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1. Users report the system is running slow. The administrator walks into the server room and notices it is noisier than usual. The fans in particular seem to be very loud.

Which of the following should the administrator conclude from this observation?

2. A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company.

In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

3. A blade server indicates it has a failed hard disk in Slot 0. This is the third instance of Slot 0 disk failure in three months.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the failed hard disk in Slot 0?

4. An administrator needs to back up changed files only and has time constraints on the back up window.

Which of the following is the BEST choice for a backup strategy?

5. An administrator notices that several servers have become noticeably slower. Logs show that an optional update was applied to these same servers. A BEST practice before running updates is:

6. Which of the following assists with airflow in a server? (Select TWO).

7. An IT manager has indicated the need to deploy a feasible standby storage file server that replicates the production data file server and should be quickly accessible from the network by all users when needed.

Which of the following storage technologies would be MOST appropriate?

8. 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?

9. An administrator needs to deploy 1,000 servers in a short period of time.

Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)

13. A server administrator is implementing disk redundancy in all database servers.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administrator use so that a MINIMUM number of disks are required?

14. 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?

15. 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?

16. A server administrator is creating a design for a new datacenter. The servers should be configured for maximum availability and also provide caching for user information requests.

Which of the following techniques should be used?

17. An administrator is determining hardware requirements for a new, virtualized test environment. The vendor requires 8Gb of RAM for each host and 2Gb of RAM for each guest. If the server has a total of 32Gb of RAM, which of the following describes how many hosts and guests the server can support?

18. A systems administrator is informed that users are unable to connect to the database. After investigating, the administrator determines the source of the problem and corrects the issue. Following up, the systems administrator informs the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the findings.

Which of the following documents did the systems administrator provide to the CTO?

19. Which of the following storage technologies provides block-level data access to storage volumes and arrays? (Choose two.)

20. An administrator has 120V, 150-amp service in the datacenter.

Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of servers with a faceplate rating of 65W that can be racked in the datacenter?

21. A technician is assigned a task to configure a new server with six hard drives. The senior administrator requested the technician utilize the drives for maximum fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the technician use?

22. In order to utilize most server management software, an administrator will have to install which of the following?

23. An administrator is setting up LDAP in the environment to allow directory services authentication and login, and wants to allow secure connection only.

Which of the following network ports should be allowed on the internal and external firewalls?

24. A sever administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to simultaneously connect to two servers.

Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator?

25. A mission critical server has faulted with a dead 66 MHz 3.3V PCI-X network interface card. The system administrator has been directed to get the server functional as soon as possible, even if it is connected with less bandwidth. There are no onsite spare cards available and the vendor does not expect to have the parts for at least a week.

Which of the following immediately available NICs could be substituted instead?

26. A SLA document:

27. A systems administrator backs up company data to the public cloud as part of a disaster recovery plan.

Which of the following BEST describes this replication method?

28. An administrator is validating disaster recovery mechanisms and wants to ensure backup data is usable and accurate.

Which of the following should the administrator do?

29. A systems administrator receives an email indicating a Windows user in finance cannot access the finance server remotely but is currently logged onto the network.

Which of the following ports should be checked to determine if it is listening or open?

30. A server technician has just installed a server with several roles. The technician then launches a command prompt, runs the netstat command, and notices the server is listening on the following ports: 88, 389, 464, 3268, and 3269.

Which of the following server roles is MOST likely installed on this server, given the ports above?

31. Which of the following types of DNS records enables support for email?

32. Which of the following network solutions would allow a company to connect securely to its internal network over the Internet?

33. When configuring a DHCP server, which of the following can the administrator define for DHCP users? (Select THREE).

34. A technician receives a report that two users are having difficulty retaining connections to a server hosting a company application.

On testing, the technician sees the following:

✑ Initial connections to the server are sporadic.

✑ If connected, the client is dropped within 30 seconds.

✑ Attempting to reconnect is sometimes successful but other times requires multiple attempts.

✑ Local testing on the server reveals no problems.

Given these symptoms, which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

35. A blade enclosure has a capacity of four 2000W power supplies with one 2000W power supply installed. The power requirement of the blade enclosure is 1900W.

Which of the following would occur if one additional 2000W power supply was added?

36. An administrator is attempting to connect a laptop directly to a server’s 100Mbps management NIC.

Which of the following cables should the administrator use?

37. A server fails to boot. During POST, the technician hears one long beep and two short beeps.

Which of the following should the technician reference to determine what hardware has failed?

38. After security settings were applied, an application will no longer start on a server. However, users are still able to access the server remotely.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

39. A remote Linux server requires an IP address change before being moved to a new datacenter. The server does not have X installed on it.

Which of the following is an administrator MOST likely to use to log in and change the address?

40. A technician is wiring up a new rack.

Which of the following is the appropriate place for the power cord to wire this rack correctly?

41. Which of the following cable types can be used to decrease susceptibility to electronic eavesdropping?

42. A system administrator is tasked to setup a database server with failover clustering feature enabled. One of the requirements is to have one database running at all times with data being synchronized and replicated to the idle database in case the primary database server fails. Both servers will be monitored by a witness on a LUN.

Which of the following cluster techniques should be implemented to meet these requirements?

43. 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?

44. A datacenter has exceeded the load on the central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for the room and is causing power load problems. Additional power is available, but not using the central UPS.

Which of the following is the BEST temporary solution for adding new servers until an upgrade of the central UPS can occur?

45. A systems administrator has determined that there are several users experiencing problems within two offices that have recently merged into one OU. Users within one of these offices are not having these issues.

Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

46. A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy.

Which of the following implements this backup strategy?

47. An email administrator is tasked to setup a Linux mail server. One of the requirements is to close all ports except SSH, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4.

Which of the following commands should be used to see which ports are currently open on the mail server? (Select TWO).

48. 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?

49. An administrator is developing a storage growth plan for a new file server.

Which of the following should be implemented on the server so that storage growth is restricted?

50. Which of the following is the MOST important factor when considering environmental factors?

51. A technician finds a pile of cables hanging straight down off the back of several servers.

This is preventing the technician from pulling the server out of the rack for maintenance.

Which of the following would have prevented this problem?

52. 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?

53. An administrator is building a web server to host an online banking application. The server should not have access to the internal network, and only ports that are used by the application should be opened.

Which of the following MUST be implemented to meet the business requirements?

54. A database server is configured with the database files residing on a separate partition to meet vendor recommendations.

The following schedule is used for system backup:

Full backup Saturday at 12:00 a.m.

Differential backup daily Sunday through Friday at 12:00 a.m.

Database backups daily at 12:00 a.m.

New data is loaded into the database on Monday night, and OS patches are installed on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, it is discovered that the data loaded into the database on Monday is corrupted, and the database needs to be restored from Sunday’s backup.

Which of the following backup types would BEST allow restoration of the database without affecting the OS patches installed on Tuesday?

55. While performing routine testing of a hot standby site located at a remote hosting center, a system administrator is unable to access one of the server operating systems to verify functionality.

Which of the following is MOST applicable to access the host?

56. A system administrator is asked to set up several physical file servers that have recently crashed due to a power failure.

Which of the following documents should the administrator refer to in order to complete this task?

57. A server administrator wants to minimize the amount of disk thrashing on a server.

The BEST way to accomplish this would be to:

58. A server has 500GB of data that must be backed up nightly. The administrator has upgraded the old LTO2 drive to an LTO3, but the data still will not fit on a single tape.

Which of the following additional steps should the administrator perform to accommodate the data? (Select TWO).

59. A server administrator is deploying a new database server and wishes to maximize the number of IOPS.

Which of the following disk types would BEST accomplish this goal?

60. An administrator is selecting hardware for a new server that must be able to recover from minor memory issues.

Which of the following is the BEST selection to ensure continued memory reliability?

61. A technician is asked to troubleshoot a hardware alert on a server. The server is up and running and all users can access their data.

Which of the following could the technician use to find the failed component? (Select TWO).

62. Which of the following is the height of 1U of space in a server rack?

63. Which of the following server types is commonly used for authentication and credential storage?

64. A server administrator was hired by a company to manage and maintain 20 Windows-based servers in five geographical locations. The server administrator is going to run patches manually to ensure they are applied, which would address some major security-related items.

Which of the following methods would MOST likely be the way to handle this task?

65. Which of the following backup methods should be used nightly to ensure backups capture all necessary data in the LEAST amount of time?

66. A technician is installing a 2U rack mount server.

The necessary rack space height to accommodate the server is:

67. The purpose of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is to:

68. A user was set up with a new computer and is now unable to access a file share on the server. The user was previously able to access the file share from the old computer. The administrator knows the user can access other network resources, and the user’s security permissions remain the same.

Which of the following is the NEXT logical step for the administrator to troubleshoot this issue?

69. A server administrator wants to increase the availability of a web server without implementing a cluster.

Which of the following would accomplish this task?

70. Which of the following RAID levels can withstand the simultaneous loss of two physical drives in an array?

71. A user reports that email does not work.

Which of the following ordered steps should the administrator take to address the issue according to the troubleshooting theory?

72. A technician added a new mail relay server to the network. During testing, the server fails to forward mail.

Which of the following firewall ports should the technician check?

73. A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports.

Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?

74. A server technician in a datacenter configures a daemon to monitor the battery health in a UPS. Over a two day time period, the daemon generates a warning message.

Which of the following represents the FIRST action that should be taken by the server technician?

75. A server has a faulty hard drive, and the administrator needs to replace the hard drive while it is running.

The server needs to support which of the following drives?

76. Several of the finance department computers are experiencing timeouts while in their financial program. The program will not open or close; however, the previous day the program was running without issues.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?

77. A server technician is trying to minimize power outages using a UPS that is plugged into an outlet in the server room.

Given this scenario, which of the following procedures should be followed to minimize outages?

78. A technician needs to install six blade servers.

Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?

79. Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?

80. A blade server consumes 2000W at full power in a chassis that holds four power supplies.

Which of the following is the MINIMUM amount of 900W power supplies needed to power the blade chassis?

81. Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

82. Which of the following default port numbers need to be open on a firewall for a mail server to successfully send and receive mail? (Choose three.)

83. While preparing a server for a failed component swap, a server administrator notices there is a large number of static discharges prior to connecting the ESD strap.

Which of the following controlled environmental attributes could cause a large number of static shocks?

84. To capture only the files that have changed since the last full backup, an administrator should perform which of the following backups?

85. A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored.

Which of the following types of site does the company have?

86. A technician is installing a rack mounted server into a rack in a datacenter with CRAC units and blanking panels.

Blanking panels are used to:

87. A storage administrator needs to connect a server to a storage array shared by 12 other servers.

Which of the following interface types could be used to accomplish this connection?

88. The IT director instructed the systems administrator to build a server to support the accounting department's file growth. The IT director requested that the accounting users have the ability to encrypt their files; however, the accounting users have reported the inability to encrypt their files.

Which of the following file system types is MOST likely causing this issue?

89. Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

90. Which of the following connects the L2 cache to the processor?

91. A user reports a Linux server is running slowly.

Which of the following tools is an administrator MOST likely to use to check server performance?

92. Which of the following plans describes the process by which an organization manages a major outage?

93. An administrator is connecting a laptop to administer a switch using an Ethernet cable, which works on a PC to a wall jack. The switch is functioning, but the administrator is unable to establish a connection with the switch.

Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

94. A remote datacenter that runs in parallel with a main datacenter, with devices powered on and communication taking place between the two datacenters, is known as which of the following?

95. In order for a server to fully function as a web server, which of the following default ports should be open? (Select TWO).

96. A number of users are indicating that access to a network file server is responding very slowly when reading or writing to the share. The server administrator notes that a drive has failed in a four-disk RAID 5 array. The array is running in a degraded state because no hot spare was configured.

After replacing the failed disk, which of the following steps would be BEST to take to prevent slow response after a drive failure?

97. A junior systems administrator wants to know which components on a server are normally hot-swappable.

Which of the following components are usually hot-swappable? (Select TWO).

98. 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?

99. Users report that an application is unable to connect to a server on the same network segment.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

100. An administrator has been given an OS DVD to install on a server. During setup, however, the DVD gives an architecture mismatch warning.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

101. Which of the following is designed to guarantee that once data is written it cannot be modified? (Select TWO).

102. Which of the following memory technologies has the HIGHEST cost to implement?

103. A server supports a maximum of six hot-swap hard drives. It currently has four drives installed. The administrator has a bare hard drive on hand as a cold spare.

Which of the following parts would the administrator need to have to install the drive as a hot spare?

104. A systems administrator has been directed to implement three-factor authentication for a new secure system.

Which of the following authentication methods are redundant and only count as one factor? (Choose two.)

105. An administrator is opening a firewall to allow encrypted communication with a website.

Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to open on the firewall?

106. Which of the following must be done to properly conduct testing of the data backup portion of a disaster recovery plan?

107. An administrator wants to use a PowerShell cmdlet to find the running services on a Windows server.

Which of the following are PowerShell cmdlet commands that will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

108. A datacenter is running out of rack space. A server technician is asked to recommend a capacity planning and consolidation option that is feasible with the least amount of downtime.

Which of the following options should the technician recommend?

109. A system administrator wants to assure that a server is responsive.

Which of the following networking tools should the administrator use to verify network connectivity?

110. An office experienced a long power outage that will require the servers to be powered on manually by a technician once a power is restored. Based on server roles, which of the following servers should be powered on manually by a technician once power is restored.

Based on server roles, which of the following servers should be powered on FIRST?

111. A user is reporting lack of connectivity to the server.

Which of the following tools will provide feedback to the administrator while troubleshooting basic IP connectivity? (Choose two.)

112. Users report that they are unable to connect to a server. An administrator confirms that it is unreachable across the network. Other administrators have been working in the server room throughout the day.

Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should take?

113. After applying a set of OS patches, a systems administrator finds that, on reboot, a server hangs with a blinking cursor after the system POST.

Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST?

114. 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?

115. Which of the following ports should be opened on a firewall for secure, remote server administration? (Choose two.)

116. A certain rack mounted blade server chassis needs 3-phase power for operation. There is currently only single-phase power coming into the room.

The administrator needs to:

117. After applying a new driver to a NIC, the server reboots and fails to restart.

Which of the following is the BEST way to resolve the problem?

118. Which of the following is the MOST common problem that occurs in server rooms?

119. 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?

120. Which of the following is an advantage of blade servers over rack-mount servers?

121. A technician needs to add a processor to a server.

Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).

122. 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?

123. A server technician is walking through the server room and notices a red or amber light on a drive in the server. No alerts have been received.

Which of the following should be checked FIRST on the server?

124. Which of the following would be the BEST configuration when using seven SCSI drives in order to have full fault tolerance?

125. A technician is configuring the IP networking portion on a server installation.

Which of the following types of IP addresses would be BEST to use for this server?

126. An administrator needs to control servers locally via a console. The administrator wants a rack mounted solution for easy access.

Which of the following should be installed?

127. A technician is implementing a RAID 10 array on a server.

Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed for this array?

128. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making a change to a server?

129. The BEST way for a technician to configure a server rack for full power redundancy is:

130. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) decided all backups should be taken at the storage array level rather than at the OS level.

Which of the following backup types would fulfill these requirements?

131. Which of the following should a systems administrator create to enable network connectivity on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

132. A technician is configuring a new server on the network. The technician wants the server to be a default gateway for network devices.

Which of the following should the technician use to BEST provide the server with the proper IP address?

133. A server is connected to a gigabit Ethernet switch and has negotiated 1Gbps / Full Duplex. When transferring large files to and from other servers on the segment via FTP slow performance is noticed. All network cabling, network hardware and server hardware were verified to be working correctly.

Which of the following could be done to improve performance?

134. 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?

135. A server administrator has been given the following information from the network team in order to configure IP addresses on a new server:

Network Address: 199.90.10.32/28

The network team also instructed the server administrator to use the LAST usable address on the given network.

Which of the following IP address/subnet mask combinations should the server administrator use?

136. An email administrator is tasked to set up a Linux mail server. One of the requirements is to close all ports except SSH, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4.

Which of the following commands should be used to see which ports are currently open on the email server? (Choose two.)

137. A system administrator is concerned with employees connecting removable storage to the server to copy sensitive data.

Which of the following solutions addresses this concern?

138. 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?

139. A technician is tasked with providing network-based high availability to a pair of identical web servers.

Which of the following minimum server NIC configurations fulfills these requirements?

140. A technician has a current baseline and is told to install additional memory and a faster NIC card.

At which point in time should the next baseline be run?

141. A systems administrator has created a guest VM on a hypervisor host. The guest VM would need to have a dynamic IP address assignment on the same subnet as the hypervisor.

Which of the following network connectivity types should the administrator configure?

142. An administrator is configuring external storage that will be accessed by multiple servers via the existing Ethernet at a minimum cost.

Which of the following technologies BEST meets these objectives?

143. An enterprise technician is tasked to implement a disk array that will host continuous disk-to-disk replication.

Which of the following storage types should be selected for maximum performance?

144. A technician receives errors that a server’s internal temperarture is approaching an unsafe limit. After opening up the chassis, all fans are operational.

Which of the following should be checked NEXT?

145. Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host?

146. Server A hosts a mission-critical business application. The server has one disk and one NIC. The administrator has been asked to implement a solution to meet the business requirement that the application must maintain high availability, even in case of a hardware failure.

Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

147. A network administrator is creating a subnet that needs a maximum of two networks in the DMZ.

Which of the following subnet masks should the administrator use?

148. A system administrator notices that there is a low level of available storage space on a file server.

Which of the following should be implemented to limit the amount of storage space users can utilize on the file server?

149. 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?

150. An auditor wants to reduce the server footprint in a company’s remote datacenter to decrease hosting costs.

Regarding life-cycle management, which if the following is the auditor MOST likely to look for in reviewing the company’s asset data?

151. Which of the following server types translates FQDNs to IP addresses?

152. When installing processors with mixed stepping levels in a server, which of the following guidelines must be followed? (Select TWO).

153. A server in a small company functions as a print server. Suddenly it stops sending print jobs to the printers. A technician verifies that the printers are working correctly. Additionally, the print spooler had been restarted and is running on the server, it is accessible from workstations, and it shows as being ready to accept print jobs.

Which of the following has MOST likely caused the print server to stop processing print jobs?

154. An administrator has installed an OS on a server. The administrator is able to ping directory server by IP address but is unable to join the domain.

Which of the following could be causing the problem?

155. An administrator needs to install a server located in an industrial environment. Workers often use electrical equipment nearby, and the server will be almost 500ft (152m) from the nearest switch.

Which of the following is the BEST choice for network cabling?

156. Historical data shows that on average, a server is likely to fail once every nine months. A company has purchased 24x7, four hour hardware response to replace a server's failed hardware. Additionally, the company can restore a server to its operational status within six hours from the time the failed hardware has been replaced.

Which of the following describes this scenario?

157. Which of the following MUST be configured to automate client deployment over PXE boot? (Choose two.)

158. A server administrator recently upgraded a three-year-old server by replacing the old CPU and memory with a new CPU and memory. After the upgrade, the server regularly generates CPU and memory errors; however, the server is working. The administrator has confirmed the new CPU and memory are not faulty.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?

159. A stripe set of maximum size is to be configured using two physical disks. One disk has 150GB and the other has 250GB in unallocated space.

Which of the following will be the size of the stripe set?

160. 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?

161. An administrator is upgrading the backup server from a single tape drive to a SCSI tape library.

The library has been unpackaged, mounted, and the library drivers installed.

Which of the following items should the administrator have to connect the device to the backup server?

162. 1.A technician is installing an operating system on a server using source files on a USB storage device. The technician is unable to boot to the USB device using different USB ports on the server.

Which of the following should the technician do to ensure that the operating system can be installed from the USB storage?

163. After installing a second processor and corresponding heatsink into a server, an administrator notices that the new processor is not showing up during POST.

Which of the following could be the cause of this issue?

164. A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN.

Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).

165. A technician is installing a new server with redundant power supplies in an ISO-certified datacenter.

Which of the following should the technician perform?

166. An administrator is unable to install a 64-bit OS on a newly purchased server.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

167. A server technician is replacing the hard drive in a server. After testing, the technician determines the current hard drive failed due to vibration from the machinery near the server. The technician’s manager has made it clear that the primary goal is to increase reliability.

Which of the following storage solutions BEST fits this requirement?

168. While installing patches, a systems administrator is disconnected from a server. The administrator attempts to ping the server and receives no response.

Which of the following tools is MOST likely to help in this situation?

169. As a best practice, which of the following should be performed before placing a server on a network?

170. A technician is working on a server that is experiencing network connectivity issues. The technician replaces the NIC on the server, but this does not resolve the issue.

Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT?

171. A system administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue and runs ipconfig/all on the host.

The command returns the following:

IPv4 Address: 169.254.0.12

Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

The client is configured for DHCP.

Which of the following commands should be run on the client to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).

172. A technician installs a server in a rack. After installing the server, the technician notices the server requires power cables that demand NEMA L6-50 power receptacles.

Which of the following voltages would NEMA L6-50 power receptacles indicate?

173. Which of the following RAID levels supports fault tolerance by writing parity to only one drive in the array?

174. A server has been operating normally for several months. Users suddenly begin reporting that the server is responding very slowly.

Which of the following tools are the BEST choices for the administrator to use to troubleshoot the problem? (Choose two.)

175. Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?

176. A clustered server goes offline due to a backplane failure.

Which of the following clusters does not lose capacity when a server goes offline?

177. An administrator is tasked with deploying a server in a telephone switching station.

Which of the following voltages will MOST likely be available at the facility?

178. A new server was installed. Most clients are located in the same subnet as the server and can successfully access the server. Clients located on different subnets have been unable to access the server, but have no trouble accessing other servers on their subnet.

Which of the following is the reason that these clients are unable to access the server?

179. Which of the following default ports needs to be open on a firewall for a DNS server to function?

180. A cable management arm should be used:

181. Which of the following BEST describes a server where several physical server chassis are housed within an enclosure to share some redundant resources?

182. A server technician has installed a full rack in a server room and must place the following items in the rack:

One 2U server

One 2U firewall

One 1U server

Two 3U UPS devices

Which of the following describes how the technician should arrange the rack?

183. In terms of security, which of the following comprises « something you have » ?

184. Which of the following best practices should an administrator use to build a database server?

185. A server is rebooted after maintenance. Upon reboot, the video display reports it cannot find the boot loader.

Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

186. A network technician is replacing a failed drive in a RAID 5 array. Over time, access to the volumes in the array has slowed down. The technician wants to increase the speed of the RAID array and chooses to replace the 10000rpm SAS drive with a low-latency SSD drive.

Which of the following is the problem with this solution?

187. An administrator needs to reconfigure a Linux server's operating system.

Which of the following tools can the administrator use to access a command shell over the network? (Select TWO).

188. An administrator was tasked to enforce disk quotas on the Windows file server. The administrator allocated 1GB of space to each user. A month later, the users were still able to save beyond 1GB.

Which of the following check boxes should have been selected?

189. A database server stops responding to requests, and the administrator suspects that the server is experiencing memory faults during heavy network traffic and database access.

Which of the following is the FIRST troubleshooting step?

190. Which of the following services provides users with directory services?

191. A server administrator is reviewing plans for a new office addition. The plans call for Cat 5e cabling to be used for all servers.

Which of the following is the maximum allowable length for Cat 5e communications?

192. Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

193. A server has recently been configured as a network firewall. After the firewall was configured, users could no longer access a remote server.

Which of the following, if properly configured on the firewall, will allow users to have secure access to the remote server? (Select TWO).

194. A server technician has been tasked with purchasing cables and connectors for a new server room. The server room consists of one switch, two servers, and one IP telephone.

Which of the following types of cables and connectors should the technician purchase?

195. 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?

196. Which of the following expansion cards should be installed into a server to provide fiber channel SAN connectivity?

197. An administrator receives a call from a user who is unable to receive email. After checking the workstation and email settings the administrator is still not able to determine the problem.

Which of the following is the NEXT step that the administrator should take?

198. A security breach occurred in a datacenter. An analysis of the HIPS log files on a sever reveals an intrusion was logged, but no action was taken to prevent the intrusion.

Which of the following represents how the HIPS should have been configured to prevent the intrusion, while also creating an alert?

199. After installing the operating system on a new server, which of the following best practices should be completed before joining the server to the domain? (Choose two.)

200. When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents “something you have”?

201. When setting up a new Linux server that will require files larger than 2 TB in size, which of the following file system types should be used?

202. An administrator has purchased monitoring software that can be configured to alert administrators when hardware and applications are having issues. All devices are configured with SNMP, but the administrator wants to further secure the SNMP traffic.

Which of the following settings would BEST provide additional monitoring security? (Select TWO).

203. Which of the following BEST describes RAID 5?

204. A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

205. A user is unable to save an image file to the 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?

206. A technician has installed an additional CPU into a server, but now the server is failing to pass POST.

After verifying the CPU speed and multiplier, which of the following does the technician need to check for potential causes?

207. A technician has just replaced a server that has been damaged by a lightning strike. A power protection device is installed on the new server. This is an example of:

208. A SAN attached production file server is required to be backed up nightly according to company policy.

Recently the data to be backed up has increased to approximately 4TB. Currently, the server has a single attached LTO2 tape drive.

Which of the following should the server administrator do to provide enough backup capacity for the nightly job?