Question 1
Why is the Datadog Agent typically installed as a background service or daemon on a host?
Correct Answer:
It can continuously collect and forward telemetry without an interactive session
Question 2
On a standard Linux host, which file is the main Datadog Agent configuration file?
Correct Answer:
/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
Question 3
An engineer adds a new setting to datadog.yaml, but the Agent fails to start because of a YAML error. Which mistake is most likely?
Correct Answer:
Using tabs or inconsistent indentation in the YAML structure
Question 4
What is an environment variable such as DD_API_KEY primarily used for when configuring the Datadog Agent?
Correct Answer:
To supply configuration values to a process without hardcoding them in the command itself
Question 5
Which metadata tag would be most useful for grouping all database servers in Datadog?
Correct Answer:
role:database
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