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Zabbix Certified Specialist
Monitoring on the open-source platform that many European service providers run: server, proxy and agent with proxies buffering for remote sites, passive against active items and the firewall problem they solve, templates as the only maintainable way to configure an estate, low-level discovery and preprocessing; then triggers with the nodata function that catches a silent host, dependencies suppressing consequential alerts, escalating actions, maps and service trees, and a growing queue meaning poller exhaustion.
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, data collection and templates | Not published |
| Triggers, actions, visualisation and operations | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. What does a media type define?
- The channel a notification is sent by — correct
- The interval an item is polled at
- The retention of the collected data
- The proxy that buffers the data
Why: Email, chat or scripts are configured as media types.
2. What extracts a field from structured data?
- A trigger dependency
- A media type per user
- A path extraction step — correct
- A host group permission
Why: Preprocessing can extract a field using a path (JSONPath/XPath) or a regular expression.
The real Zabbix Certified Specialist exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 60 |
| Pass mark | Scaled score; Zabbix does not publish the percentage |
| Price | Included with the official Zabbix Certified Specialist training course |
| Recommended before you sit it | The official training course is required before the exam is taken. |
| Valid for | Tied to the major version examined |
Exam facts as published by Zabbix; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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