1Y0-A21 · Question #156
What is a SNMP trap with minumum severity?
The correct answer is E. Informational (default). See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
What is a SNMP trap with minumum severity?
Options
- AMinor
- BWarning
- CCritical
- DMajor
- EInformational (default)
How the community answered
(54 responses)- A2% (1)
- B15% (8)
- C9% (5)
- D4% (2)
- E70% (38)
Community Discussion
6
Nina C.May 8, 2026The correct answer is E, Informational, and it is also the default setting when you configure SNMP traps. The severity scale runs from Informational at the bottom up through Warning, Minor, Major, and Critical at the top, so Informational captures everything because it is the least restrictive threshold. When you set a trap to Informational, the agent will send a notification for every event regardless of how trivial it is, which is why it makes sense as the default. If you wanted fewer messages, you would raise the threshold to something like Warning or Major, which would filter out the lower-level noise.
Kemal J.May 10, 2026Correct on the scale, though "default" varies by vendor and I have seen plenty of fresh installs where the threshold ships at Warning, so confirm what your specific platform actually sets before you bubble that answer on the exam.
Kemal J.May 6, 2026Informational is default, but do you know what actually triggers a trap to fire?
Nina C.May 7, 2026Right, and what helped it stick for me was realizing the agent fires the trap automatically when a threshold or fault condition hits on the device, so the manager never has to ask for it.
Samuel O.May 17, 2026The word "minimum" here is the whole puzzle, because if you just think about what SNMP traps do on the job, your brain wants to jump to something that actually pages someone like Major or Critical, but minimum severity means the lowest rung on the ladder, and that is Informational. Answer is E, and the default setting makes this worth burning into memory because Citrix gear ships that way out of the box.
Nina C.May 20, 2026That floor-not-ceiling mental model is what made it click for me too, and knowing the default is Informational also means every severity above it fires automatically, so you get full trap coverage on Citrix gear without touching a single config.