AppDynamics CAAA study guide
AppDynamics CAAA · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Certified AppDynamics Associate Administrator (CAAA) credential is an entry-level administrator certification for IT professionals who operate and maintain AppDynamics deployments. It suits administrators, monitoring engineers, and operations staff who need day-to-day command of an AppDynamics environment - configuring agents and business transactions, setting health rules and policies, managing alerts and dashboards, and administering users and permissions. The AppDynamics CAAA study guide has 5 sections and about 1,608 words.
01Application Performance Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in AppDynamics is built on business transactions (BTs) - the unit of work the controller tracks end to end. Candidates must understand how BTs are discovered (automatic discovery via entry points such as servlets, POJO methods, and async entry points, plus custom match rules), how transaction snapshots capture call graphs, and how baselines (rolling, statistically derived) drive health rules.
350 words, about 2 min02Application Security
AppDynamics Application Security (formerly Secure Application) instruments the same agents to detect runtime application security threats without code changes. Candidates should understand the main detection categories: SQL injection , command injection , path traversal , unsafe deserialization , and server-side request forgery (SSRF) , plus sensitive data exposure and weak hashing/crypto findings.
319 words, about 2 min03Monitoring for SAP Solutions
AppDynamics for SAP extends APM into SAP landscapes, covering SAP NetWeaver (ABAP and Java stacks) , SAP HANA , and SAP Business Suite/S4HANA components. Candidates must understand the SAP agent (ABAP and Java), how RFC and HTTP(S) calls are traced across SAP and non-SAP tiers, and how business transaction correlation links an SAP dialog step to downstream systems.
319 words, about 2 min04Digital Experience Monitoring
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) covers how real users experience applications. Candidates must understand End User Monitoring (EUM) , split into Browser Real User Monitoring (Browser RUM) and Mobile RUM , plus Synthetic monitoring .
299 words, about 1 min05Infrastructure Monitoring and Business Analytics
Infrastructure Monitoring extends visibility beyond the app tier to servers, databases, and network via Machine Agents , Server Agents , and Database Agents . Candidates should understand hardware/OS metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network), database monitoring for engines like MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server, and how infrastructure health rules and tiers/nodes relate.
321 words, about 2 min