A server technician is attempting to find a server in the datacenter and only has the server’s name. The technician does not have access to log in to the server and does not know where the server is located. Which of the following items would be MOST useful to inventory to aid in future server identification? (Choose two.)
Immediately following a BIOS firmware update, a server detects an overheat condition and shuts down after five minutes. Which of the following should the systems administrator do FIRST?
A server administrator is formulating a DRP for an organization. The DRP specifies that all backups must be saved in a format that supports linear data access. Which of the following media types would meet this objective?
An administrator wants to ensure a server OS and data can be recovered in case all the server’s hard disk drives fail simultaneously. Which of the following backup types must be implemented to meet the requirements?
Which of the following BEST describes a server where several physical server chassis are housed within an enclosure to share some redundant resources?
A datacenter administrator is reallocating CPU and memory resources for a guest VM. The guest VM runs on a hypervisor that has direct access to the hardware resources being allocated. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario?
Which of the following internal storage devices has the GREATEST storage capacity and is WORM media?
Which of the following types of network cable would be BEST to attach to a high-performance server?
An administrator is planning an upgrade of a major software package on an application server.
The software has been tested successfully in a test environment and it is ready to go into production. Which of the following steps should the administrator take next?
Which of the following protocols would MOST likely be used in the establishment of an IPSec VPN tunnel?
An IT manager needs to purchase client access licenses for servers. The network has ten workstations and 100 on-site users. Which of the following licensing models should the systems administrator recommend ?
An older server has performance problems writing files to a RAID array. After checking for failed drives, no problems are found. Which of the following should be checked NEXT?
In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?
An administrator needs to create two websites. One website must only be used by internal users and the other website must be a corporate website accessible externally by customers. Which of the following website types is needed?
A company is being audited by its operating system vendor. The company needs to report the number of operating systems in use, the versions of the operating systems, and the product keys. Which of the following will be MOST helpful in passing the audit?
A technician is tasked by an administrator to patch a virtual machine. The technician needs to ensure that in case of failure, recovery of the virtual machine will be possible. Which of the following recovery principles should the technician employ?
A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers?
In a Windows environment, a user is able to access the network folder and open items, but is not able to delete anything. Which of the following folder permissions does the user require?
Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?
Two technicians are asked to install a 6U server at location U25 in a 40U server rack. The rack has been properly stabilized to the floor. Which of the following tools would BEST be used to install the server?
A host server in a small business environment does not have virtual switching configured. The NIC on a guest is configured with an IP address that is on a different subnet from the host server. Which of the following would MOST likely happen in this case?
Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?
Users in the accounting department report that they are unable to access a shared network drive used by all departments. Upon troubleshooting, a technician determines that three users in the marketing department, two in sales, five in human resources, and ten in IT are all successfully accessing the shared network drive. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?
Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?
An administrator has been tasked with consolidating six individual servers into one blade enclosure. The administrator completed the task successfully. A week later, all of the blades would not boot properly. Which of the following would MOST likely be causing this issue?
A technician has found that the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) connected to a server does not have sufficient battery power to allow the server to shutdown gracefully. Which of the following is the MOST cost effective way to allow this server to shutdown gracefully?
The BEST way for a technician to configure a server rack for full power redundancy is:
A security administrator wishes to enable multifactor authentication. Which of the following would achieve that
objective? (Choose two.)
An administrator is creating an on-site backup and an off-site backup for four servers located at the company’s
headquarters. Which of the following backup options should the administrator select to meet the requirements?
An administrator has attached an old SCSI JBOD to a server to recover archival data. However, the array will not mount to the server. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?
A datacenter systems administrator needs to install a new server within an existing rack. Which of the following components would the systems administrator need to physically install the server in the rack? (Choose two.)
A technician is tasked with creating servers that are fault tolerant and highly available. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for this task?
A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?
A technician needs to install more add-on cards than there are available expansion slots. Which of the following would allow the technician to accomplish this?
A technician installs a rack in a datacenter. The rack has two power strips installed in it. To ensure maximum power redundancy for the rack, how should each PDU power strip be connected?
A server administrator is notified of an OS hot fix for a production server. Which of the following BEST represent how the hot fix should be applied? (Choose two.)
A technician has completed the installation and configuration of a third email server. The technician has configured the firewall to permit email traffic, but the mail is only being received by the two older servers. Which of the following should the technician configure to ensure incoming email will be processed by all three servers?
Which of the following troubleshooting methods would be performed after resolving an issue?
A systems administrator is setting up a new SAN. Which of the following protocols should be used to access and manage the system?
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A server that can store extensible schema and communicate using SQL for describing transactions to be performed is commonly called a:
A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?
A technician is having problems sending a notification from a server. The technician suspects the firewall may be blocking traffic. Which of the following clients can be used to confirm the technician’s suspicions?
Which of the following default ports should be open on a server for remote administration?
A newly hired administrator is tasked to change the number of CPUs assigned to a VM. Which of the following if the FIRST step the administrator should do during a scheduled maintenance window?
A technician is setting up a server with a RAID 1 array for the boot partition and a RAID 5 array for the data partition. Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed to implement these partitions?
Immediately following a BIOS firmware update, a server detects an overheat condition and shuts down after five minutes. Which of the following should the systems administrator do FIRST?
A network administrator installs a new web server and notices that the server was configured with one quad-port NIC. In order to properly provision the hardware resources, how should the NIC be configured?
A network administrator is tasked to set up zoning for a SAN infrastructure that requires redundancy. Which of the following types of hardware should the administrator implement?
Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?
A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?
A technician is tasked with connecting a server to a NAS. Which of the following connection types should be used?
A server administrator has been asked to make recommendations for purchase of a new database server that will be processing all of the company accounts. One area of concern from prior experience is the storage type used by the database server. The server is expected to have a large number of transactions that occur, but will not require a large amount of capacity for the data storage. Given these requirements, which of the following storage criteria are MOST important? (Select TWO).
Joe, a system administrator, is replacing an aging print server. Once he reached the step to join the new server to the existing domain, he kept getting an error and could not complete the step successfully. Which of the following did Joe forget to do?
A user is unable to save an image file to their home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user has enough space and required access to write to the directory. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the user is unable to save the file?
After starting an operating system installation from DVD, a system administrator goes to work on another task and comes back to find the server back at the installation start screen. Which of the following should be done to correct this problem?
After installing a 1 TB hard drive, a technician notices the OS is reporting significantly less unformatted capacity than was expected. Which of the following is the root cause?
An outside contractor is hired to perform a business impact analysis of a simulated disaster. The contractor asks stakeholders what they think a hurricane would do to the business. This is an inadequate method because:
A server has two power supplies. If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?
A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no change between production and the remote site. Which of the following site types BEST represents the purpose of this remote site?
Which of the following expansion cards should be installed into a server to provide fiber channel SAN connectivity?
Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?
Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server’s operating system locally?
A technician notices inlet temperatures to rack-mounted servers are significantly higher in the center of the rack as compared to the top and bottom of the rack. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?
A server technician is notified that Linux web services are no longer accessible. The technician is at a remote site only has access to a Windows workstation. Which of the following should the technician use to remotely restart the web services?
Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select TWO).
An administrator receives a call from a user who is unable to receive email. After troubleshooting the administrator is able to resolve the issue and verify that user is able to access email again.
Which of the following is the NEXT step that the administrator should take?
A server administrator is configuring 10 web servers, each of which can contain up to four hard disks. To get the HIGHEST level of redundancy for these servers, the administrator should:
A company has had problems with their HVAC system being able to cool their datacenter as they have grown. Which of the following could BEST be used to help reduce the load on the HVAC system?
A server administrator is setting up a new set of hosts for an application that requires communication between all the hosts on a dedicated private subnet. Initially, the configuration consists of four hosts and is expected to grow to 48 total as the application is implemented for the entire company. When configuring the private subnet, which of the following CIDR netmasks would allow for the full number of hosts once the application is fully in production with the least number of unused addresses allocated?
In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as long as compatible hardware is available. Which of the following backup types meets this requirement?
Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?
A server technician is replacing a web server in an organization. The new server has two integrated NICs. Which of the following describes how the NICs should be configured for fault protection?
An administrator needs to perform a backup of all servers for an upcoming disaster recovery exercise at a company cold site. Which of the following types of backup should be performed?
A server administrator wants to isolate a SAN hosted LUN to be visible to only a single host. Which of the following methodologies would be used to present the LUN to only that host?
A server technician is investigating a potential data breach. It is believed that the breach occurred via telnet access. Which of the following could validate this hypothesis?
An administrator wishes to use KVM remotely to monitor and control a server farm. In order to perform this function:
A hardware compatibility list recommends striping with double parity as storage for an application. In a test environment, a technician realizes that a different RAID level can be used to compensate for a limited number of available disks. Which of the following is the closest RAID level the technician should deploy while minimizing the number of disks and maintaining fault tolerance?
A technician has a server with ten hard drives in a RAID 6 configuration. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of drives that can fail in the array while maintaining data integrity?
A remote technician is notified that a LED light for a server’s hard drive is red. Which of the following should the technician check to verify RAID functionality?
A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN. Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).
A technician is trying to install the operating system on a new server. When the server is powered on, it searches for the installation information on CD and then on the local hard drive. The operating system installation is on a PXE server. Which of the following should the technician change to successfully install the operating system?
Which of the following file types can Microsoft servers package for remote installation by default?
A company has recently had sensitive data stolen by a contractor who plugged a flash drive into a server. Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent future occurrences?
Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?
A network administrator is tasked to block all outbound SSH connections on the default port from a network subnet of 10.152.8.0/21 on a Linux based firewall. Which of the following rule sets would accomplish this task?
A technician is tasked with building a test server. Which of the following hard drive types will provide the highest performance?
Users on a network segment report that they are unable to connect to a newly installed file server. The file server IP address settings are as follows:
IP address: 10.0.10.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1
Which of the following changes should the server administrator make?
A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the maximum performance for accessing many small files. Which of the following specifications should the technician focus on when selecting the drive to add to the server?
A technician is asked to troubleshoot a server that constantly reboots. There are no error messages displayed on the server. Which of the following should the technician check?
A line-of-business software patch notification is received. The notification indicates that version 5.0 of the software has new features that the accounting department has been expecting. The update requires a new version of the OS and new version of SQL on the server. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?
An administrator is securing a secure web server by disabling ports. After completing this process, clients cannot access the secure web server. The administrator should now go back and verify whether which of the following ports is enabled?
An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?
Which of the following protocols is considered stateless and utilizes TCP when communicating between a server and client?
An administrator uses a DVD to upgrade an application on a server. After completing the upgrade, the
administrator restarts the server, but it does not launch the OS correctly. Which of the following is the MOST
likely cause of the boot failure?
An administrator is considering setting up a hot site for disaster recovery of the company’s infrastructure. While reading through the online documentation, the administrator tries to identify key words that differentiate the hot site from warm and cold sites. Which of the following key words should the administrator identify? (Choose two.)
An administrator is backing up a database server. The administrator must select a backup method that does not change the archive bit. Which of the following backup techniques should be used to meet these requirements?
A systems administrator is trying to run a program on the server to query the database. When attempting to launch the program, the screen flashes and the program closes. Which of the following should the technician do to get the program to open correctly? (Choose two.)
A user is unable to save a new presentation to the network U:\ drive. The error message indicates that there is no available space. Other users in the department are not experiencing any problems saving to the U:\ drive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
A secondary office location containing servers already configured with all necessary software and files to minimize downtime is considered to be which of the following types of disaster recovery sites?
A technician has access to a recent full backup. Data has changed since the last backup. Which of the following provides the fastest restore while minimizing backup size?
A datacenter recently experienced a breach committed by a group that was able to access a server that had been shut down but not disconnected from the network. Which of the following could have prevented the breach from occurring?
An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take?
When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents “something you have”?
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TESTED 19 Apr 2024
