Zabbix Certified Specialist Day 1 - Questions and Answers What are the 3 main types of hosts that Zabbix can gather data from? Hardware, OS, VM & Contain... [Show More] er What are the 3 other types of hosts that Zabbix can gather data from? Cloud hosts Applications Business Services What method is used to monitor Databases? ODBC When was Zabbix 1.0 released? 23rd March 2004 How often is a long term support version of Zabbix released? Every 18 months When was Zabbix LLC established? 2005 Which parts of Zabbix have been built using C? Server, Proxy, Agent What parts of Zabbix have been built using Go? Zabbix Agent 2, Web Services What does Zabbix use PHP for? Frontend Does Zabbix support Java? Yes Name three commerical services that Zabbix LLC and certified partners provide? Technical Support, Remote Tshooting, Consulting, Upgrades, Training, Turn-key Solutions, Integration, Template Building What are the 3 main Zabbix components? Server, Frontend, Database What are the 3 main functions of Zabbix Server? Data collection, Problem detection, Notification What are 3 advantages of Zabbix proxy? Monitoring remote locations, Distributing load between proxies, Limited firewall rules What processes all collected data? Zabbix Server Zabbix server has several components, name one Data collectors, internal processes, caches What are the 7 components that make up Zabbix Server? Config Cache, Config Sync, Data Collectors, Preprocessing, History Cache, Value Cache, History Syncers What is the minimum supported version for MySQL? 8.0.x but 8.0.20 is recommended Can Zabbix be installed on Windows? No What are the additional libraries required when installing Zabbix on Linux? Libpcre, libevent, zlib By default, how long does it take for changes made in the frontend to show up in the database? Once per minute Is it possible to force Zabbix server to read config data with a runtime command? Yes What modes exist for the Zabbix agent and what differentiates them? Active, passive. In active mode, all data processing is performed on the agent without pollers. In passive mode, the poller connects to the agent on TCP port 10050. What are the four ports that Zabbix uses and what are they each for? 10050: Zabbix agent. 10051: Server and proxy. 10052: Java gateway. 10053: Web service. By default, How often is data collected via the proxy, sent to the Zabbix server? Every second Zabbix proxies can operate in Active mode or Passive mode? What is the difference? In active mode, the proxy connects to the server. In passive mode, the server connects to the proxy. What is true about the version differences between Zabbix proxy and Zabbix server? The major version must match ie 6.1.2 is not compatible with 6.2.0. This changed in version 6.4, from this version onwards they are all compatible. What is mandatory before installing Zabbix? Getting NTP setup and sync'd, without this you may experience false problem detection, missing data etc What is the recommended way of installing Zabbix? Official packages What cloud vendors are supported for cloud install? AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Red Hat Openshift What two options exist for docker container install? Zabbix docker hub or GitHub What is the only way to deploy Zabbix if you want to use an Oracle database? Source code from Zabbix Git repository What package is required for installing MySQL on a Zabbix server? zabbix-server-mysql What is the one role of the Zabbix web service? Generating scheduled reports What needs to be built before Zabbix deployment? Database with Unicode database character set and UTF8 national character set What are the 5 minimum requirements in the configuration file required to start the Zabbix server? Database host address, name, schema (PostgreSQL), user, password How do you start Zabbix with a different configuration file? zabbix_server -c /tmp/test_zabbix_server.conf Name one runtime control that the zabbix_server can do? zabbix_server -R config_cache_reload zabbix_server -R housekeeper_execute zabbix_server -R snmp_cache_reload zabbix_server -R secrets_reload zabbix_server -R diaginfo What is the recommended debug level for a production environment? 3 – Warning What is required if you change the log level in the config file? [Show Less]
