Dynatrace study areas & weightings
Dynatrace study areas and their share of this practice set
| Study area | Share of practice set |
|---|
| 1. Platform, Deployment & Access | 14% |
| 2. Infrastructure & Application Observability | 15% |
| 3. Digital Experience Monitoring | 21% |
| 4. Davis AI, Problems & Alerting | 12% |
| 5. Grail, DQL, Dashboards, Notebooks & Workflows | 19% |
| 6. Professional: Automation, Extensions & Security | 18% |
Dynatrace certification — frequently asked questions
What are the Dynatrace Associate and Professional certifications?
They are Dynatrace's official certifications for people who deploy, configure and use Dynatrace. Associate is the first level and covers core observability skills. Professional builds on it with deeper configuration, automation and troubleshooting.
What is the format of the Dynatrace Associate exam?
The current Associate exam has a theory section of multiple-choice questions followed by hands-on tasks in a live Dynatrace environment, such as building DQL queries and dashboards. Check Dynatrace University for the exact number of questions, time limit and passing score, as these can change.
Which topics should I study for the Dynatrace Associate exam?
Focus on the latest Dynatrace: Grail and DQL, Notebooks and Dashboards, logs and events, distributed traces, RUM and Synthetic monitoring, Davis AI problems and basic Workflows. Core concepts like OneAgent, ActiveGate, tagging and management zones still matter too.
How is this page split into domains?
Questions are grouped into six study areas that follow the Dynatrace learning path, from platform basics to Professional-level automation and security. The percentages show how much of this practice set each area covers, and the mock exam draws from every area.
Is the Associate certification required before Professional?
Yes. Dynatrace expects candidates to hold the Associate certification before attempting Professional, which then tests deeper, hands-on configuration and troubleshooting.
Are these Dynatrace practice tests free to use anytime?
Yes. All the practice tests and mock exams on this page are completely free. You can access them anytime, as many times as you want.
Free Dynatrace Associate and Professional practice exam with mock test
This Dynatrace practice exam from Isha Training Solutions contains 176 scenario-based practice questions for the Dynatrace Associate and Professional certifications, with shuffled answer options and clear explanations. Questions are grouped into six study areas: platform and deployment, infrastructure and application observability, digital experience monitoring, Davis AI and alerting, Grail and DQL with Notebooks, Dashboards and Workflows, and Professional-level automation, extensions and security.
The timed Dynatrace mock test draws 60 questions from all six study areas, runs for 90 minutes, and reports a practice score with a domain-by-domain breakdown and full answer review.
Topics covered
OneAgent, ActiveGate, host groups, tags and management zones; IAM policies and access tokens; services, process groups, Smartscape, logs and distributed traces; Real User Monitoring, Session Replay and Synthetic monitors; Davis AI anomaly detection, problems, alerting profiles and SLOs; Grail buckets, DQL, Notebooks, Dashboards and Workflows; OpenPipeline, Extensions 2.0, Monaco, Terraform, Kubernetes Operator and Application Security.
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