Practice Test: Datadog Certified APM and Distributed Tracing Fundamentals

Are you preparing to be Datadog certified on APM and Distributed Tracing Fundamentals? Taking the practice tests here will help you in two ways:

1. Test the coverage of your knowledge - Most Datadog users master the features that they use in their day-to-day work but are less familiar with functionalities that they need less frequently. You can use the practice tests to confirm how much you already know and which topics you need to learn more about. Each question in the mock test includes an explanation and/or points to the relevant Datadog documentation for you to review.

2. Familiarise you with the question patterns - Getting certified through a multiple-choice exam is a skill on top of your Datadog product knowledge. You can use the practice tests to help anticipate how questions are phrased and how wrong choices are presented to distract you from the correct answer. The questions are designed to mimic the tone and style of the official Datadog exam to simulate the testing experience.

Note: This is a practice test course only so there will be no lectures. Although there are no lectures, you can master Datadog concepts by reviewing the explanation on each question.

This course contains multiple practice tests with 90 questions each to be taken in under 2 hours.

The mock test only contains multiple choice type of question similar to the real Datadog exam. There's one correct response and two or more incorrect responses. You need to select the response that best answers the question posed. There are no deductions for choosing incorrect answers.

The mock test will test your knowledge on the following topics:

• General APM and Distributed Tracing knowledge

  • Justifying the rationale of APM

  • Understanding Datadog's approach to APM, including tagging and retention

  • Understanding various tracing architectures and different types of tracers

• Collecting distributed traces

  • Familiarise with Datadog tracing libraries, instrumentation types, and Datadog Agent

  • Distinguishing sampling versus retention

  • Applying best practices in APM data security

  • Correlating trace, logs, RUM, and profiles

• Visualising APM data

  • Understanding various service views and search syntax

  • Navigating flame graphs, error and deployment tracking, and span summary

  • Differentiating live and retained traces

  • Dashboarding service performance, generated metrics, and Apdex scores

• Troubleshooting and alerting on APM data

  • Troubleshooting slow endpoints

  • Applying trace search during outages

  • Creating monitors and SLOs