500-420Updated 20d ago · Sep 14, 2026
500-420: Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst
64 questions across 1 topics, with suggested answers, explanations where available, and imported community discussion. The first 6 questions are free to preview.
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| # | Topic | Questions | Free |
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| 1 | Business Transactions | 47 | 6 |
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A Business Transaction was registered and appeared on the Business Transaction Dashboard. It has a continuous load. After one hour, the Business Transaction no longer appeared on the Business Transaction Dashboard. Which action caused the Business Transaction to stop being displayed?
Answer: D
Excluding a Business Transaction disables it for metric-processing purposes even if the represented processing path remains active. Deleted transactions can be rediscovered when the application function continues to be used, while lockdown affects newly discovered transactions rather than an already registered one.
**Learn more:** [Organize Business Transactions](https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/23.x/latest/en/application-monitoring/business-transactions/organize-business-transactions) · [Configure Business Transactions](https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/23.x/latest/en/application-monitoring/business-transactions/configure-business-transactions)
Question 2 · Agents and Application Performance Open
A Performance Analyst has opened a database collector view. Which tab should they click next to locate slow queries?
Answer: B
The **Queries** tab provides the database queries view, where individual queries can be inspected for performance issues such as slow execution.
**Learn more:** [Database Queries Window](https://help.splunk.com/en/appdynamics-on-premises/database-visibility/25.6.0/monitor-databases-and-database-servers/monitor-database-performance/database-queries-window)
Question 3 · Business Transactions Open
What are two distinctions between creating a Transaction Group with the **Create Group** action and defining a Transaction Detection rule? *(Choose two.)*
Answer: A, C
A Transaction Group organizes multiple existing business transactions and provides aggregate group metrics while preserving the individual transactions and their registered count. A Transaction Detection Rule controls how incoming requests are detected and named; a rule that combines multiple transactions can reduce the overall business-transaction count because the rule is counted as one transaction.
**Learn more:** [Organize Business Transactions](https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/23.x/latest/en/application-monitoring/business-transactions/organize-business-transactions) · [Configure Business Transactions](https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/23.x/latest/en/application-monitoring/business-transactions/configure-business-transactions)