-load script. Which assurance view matches the request?
• A logistics web team asks which object on the customer portal is slow, and they do not want a list of BGP events. Which assurance view should they open?
• A retailer with branch stores needs to know what a register experienced during a failed checkout, including that device's local network, while a core SNMP poll in the data center stayed green. Which data answers the question?
• A university webmaster says one public course page is slow to load and asks which assurance view matches that complaint. Which view matches the question they asked?