Which of the following virtual network settings should be used if the IP addresses of the host is to be shared with the virtual machine?

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?

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:

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 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 has been tasked with making recommendations for purchasing disks that will support a transactional database where performance is of greatest concern and budget is secondary. Which the following disk types should the administrator recommend?

A technician is backing up 10GB of data on a file server to a 250GB external USB hard drive. After 4GB 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?

An administrator needs to run five CAT6 cable runs to a new server. Which of the following steps should the administrator do FIRST?

A technician installs a rack in a datacenter. The rack has two power strips installed in it. To ensure maximum power redundancy for the rack, how should each PDU power strip be connected?

A clustered server goes offline due to a backplane failure. Which of the following clusters does not lose capacity when a server goes offline?

Which of the following describes a root cause analysis?

Which of the following hypervisors is physically installed on a server?

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?

An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take?

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:

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?

A datacenter customer reports the servers are having hardware failures at an unusual rate. A server technician is dispatched to the datacenter floor and notices several racks have condensation on their cold-side doors. Which of the following is the technician likely to report as the MOST likely cause of the hardware failures?

A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?

A server administrator is notified of an OS hot fix for a production server. Which of the following BEST represent how the hot fix should be applied? (Choose two.)

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 company executive asks the network administrator to help to reduce power consumption in a datacenter. The administrator suggests changing the servers running on 110V to 220V. Which of the following will occur as a result of this action?

After installing a 1 TB hard drive, a technician notices the OS is reporting significantly less unformatted capacity than was expected. Which of the following is the root cause?

At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)

Immediately following a BIOS firmware update, a server detects an overheat condition and shuts down after five minutes. Which of the following should the systems administrator do FIRST?

A systems administrator wants to run a report that will analyze a network’s server performance at a specific point in time. Which of the following documents would be the best practice to create?

A technician correctly powers off and replaces a cache battery on a RAID controller. When the server is powered back up, it restarts but indicates there are no logical disk volumes found. The server halts. Which of the following components should the technician check FIRST?

Which of the following access control methods allows or blocks devices based on MAC addresses?

Which of the following is used in a server to ensure proper cooling and airflow when components are removed?

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 systems administrator has performed a memory upgrade on a server. The server does not recognize the new memory. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A systems administrator needs to configure the company’s web server to authenticate using PKI certificates. Which of the following servers would be queried to validate user credentials?

Which of the following ports should be open on a server that provides IP addressing for clients?

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?

Which of the following ports should be open if a server is configured as an email server with high security for incoming connections? (Choose two.)

An administrator is asked to move a 64-bit guest to a new host. However, the guest will not boot on the new host. Which of the following is the cause of the problem?

A blade server chassis has two power supplies. Which of the following is a benefit of a technician connecting each power supply to a separate UPS unit?

A technician is asked to install an additional NIC in a server. Which of the following hardware considerations would be BEST for the technician to make?

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?

A certain rack mounted blade server chassis needs 3-phase power for operation. There is currently only single-phase power coming into the room. The administrator needs to:

Which of the following is the MOST redundant power solution?

An administrator is tasked with deploying a server in a telephone switching station. Which of the following voltages will MOST likely be available at the facility?

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?

The IT director instructed the systems administrator to build a server to support the accounting department's file growth. The IT director requested that the accounting users have the ability to encrypt their files; however, the accounting users have reported the inability to encrypt their files. Which of the following file system types is MOST likely causing this issue?

Which of the following server types translates FQDNs to IP addresses?

An administrator needs to reconfigure a Linux server's operating system. Which of the following tools can the administrator use to access a command shell over the network? (Select TWO).

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?

Which of the following is a benefit of utilizing a type 2 hypervisor to manage guests?

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?

A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the maximum performance for accessing many small files. Which of the following specifications should the technician focus on when selecting the drive to add to the server?

A hardware compatibility list recommends striping with double parity as storage for an application. In a test environment, a technician realizes that a different RAID level can be used to compensate for a limited number of available disks. Which of the following is the closest RAID level the technician should deploy while minimizing the number of disks and maintaining fault tolerance?

A server administrator wants to isolate a SAN hosted LUN to be visible to only a single host. Which of the following methodologies would be used to present the LUN to only that host?

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 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 provides two-factor authentication?

Which of the following methods should a technician perform to properly clear a hard drive before disposal?

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 hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

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 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 technician is troubleshooting a Linux server and wants to inspect the free disk space on the /dev/sda partition of the system. Which of the following command line tools should the administrator run to view available disk space on the partition?

A technician needs to add a processor to a server. Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).

Which of the following are required characteristics of database servers in high transaction environments? (Select THREE).

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?

A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

A server in a small company functions as a print server. Suddenly it stops sending print jobs to the printers. A technician verifies that the printers are working correctly. Additionally, the print spooler had been restarted and is running on the server, it is accessible from workstations, and it shows as being ready to accept print jobs. Which of the following has MOST likely caused the print server to stop processing print jobs?

A mission critical server has faulted with a dead 66 MHz 3.3V PCI-X network interface card. The system administrator has been directed to get the server functional as soon as possible, even if it is connected with less bandwidth. There are no onsite spare cards available and the vendor does not expect to have the parts for at least a week. Which of the following immediately available NICs could be substituted instead?

A server is giving a fault code indicating that a RAM chip is producing errors and should be replaced. According to best practices, which of the following is the proper sequence of steps to replace the faulty module?

Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?

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?

Which of the following is the MOST complex way to directly reduce heat for computing components?

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?

A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?

In authentication, which of the following represents something you have?

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 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?

Which of the following describes a rack mounted server that is 2 rack units (2U) in height?

Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?

A technician performs monthly backups on a file server to a NAS device that can hold 1TB of data. The size of the monthly backups has been as follows:

Month 1 = 50GB

Month 2 = 65GB

Month 3 = 80GB

Starting with Month 1, based on the current rate of growth, in how many months will the NAS run out of available storage space?

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 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?

Which of the following power plug types would MOST likely be found in a medical facility?

Which of the following is a benefit of using raised floors with specially configured tiles in a server room?

While performing routine testing of a hot standby site located at a remote hosting center, a system administrator is unable to access one of the server operating systems to verify functionality. Which of the following is MOST applicable to access the host?

A technician is tasked with creating servers that are fault tolerant and highly available. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for this task?

Historical data shows that on average, a server is likely to fail once every nine months. A company has purchased 24x7, four hour hardware response to replace a server's failed hardware. Additionally, the company can restore a server to its operational status within six hours from the time the failed hardware has been replaced. Which of the following describes this scenario?

A server administrator has been asked to make recommendations for purchase of a new database server that will be processing all of the company accounts. One area of concern from prior experience is the storage type used by the database server. The server is expected to have a large number of transactions that occur, but will not require a large amount of capacity for the data storage. Given these requirements, which of the following storage criteria are MOST important? (Select TWO).

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 server administrator is configuring access control on a file server for an organization. The Human Resources manager is taking a leave of absence for three months, during which time an interim Human Resources manager will take over the duties of the position. Which of the following types of access control should be configured on the file server?

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?

Which of the following expansion card ports is the fastest?

Which of the following BEST describes an HCL?

Which of the following file systems is native to an ESX server?

A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the maximum performance for accessing many small files.

Which of the following specifications should the technician focus on when selecting the drive to add to the server?

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?

Network devices between two firewalls are included in which of the following?

An administrator needs to reconfigure a Linux server's operating system. Which of the following tools can the administrator use to access a command shell over the network? (Select TWO).

John needs to connect eight servers to a disk drive array with 250 HDDs. Which of the following should he use?

Which of the following factors are considered when determining the best UPS size and type for a new server?

Which of the following specifies the benefits of a rack-mounted server?

David wants to check the maximum transfer rate of his network. Which of the following counters should he use from the network interface bottleneck monitoring tool?

John hears a whining noise when he starts his server. Which of the following could be the most likely issue?

You are trying to isolate a specific software problem. During which of the following operations, an error occurrence can be categorized as an operational error?

Which of the following can safely be used to clean dust that has accumulated from inside a server case?