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Datadog Fundamentals
The entry credential on a platform where the design questions are what to send and what it costs: the agent and autodiscovery, cloud integrations without an agent, metrics identified by tags with unified service tagging linking the signals, and timeboards against screenboards; then the monitor types with multi-alert grouping and downtimes, traces broken down to service and resource with percentiles from metrics rather than sampled traces, log ingest separated from indexing, and reviewing usage as a design activity.
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
| The platform, the agent, metrics and dashboards | Not published |
| Monitors, application monitoring, logs and cost | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which is a reason to alert on symptoms rather than every cause?
- More alerts are better
- Causes are always actionable
- Symptoms are irrelevant
- Fewer, more meaningful alerts that reflect real user impact — correct
Why: Symptom-based alerting produces fewer alerts that genuinely reflect impact, rather than one per possible cause.
2. How can an application push a metric directly?
- Through the agent's DogStatsD interface — correct
- By editing the dashboard JSON definition
- By adding a template variable
- By creating a new user role
Why: Applications can send custom metrics via DogStatsD to the agent, which forwards them to Datadog.
The real Datadog Fundamentals exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 60 |
| Pass mark | Scaled score; Datadog does not publish the percentage |
| Price | Purchased per attempt, with free learning paths on Datadog Learning Center |
| Recommended before you sit it | None. Familiarity with monitoring concepts helps. |
| Valid for | 2 years |
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