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Q1. You have a database named DB1 that stores more than 700 gigabyte (GB) of data and serves millions of requests per hour.

Queries on DB1 are taking longer than normal to complete. You run the following Transact-SQL statement:

SELECT * FROM sys.database_query_store_options

You determine that the Query Store is in Read-Only mode.

You need to maximize the time that the Query Store is in Read-Write mode. Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?

A. ALTER DATABASE DB1SET QUERY_STORE (QUERY_CAPTURE_MODE = ALL)

B. ALTER DATABASE DB1SET QUERY_STORE (MAX_STORAGE_SIZE_MB = 50)

C. ALTER DATABASE DB1SET QUERY_STORE (CLEANUP_POLICY = (STALE_QUERY_THRESHOLD_DAYS = 14));

D. ALTER DATABASE DB1SET QUERY_STORE (QUERY_CAPTURE_MODE = NONE)

Answer: C

Explanation:

Stale Query Threshold (Days): Time-based cleanup policy that controls the retention period of persisted runtime statistics and inactive queries.

By default, Query Store is configured to keep the data for 30 days which may be unnecessarily long for your scenario.

Avoid keeping historical data that you do not plan to use. This will reduce changes to read- only status. The size of Query Store data as well as the time to detect and mitigate the issue will be more predictable. Use Management Studio or the following script to configure time-based cleanup policy:

ALTER DATABASE [QueryStoreDB]

SET QUERY_STORE (CLEANUP_POLICY = (STALE_QUERY_THRESHOLD_DAYS = 14));

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/performance/best-practice-with-the-query-store

Q2. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. A server fails and writes the following event to the application event log:

MSG_AUDIT_FORCED_SHUTDOWN

You configure the SQL Server startup parameters as shown in the following graphic:

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that answers each question. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Answer:

Explanation:

Box 1: single-user

The startup option -m starts an instance of SQL Server in single-user mode.

Box 2: sysadmin

Starting SQL Server in single-user mode enables anymember of the computer's local Administrators group to connect to the instance of SQL Server as a member of the sysadmin fixed server role.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/database-engine-service-startup-options

Q3. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.

You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance. The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to monitor WingDB and gather information for troubleshooting issues. What should you use?

A. sp_updatestats

B. sp_lock

C. sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks

D. sys.dm_tran_active_snapshot_database_transactions

Answer: B

Explanation:

The sp_lock system stored procedure is packaged with SQL Server and will give you insight into the locks that are happening on your system. This procedure returns much of its

information from the syslock info in the master database, which is a system table that contains information on all granted, converting, and waiting lock requests.

Note: sp_lock will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. To obtain information about locks in the SQL Server Database Engine, use the sys.dm_tran_locks dynamic management view.

sys.dm_tran_locks returns information about currently active lock manager resources in SQL Server 2008and later. Each row represents a currently active request to the lock manager for a lock that has been granted or is waiting to be granted.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-lock-transact-sql

Q4. DRAG DROP

You are configuring a new Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group. You plan to configure a shared network location at \\DATA-CI1\SQL.

You need to create an availability group listener named AGL1 on port 1433.

In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

Answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: Launch the Failover Cluster Manager and..

To support theAlways On availability groups feature, ensure that every computer that is to participate in one or more availability groups meets requirements including:

* Ensure that each computer is a node in a WSFC (Windows Server Failover Clustering).

Step 2: Add andconfigure the replica and…

All the server instances that host availability replicas for an availability group must use the same SQL Server collation.

Step 3: Enable the SQL Server 2021 Always On Availability Group feature.

Enable the Always On availability groups feature on each server instance that will host an availability replica for any availability group. On a given computer, you can enable as many server instances for Always On availability groups as your SQL Server installation supports.

Step 4: Create the Always On Availability Group and..

Using Transact-SQL to create or configure an availability group listener

Step 5: Select the Full data synchronization method and… References:

Q5. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this sections, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You need to configure a Microsoft SQL Server instance to ensure that a user named Mail1 can send mail by using Database Mail.

Solution: You add the DatabaseMailUserRole to Mail1 in the tempdb database. Does the solution meet the goal?

A. Yes

B. No

Answer: B

Explanation:

Database Mail is guarded by the database role DatabaseMailUserRole in the msdb database, not the tempdb database, in order to prevent anyone from sending arbitrary emails. Database users or roles must be created in the msdb database and must also be a member of DatabaseMailUserRole in order to send emails with the exception of sysadmin who has all privileges.

Note: Database Mail was first introduced as a new feature in SQLServer 2005 and replaces

the SQL Mail feature found in previous versions.

References:http://www.idevelopment.info/data/SQLServer/DBA_tips/Database_Administration/DBA_20.shtml

Q6. 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:

Q7. A Microsoft SQL Server database named DB1 has two filegroups named FG1 and FG2. You implement a backup strategy that creates backups for the filegroups.

DB1 experiences a failure. You must restore FG1 and then FG2.

You need to ensure that the database remains in the RECOVERING state until the restoration of FG2 completes. After the restoration of FG2 completes, the database must be online.

What should you specify when you run the recovery command?

A. the WITH NORECOVERY clause for FG1 and the WITH RECOVERY clause for FG2

B. the WITH RECOVERY clause for FG1 and the WITH RECOVERY clause for FG2

C. the WITH RECOVERY clause for both FG1 and FG2

D. the WITH NORECOVERY clause for both FG1 and FG2

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:

Q9. 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 UserA is disallowed to select from any of the tables in the Customers schema. Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

A. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA

B. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales

C. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales

D. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA

E. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales

F. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA

G. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales

H. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA

I. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'

J. EXEC sp droprolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'

Answer:

Explanation: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188369.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187750.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff848791.aspx

Q10. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to diagnose deadlocks that happen when executing a specific set of stored procedures by recording events and playing them back on a different test server.

What should you create?

A. an Extended Event session

B. a Policy

C. a Database Audit Specification

D. an Alert

E. a Server Audit Specification

F. a SQL Profiler Trace

G. a Resource Pool

Answer:

Q11. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance named SQL2012 that hosts an OLTP database of 1 terabyte in size.

The database is modified by users only from Monday through Friday from 09:00 hours to 17:00 hours.

Users modify more than 30 percent of the data in the database during the week. Backups are performed as shown in the following schedule:

The Finance department plans to execute a batch process every Saturday at 09:00 hours. This batch process will take a maximum of 8 hours to complete.

The batch process will update three tables that are 10 GB in size. The batch process will update these tables multiple times.

When the batch process completes, the Finance department runs a report to find out whether the batch process has completed correctly.

You need to ensure that if the Finance department disapproves the batch process, the batch operation can be rolled back in the minimum amount of time. What should you do on Saturday?

A. Perform a differential backup at 08:59 hours.

B. Record the LSN of the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 17:01 hours.

C. Create a database snapshot at 08:59 hours.

D. Record the LSN of the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 08:59 hours.

E. Create a marked transaction in the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 17:01 hours.

F. Create a marked transaction in the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 08:59 hours.

Answer:

New questions:

61. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft-SQL Server database named sales Orders.

You need to verify the integrity of the database and attempt to repair any errors that are found. Repair must not cause any data to be lost in the database.

How should you complete the DBCC command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

Q12. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).  A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E). Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.

Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.

A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.

You need to ensure that your backup will continue if any invalid checksum is encountered. Which backup option should you use?

A. STANDBY

B. Differential

C. FULL

D. CHECKSUM

E. BULK_LOGGED

F. CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR

G. SIMPLE

H. DBO_ONLY

I. COPY_ONLY

J. SKIP

K. RESTART

L. Transaction log

M. NO_CHECKSUM

N. NORECOVERY

Answer: F

Explanation: 

Verified answer as correct.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.backuprestorebase.continueaftererror.aspx

Q13. You have a database named DB1 that is configured to use the full recovery model. You have a full daily backup job that runs at 02:00. The job backs up data from DB1 to the file B:\DB1.bak.

You need to restore the DB1 database to the point in time of May 25, 2021 at 02:23 and ensure that the database is functional and starts to accept connections.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

Answer: B

Q14. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.

You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

Clients connect to databases by using line-of-business applications. Developers connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

You need to provide permissions to a service account that will be used to provision a new database for a client.

Which permission should you grant?

A. DDLAdmin

B. db_datawriter

C. dbcreator

D. dbo

E. View Database State

F. View Server State

G. View Definition

H. sysadmin

Answer: C

Explanation:

Members of the dbcreator fixed server role can create, alter, drop, and restore any database.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/authentication-access/server-level-roles

Q15. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.

You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

You have a user database named HRDB that contains sensitive human resources data. The HRDB backup files must be encrypted.

You need to grant the correct permission to the service account that backs up the HRDB database.

Which permission should you grant?

A. DDLAdmin

B. db_datawriter

C. dbcreator

D. dbo

E. View Database State

F. View Server State

G. View Definition

H. sysadmin

Answer: G

Explanation:

Restoring the encrypted backup: SQL Server restore does not require any encryption parameters to be specified during restores. It does require that the certificate or the asymmetric key used to encrypt the backup file be available on the instance that you are restoring to. The user account performing the restore must have VIEW DEFINITION permissions on the certificate or key.

References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup- restore/backup-encryption

Q16. You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You plan to encrypt data when you create backups.

You need to configure the encryption options for backups.

What should you configure?

A. a certificate

B. an MD5 hash

C. a DES key

D. an AES 256-bit key

Answer: D

Explanation:

To encrypt during backup, you must specify an encryption algorithm, and an encryptor to secure the encryption key. The following are the supported encryption options: Encryption Algorithm: The supported encryption algorithms are: AES 128, AES 192, AES 256, and Triple DES

Encryptor: A certificate or asymmetric Key

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup- restore/backup-encryption

Q17. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).  A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E). Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.

Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands.

Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.

A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.

You need to ensure that the backup size is as small as possible. Which backup should you perform every two hours?

A. BULK_LOGGED

B. NO_CHECKSUM

C. FULL

D. RESTART

E. CHECKSUM

F. STANDBY

G. DBO.ONLY

H. NORECOVERY

I. SIMPLE

J. Transaction log

K. Differential

L. CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR

M. COPY_ONLY

N. SKIP

Answer:

Explanation: 

Verified answer as correct.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191429.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179478.aspx

Q18. HOTSPOT

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.

You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1. The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O. Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads

data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore

indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location

\\SQLBackup\. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups. The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to create the connection strings for the operations and reporting systems. In the table below, identify the option that must be specified in each connection string. NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

Answer:

Explanation:

Reporting system: Connect to any current read-only replica instance

We configure Read-OnlyAccess on an Availability Replica. We select Read-intent only. Only read-only connections are allowed to secondary databases of this replica. The secondary database(s) are all available for read access.

From Scenario: Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas.

Operating system: Connect to the current primary replica SQL instance

By default both read-write and read-intent access are allowed to the primary replica and no connections are allowed to secondary replicas of an Always On availability group.

From scenario: Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/configure-read-only-access-on-an-availability-replica-sql-server

Q19. You administer a SQL 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 remove the Select permission for UserA on the Regions table.

You also need to ensure that UserA can still access all the tables in the Customers schema, including the Regions table, through the Sales role permissions. Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

A. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA

B. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA

C. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'

D. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA

E. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales

F. EXEC sp_droproiemember 'Sales', 'UserA'

G. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA

H. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales

I. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales

J. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales

Answer: D

Explanation: 

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Q20. DRAG DROP

You are the database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You develop an Extended Events package to look for events related to application performance.

You need to change the event session to include SQL Server errors that are greater than error severity 15.

Which five Transact-SQL segments should you use to develop the solution? To answer, move the appropriate Transact-SQL segments from the list of Transact-SQL segments to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

Answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: ALTER EVENT SESSION Contoso1 ON SERVER 

Step 2: ADD EVENT …

Step 3: (ACTION ... Step 4: WHERE...

Step 5: ) GO

Example: To start an Extended Events sessions in order to trap SQL Server errors with severity greater than 10,just run the following script:

CREATE EVENT SESSION [error_trap] ON SERVER

ADD EVENT sqlserver.error_reported (

ACTION

(package0.collect_system_time,package0.last_error,sqlserver.client_app_name,sqlserver.c lient_hostname,sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.database_name,sqlserver.nt_username, sqlserver.plan_handle,sqlserver.query_hash,sqlserver.session_id,sqlserver.sql_text,sqlser ver.tsql_frame,sqlserver.tsql_stack,sqlserver.username)

WHERE ([severity]>10)

)

ADD TARGET package0.event_file (

SET filename=N'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\XEvents\error_trap.xel'

) WITH (

STARTUP_STATE=OFF

) GO

Q21. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this sections, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2021 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.

You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1. Solution: You migrate DB1 to a named instance on a server than runs Microsoft SQL

Server 2021 Standard edition.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A. Yes

B. No

Answer: B

Explanation:

All editions of SQL Server support server level audits. All editions support database level audits beginning with SQL Server 2021 SP1. Prior to that, database level auditing was limited to Enterprise, Developer, and Evaluation editions.

References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/auditing/sql-server-audit-database-engine

Q22. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).  A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E). Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.

Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands.

Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time. A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours.

Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours. You need to ensure that the minimum amount of data is lost.

Which recovery model should the database use?

A. FULL

B. DBO_ONLY

C. CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR

D. CHECKSUM

E. NO_CHECKSUM

F. SIMPLE

G. Transaction log

H. SKIP

I. RESTART

J. COPY_ONLY

K. NORECOVERY

L. BULK_LOGGED

M. Differential

N. STANDBY

Answer:

Explanation: 

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189275.aspx

Q23. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.

You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You implement Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).

A user will assist in managing TDE.

You need to ensure that the user can view the TDE metadata while following the principle of lease privilege.

Which permission should you grant?

A. DDLAdmin

B. db_datawriter

C. dbcreator

D. dbo

E. View Database State

F. View Server State

G. View Definition

H. sysadmin

Answer: G

Explanation:

Viewing the metadata involved with TDE requires the VIEW DEFINITION permissionon the certificate.

References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/encryption/transparent-data-encryption-tde

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