A systems administrator has determined that there are several users experiencing problems within two offices that have recently merged into one OU. Users within one of these offices are not having these issues. Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?
Which of the following connects the L2 cache to the processor?
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.)
An administrator has just upgraded a server from non-hot plug storage to all hot plug storage.
The administrator powers up the server, during POST the RAID controller is recognized but none of the drive lights flash.
Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to troubleshoot the problem?
An administrator is connecting a laptop to administer a switch using an Ethernet cable, which works on a PC to a wall jack. The switch is functioning, but the administrator is unable to establish a connection with the switch. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?
Highly classified data is being shared on a company network. The systems administrator needs to ensure the data is safe and only necessary personnel can access it. Which of the following protocols would be BEST to use for this type of data to be shared?
Which of the following BEST describes RAID 10?
A technician is configuring the IP networking portion on a server installation. Which of the following types of IP addresses would be BEST to use for this server?
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?
Which of the following components is required to connect multiple servers to a SAN?
An administrator is installing a server to be used to dynamically assign IP addresses to the network devices. Which of the following server roles must be used?
Which of the following media types allows for the ability to make data written to the media permanent?
A datacenter administrator is reallocating CPU and memory resources for a guest VM. The guest VM runs on a hypervisor that has direct access to the hardware resources being allocated. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario?
Which of the following is BEST described as a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through a fiber channel?
Which of the following will allow devices to be added without turning the server off?
A technician notices inlet temperatures to rack-mounted servers are significantly higher in the center of the rack as compared to the top and bottom of the rack. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?
A server has been operating normally for several months. Users suddenly begin reporting that the server is responding very slowly. Which of the following tools are the BEST choices for the administrator to use to troubleshoot the problem? (Choose two.)
When configuring a DHCP server, which of the following can the administrator define for DHCP users? (Select THREE).
An administrator is decommissioning a company’s old accounting system and will be sending all the hardware to an off-site recycler. Which of the following is the BEST method for the administrator to ensure no company data will be exposed before sending drives to the recycler?
Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server’s operating system locally?
Which of the following memory technologies has the HIGHEST cost to implement?
Which of the following expansion slots is 64-bit?
A power loss during a firmware update would MOST likely result in which of the following?
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?
In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as long as compatible hardware is available. Which of the following backup types meets this requirement?
A system administrator has determined that more storage is needed for company data. The storage requires the highest speed data transfer rate with maximum performance. Which of the following solutions MUST be implemented to meet the business requirements?
A system administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue and runs ipconfig/all on the host. The command returns the following:
IPv4 Address: 169.254.0.12
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
The client is configured for DHCP. Which of the following commands should be run on the client to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).
A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy. Which of the following implements this backup strategy?
A technician is asked to troubleshoot a server that constantly reboots. There are no error messages displayed on the server. Which of the following should the technician check?
Which of the following protocols is considered stateless and utilizes TCP when communicating between a server and client?
A system administrator needs to install an operating system onto a new server in a remote location using PXE. Which of the following methods will BEST accomplish this?
A server technician is investigating a potential data breach. It is believed that the breach occurred via telnet access. Which of the following could validate this hypothesis?
A technician needs to install additional memory in a server to help resolve performance issues. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?
Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?
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?
An organization has agreed on the software that will be used to virtualize the company's web servers. Which of the following should the administrator reference prior to purchasing physical servers to be deployed as hosts in the new virtual architecture?
Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?
A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?
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?
Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?
Two servers are to be configured for high availability in a cluster. Both servers will be running applications at the same time. This feature is known as:
A technician is installing an operating system on a server using source files on a USB storage device. The technician is unable to boot to the USB device using different USB ports on the server. Which of the following should the technician do to ensure that the operating system can be installed from the USB storage?
A system administrator is tasked with dividing the network so that each department is separate from the other. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task?
Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?
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 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 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?
An administrator wishes to use KVM remotely to monitor and control a server farm. In order to perform this function:
A clustered server goes offline due to a backplane failure. Which of the following clusters does not lose capacity when a server goes offline?
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?
A new file server is added to an existing network. Some users are able to connect to this server, while others are not. A partial network configuration on the server shows the following:
Link local: fe80::3000:aff:dea6:f8c/64
Which of the following BEST explains why some users cannot connect to the server?
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?
Joe, a system administrator, is replacing an aging print server. Once he reached the step to join the new server to the existing domain, he kept getting an error and could not complete the step successfully. Which of the following did Joe forget to do?
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:
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?
A user is unable to save an image file to their home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user has enough space and required access to write to the directory. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the user is unable to save the file?
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 systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?
An administrator needs to back up changed files only and has time constraints on the back up window. Which of the following is the BEST choice for a backup strategy?
Which of the following ports should be open on a server that provides IP addressing for clients?
A technician is working on a server that is experiencing network connectivity issues. The technician replaces the NIC on the server, but this does not resolve the issue. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT?
Which of the following replication methods is MOST appropriate when integrating data from multiple remote offices?
An existing server has three 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA drives and five empty drive bays. The network manager orders three 2 TB 5400 RPM SAS drives. The technician installs them properly, but when attempting to provision the drives, a message displays “Type mismatch”. Which of the following is the reason for this error message?
A server has two power supplies. If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?
A user changed departments from sales to accounting. The user is unable to access the shared network drive containing the accounting department's files. Which of the following should a technician check?
A datacenter recently experienced a breach committed by a group that was able to access a server that had been shut down but not disconnected from the network. Which of the following could have prevented the breach from occurring?
A technician reads a hardware manufacturer’s blog indicating a critical firmware update is available for the company’s file server. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
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?
Which of the following default ports should be open on a server for remote administration?
The shortest time to recovery method in the event of a complete datacenter failure is to utilize a:
Server A hosts a mission-critical business application. The server has one disk and one NIC. The administrator has been asked to implement a solution to meet the business requirement that the application must maintain high availability, even in case of a hardware failure. Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?
A server with a number of graphics cards installed was recently upgraded with additional graphics cards. Once the server is started, the system powers off unexpectedly. Prior to the upgrade, the server was stable and exhibited no odd behavior. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?
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 technician is upgrading the memory in a server. The server requires DDR3 Registered DIMMs. The server has four banks of three slots for memory and currently there is one 2GB module in each bank. When the technician attempts to add eight more 4GB modules of DDR3 unbuffered ECC memory, the memory does not fit in the slots. Which of the following is the cause of this issue?
A technician is tasked with connecting a server to a NAS. Which of the following connection types should be used?
A system administrator is tasked to set up a file server. The file server must be able to support access control lists and logging for auditing purposes. To meet these requirements, with which of the following file system types should the administrator format the file system?
A technician reads a hardware manufacturer's blog indicating a critical firmware update is available for the company's file server. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?
A technician is asked to troubleshoot a hardware alert on a server. The server is up and running and all users can access their data. Which of the following could the technician use to find the failed component? (Select TWO).
Which of the following is a benefit of using raised floors with specially configured tiles in a server room?
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?
After successfully authenticating to a remote server, a server administrator is presented with an interactive command line with no graphical interface. Which of the following protocols did the administrator MOST likely use to securely connect to the remote server?
A server has a faulty hard drive, and the administrator needs to replace the hard drive while it is running. The server needs to support which of the following drives?
A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?
A technician is backing up 10 GB of data on a file server to a 250 GB external USB hard drive. After 4 GB has been backed up, the software generates an error that the size of the backup exceeds the file limit. Which of the following file system types is being used?
Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?
A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered?
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?
Which of the following will protect data loss against catastrophic multiple physical drive failure?
An administrator purchases a new server, which contains only one Xeon processor. This server is also known as a:
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?
Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?
In authentication, which of the following represents something you have?
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?
A network administrator is tasked to set up zoning for a SAN infrastructure that requires redundancy. Which of the following types of hardware should the administrator implement?
A datacenter is in a geologically active area and has no earthquake abatement installed. Which of the following drive types is BEST for general server use?
Which of the following would be the BEST configuration when using seven SCSI drives in order to have full fault tolerance?
A technician receives errors that a server’s internal temperarture is approaching an unsafe limit. After opening up the chassis, all fans are operational. Which of the following should be checked NEXT ?
An administrator has been given an OS DVD to install on a server. During setup, however, the DVD gives an
architecture mismatch warning. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A user receives the following error message when attempting to log into a server: Username or password is invalid. Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to fix the problem?
A technician needs to replace a hot swap coolong fan in a server. The server resides at U26 of a 42U rack that is fully populated with servers. The technician is unable to remove the server from the rack without powering off the server first. Which of the following should have been installed at the time the server was installed in the rack?
A server technician is trying to minimize power outages using a UPS that is plugged into an outlet in the server room. Given this scenario, which of the following procedures should be followed to minimize outages?
A user reports they cannot access the network share folder, the users workstation is configured to use automatic IP. When the administrator checks the IP address the response returns as 169.254.0.5.
Which of the following should the administrator verify?
After installing a second processor and corresponding heatsink into a server, an administrator notices that the new processor is not showing up during POST. Which of the following could be the cause of this issue?
Which of the following cable types can be used to decrease susceptibility to electronic eavesdropping?
An administrator is implementing a RAID 10 array on a new server. Which of the following is the MINIMUM
number of disks needed?
Users at a remote site have reported that a regularly used server is inaccessible. The systems administrator knows users at another site also use the same server, so the administrator contacts them to see if the same issue is occurring. Which of the following troubleshooting steps is this an example of?
A server with a large amount of storage but not necessarily a very fast CPU would be BEST suited for which of the following applications?
A junior systems administrator wants to know which components on a server are normally hot-swappable. Which of the following components are usually hot-swappable? (Select TWO).
Which of the following is the FIRST thing that should be done in order to begin reinstalling TCP/IP on the server?
While performing critical maintenance on a remote server, the administrator loses connectivity to the server but is still able to connect to other servers in a central management LAN on the network. If already set up, which of the following methods will allow remote troubleshooting of this unreachable server?
After identifying a problem, but before applying a system change, which of the following is the MOST important task that needs to be completed?
Which of the following plans describes the process by which an organization manages a major outage?
A syslog server is configured to use UDP port 514. The administrator uses Telnet to check port 514 against the syslog server. However, the syslog server is not responding. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the syslog server is not responding?
A server administrator is installing a new OS on a server using an image from the network. The server administrator successfully connects to the network and applies the image. Upon reboot, the system displays the following message: Operating system not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?
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 user reports that email does not work. Which of the following ordered steps should the administrator take to address the issue according to the troubleshooting theory?