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Q1. You develop a database for a travel application.
You need to design tables and other database objects.
You create a stored procedure.
You need to supply the stored procedure with multiple event names and their dates as parameters.
What should you do?
A. Use the CAST function.
B. Use the DATE data type.
C. Use the FORMAT function.
D. Use an appropriate collation.
E. Use a user-defined table type.
F. Use the VARBINARY data type.
G. Use the DATETIME data type.
H. Use the DATETIME2 data type.
I. Use the DATETIMEOFFSET data type.
J. Use the TODATETIMEOFFSET function.
Answer: E
Q2. You administer a SQL Server 2012 database instance.
You need to configure the SQL Server Database Engine service on a failover cluster.
Which user account should you use?
A. A domain user
B. The BUILTIN\SYSTEM account
C. A local user with Run as Service permissions
D. TheSQLBrowser account
Answer: A
Q3. You have three tables that contain data for vendors, customers, and agents. You create a view that is used to look up telephone numbers for these companies.
The view has the following definition: You need to ensure that users can update only the phone numbers by using this view. What should you do?
A. Alter the view. Use the EXPAND VIEWS query hint along with each SELECT statement.
B. Drop the view. Re-create the view by using the SCHEMABINDING clause, and then create an index on the view.
C. Create an AFTER UPDATE trigger on the view.
D. Create an INSTEAD OF UPDATE trigger on the view.
Answer: D
Q4. You administer a SQL Server 2012 server that contains a database named SalesDb. SalesDb contains a schema named Customers that has a table named Regions. A user named UserA is a member of a role named Sales. UserA is granted the Select permission on the Regions table. The Sales role is granted the Select permission on the Customers schema.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
The Sales role does not have the Select permission on the Customers schema. UserA has the Select permission on the Regions table.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
A. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
B. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
C. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
D. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
E. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
F. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA
G. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
H. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FOR UserA
I. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
J. EXEC sp_droprolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
Answer: D
Q5. You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ProdSrv1 and ProdSrv2. ProdSrv1 is configured as a Distributor. Both servers are configured to use the Windows NT Service virtual accounts for all SQL Services.
You are configuring snapshot replication from ProdSrv1 to ProdSrv2 by using ProdSrv2 as
a pull subscriber.
The distribution agent on ProdSrv2 regularly fails, displaying the following error message:
"Cannot access the file. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)."
You need to configure the distribution agent by granting only the minimum required access to all accounts.
What should you do?
A. Configure the Subscriber to use the Local System account.
B. Configure the SQL Server Agent service to run under the Local System account.
Configure the Subscriber to use the SQL Server Agent service account.
C. Configure the SQL Server Agent service to run under a Windows domain account. Configure the Subscriber to use the SQL Server Agent service account. Grant FULL CONTROL access for the domain account to the ReplData share on ProdSrv1.
D. Configure the Subscriber to use a Windows domain account. Grant READ access for the domain account to the ReplData share on ProdSrv1.
Answer: D
Q6. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition server that uses 64 cores.
You discover performance issues when complex calculations are performed on large amounts of data under heavy system load.
You need to limit the number of cores that handle the processing.
What should you configure?
A. Max worker threads
B. Processor affinity
C. I/O affinity
D. Lightweight pooling
Answer: C
Q7. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.
You need to configure a new database to support FILETABLES.
What should you do? Choose all that apply.
A. Disable FILESTREAM on the Database.
B. Enable FILESTREAM on the Server Instance.
C. Configure the Database for Partial Containment.
D. Create a non-empty FILESTREAM file group.
E. Enable Contained Databases on the Server Instance.
F. Set the FILESTREAM directory name on the Database.
Answer: BDF
Q8. You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to write code for a transaction that contains several statements.
There is high contention between readers and writers on several tables used by your transaction. You need to minimize the use of the tempdb space.
You also need to prevent reading queries from blocking writing queries.
Which isolation level should you use?
A. SERIALIZABLE
B. SNAPSHOT
C. READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT
D. REPEATABLE READ
Answer: C
Q9. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains a table named AccountTransaction.
You discover that query performance on the table is poor due to fragmentation on the IDX_AccountTransaction_AccountCode non-clustered index.
You need to defragment the index. You also need to ensure that user queries are able to use the index during the defragmenting process.
Which Transact-SQL batch should you use?
A. ALTER INDEX IDX_AccountTransaction_AccountCode ON AccountTransaction.AccountCode REORGANIZE
B. ALTER INDEX ALL ON AccountTransaction REBUILD
C. ALTER INDEX IDX_AccountTransaction_AccountCode ON AccountTransaction.AccountCode REBUILD
D. CREATE INDEX IDXAccountTransactionAccountCode ON AccountTransaction.AccountCode WITH DROP EXISTING
Answer: A
Q10. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.
You need to ensure that an OLTP database that includes up-to-the-minute reporting requirements can be off-loaded from the primary database to another server. You also need to be able to add indexes to the secondary database.
Which configuration should you use?
A. . Two servers configured in different data centers
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
. One server configured as an Active Secondary
B. . 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
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 Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
E. . Two servers configured on the same subnet
. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
F. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
G. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
H. . Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
. SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
Answer: F
Q11. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 failover cluster that contains two nodes named Node A and Node B. A single instance of SQL Server is installed on the cluster.
An additional node named Node C has been added to the existing cluster.
You need to ensure that the SQL Server instance can use all nodes of the cluster.
What should you do?
A. Create a ConfigurationFile.ini file from Node B, and then run the AddNode command-line tool on Node A.
B. Use Node A to install SQL Server on Node C.
C. Run the Add Node to SQL Server Failover Cluster Wizard on Node C.
D. Use Cluster Administrator to add a new Resource Group to Node B.
Answer: C
Q12. Your database contains a table named Purchases. The table includes a DATETIME column named PurchaseTime that stores the date and time each purchase is made. There is a non-clustered index on the PurchaseTime column. The business team wants a report that displays the total number of purchases made on the current day. You need to write a query that will return the correct results in the most efficient manner.
Which Transact-SQL query should you use?
A. SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Purchases
WHERE PurchaseTime = CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE())
B. SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Purchases
WHERE PurchaseTime = GETDATE()
C. SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Purchases
WHERE CONVERT(VARCHAR, PurchaseTime, 112) = CONVERT(VARCHAR,
GETDATE(), 112)
D. SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Purchases
WHERE PurchaseTime >= CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE())
AND PurchaseTime < DATEADD(DAY, 1, CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE()))
Answer: D
Q13. 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:
At 16:20 hours, you discover that pages 17, 137, and 205 on one of the database files are corrupted on the transactional database. You need to ensure that the transactional database is restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.
What should you do?
A. Perform a partial restore.
B. 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.
C. Perform a point-in-time restore.
D. Restore the latest full backup.
E. Restore the latest full backup, and restore the latest differential backup. Then, restore the latest log backup.
F. Perform a page restore.
G. Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore each differential backup taken before the time of failure from the most recent full backup.
H. Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore the latest differential backup.
Answer: F
Q14. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
The database contains a Product table created by using the following definition:
You need to ensure that the minimum amount of disk space is used to store the data in the Product table.
What should you do?
A. Convert all indexes to Column Store indexes.
B. Implement Unicode Compression.
C. Implement row-level compression.
D. Implement page-level compression.
Answer: D
Q15. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
Users report that an application that accesses the database displays an error, but the error does not provide meaningful information. No entries are found in the SQL Server log or Windows event logs related to the error.
You need to identify the root cause of the issue by retrieving the error message.
What should you do?
A. Create an Extended Events session by using the sqlserver.error_reported event.
B. Create a SQL Profiler session to capture all ErrorLog and EventLog events.
C. Flag all stored procedures for recompilation by using sp_recompile.
D. Execute sp_who.
Answer: A