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An administrator wishes to deploy network storage that provides block-level disk access. The solution must use
the existing Ethernet infrastructure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this?
A server has the following network setup:
IP address192.168.10.27
Netmask255.255.255.0
Gateway192.168.9.1
DNS address192.168.1.1
The server can ping other servers on its subnet, but nothing beyond that. Which of the following should the administrator change?
A technician is experiencing overheating on a rack mounted server. After powering off and removing the cover of the server, a large amount of dust is noticed on one of the fans. After cleaning out the dust and powering the server back on, the server is still overheating. Which of the following would BEST explain this issue?
A file server on the network stores sensitive data for multiple departments in the company. A systems administrator has been instructed to ensure only data stored by the accounting department is encrypted. Which of the following solutions should the systems administrator implement to encrypt this data in the MOST efficient manner?
A technician notices a rack mounted server is beeping without booting up. The NEXT step to diagnose this issue would be to:
A technician needs to install additional memory in a server to help resolve performance issues. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?
Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to:
Which of the following protocols can be used to perform configuration management on a remote server using the MOST secure methods? (Select TWO).
A system administrator notices that a server is consistently getting slower and less responsive the longer it has been since the last reboot. Once the server is rebooted, the system performs at the expected baseline, but starts slowing down again until the system is unresponsive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?
Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?
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?
Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?
A system administrator is tasked to enable authentication on a web server's login page. One of the requirements for the web server is to encrypt authenticated sessions over HTTP protocol for all static HTML pages. Using the information supplied, which of the following default port numbers should be used to satisfy these requirements?
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 is tasked with creating servers that are fault tolerant and highly available. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for this task?
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 system administrator is tasked to setup a database server with failover clustering feature enabled. One of the requirements is to have one database running at all times with data being synchronized and replicated to the idle database in case the primary database server fails. Both servers will be monitored by a witness on a LUN. Which of the following cluster techniques should be implemented to meet these requirements?
A technician troubleshooting a mail server determines that the server is low on available hard drive space and needs an additional hard drive installed. The server will need to be offline for the hardware installation. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT?
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:
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?
An administrator has been tasked with consolidating six individual servers into one blade enclosure. The administrator completed the task successfully. A week later, all of the blades would not boot properly. Which of the following would MOST likely be causing this issue?
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?
Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?
A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered?
A datacenter audit finds that a number of personnel are not using access cards when entering a secured area with a coworker. Which of the following security methods could be implemented to help prevent this behavior?
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?
When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents “something you have”?
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?
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?
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?
A technician has connected a previously formatted ext4 eSATA drive to a Linux server. Given the following output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382818 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 – 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009f31a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 20481 953525168 976761560 83 Linux
Which of the following commands should the technician use to make the partition available under /data/drive0?
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 small office has installed a server inside a writing closet. Users report losing connectivity to the server at various times throughout the day. Which of the following should have been considered before installing the server to prevent this issue from occurring?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 systems administrator is unable to back up user files. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for this issue?
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?
While reviewing a network connectivity issue to a Linux server, the systems administrator issues the ifconfig command with the following results:
According to the output above, which of the following is the problem?
A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?
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 has rebooted early in the morning on the second Wednesday of each month for the past three months. No one was logged into the server at the time of the reboots, and there was no planned maintenance on any of the mornings in question. Which of the following is a server technician likely to inspect FIRST to determine the cause of the reboots?
A technician needs to install an OS patch on a virtual server. Which of the following backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the server to be restored the FASTEST?
A telephone company is responsible for maintaining a list of 25 million names and phone numbers for inclusion in printed phone books as well as in an inline phone directory accessible on the company’s website. Which of the following types of servers would be MOST appropriate to store its information?
A user accidentally deleted a critical file. A technician tries to restore it from tape backup but receives an error that the file does not exist on the tape. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?
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 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?
While installing patches, a systems administrator is disconnected from a server. The administrator attempts to
ping the server and receives no response. Which of the following tools is MOST likely to help in this situation?
A technician needs to create a rule in the firewall to convert the directory server’s private IP address to its public IP address. Which of the following should the technician enable to accomplish this?
A server technician is enforcing server hardening on Telnet ports in DMZ-facing servers. Which of the following ports should the technician block on the company firewall?
A server administrator completed an OS installation on new server hardware. The administrator installed the
license key and finished configuring the server. After 90 days, users were unable to log in to the server. Only
the local administrator was able to log in. Which of the following steps did the server administrator forget to do?
An employee is working from home and has to dial into the system. The employee is able to connect to the network but is unable to authenticate. Which of the following is MOST likely offline?
An administrator is adding NAS-based storage to a server. Which of the following strategies will allow users to see BEST performance with this new NAS storage?
A server administrator is trying to prevent database administrators from installing programs or making
administrative changes to the server. Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent
administrative changes on the server?
A remote datacenter that runs in parallel with a main datacenter, with devices powered on and communication taking place between the two datacenters, is known as which of the following?
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?
A technician has a server with ten hard drives in a RAID 6 configuration. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of drives that can fail in the array while maintaining data integrity?
Which of the following is an advantage of blade servers over rack-mount servers?
A datacenter has exceeded the load on the central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for the room and is causing power load problems. Additional power is available, but not using the central UPS. Which of the following is the BEST temporary solution for adding new servers until an upgrade of the central UPS can occur?
An administrator wants to ensure a server OS and data can be recovered in case all the server’s hard disk drives fail simultaneously. Which of the following backup types must be implemented to meet the requirements?
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?
A storage administrator needs to connect a server to a storage array shared by 12 other servers. Which of the following interface types could be used to accomplish this connection?
A company's computer policy dictates that all users workstations must use the company's corporate web page as their default home page. Which of the following methods should an administrator use to BEST comply with this policy?
Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?
Which of the following is designed to guarantee that once data is written it cannot be modified? (Select TWO).
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?
Payroll checks are not printing. A job scheduled to run \\Payroll_File_Server\Checks\Print.cmd is failing with an “Access Denied” error message. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
Which of the following security measures would be MOST effective in a datacenter that experiences frequent power surges and spikes? (Choose two.)
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.)
Which of the following will allow devices to be added without turning the server off?
An administrator receives a call from a user who is unable to receive email. After checking the workstation and email settings the administrator is still not able to determine the problem. Which of the following is the NEXT step that the administrator should take?
A user is unable to connect to the company's intranet server by FQDN, but can connect by IP address. Other users are not having a problem. An administrator verifies that the user can successfully ping the server by IP address and can properly resolve the FQDN using nslookup.
The problem is persisting after running ipconfig /flushdns.
Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT?
Maintaining operations in the event of a complete power outage requires a tested and established:
A technician is asked to install three servers: a 1U, a 4U, and a 6U. Which of the following is the MOST correct order to install these servers starting from the top of the rack?
An enterprise technician is tasked to implement a disk array that will host continuous disk-to-disk replication. Which of the following storage types should be selected for maximum performance?
As a best practice, which of the following should be determined prior to provisioning a server? (Select TWO).
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 server unexpectedly shut down as a result of overheating. An alert was sent to the administrator's email address but the administrator was away from the workstation when the alert arrived. Which of the following would have been a more effective method for sending the alert notification?
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?
Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?
Users on a network segment report that they are unable to connect to a newly installed file server. The file server IP address settings are as follows:
IP address: 10.0.10.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1
Which of the following changes should the server administrator make?
A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports. Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?
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?
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?
A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance. Which of the following would achieve this requirement?
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?
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).
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:
An administrator is determining hardware requirements for a new, virtualized test environment. The vendor requires 8Gb of RAM for each host and 2Gb of RAM for each guest. If the server has a total of 32Gb of RAM, which of the following describes how many hosts and guests the server can support?
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?
An administrator needs to install two hard drives in a server and configure the system for maximum
redundancy. Which of the following RAID levels would be BEST suited for the administrator?
A server technician is troubleshooting an issue regarding users who are not able to access a reporting server. The reporting server has a static IP address and is connected to a Windows domain. The technician attempts steps to narrow down the issue:
Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?
A systems administrator received an alert from the central monitoring tool indicating /var/mail/logs on a
Linux system is running out of disk space. Before troubleshooting the issue, the administrator needs to verify
the total disk space available on the volume. Which of the following commands would allow the administrator to
gather the required information?
Which of the following must be done to properly conduct testing of the data backup portion of a disaster recovery plan?
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 host server in a small business environment does not have virtual switching configured. The NIC on a guest is configured with an IP address that is on a different subnet from the host server. Which of the following would MOST likely happen in this case?
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?
Which of the following are required characteristics of database servers in high transaction environments? (Select THREE).
A server technician is replacing a web server in an organization. The new server has two integrated NICs. Which of the following describes how the NICs should be configured for fault protection?
An administrator has been tasked with making recommendations for purchasing new disks for a low I/O file server. Keeping in mind that budget and capacity are the primary concerns, which the following disk types should the administrator recommend?
TESTED 27 Apr 2024