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Checkmk Certified Engineer
Monitoring on a platform built around service discovery: sites managed as units with staged changes that must be activated, an agent returning everything in one call, discovery proposing services that must be accepted, and rules with first-match-wins ordering configuring an estate from labels rather than per host; then parent relationships producing unreachable states, notification rules that accumulate rather than stopping at the first match, views and availability reporting, local checks and plugins, and reading check latency for capacity.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Architecture, agents and service discovery | Not published |
| Notifications, visualisation, extension and operations | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which is a reason to test custom plugins before production use?
- Reducing the agent's own footprint
- Ensuring accurate, safe monitoring — correct
- Removing the need for thresholds
- Shortening the discovery it triggers
Why: Testing custom plugins before production ensures accurate, safe monitoring.
2. What does a hard state mean for a service?
- It failed its retries and is confirmed — correct
- It has failed once and may recover
- It has never once been checked at all
- It is currently in a scheduled downtime
Why: A soft state is the transient period during retries, and a hard state is reached once they are exhausted. Notifications fire on the hard state.
The real Checkmk Certified Engineer exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 60 |
| Pass mark | Scaled score; Checkmk does not publish the percentage |
| Price | Included with the official Checkmk training course |
| Recommended before you sit it | The official Checkmk training course is the intended preparation. |
| Valid for | Tied to the major version examined |
Exam facts as published by Checkmk; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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