Administration & Troubleshooting: This particular section of the exam covers troubleshooting with Performance Analysis dashboards, using alerts to monitor the environment, High Availability in SolarWinds products, and troubleshooting agent installation and deployment.
Agents: This section explains agents and how to monitor devices with Orion agents, deploy agents on Windows and Linux systems, and use the Add Node Wizard for agent deployment.
Alerting: In this section, the focus is on the concept of alerts, how to create and use them to monitor the environment, and available alert actions in NPM.
Capacity Planning: The focus of this section is on monitoring capacity usage trends, using baselines for detecting deviations, and customizing capacity forecasting settings.
Custom Polling: This section explains the Universal Device Poller (UnDP) feature, how to monitor custom statistics based on MIBs and OIDs, define custom statistics, and transform poller results.
Dependencies & Groups: This section covers creating, editing, and deleting dependencies between network objects, and how dependencies can help reduce alert noise.
Maps: This part of the exam explains custom views and maps in NPM, creating Network Atlas maps, adding maps to NPM, and creating wireless heat maps.
Node Management & Discovery: In this section of the exam, the focus is on adding and managing network devices, using the Discovery Wizard, and adding nodes using Active Directory.
PerfStack:In this section, the focus is on the Performance Analysis (PerfStack) feature, its charts and graphs, and how to use it for troubleshooting.
Reports: This part covers creating, modifying, and customizing web-based reports in NPM.
Restrictions & Account Limitations: This section explains how to restrict user access to reports and network areas, and manage account limitations.
User Interface: This section explains how navigation and customization of the Orion Web Console happen including adding logos and customizing menu bars.
User Management: In this section, the focus is on user account creation, management, and permissions in SolarWinds NPM.