A database server stops responding to requests, and the administrator suspects that the server is experiencing memory faults during heavy network traffic and database access. Which of the following is the FIRST troubleshooting step?
Which of the following is the purpose of an NTP server?
When attempting to diagnose service access issues between multiple hosts that coordinate information, which of the following can be used to track dependencies?
An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations. Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?
Several of the finance department computers are experiencing timeouts while in their financial program. The program will not open or close; however, the previous day the program was running without issues. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?
When troubleshooting a failed backup, a technician runs the backup using the same tape but on a different tape drive in the same tape library. The backup fails again. Which of the following should be the FIRST item the technician should examine as a failure?
A server administrator is researching the purchase of SSD for a server. The administrator receives a report from the datacenter technician detailing current storage requirements and future growth planning estimates as follows:
ServerA: Current-15TB-Future-50% growth
ServerB: Current-20TB-Future-80% growth
Based on this report, which of the following represents the MINIMUM storage requirements needed?
Which of the following protocols can be used to perform configuration management on a remote server using the MOST secure methods? (Select TWO).
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 blade chassis can hold 16 half-height blades or eight full-height blades. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of half-height blades that can be installed in the chassis if six full-height blades are already installed?
A server technician in a datacenter configures a daemon to monitor the battery health in a UPS. Over a two day time period, the daemon generates a warning message. Which of the following represents the FIRST action that should be taken by the server technician?
A server technician is performing a server installation. This server must be able to resolve host names for users running a variety of client operating systems. At a minimum, which of the following services should be enabled on the new server? (Select TWO).
An administrator needs to perform a backup of all servers for an upcoming disaster recovery exercise at a company cold site. Which of the following types of backup should be performed?
Swap space or page file is reserved on the:
A server technician is connecting a server to a switch in the server room. Both the server and the switch are equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Which of the following cable choices would produce the BEST throughput?
A technician is troubleshooting an issue with a new server, which is unable to download OS patches from the Internet. The technician reviews the following configuration:
Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : comptia.org
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . : fe80::c95:3f59:1a01:c050%11
IPv4 Address . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.20
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.129
Which of the following is the reason that the server is unable to connect to the Internet?
A system administrator needs to rebuild a server by booting to the OS DVD. The server powers up but attempts to boot from the network. Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?
A server administrator is configuring a new server for an organization. The server will function as a firewall and proxy server, as well as provide NAT services for other devices on the network. Which of the following BEST describes how the network hardware on the server should be configured?
Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?
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?
An ISP is currently drafting and compiling a Service Level Agreement that states there should only be 5.26 minutes of downtime per year, 25.9 seconds per month, and 6.05 seconds per week. Which of the following percentages should be used to meet these metrics?
An emergency power off accidentally occurs in a datacenter during a fire alarm test. On recovery, the server administrator notices that an external storage array is performing consistency checks on all the volumes configured in the array. Which of the following components of the storage array has MOST likely failed or faulted?
A customer reports that connectivity to their web server has been sporadic throughout the morning. An administrator has applied OS patches periodically throughout the morning and rebooted the server. Which of the following has the administrator MOST likely violated?
A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the company have?
Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?
Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?
When looking at an organization's file server configuration, an IT manager determines that several outages are tied to a lack of redundancy in the disk controller configuration. Which of the following features would the IT manager look for in a new configuration to correct this?
In a Windows environment, a user is able to access the network folder and open items, but is not able to delete anything. Which of the following folder permissions does the user require?
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 system administrator has a database server that crashes at random times. No changes have been made to either the server's software or hardware. Which of the following is the FIRST step the administrator should take towards resolving this issue?
A technician is tasked with providing network-based high availability to a pair of identical web servers. Which of the following minimum server NIC configurations fulfills these requirements?
A technician working in the datacenter has finished racking a new 4U server into a new rack. Which of the following should the technician do to allow for hot/cold aisle containment?
An administrator was tasked to enforce disk quotas on the Windows file server. The administrator allocated 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?
Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?
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?
After a migration to a new server, users report that they are unable to save files to their home directories. A check of the permissions on the home directories indicate that the permissions are set as follows:
User: r-x
Group: r--
Other: r-x
A server administrator verifies the correct user and group ownership of the home directories. Which of the following will MOST likely resolve the issue?
A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?
A technician would like to restrict when internal hardware components on the server are accessed. Which of the following server hardening techniques should the technician implement?
A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?
A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?
Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?
A technician is configuring switches with SFP ports on multiple floors in a building. A switch on the first floor must be connected to a switch on the second floor for trunking VLAN traffic. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate cable type for the technician to use?
Which of the following authentication protocols could be used to authenticate network administrators at a datacenter to manage switches over a remote SSH connection? (Select TWO).
A company has 700 servers installed in 50 server racks in the datacenter. The Chief Technology Officer issued a memorandum to the IT department with a directive to reduce power and cooling consumptions by 50% in the datacenters. Which of the following should the system administrators recommend?
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?
Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?
A server administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to connect to two servers simultaneously. Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator?
Which of the following server types is commonly used for authentication and credential storage?
A server technician has installed a full rack in a server room and must place the following items in the rack:
One 2U server
One 2U firewall
One 1U server
Two 3U UPS devices
Which of the following describes how the technician should arrange the rack?
A technician is installing a new server with redundant power supplies in an ISO-certified datacenter. Which of
the following should the technician perform?
An application update that provides new features was just released. Which of the following is the BEST way to
deliver this to the users?
A system is having disk performance issues, and the administrator wants to upgrade the storage system. Which of the following would provide the fastest and MOST reliable storage?
A systems administrator attempts to shut down a server, but the server will not cleanly power down. The administrator then performs a power cycle on the server. When the server is back online, which of the following should the administrator check?
The process of provisioning guest and host virtualization is considered:
A systems administrator has created a guest VM on a hypervisor host. The guest VM would need to have a dynamic IP address assignment on the same subnet as the hypervisor. Which of the following network connectivity types should the administrator configure?
An administrator is asked to harden a Linux server after installing the OS. Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST?
An administrator is editing permissions on a workstation’s file share. The administrator wishes to ensure that only marketing and accounting can write to the share over the network. IT staff should be able to modify share contents, but no other groups should have access to the network share. The existing permissions are:
Which of the following changes should be made to apply the share while preserving the access of local users? (Choose two.)
A systems administrator is configuring new storage for a high availability server. Which of the following RAID
configurations can still function it half its disks are lost?
A technician wants to copy files from one server to another by connecting the servers directly. Which of the following cables should the technician install to achieve this?
Which of the following allows for a connection of devices to both sides inside of a blade enclosure?
A backup administrator has created a schedule to run a full backup on Friday and an incremental backup Monday through Thursday. On which of the following days of the week will the backup clear the archive bit on files during the backup?
Management has requested a DRP. It will be used to ensure the return to operation in a timely manner. Which of the following topics should be included? (Choose three.)
An administrator needs to install a server located in an industrial environment. Workers often use electrical
equipment nearby, and the server will be almost 500ft (152m) from the nearest switch. Which of the following is
the BEST choice for network cabling?
Which of the following failover designs BEST describes a warm site?
A technician receives a report that two users are having difficulty retaining connections to a server hosting a company application. On testing, the technician sees the following:
Given these symptoms, which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?
A datacenter’s redundant PDUs were recently upgraded. Each server rack is connected to the datacenter’s PDUs. While testing power redundancy, one of the datacenter PDUs was turned off, and a server rack lost power completely. Which of the following scenarios BEST describes the problem?
An administrator has 120V, 150-amp service in the datacenter. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of servers with a faceplate rating of 65W that can be racked in the datacenter?
A technician is troubleshooting a blade server with correctable memory errors on only one DIMM. Which of the
following troubleshooting steps should the technician take FIRST?
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A server that can store extensible schema and communicate using SQL for describing transactions to be performed is commonly called a:
Users report that they are unable to connect to a server. An administrator confirms that it is unreachable across the network. Other administrators have been working in the server room throughout the day. Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should take?
When using multifactor authentication, which of the following describes something you have?
An administrator is sizing a new server for a 500GB database application. Which of the following components on the server will provide the BEST performance?
A systems administrator is unable to back up user files. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for this issue?
A sever administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to simultaneously connect to two servers. Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator?
An administrator needs to deploy 1,000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?
A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no change between production and the remote site. Which of the following site types BEST represents the purpose of this remote site?
Which of the following services provides users with directory services?
A secondary office location containing servers already configured with all necessary software and files to minimize downtime is considered to be which of the following types of disaster recovery sites?
Which of the following replication methods is MOST appropriate when integrating data from multiple remote offices?
A server technician is connecting a server directly to a multilayer switch, without MDI-X. Which of the following cables should the server technician use?
Which of the following RAID configurations consists of mirrored disks?
An outside contractor is hired to perform a business impact analysis of a simulated disaster. The contractor asks stakeholders what they think a hurricane would do to the business. This is an inadequate method because:
Which of the following describes a root cause analysis?
A technician is setting up a server with a RAID 1 array for the boot partition and a RAID 5 array for the data partition. Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed to implement these partitions?
Which of the following commands displays the network path between two devices?
A technician needs to install another PCle NIC in a server. The server currently has four fully populated PCle slots. Which of the following must the technician install before installing the card?
An administrator is setting up LDAP in the environment to allow directory services authentication and login, and wants to allow secure connection only. Which of the following network ports should be allowed on the internal and external firewalls?
Multiple users report that an application attempting to open a file retrieved from a server reports that the file is corrupted. Which of the following applications can be used on the server to verify file integrity?
A manager has noticed that the staff of administrators spends a lot of time running power cords and network cables when installing new servers. The manager would like to reduce the amount of time administrators spend doing the power and network cabling. Which of the following will BEST allow staff to reduce that time?
At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)
A blade server indicates it has a failed hard disk in Slot 0. This is the third instance of Slot 0 disk failure in three months. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the failed hard disk in Slot 0?
A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?
When setting up a new Linux server that will require files larger than 2 TB in size, which of the following file system types should be used?
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 desk to report an inability to read a file from a mapped drive. Which of the following should the administrator do?
In order for a server to fully function as a web server, which of the following default ports should be open? (Select TWO).
A server has recently been configured as a network firewall. After the firewall was configured, users could no longer access a remote server. Which of the following, if properly configured on the firewall, will allow users to have secure access to the remote server? (Select TWO).
A company's legal and regulatory departments have drafted a new policy in which emails must be retained for no longer than three years. Which of the following locations should an administrator configure when complying with the new policy? (Select THREE).
Which of the following is a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through an iSCSI connection?
Which of the following assists with airflow in a server? (Select TWO).
When disposing of computer equipment, which of the following can present an environmental hazard?
An enterprise administrator has a server that requires private communication between the application team and the administrator’s team. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet this requirement?
A company has had problems with their HVAC system being able to cool their datacenter as they have grown. Which of the following could BEST be used to help reduce the load on the HVAC system?
A security incident occurs that requires a systems administrator to take an image of a user’s workstation hard drive. Which of the following should be taken at the time the system image is generated and retained through the file of the investigation to assure files have not been modified since?
Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?
An administrator is looking to apply a new service pack for an OS on several systems that run business critical applications for a large international finance corporation.
Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST?
A technician is logged into the network through VPN. Which of the following utilities can be used to connect to a server to verify a process is running? (Choose two.)
The last available backup is from 12 months ago. Which of the following should an administrator perform prior to applying a critical application patch to a guest OS? (Choose two.)
A server administrator is formulating a DRP for an organization. The DRP specifies that all backups must be saved in a format that supports linear data access. Which of the following media types would meet this objective?
When installing processors with mixed stepping levels in a server, which of the following guidelines must be followed? (Select TWO).
Which of the following BEST describes RAID 0?
In a workgroup, all of the following steps are required for a DHCP server EXCEPT:
An administrator has purchased monitoring software that can be configured to alert administrators when hardware and applications are having issues. All devices are configured with SNMP, but the administrator wants to further secure the SNMP traffic. Which of the following settings would BEST provide additional monitoring security? (Select TWO).
Which of the following can occur if the maximum rated load is exceeded on an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)?
Which of the following is an advantage of blade servers over rack-mount servers?
When an administrator is troubleshooting a system, which of the following describes the NEXT course of action if a change does not solve the problem?
Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select TWO).
An administrator has purchased monitoring software that can be configured to send alerts when hardware and applications are having issues. Which of the following must be installed on the monitoring server so that it can properly monitor details on vendor specific devices?
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