201-01 Riverbed Certified Solutions Associate - Network Performance Management Questions and Answers

NetProfiler

Flow Gateway

NetExpress

NetShark

CIDR block

Hostgroups

Hostnames

0/0, meaning all hosts

IP addresses

25,000 flows per minute

50,000 flows per minute

75,000 flows per minute

100,000 flows per minute

The company must buy a new Standard Cascade Profiler and stop using their Express.

The company can continue to use their Express but must buy a new Cascade Profiler.

The Express can be further licensed to capture the currently dropped flows.

The company must buy a new Standard Cascade Profiler but can use the Express functioning as a remote Cascade Sensor.

The company must buy a new Standard Cascade Profiler and can continue to use their Express but the two Cascade Profilers must be used independent of one another.

The company can try to reduce the number of flows being seen by the Express.

From the Basic Settings page of the Cascade Shark appliance Web Interface.

From the Advanced Settings page of the Cascade Shark appliance Web Interface.

With the CLI command “set timezone”.

From the Settings menu of Cascade Pilot.

One or all views from the main workspace.

Notes entered associated with a view.

Analyst and Client information entered.

A and B.

A, B and C.

They are cached for later processing.

They are ignored/dropped.

The user is able to choose which flows to keep and which to ignore.

All flows are processed but an alert is sent to the user.

NetFlow v9

sFlow

Federated Data Records (FDR)

IPFix

CascadeFlow from Steelhead

All of the above

Name followed by list of Ports

Name followed by several Subnets

Name followed by Subnet

Subnet followed by name

Name followed by Subnet followed by Port

Ensuring the interface of the Cascade Profiler is on the same subnet as the router, as NetFlow is not routable.

Using the “tcp/(n) + 1” port numbering scheme to ensure this router’s NetFlow is unique from all other routers.

Ensuring the router has IP connectivity to the Cascade Gateway.

Ensuring the interface of the Cascade Gateway is on the same subnet as the router, as NetFlow is not routable.

Using the “udp/(n) + 1” port numbering scheme to ensure this router’s NetFlow is unique from all other routers.

Through the Reporting ribbon

Through the search bar in the Views pane

By hovering the cursor over the icon that precedes each View listed in the Views pane

Through the Web Interface

Profiler does not support any RTT calculations

Network Round Trip Time, Average Server Delay, Packet Transaction Time

Server Delay, Network Round Trip Time, Server Response

Average Server Response, Average Network Round Trip Time, Average Server Delay

Average Network Round Trip Time, Average Server Delay, Average Transaction Time

Kerberos

RADIUS

Diameter

TACACS+

802.1x

Fault Management

Application Performance Management (APM)

Network Behavior Analysis (NBA)

Flow based Network Monitoring and Analysis

Quickly analyze large capture files.

WiFi packet analysis.

Import data to NetProfiler.

Improve analysis speed.

Virtualization and Data Center Mobility

Rationalization and Irrationalization

Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

Remote Site monitoring and Packet Exportation

Data Import and Data Export

System->Devices & Interfaces

Configuration->Accounts

Definitions->Host Groups

Configuration->General Settings

Dashboard

Business Groups

Web Applications

Defined Applications

Server Applications

Private key in PKCS12 format.

Private key in PEM format.

Private key and CA-signed public certificate in two separate files (PEM or DER formats).

Private key and CA-signed public certificate in PEM or PKCS12 formats.

CA-signed public certificate in PEM format.

Is a graphic object used to show selected and global time windows for the applied View.

Can be applied to both live captures and saved pcap files.

Is a feature that allows a user to be notified when a specified event occurs on the network.

Can send a syslog message when an event is triggered.

2

10

100

No limit

Windows 7 SP 1

MAC OS X

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

Packets across all the ports of an appliance.

Packets on a single physical capture port.

Packets on an aggregating capture port.

Packets across different Cascade Shark appliances.

Sensor-VE

Gateway-VE

Express RSP

Pilot

An optional module that is licensed separately and not available in the Cascade Pilot Personal Edition (PE) product.

A module that automatically generates expert reports of traffic selection in PDF format.

The source of packet traffic – either a device or a packet capture file.

Network traffic analysis displays that can be applied to traffic.

Database Performance mode

Application Stream Analysis boost mode

Server Boost mode

Web Transaction Analysis mode

Source and Destination IP Address of endstations

Source and Destination MAC Address of endstations

Source and Destination Hardware Port Numbers of endstations

Source and Destination UDP or TCP Port Numbers

TCP Flags used

Compare the amount of traffic crossing a LAN interface to the corresponding traffic crossing an optimized WAN interface.

Compare updates received via SNMP from Steelhead optimization devices with router devices.

The Cascade Profiler cannot determine optimization levels.

Through manual entry of levels achieved.

Compare updates received via flows from Steelhead optimization devices with router devices.

Flows reported by Cascade Shark will not include an application tag triggered by matching known signatures within the first 1000 bytes of the flow.

The Cascade Shark can forward flow to only one destination Cascade Profiler.

The communication between the Cascade Shark and Cascade Profiler is NOT encrypted as it is with Cascade Sensor and Cascade Profiler communication.

All of the Above.

change the Navigation Bar Position.

change were reports are saved on Profiler.

change data unit from Bytes to Bits.

change user Time Zone.

search for lost templates.

XenApp

Any of them, but an agent on Citrix servers needs to be installed

NetScaler

XenDesktop

Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008

Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7

Cascade Pilot is not specific to an operating system since access is through any standard web browser.

Any operating system supported by Wireshark

You can track, report and alert on organizationally meaningful categories of traffic

To control access to Cascade data

To quickly quarantine hosts affected by a virus

To increase the scalability of the Cascade database

To view the traffic of many hosts from multiple perspectives