Cisco 500-420 Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst(CAAPA) Online Training
Cisco 500-420 Online Training
The questions for 500-420 were last updated at Oct 23,2025.
- Exam Code: 500-420
- Exam Name: Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst(CAAPA)
- Certification Provider: Cisco
- Latest update: Oct 23,2025
A Performance Analyst is experiencing difficulty with the transaction response time on a node. The Performance Analyst attempts to create a health rule monitoring the business transactions’ performance on that node.
Which set of data should the Performance Analyst select when creating the health rule?
- A . Node health
- B . Service endpoints
- C . Error Rates
- D . Transaction performance
Developers and operations personnel complain the Controller tracks many irrelevant Java classes and
methods.
How does a Performance Analyst exclude this unhelpful information?
- A . Configuration > Baselines and create a new dynamic baseline
- B . Edit the mbeans-server.xml file to delete the irrelevant methods
- C . Configuration > Instrumentation > Call Graph Settings and exclude irrelevant packages
- D . Edit the controller-info.xml file to exclude irrelevant methods
Which three pieces of information are required when creating a new database collector? (Choose three.)
- A . Primary table name
- B . Database hostname/IP address
- C . System table name
- D . Database Type
- E . Port number
Which two Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) accurately provide insight into server level resource consumption? (Choose two.)
- A . Calls per Minute
- B . Availability
- C . Average Response Time
- D . Application Restarts
- E . CPU %Busy
- F . Memory Used%
What are two options tor sharing snapshot details from the snapshot window? (Choose two.)
- A . Custom Report
- B . Custom Dashboard
- C . Download PDF
- D . Copy to Clipboard
- E . Export
In which two features of AppDynamics can Information Points metric data be used? (Choose two.)
- A . Alerting
- B . Analytics
- C . Flow Maps
- D . Custom Dashboards
An E-commerce application is built using microservices architecture design with several components.
In AppDynamics, how should the Transaction Detection rules be grouped logically?
- A . Use Automatic Discovery
- B . Use Scope
- C . Use Transaction Group
- D . Use Backend Detection
A Performance Analyst has noticed a significant decrease in an application’s workload (calls/min) and is trying to identify the root cause.
Which option will give the Performance Analyst insight into the behavior of the affected Business Transactions?
- A . Review Business Transactions and enable Show Trends
- B . In Metric Browser Plot Calls/min for the Application
- C . Review Top Business Transactions by Load in the Application Dashboard
- D . Review the Transaction Score for the Application
- E . Review all elements in the Application Flow Map and identify variations in load
A Performance Analyst is reviewing Business Transactions with an Application team. The Application team would like to increase the Application Business Transaction limit because they need to have visibility into all the different transactions.
What should the Performance Analyst do?
- A . Do nothing since the limit is not important during configuration
- B . Increase the limit to the requested value
- C . Increase the limit half way between the current level and the requested value
- D . Focus on the Business Transactions exceeding the limit and why
Which two views can a Controller-level custom dashboard provide? (Choose two.)
- A . Show a single view of only historical data.
- B . Aggregate and compare data from only a single application on the same Controller
- C . Aggregate and compare data from different applications on the same Controller
- D . A customized view of applications, servers, and database performance data