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Q1. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database has a table named Customers owned by UserA and another table named Orders owned by UserB. You also have a stored procedure named GetCustomerOrderInfo owned by UserB. GetCustomerOrderInfo selects data from both tables.
You create a new user named UserC.
You need to ensure that UserC can call the GetCustomerOrderInfo stored procedure. You also need to assign only the minimum required permissions to UserC.
Which permission or permissions should you assign to UserC? Choose all that apply.
A. The Select permission on Customers
B. The Execute permission on GetCustomerOrderInfo
C. The Take Ownership permission on Customers
D. The Control permission on GetCustomerOrderInfo
E. The Take Ownership permission on Orders
F. The Select permission on Orders
Answer: AB
Q2. You develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. You create a view from the Orders and OrderDetails tables by using the following definition.
You need to improve the performance of the view by persisting data to disk.
What should you do?
A. Create an INSTEAD OF trigger on the view.
B. Create an AFTER trigger on the view.
C. Modify the view to use the WITH VIEW_METADATA clause.
D. Create a clustered index on the view.
Answer: D
Q3. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that has multiple tables in the Sales schema.
Some users must be prevented from deleting records in any of the tables in the Sales schema.
You need to manage users who are prevented from deleting records in the Sales schema. You need to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
What should you do?
A. Create a custom database role that includes the users. Deny Delete permissions on the Sales schema for the custom database role.
B. Include the Sales schema as an owned schema for the db_denydatawriter role. Add the users to the db_denydatawriter role.
C. Deny Delete permissions on each table in the Sales schema for each user.
D. Create a custom database role that includes the users. Deny Delete permissions on each table in the Sales schema for the custom database role.
Answer: A
Q4. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance named SQL2012. You are in the process of migrating a database from a SQL Server 2008 instance named SQL2008 to the SQL2012 instance.
You have upgraded a database from the SQL2008 instance by using the side-by-side migration technique.
You need to migrate the SQL Server logins from the SQL2008 instance to the SQL2012 instance.
What should you do?
A. Back up the master database on the SQL2008 instance. Restore the master database on the SQL2012 instance.
B. Use the Transfer Logins task in a Microsoft SQL Server Integrated Services package.
C. Use sp_grantlogin.
D. Use xp_logininfo.
Answer: A
Q5. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
You have a SQL Server Agent job instance that runs using the service account. You have a job step within the job that requires elevated privileges.
You need to ensure that the job step can run using a different user account.
What should you use?
A. a schedule
B. an alert
C. an operator
D. a proxy
Answer: D
Q6. You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Inventory that contains a stored procedure named p_AddInventory.
Users need to be able to SELECT from all tables in the database and execute the stored procedure.
You need to grant only the necessary permissions.
What should you do?
A. Grant EXECUTE permission on p_AddInventory to all users. Grant VIEW DEFINITION to all users.
B. Grant EXECUTE permission on p_AddInventory to all users. Add all users to the db_datawriter role.
C. Add all users to the db_owner role.
D. Grant EXECUTE permission on p_Add!nventory to all users. Add all users to the db_datareader role.
Answer: D
Q7. You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Orders.
You need to create a copy of Orders named Orders_Reporting.
Which Transact-SQL command should you use?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Answer: A
Q8. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.
The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:
One of the hard disk drives that stores the reporting database fails at 16:40 hours.
You need to ensure that the reporting database is restoreD. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.
What should you do?
A. Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore each differential backup taken before the time of failure from the most recent full backup.
B. Perform a partial restore.
C. Restore the latest full backup, and restore the latest differential backup. Then, restore the latest log backup.
D. Perform a point-in-time restore.
E. Restore the latest full backup.
F. Perform a page restore.
G. Restore the latest full backup, and restore the latest differential backup. Then, restore each log backup taken before the time of failure from the most recent differential backup.
H. Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore the latest differential backup.
Answer: E
Q9. You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named AdventureWorks2012.
You create an Availability Group defined by the following schema. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)
You need to implement an AlwaysOnAvailablity Group that will meet the following conditions:
Production transactions should be minimally affected.
The secondary server should allow reporting queries to be performed.
If the primary server goes offline, the secondary server should not automatically take over.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you insert at line 06?
A. AVAILABILITY_MODE = SYNCHRONOUS_COMMIT,
FAILOVER_MODE = MANUAL
SECONDARY_ROLE (
ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = READ_ONLY,
READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = 'TCP://SecondaryServer:1433')
PRIMARY_ROLE (
ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = READ_WRITE,
READ_ONLY_ROUTING_LIST = NONE)
B. AVAILABILITY_MODE = SYNCHRONOUS_COMMIT,
FAILOVER_MODE = MANUAL
SECONDARY_ROLE (
ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = READ_ONLY,
READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = 'TCP://SecondaryServer:1433')
C. AVAILABILITY_MODE = ASYNCHRONOUS_COMMIT,
FAILOVER_MODE = MANUAL
SECONDARY_ROLE (
ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = READ_ONLY,
READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = 'TCP://SecondaryServer:1433')
D. AVAILABILITY_MODE = ASYNCHRONOUS_COMMIT,
FAILOVER_MODE = MANUAL
SECONDARY_ROLE (
ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = YES,
READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = 'TCP://SecondaryServer:1433')
Answer: D
Q10. You administer a Windows 2008 server hosting an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition. The server hosts a database named Orders.
Users report that a query that filters on OrderDate is taking an exceptionally long time. You discover that an index named IX_OrderDate on the CustomerOrder table is heavily fragmenteD.
You need to improve the performance of the IX_OrderDate index. The index should remain online during the operation.
Which Transact-SQL command should you use?
A. ALTER INDEX IX_OrderDateON CustomerOrderDISABLE
B. ALTER INDEX IX_OrderDateON CustomerOrderENABLE
C. ALTER INDEX IX_OrderDateON CustomerOrderREORGANIZE
D. ALTER INDEX IX OrderDateON CustomerOrderREBUILD
Answer: C
Q11. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.
When transaction logs grow, SQL Server must send an email message to the database administrators.
You need to configure SQL Server to send the email messages.
What should you configure?
A. SQL Mail
B. An Extended Events session
C. Alerts and operators in SQL Server Agent
D. Policies under Policy-Based Management
Answer: C
Q12. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
A process that normally runs in less than 10 seconds has been running for more than an hour.
You examine the application log and discover that the process is using session ID 60.
You need to find out whether the process is being blocked.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
A. EXEC sp_who 60
B. SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions WHERE sessionjd = 60
C. EXEC sp_helpdb 60
D. DBCC INPUTBUFFER (60)
Answer: A
Q13. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named ContosoDB. The database contains a table named Suppliers and a column named IsActive in the Purchases schemA.
You create a new user named ContosoUser in ContosoDB. ContosoUser has no permissions to the Suppliers table.
You need to ensure that ContosoUser can delete rows that are not active from Suppliers. You also need to grant ContosoUser only the minimum required permissions.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
A. GRANT DELETE ON Purchases. Suppliers TC ContosoUser
B. CREATE PROCEDURE Purchases.PurgelnactiveSuppliers WITH EXECUTE AS USER = 'dbo' AS DELETE FROM Purchases.Suppliers WHERE IsActive = 0 GO GRANT EXECUTE ON Purchases.PurgelnactiveSuppliers TO ContosoUser
C. GRANT SELECT ON Purchases.Suppliers TO ContosoUser
D. CREATE PROCEDURE Purchases. PurgeInactiveSuppliers AS DELETE FROM Purchases.Suppliers WHERE IsActive = 0 GO GRANT EXECUTE ON Purchases. PurgeInactiveSuppliers TO ContosoUser
Answer: B
Q14. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that includes a table named dbo.Log. This table contains millions of records about user activity in an application.
Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention with inserts.
You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize dbo.Log.
Which type of solution should you use?
A. Extended events
B. Columnstore index
C. Partitioned tables
D. Read committed snapshot
Answer: C
Q15. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company. You have two servers in the same data center that hosts your production database.
You need to ensure that the database remains available if a catastrophic server failure or a disk failure occurs.
You also need to maintain transactional consistency of the data across both servers.
You need to achieve these goals without manual intervention.
Which configuration should you use?
A. . Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
. SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
B. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
C. . Two servers configured in the same data center
. A primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes
. A backup server configured as a warm standby
D. . Two servers configured in different data centers
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
. One server configured as an Active Secondary
E. . Two servers configured in the same data center
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
. One server configured as an Active Secondary
F. . Two servers configured in different data centers
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
G. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
H. . Two servers configured on the same subnet
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
Answer: H