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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. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.
You need to ensure that an OLTP database that uses a storage area network (SAN) remains available if any of the servers fail.
You also need to minimize the amount of storage used by the database. Which configuration should you use?
A. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
B. • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
C. • 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
D. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
E. • 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
F. • Two servers configured on the same subnet
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
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: H
Q3. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to write messages to the Application Log when users are added to or removed from a fixed server role in Server01. What should you create?
A. a Database Audit Specification
B. a Policy
C. an Alert
D. a SQL Profiler Trace
E. a Resource Pool
F. an Extended Event session
G. a Server Audit Specification
Answer: G
Q4. 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
Q5. HOTSPOT
You are configuring log shipping for a Microsoft SQL Server database named salesOrders. You run the following Transact-SQL script:
You need to determine the changes that the script has on the environment.
How does the script affect the environment? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: is
The dedicated backup file share is \\localhost\Backup
Box 2: does not run
The only thing with a name related to ADATM-SQL11 is the schedule name.
Box 3: 72 hours
4320 minutes equals 72 hours.
Note: @backup_retention_period= ] backup_retention_period
Isthe length of time, in minutes, to retain the log backup file in the backup directory on the primary server. backup_retention_period is int, with no default, and cannot be NULL.
Box 4: 15 minutes.
[ @freq_subday_type = ] freq_subday_type
Specifies the units for freq_subday_interval. freq_subday_typeis int, with a default of 0, and can be one of these values.
Here it is 4, which means minutes.
[ @freq_subday_interval = ] freq_subday_interval
The number of freq_subday_type periods to occur between eachexecution of a job. freq_subday_intervalis int, with a default of 0. Note: Interval should be longer than 10 seconds. freq_subday_interval is ignored in those cases where freq_subday_type is equal
to 1.
Here it is 15.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-add-schedule-transact-sql
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-add-log-shipping-primary-database-transact-sql
Q6. HOTSPOT
You have a Microsoft SQL Server instance that hosts a database named DB1 that contains 800 gigabyte (GB) of data. The database is used 24 hours each day. You implement indexes and set the value of the Auto Update Statistics option set to True.
Users report that queries take a long time to complete.
You need to identify statistics that have not been updated for a week for tables where more than 1,000 rows changed.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, configure the
appropriate Transact-SQL segments in the answer area.
Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: stats_date See example below.
Box 2: rowmodctr See examplebelow.
Box 3: stats_date
You need to identify statistics that have not been updated for a week.
Box 4: rowmodctr
You need to identify that more than 1,000 rows changed.
Rowmodctr counts the total number of inserted, deleted, or updated rows since the last time statistics were updated for the table.
Example: We will query every statistics object which was not updated in the last day and has rows modified since the last update. We will use the rowmodctr field of sys.sysindexes because it shows how many rows were inserted, updated or deleted since the last update occurred. Please note that it is not always 100% accurate in SQL Server 2005 and later, but it can be used to check if any rows were modified.
--Get the list of outdated statistics SELECTOBJECT_NAME(id),name,STATS_DATE(id, indid),rowmodctr
FROM sys.sysindexes
WHERE STATS_DATE (id, indid)<=DATEADD(DAY,-1,GETDATE())
AND rowmodctr>0
AND id IN (SELECT object_id FROM sys.tables) GO
After collecting this information, we can decide which statistics require an update. References:
Q7. 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: H
Q8. 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
Q9. 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
Q10. 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:
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
Q11. 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: J
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
Q12. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.
After a routine shutdown, the drive that contains tempdb fails.
You need to be able to start the SQL Server. What should you do?
A. Modify tempdb location in startup parameters.
B. Start SQL Server in minimal configuration mode.
C. Start SQL Server in single-user mode.
D. Configure SQL Server to bypass Windows application logging.
Answer: B
Explanation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186400.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345408.aspx
Q13. 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
Q14. 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 reduce the amount of time it takes to backup OperationsMain. What should you do?
A. Modify the backup script to use the keyword SKIP in the FILE_SNAPSHOT statement.
B. Modify the backup script to use the keyword SKIP in the WITH statement
C. Modify the backup script to use the keyword NO_COMPRESSION in the WITH statement.
D. Modify the full database backups script to stripe the backup across multiple backup files.
Answer: D
Explanation:
One of the filegroup is read_only should be as it only need to be backup up once. Partial backups are useful whenever you want to exclude read-only filegroups. A partial backup resembles a full database backup, but a partial backup does not contain all the filegroups. Instead, for a read-write database, a partial backup contains the data in the primary filegroup, every read-write filegroup, and, optionally, one or more read-only files. A partial backup of a read-only database contains only the primary filegroup.
From scenario: Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMainthat 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.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/partial-backups-sql-server
Q15. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.
You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in near real time.
You also need to ensure that data on the primary server is unaffected. Which configuration should you use?
A. • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
B. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
C. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
D. • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
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 on the same subnet
G. • Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
• SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
H. • 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
Answer: A
Original Answer is A and I'll agree as it's the only one using Transactional Replication.
Must be to do with "You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in
near real time. "
Q16. You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance.
You plan to install a new application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The application login requires sysadmin permissions.
You need to ensure that the application login is unable to access other production databases. What should you do?
A. Use the SQL Server default instance and configure an affinity mask.
B. Install a new named SQL Server instance on the server.
C. Use the SQL Server default instance and enable Contained Databases.
D. Install a new default SQL Server instance on the server.
Answer: B
Explanation:
I would have gone with Contained Databases, but the application requires sysadmin permissions.
Q17. 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
Q18. 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 Sales role, including UserA, is disallowed to select from any of the tables in the Customers schema. Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
A. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA
B. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
C. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
D. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
E. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
F. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
G. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA
H. EXEC sp_droprolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
I. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
J. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
Answer: F
Explanation:
References:
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
Q19. 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
Q20. 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: F
Q21. 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: H
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
Q22. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to be notified immediately when fatal errors occur on Server01. What should you create?
A. an Alert
B. a Server Audit Specification
C. an Extended Event session
D. a Resource Pool
E. a Policy
F. a SQL Profiler Trace
G. a Database Audit Specification
Answer: A
Q23. DRAG DROP
You administer a database that is used for reporting purposes. The database has a large fact table that contains three hundred million rows. The table includes a clustered columnstore index and a nonclustered index on the ProductID column. New rows are inserted into the table every day.
Performance of queries that filter the Product ID column have degraded significantly.
You need to improve the performance of the queries.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
Step 1: Drop the clustered columnstore index
Step 2: Create a clustered rowstore index on ProductID.
Rowstore indexes perform best on queries that seek into the data, searching for a particular value, or for queries on a small range of values. Use rowstore indexes with transactional workloads since they tend to require mostly table seeks instead of table scans.
Step 3: Create a nonclustered index on ProductID