Q1. Which of the following methods should a technician perform to properly clear a hard drive before disposal?
A. Delete the FAT
B. Zero all block sectors
C. Delete the partition
D. Zero the NTFS journal
Answer: B
Q2. Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to:
A. uninstall each server application and reinstall the two new applications.
B. install another application to see if this improves the server response time.
C. install antivirus and malware software.
D. uninstall the newly installed applications one at a time.
Answer: D
Q3. Which of the following protocols is considered stateless and utilizes TCP when communicating between a server and client?
A. IMAP
B. SMTP
C. HTTP
D. SSH
Answer: C
Q4. A technician is assigned a task to configure a new server with six hard drives. The senior administrator requested the technician utilize the drives for maximum fault tolerance. Which of the following RAID configurations should the technician use?
A. RAID 3
B. RAID 5
C. RAID 10
D. RAID 0
Answer: C
Q5. A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers?
A. The server's warranty information.
B. The server's life cycle schedule.
C. The asset management database.
D. The software licensing agreement.
Answer: C
Q6. Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?
A. Speed
B. Power consumption
C. Form factor
D. Cost
Answer: D
Q7. An administrator needs to control servers locally via a console. The administrator wants a rack mounted solution for easy access. Which of the following should be installed?
A. iDRAC
B. KVM
C. ILO
D. RDP
Answer: B
Q8. Which of the following is a reason to have a remote cold site readily available in case of a disaster in the primary datacenter?
A. It provides a company with a redundant location that mirrors the primary datacenter hardware but requires no data restoration.
B. It provides a company with a backup location to install the necessary equipment to restore critical services.
C. It provides a company with a backup location equipped with resources necessary for immediate restoration of critical services.
D. It provides a company with a redundant location that mirrors the primary datacenter hardware and data.
Answer: B
Q9. A host server in a small business environment does not have virtual switching configured. The NIC on aguestis configured with an IP address that is on a different subnet from thehost server. Which of the followingwouldMOSTlikely happen in this case?
A. The guest will not have network access to the host or network resources.
B. The guest would have access to all network resources.
C. The guest would have network access to everything but the host.
D. The guest will have network access to the host server.
Answer: A
Q10. A server technician has been tasked with purchasing cables and connectors for a new server room. The server room consists of one switch, two servers, and one IP telephone. Which of the following types of cables and connectors should the technician purchase?
A. Coaxial cable and BNC connectors
B. Straight through Ethernet cable and RJ-45 connectors
C. Silver satin and RJ-11 connectors
D. Crossover Ethernet cable and RJ-11 connectors
Answer: B
Q11. A network administrator installs a new web server and notices that the server was configured with one quad-port NIC. In order to properly provision the hardware resources, how should the NIC be configured?
A. Assign at least one IP address to each port
B. Assign multiple IP addresses to one port
C. Assign one IP address to the quad-port NIC
D. Assign a single IP address to all four ports
Answer: A
Q12. A technician is tasked by an administrator to patch a virtual machine. The technician needs to ensure that in case of failure, recovery of the virtual machine will be possible. Which of the following recovery principles should the technician employ?
A. Incremental
B. Snapshot
C. Bare metal
D. Selective
Answer: B
Q13. A technician needs to install additional memory in a server to help resolve performance issues. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?
A. Perform an impact analysis.
B. Follow change management procedures.
C. Install the additional memory.
D. Update system firmware.
Answer: B
Q14. Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?
A. Root cause analysis
B. Replicating the problem
C. Defining preventative action
D. Theory of probable cause
Answer: A
Q15. A server administrator is bringing a new host online. After the initial OS installation and configuration, the administrator is unable to reach hosts on another subnet. The administrator is able to ping and access other hosts on the same subnet. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?
A. Default gateway
B. Netmask
C. DNS A (AAAA) record
D. DNS reverse lookup entry
Answer: A