Practice Assessment B

An administrator is configuring a server that will host a high-performance financial application. Which of the following disk types will serve this purpose?

• ·          SAS drive with 10000rpm

• ·          SAS SSD

• ·          SATA SSD

• ·          SATA drive with 15000rpm

Which of the following describes the installation of an OS contained entirely within another OS installation?

• ·          Host

• ·          Bridge

• ·          Hypervisor

• ·          Guest

A technician is trying to determine the reason why a Linux server is not communicating on a network. The returned network configuration is as follows:

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 127.0.0.1 network 255.255.0.0 broadcast 127.0.0.1

• ·          The server is configured to use DHCP, but DHCP server is sending incorrect subnet mask

• ·          The server is configured to use DHCP, but DHCP is sending an incorrect MTU setting

• ·          The server is configured to use DHCP on a network that does not have a DHCP server

• ·          The server is configured to use DHCP on a network that has multiple scope options

 

A server technician is deploying a server with eight hard drives. The server specifications call for a RAID configuration that can handle up to two drive failures but also allow for the least amount of drive space lost to RAID overhead.

Which of the following RAID levels should the technician configure for this drive array?

• ·          RAID 6

• ·          RAID 10

• ·          RAID 5

• ·          RAID 0

Ann, an administrator, is configuring a two-node cluster that will be deployed. To check the cluster's functionality, she shuts down the active node. Cluster behaviour is as expected, and the passive node is now active. Ann powers on the server again and wants to return to the original configuration.

Which of the following cluster features will allow Ann to complete this task?

• ·          Redundancy

• ·          Failback

• ·          Heartbeat

• ·          Load balancing

Which of the following policies would be BEST to deter a brute-force login attack?

• ·          Account age threshold

• ·          Password reuse

• ·          Account lockout threshold

• ·          Password complexity

Users in an office lost access to a file server following a short power outage. The server administrator noticed the server was powered off.

Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent this situation in the future?

• ·          Connect the server to a redundant network

• ·          Connect the server to a UPS

• ·          Use cable management

• ·          Connect the server to a KVM

Which of the following should an administrator use to transfer log files from a Linux server to a Windows workstation?

• ·          robocopy

• ·          xcopy

• ·          scp

• ·          telnet

A server technician is installing a Windows server OS on a physical server. The specifications for the installation call for a 4TB data volume. To ensure the partition is available to the OS, the technician must verify the:

• ·          volume is spanned across multiple physical disk drives

• ·          volume is formatted as MBR

• ·          hardware is UEFI compliant

• ·          volume is formatted as GPT

A technician needs to deploy an operating system that would optimize server resources. Which of the following server installation methods would BEST meet this requirement?

• ·          Bare metal

• ·          GUI

• ·          Full

• ·          Core