Q1. A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy. Which of the following implements this backup strategy?
A. Assign a different set of tapes for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.
B. Use a different set of tapes for every two, four, and eight days.
C. Designate a different set of tapes for odd-day and even-day backups.
D. Use a queue to rotate tapes based on the age and usage of the tape.
Answer: A
Q2. Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?
A. Virtual LANs
B. NAT
C. Bridging
D. Virtual NICs
Answer: C
Q3. Which of the following server types translates FQDNs to IP addresses?
A. DHCP
B. SMTP
C. DNS
D. FTP
Answer: C
Q4. A server repeatedly crashes with a BSOD when running an application that uses a high amount of system resources. Which of the following hardware components MOST likely needs to be checked by a technician?
A. Memory
B. Hard drive
C. RAID controller
D. CPU
Answer: A
Q5. A server administrator is implementing disk redundancy in all database servers. Which of the following RAID configurations should the administrator use so that a MINIMUM number of disks are required?
A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 5
D. RAID 6
Answer: B
Q6. An administrator sees a message in the system console that a drive is bad in the single- volume JBOD storage array. A few minutes later, a user calls the help deskto report an inability to read a file from amapped drive.Which of the following should theadministratordo?
A. Swap out the failed drive and let the array rebuild.
B. Allow the array rebuild automatically using the hotspare.
C. Replace the failed drive and restore the data from the last backup.
D. Reseat the failed drive and restore the array using the parity drive.
Answer: C
Q7. A server's runtime during power outages is too short to shut down properly. A system technician is asked to remediate the problem. Which of the following would be the result of adding additional batteries to the UPS?
A. Increased load balancing
B. Extended uptime
C. Greater efficiency
D. Increased power output
Answer: B
Q8. Which of the following is an example of the principle of least privilege and is the MOST secure when granting access to a shared network drive used by the Accounting department?
A. Grant appropriate permissions to only users in the Accounting department for both the share and NTFS
B. Grant all users full control permissions for the share only
C. Grant the Accounting department full control for the share and appropriate NTFS permissions
D. Grant modify permissions to the Accounting department and deny NTFS permissions to all other users
Answer: A
Q9. Users on multiple network segments report that they are unable to retrieve email from a server. Which of the following commands will allow a server technician to ensure that the email service is running on the server?
A. ifconfig
B. ipconfig
C. nbtstat
D. netstat
Answer: D
Q10. A technician is installing a rack mounted server into a rack in a datacenter with CRAC units and blanking panels. Blanking panels are used to:
A. lower the UPS power requirements.
B. limit airflow leakage in the rack.
C. limit the amount of servers that will fit into the rack.
D. color match the server color.
Answer: B
Q11. An administrator was taskedto enforcedisk quotas on the Windows file server. The administratorallocated 1GB of space to each user. A month later, the users were still able to save beyond 1GB. Which of the following check boxes should have been selected?
A. Enable compression
B. Prohibit read/write if limit is reached
C. Deny access if limit is reached
D. Log an event if disk space is reached
Answer: C
Q12. A server administrator is notified that all three hard disks in a server array have failed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A. Incompatible BIOS
B. Backplane failure
C. Cache battery failure
D. Incorrect firmware version
Answer: B
Q13. A number of users are indicating that access to a network file server is responding very slowly when reading or writing to the share. The server administrator notes that a drive has failed in a four-disk RAID 5 array. The array is running in a degraded state because no hot spare was configured. After replacing the failed disk, which of the following steps would be BEST to take to prevent slow response after a drive failure?
A. Add a drive to the array, but do not configure it as a hot spare.
B. Add an additional hard drive, and convert the volume to a RAID 6 configuration.
C. Add an additional hard drive, and convert the volume to a RAID 10 configuration.
D. Add a drive to the array, and configure it as a cold spare.
Answer: B
Q14. A technician needs to add a processor to a server. Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).
A. Bus multiplier
B. Processor speed
C. Socket type
D. Processor stepping
E. L3 cache size
F. Thermal specifications
Answer: B,C,D
Q15. A system administrator needs to directly control a server that has no network connectivity. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this?
A. SSH
B. KVM
C. RDP
D. iLO/iDRAC
Answer: B