Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You deploy an application visualization solution.
You deploy a server named Server1, and then you install the Remote Desktop Services server role.
Server1 is monitored by using Operations Manager.
You deploy a virtualized application named App1 to Server1.
You need to set the state of Server1 to critical if CPU utilization by App1 exceeds 80 percent for five
minutes.
What should you create?

A.
a rule

B.
a monitor

C.
a service level objective (SLO)

D.
an event subscription

E.
a synthetic transaction

Explanation:
Service level Objectives
Service level objectives are measurements to ensure that you are meeting defined service level
commitments.
In Operations Manager, you define a service level objective – the set of monitors that you need to
track (such as performance or availability) – and then run reports against that service level objective
to ensure that you are meeting your goals.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212753.aspx
SLO’s are agreed as a means of measuring the performance of the Service Provider. SLO’s are
specific measurable characteristics of the SLA such as availability, throughput, frequency, response
time, or quality.
This concept is part of SLM in SCSM 2012.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/03/26/service-manager-2012-and-servicelevelmanagement-part-1.aspx
QUESTION STATES:
“You need to set the state of Server1 to critical if CPU utilization by App1 exceeds 80 percent for five
minutes.”
SLOs don’t change the state of an object, monitors do:
Create a monitor if…
You want to affect the health of an object. In addition to generating an alert, a monitor will affect
the health state of its target object. This is displayed in state views and availability reports.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457603.aspx