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1. A technician needs to deploy an operating system that would optimize server resources.

Which of the following server installation methods would BEST meet this requirement?

2. A server administrator needs to keep a copy of an important fileshare that can be used to restore the share as quickly as possible.

Which of the following is the BEST solution?

3. Which of the following symbols is used to write a text description per line within a PowerShell script?

4. A backup application is copying only changed files each line it runs. During a restore, however, only a single file is used.

Which of the following backup methods does this describe?

5. An administrator is investigating a physical server mat will not Boot into the OS. The server has three hard drives configured in a RAID 5 array. The server passes POST, out the OS does not load. The administrator verities the CPU and RAM are Doth seated correctly and checks the dual power supplies. The administrator then verifies all the BIOS settings are correct and connects a bootable USB drive in the server, and the OS loads correctly.

Which of the following is causing the issue?

6. Which of the follwing, if properly configured, would prevent a user from installing an OS on a server? (Select TWO).

7. A technician installed a kernel upgrade to a Linux server. The server now crashes regularly.

Which of the following is the most likely cause?

8. Which of the following would be BEST to help protect an organization against social engineering?

9. DRAG DROP

A recent power Outage caused email services to go down. A sever administrator also received alerts from the datacenter’s UPS.

After some investigation, the server administrator learned that each POU was rated at a maximum Of 12A.



INSTRUCTIONS

Ensure power redundancy is implemented throughout each rack and UPS alarms are resolved.

Ensure the maximum potential PDU consumption does not exceed 80% or 9.6A).

a PDU selections must be changed using the pencil icon.

b VM Hosts 1 and 2 and Mail Relay can be moved between racks.

c Certain devices contain additional details

10. A server administrator is building a pair of new storage servers. The servers will replicate; therefore, no redundancy is required, but usable capacity must be maximized.

Which of the following RAID levels should the server administrator implement?

11. A company stores extremely sensitive data on an alt-gapped system.

Which of the following can Be Implemented to increase security against a potential insider threat?

12. A server administrator is using remote access to update a server. The administrator notices numerous error messages when using YUM to update the applications on a server.

Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

13. Which of the following documents would explain the consequences of server downtime?

14. Which of the following asset management documents is used to identify the location of a serves within a data center?

15. A server administrator is tasked with resolving an issue with the server's local storage. The administrator turns on the server and only two out of the four drives are found. After several reboots, an additional hard drive connects and disconnects randomly.

Which of the following is most likely the cause?

16. A server administrator has been creating new VMs one by one. The administrator notices the system requirements are very similar, even with different applications.

Which of the following would help the administrator accomplish this task in the SHORTEST amount of time and meet the system requirements?

17. A server administrator is installing a new server that uses 40G0 network connectivity. The administrator needs to find the proper cables to connect the server to the switch.

Which of the following connectors should the administrator use?

18. A server administrator is testing a disaster recovery plan. The test involves creating a downtime scenario and taking the necessary steps.

Which of the following testing methods is the administrator MOST likely performing?

19. Which of the following license types most commonly describes a product that incurs a yearly cost regardless of how much it is used?

20. A server administrator wants to check the open ports on a server.

Which of the following commands should the administrator use to complete the task?

21. Users report that the FinanceApp software is not running, and they need immediate access. Issues with the FinanceApp software occur every week after the IT team completes server system updates. The users, however, do not want to contact the help desk every time the issue occurs. The users also report the new MarketApp software is not usable when it crashes, which can cause significant downtime. The technician who restarted the MarketApp software noticed it is running under a test account, which is a likely cause of the crashes.



INSTRUCTIONS

Using the Services menu provided, modify the appropriate application services to remedy the stated issues.

22. A systems administrator is setting up a server on a LAN that uses an address space that follows the RFC 1918 standard.

Which of the following IP addresses should the administrator use to be in compliance with the standard?

23. A server administrator is trying to determine the cause of a slowdown on a database server. Upon investigation, the administrator determines the issue is in the storage subsystem.

Which of the following will most likely resolve this issue?

24. A security technician generated a public/private key pair on a server. The technician needs to copy the key pair to another server on a different subnet.

Which of the following is the most secure method to copy the keys?

25. Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to Pll exposure?

26. A technician is attempting to resolve an issue with a file server that is unable to download a file

Given the following output:





Which of the following would best allow this file to be read?

27. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate scripting language to use for a logon script for a Linux box?

28. A technician is setting up a repurposed server. The minimum requirements are 2TB while ensuring the highest performance and providing support for one drive failure.

The technician has the following six drives available:





Which of the following drive selections should the technician utilize to best accomplish this goal?

29. An administrator is troubleshooting an application performance issue on a virtual server with two vCPUs. The application performance logs indicate CPU contention. The administrator adds more vCPU cores to the VM, yet the issue persists.

Which of the following is the most likely reason for this issue?

30. A server administrator is swapping out the GPU card inside a server.

Which of the following actions should the administrator take FIRST?

31. An administrator is patching a file and print server After rebooting the server, it begins acting strangely. The administrator tries to open Print Management, but it will not open Upon inspection, the spooler service has been disabled. The administrator then notices the server has services that should be enabled but are disabled.

Which of the following actions should the administrator take next to resolve the issue as quickly as possible?

32. A server administrator has received calls regarding latency and performance issues with a file server. After reviewing all logs and server features the administrator discovers the server came with four Ethernet ports, out only one port is currently in use.

Which of the following features will enable the use of all available ports using a single IP address?

33. An analyst is planning a new point-to-point Ethernet connection between a university campus and a newly acquired space downtown that is about 5mi (8km) away. The analyst would like the fastest possible connection speed.

Which of the following would best meet the analyst's needs?

34. A data center environment currently hosts more than 100 servers that include homegrown and commercial software. The management team has asked the server administrator to find a way to eliminate all company-owned data centers.

Which of the following models will the administrator most likely choose to meet this need?

35. Which of the following authentication types defines credentials as "something you have"?

36. A company is reviewing options for its current disaster recovery plan and potential changes to it. The security team will not allow customer data to egress to non-company equipment, and the company has requested recovery in the shortest possible time.

Which of the following will BEST meet these goals?

37. A server administrator is currently working on an incident.

Which of the following steps should the administrator perform before resolving the issue?

38. When configuring networking on a VM, which of the following methods would allow multiple VMs to share the same host IP address?

39. Corporate policy mandates that logs from all servers be available for review regardless of the state of the server.

Which of the following must be configured to comply with this policy?

40. A datacenter in a remote location lost power. The power has since been restored, but one ol the servers has not come back online. After some investigation, the server is found to still be powered off.

Which of the following is the BEST method to power on the server remotely?

41. A systems administrator recently upgraded the memory in a server, and now the server does not turn on, and nothing is displayed on the screen.

Which of the following is the next step the administrator should take to diagnose the error without opening the machine?

42. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a datacenter is concerned that transmissions from the building can be detected from the outside.

Which of the following would resolve this concern? (Choose two.)

43. A new company policy requires that any data loss in excess of one hour is unacceptable in the event of a disaster.

Which of the following concepts is being referred to in this policy?

44. A server technician has been asked to upload a few files from the internal web server to the internal FTP server. The technician logs in to the web server using PuTTY, but the connection to the FTP server fails. However, the FTP connection from the technician’s workstation is suсcessful. To troubleshoot the issue, the technician executes the following command on both the web server and the workstation: ping ftp.acme.local

The IP address in the command output is different on each machine.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the connection failure?

45. A systems administrator notices that a SAN is running out of space. There is no additional funding in the budget to upgrade the storage space.

Which of the following will significantly reduce the storage space with the least effort? (Select two).

46. A technician is monitoring a server and notices there is only one NIC plugged in. but the server has two. The NIC is oversaturated, and the technician would like to increase the available bandwidth.

Which of the following solutions would be the BEST option to increase the speed of this NIC?

47. Hosting data in different regional locations but not moving it for long periods of time describes:

48. A server administrator is completing an OS installation for a new server. The administrator patches the server with the latest vendor-suggested software, configures DHCP, and verifies all network cables are properly connected in the IDF, but there is no network connectivity.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the lack of connectivity?

49. A software developer is unable to reach an internal website. The developer's attempt to ping the FQDN returns the following IP address: 104.18.17.32.

Which of the following is the most likely reason for this result?

50. Hackers recently targeted a company with an attack that resulted in a system breach, which compromised the organization's data. Because of the system breach, the administrator had to bypass normal change management procedures.

Which of the following change management activities was necessary?

51. A systems administrator is attempting to install a package on a server. After downloading the package from the internet and trying to launch it, the installation is blocked by the antivirus on the server.

Which of the following must be completed before launching the installation package again?

52. The HIDS logs on a server indicate a significant number of unauthorized access attempts via USB devices at startup.

Which of the following steps should a server administrator take to BEST secure the server without limiting functionality?

53. An administrator is rebooting servers manually after a group of updates were deployed through SCCM. The administrator notices several of the servers did not receive the deployed update.

Which of the following should the administrator review first?

54. The network's IDS is giving multiple alerts that unauthorized traffic from a critical application server is being sent to a known-bad public IP address.

One of the alerts contains the following information:

A) Exploit Alert

B) Attempted User Privilege Gain

C) 2/2/07-3: 09:09 10.1.200.32

D) --> 208.206.12.9:80

This server application is part of a cluster in which two other servers are also servicing clients. The server administrator has verified the other servers are not sending out traffic to that public IP address. The IP address subnet of the application servers is 10.1.200.0/26.

Which of the following should the administrator perform to ensure only authorized traffic is being sent from the application server and downtime is minimized? (Select two).

55. Which of the following factors would most likely impact the selection of an organization's cloud provider?

56. Which of the following tools will analyze network logs in real time to report on suspicious log events?

57. Which of the following DR testing scenarios is described as verbally walking through each step of the DR plan in the context of a meeting?

58. After the installation of an additional network card into a server, the server will not boot into the OS. A technician tests the network card in a different server with a different OS and verifies the card functions correctly.

Which of the following should the technician do NEXT to troubleshoot this issue?

59. A technician is deploying a single server to monitor and record me security cameras at a remote site, which of the following architecture types should be used to minimize cost?

60. A new virtual server was deployed in a perimeter network. Users have reported the time on the server has been incorrect. The engineer has verified the configuration, and the internal time servers are configured properly.

Which of the following should the engineer do to resolve this issue?

61. A VLAN needs to be configured within a virtual environment for a new VM.

Which of the following will ensure the VM receives a correct IP address?

62. An administrator is alerted to a hardware failure in a mission-critical server. The alert states that two drives have failed. The administrator notes the drives are in different RAID 1 arrays, and both are hot-swappable.

Which of the following steps will be the MOST efficient?

63. Which of the following should a technician verify first before decommissioning and wiping a file server?

64. A server administrator has received tickets from users who report the system runs very slowly and various unrelated messages pop up when they try to access an internet-facing web application using default ports. The administrator performs a scan to check for open ports and reviews the following report:

Starting Nmap 7.70 https://nmap.org) at 2019-09-19 14:30 UTC Nmap scan report for www.abc.com (172.45.6.85) Host is up (0.0021s latency)

Other addresses for www.abc.com (not scanned): 4503: F7b0: 4293: 703:: 3209

RDNS record for 172.45.6.85: 1ga45s12-in-f1.2d100.net

Port State Service

21/tcp filtered ftp

22/tcp filtered ssh

23/tcp filtered telnet

69/tcp open @username.com

80/tcp open http

110/tcp filtered pop

143/tcp filtered imap

443/tcp open https

1010/tcp open www.popup.com

3389/tcp filtered ms-abc-server

Which of the following actions should the server administrator perform on the server?

65. An administrator is troubleshooting a failed NIC in an application server. The server uses DHCP to get all IP configurations, and the server must use a specific IP address. The administrator replaces the NIC, but then the server begins to receive a different and incorrect IP address.

Which of the following will enable the server to get the proper IP address?

66. An administrator needs to reconfigure a teamed network connection on a server in a remote data center.

Which of the following will offer the most resilient connection while performing this change?

67. Which of the following types of physical security controls would most likely be a target of a social engineering attack?

68. A technician recently replaced a NIC that was not functioning. Since then, no device driver is found when starting the server, and the network card is not functioning.

Which of the following should the technician check first?

69. A server administrator needs to harden a server by only allowing secure traffic and DNS inquiries.

A port scan reports the following ports are open:

70. A server administrator is configuring a new server that will hold large amounts of information. The server will need to be accessed by multiple users at the same time.

Which of the following server roles will the administrator MOST likely need to install?

71. A technician is trying to determine the reason why a Linux server is not communicating on a network.

The returned network configuration is as follows:

eth0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 127.0.0.1 network 255.255.0.0 broadcast 127.0.0.1

Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

72. A large number of connections to port 80 is discovered while reviewing the log files on a server. The server is not functioning as a web server.

Which of the following represent the BEST immediate actions to prevent unauthorized server access? (Choose two.)

73. A server administrator notices drive C on a critical server does not have any available space, but plenty of unallocated space is left on the disk.

Which of the following should the administrator perform to address the availability issue while minimizing downtime?

74. Which of the following would a systems administrator most likely implement to encrypt data in transit for remote administration?

75. Which of the following should be configured in pairs on a server to provide network redundancy?

76. Users at a company are licensed to use an application that is restricted by the number of active sessions.

Which of the following best describes this licensing model?

77. A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the applications on the server.

Which of the following best describes a method of application hardening?

78. A systems administrator has several different types of hard drives. The administrator is setting up a MAS that will allow end users to see all the drives within the NAS.

Which of the following storage types should the administrator use?

79. A technician needs to install a Type 1 hypervisor on a server. The server has SD card slots, a SAS controller, and a SATA controller, and it is attached to a NAS.

On which of the following drive types should the technician install the hypervisor?

80. A server administrator is installing a new server with multiple NICs on it. The Chief Information Officer has asked the administrator to ensure the new server will have the least amount of network downtime but a good amount of network speed.

Which of the following best describes what the administrator should implement on the new server?

81. A Linux administrator created a script that will run at startup.

After successfully writing the script, the administrator received me following output when trying to execute the script: Bash ./startup,sh:Permission denied

Which of the following commands would BEST resolve the error message?

82. The accounting department needs more storage and wants to retain the current data for quick read-write access. The accounting server does not have any internet drive bays available to keep both disks however the server does have USB 3 0 and eSATA ports available.

Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish the department's goals?

83. Which of the following environmental controls must be carefully researched so the control itself does not cause the destruction of the server equipment?

84. A technician needs to provide a VM with high availability.

Which of the following actions should the technician take to complete this task as efficiently as possible?

85. Which of the following would a systems administrator implement to ensure all web traffic is secure?

86. A company has implemented a requirement to encrypt all the hard drives on its servers as part of a data loss prevention strategy.

Which of the following should the company also perform as a data loss prevention method?

87. A server technician notices a server is very low on disk space. Upon inspecting the disk utilization, the technician discovers server logs are taxing up a large amount of space. There is no central log server.

Which of the following would help free up disk space?

88. A systems administrator needs to back up changes made to a data store on a daily basis during a short time frame. The administrator wants to maximize RTO when restoring data.

Which of the following backup methodologies would best fit this scenario?

89. A server administrator is creating a new server that will be used to house customer sales records.

Which of the following roles will MOST likely be Installed on the server?

90. Which of the following describes the concept of allocating more resources than what is available on a hypervisor?

91. A technician is attempting to reboot a remote physical Linux server. However, attempts to command a shutdown -----now result in the loss of the SSH connection. The server still responds to pings.

Which of the following should the technician use to command a remote shutdown?

92. Users have noticed a server is performing below Baseline expectations. While diagnosing me server, an administrator discovers disk drive performance has degraded. The administrator checks the diagnostics on the RAID controller and sees the battery on me controller has gone bad.

Which of the following is causing the poor performance on the RAID array?

93. An administrator is deploying a new secure web server. The only administration method that is permitted is to connect via RDP.

Which of the following ports should be allowed? (Select two).

94. A server administrator needs to check remotely for unnecessary running services across 12 servers.

Which of the following tools should the administrator use?

95. Users report they ate unable to access an application after a recent third-party patch update. The physical server that is hosting the application keeps crashing on reboot. Although the update was installed directly from the manufacturer's support website as recommended it has now been recalled and removed from the website as the update unintentionally installed unauthorized software after a reboot.

Which of the following steps should the administrator perform to restore access to the application while minimizing downtime? (Select TWO)

96. A developer is creating a web application that will contain five web nodes. The developer's main goal is to ensure the application is always available to the end users.

Which of the following should the developer use when designing the web application?

97. An administrator has been asked to increase the storage capacity of a stand-alone file server but no further expansion slots are available.

Which of the following would be the FASTEST solution to implement with no downtime?

98. An administrate is helping to replicate a large amount of data between two Windows servers. The administrator is unsure how much data has already been transferred.

Which of the following will BEST ensure all the data is copied consistently?

99. A technician is working on a Linux server. The customer has reported that files in the home directory are missing.

The /etc/ f stab file has the following entry: nfsserver:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0

However, a df -h /home command returns the following information:

/dev/sda2 10G 1G 9G 10% /home

Which of the following should the technician attempt FIRST to resolve the issue?

100. Which of the following script types uses commands That start with sec-?

101. A server administrator wants to run a performance monitor for optimal system utilization.

Which of the following metrics can the administrator use for monitoring? (Choose two.)

102. A server administrator receives the following output when trying to ping a local host:





Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

103. A change in policy requires a complete backup of the accounting server every seven days and a backup of modified data every day.

Which of the following would be BEST to restore a full backup as quickly as possible in the event of a complete loss of server data?

104. A technician is troubleshooting a server issue. The technician has determined several possible causes of the issue and has identified various solutions.

Which of the following should the technician do next?

105. A new 40GB NIC has just been installed in a server but is not detected within the Windows server OS.

Which of the following would most likely fix the issue?

106. A systems administrator is trying to determine why users in the human resources department cannot access an application server. The systems administrator reviews the application logs but does not see any attempts by the users to access the application.

Which of the following is preventing the users from accessing the application server?

107. After installing a new file server, a technician notices the read times for accessing the same file are slower than the read times for other file servers.

Which of the following is the first step the technician should take?

108. An administrator notices a server is offline. Upon checking the console, the administrator discovers the server is stuck at:

Configuring Memory.............

After a reboot, the server still exhibits the same behavior. The administrator is able to log in to the OOB remote management but is unable to log in to the server.

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

109. A server administrator has configured a web server.

Which of the following does the administrator need to install to make the website trusted?

110. A technician is laying out a filesystem on a new Linux server.

Which of the following tools would work BEST to allow the technician to increase a partition's size in the future without reformatting it?

111. A technician is installing a variety of servers in a rack.

Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the technician to take while loading the rack?

112. A newly hired systems administrator is concerned about fileshare access at the company. The administrator turns on DLP for the fileshare and lets it propagate for a week.

Which of the following can the administrator perform now?

113. Which of the following must a server administrator do to ensure data on the SAN is not compromised if it is leaked?

114. A bad actor leaves a USB drive with malicious code on it in a company's parking lot.

Which of the following describes this scenario?

115. Which of the following is used for fail over, providing access to all the services currently in use by an organization without having to physically move any servers or employees?

116. In which of the following media rotation schemes are daily, weekly, and monthly backup media utilized in a first-in, first-out method?

117. Users at a company work with highly sensitive data. The security department implemented an administrative and technical control to enforce least-privilege access assigned to files. However, the security department has discovered unauthorized data exfiltration.

Which of the following is the BEST way to protect the data from leaking?

118. A technician needs to set up a server backup method for some systems. The company’s management team wants to have quick restores but minimize the amount of backup media required.

Which of the following are the BEST backup methods to use to support the management’s priorities? (Choose two.)

119. A technician replaces a single faulted disk in the following array RAID 10, Four 15K SAS HDD The technician replaces it from a disk in spare parts, and the array rebuilds the data in a few minutes. After the array rebuild is complete, the system reports the IOPS on the disk array have dropped by almost 60%.

Which of the following should the technician investigate first?

120. Which of the following security risks provides unauthorized access to an application?

121. Two developers are working together on a project, and they have built out a set of snared servers that both developers can access over the internet.

Which of the following cloud models is this an example of?

122. A technician is preparing a deployment of servers to be used by staff at a remote location.

Which of the following should the technician do to prevent access to the hardware configuration?

123. A technician needs to install a Type 1 hypervisor on a server. The server has SD card slots, a SAS controller, and a SATA controller, and it is attached to a NAS.

On which of the following drive types should the technician install the hypervisor?

124. A server technician is deploying a server with eight hard drives. The server specifications call for a RAID configuration that can handle up to two drive failures but also allow for the least amount of drive space lost to RAID overhead.

Which of the following RAID levels should the technician configure for this drive array?

125. A security analyst completed a port scan of the corporate production-server network. Results of the scan were then provided to a systems administrator for immediate action.

The following table represents the requested changes:





The systems administrator created local firewall rules to block the ports indicated above. Immediately, the service desk began receiving calls about the internet being down. The systems administrator then reversed the changes, and the internet became available again.

Which of the following ports on DNSSrv must remain open when the firewall rules are reapplied?

126. A technician wants to limit disk usage on a server.

Which of the following should the technician implement?

127. A storage administrator is investigating an issue with a failed hard drive. A technician replaced the drive in the storage array; however, there is still an issue with the logical volume.

Which of the following best describes the NEXT step that should be completed to restore the volume?

128. A server administrator mounted a new hard disk on a Linux system with a mount point of /newdisk.

It was later determined that users were unable to create directories or files on the new mount point.

Which of the following commands would successfully mount the drive with the required parameters?

129. Which of the following is the most effective way to mitigate risks associated with privacy-related data leaks when sharing with a third party?

130. A server administrator needs to implement load balancing without purchasing any new hardware or implementing any new software.

Which of the following will the administrator most likely implement?

131. A technician re working on a Linux server and re trying to access another server over the network. The technician gets server not found message when trying to execute ping servername but no error messages when using ping servername. Domain.com.

Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the error?

132. A remote, embedded loT server is having a Linux OS upgrade installed.

Which of the following is the best method to stage the new media for the default boot device of the server?

133. An organization is donating its outdated server equipment to a local charity.

Which of the following describes what the organization should do BEFORE donating the equipment?

134. Which of the following backup methods can be performed while a server is running, will not interrupt files in use, and can be used to fully restore the server if needed?

135. Which of the following would allow a server administrator to ensure all maximum available resources are being utilized?

136. A server room with many racks of servers is managed remotely with occasional on-site support.

Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective option to administer and troubleshoot network problems locally on the servers?

137. A server administrator needs to set up active-passive load balancing for an environment with multiple network paths. The traffic should be directed to one path and switched only in the event that the original path becomes unavailable.

Which of the following describes this scenario?