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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?

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 network administrator is creating a subnet that needs a maximum of two networks in the DMZ.

Which of the following subnet masks should the administrator use?

A user is trying to connect to www.testnetwork.net with a desktop web browser. The user cannot connect to this website, although other sites can be reached.

Which of the following tools should the administrator use at the desktop to determine the specific issue? (Choose two.)

A network administrator finds there are several users who cannot access a particular application. The application does not launch for the users. The network administrator finds the server has not been rebooted in 192 days.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of these issues?

A technician notices that several servers in one rack are failing due to thermal issues. Other racks within the datacenter are not having the same issues.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST to resolve this issue?

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?

Which of the following permissions would enable users to modify files or directories on a server?

Which of the following security measures would be MOST effective in a datacenter that experiences frequent power surges and spikes? (Choose two.)

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?

Users report they periodically cannot access shares on a file server. The file server has a static IP address of 10.4.0.130. A technician discovers a message about an IP address conflict appearing on the file server.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST to resolve this issue?

An engineer is running a server as a hypervisor for 15-20 VMs.

Which of the following components are the MOST essential for this server to maintain this parameter? (Choose two.)

An administrator has encountered a problem with a particular piece of software installed on the server and begins the troubleshooting process.

Which of the following is the FIRST place the administrator should look for specific information about the problem?

Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

A server has two power supplies.
If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?

A user reports a Linux server is running slowly.

Which of the following tools is an administrator MOST likely to use to check server performance?

Users report the system is running slow. The administrator walks into the server room and notices it is noisier than usual. The fans in particular seem to be very loud.

Which of the following should the administrator conclude from this observation?

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).

Which of the following is the MOST common problem that occurs in server rooms?

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) decided all backups should be taken at the storage array level rather than at the OS level.

Which of the following backup types would fulfill these requirements?

Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

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 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).

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 administrator is reviewing plans for a new office addition. The plans call for Cat 5e cabling to be used for all servers.

Which of the following is the maximum allowable length for Cat 5e communications?

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?

A server is experiencing heavy disk thrashing due to a need for more memory. A manager asks the server technician to install 32GB of static RAM on the server. The technician tells the manager this is incorrect because:

A server technician has just installed a server with several roles. The technician then launches a command prompt, runs the netstat command, and notices the server is listening on the following ports: 88, 389, 464, 3268, and 3269.

Which of the following server roles is MOST likely installed on this server, given the ports above?

A user reports that each day some files are deleted from the department share. The administrator needs to find who deleted these files.

Which of the following actions should the administrator perform?

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 technician added a new mail relay server to the network. During testing, the server fails to forward mail.

Which of the following firewall ports should the technician check?

A technician is having problems sending a notification from a server. The technician suspects the firewall may be blocking traffic.

Which of the following clients can be used to confirm the technician's suspicions?

A server administrator needs to configure a server to store usernames and passwords for accounts used to log on to the network.

Which of the following server roles should the administrator configure?

Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

Which of the following multifactor authentication methods does the smart card satisfy?

A blade enclosure has a capacity of four 2000W power supplies with one 2000W power supply installed.
The power requirement of the blade enclosure is 1900W.

Which of the following would occur if one additional 2000W power supply was added?

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?

A new server has two drives and a RAID controller.

Which of the following is an option for configuring the storage on this server?

Which of the following defines memory interleaving?

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 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?

Which of the following provides two-factor authentication?

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 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 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?

Which of the following offers the highest level of redundancy in the design of a storage system?

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?

An administrator is considering setting up a hot site for disaster recovery of the company's infrastructure.
While reading through the online documentation, the administrator tries to identify key words that differentiate the hot site from warm and cold sites.

Which of the following key words should the administrator identify? (Choose 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 installing a new OS on a brand new server. The administrator cannot bring a monitor or keyboard into the datacenter.

Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to use to configure the OS?

A systems administrator is informed that users are unable to connect to the database. After investigating, the administrator determines the source of the problem and corrects the issue. Following up, the systems administrator informs the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the findings.

Which of the following documents did the systems administrator provide to the CTO?

A system administrator is creating a backup schedule.

Which of the following is a best practice to ensure the data is backed up, based on a five-day business week ?

An administrator is opening a firewall to allow encrypted communication with a website.

Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to open on the firewall?

Two technicians are asked to install a 6U server at location U25 in a 40U server rack. The rack has been properly stabilized to the floor.

Which of the following tools would BEST be used to install the server?

A server administrator is assigning an internally routable IPv6 unique local address to servers in a datacenter.

Which of the following network addresses should the administrator assign to a server?

Users are unable to send and receive email. A technician verifies services are running, but the server is still not sending and receiving emails.

Which of the following commands is BEST to use to find the cause?

An administrator is developing a storage growth plan for a new file server.

Which of the following should be implemented on the server so that storage growth is restricted?

Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select
TWO).

A user is reporting that a large file upload is slower to one particular server compared to other servers on the same network.

Which of the following might account for the difference in upload speed?

A technician is troubleshooting an issue with communication to another server at a remote location.

Which of the following tools should the technician use to help troubleshoot the traffic to and from the server?

A server is installed in a location that is prone to power failures. While the server is connected to a UPS, the systems administrator is still concerned about ensuring the integrity of the data being written to the RAID array.

Which of the following is the systems administrator MOST likely to do?

A server administrator wants to upgrade the memory of the server using two memory modules. The server has two banks of memory with the following slots available: A2, A3, A4, B2, B3, and B4.
In which of the following two slots should the administrator install the additional RAM?

The BEST way for a technician to configure a server rack for full power redundancy is:

A DHCP server is configured to issue IP addresses. Client machines have successfully obtained an IP address. However, when testing, users are unable to browse the Internet.

Which of the following might be the MOST likely cause?

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

The process of provisioning guest and host virtualization is considered:

Which of the following memory types is located in the processor chip?

An administrator regularly patches a server from different websites on the same domain and wishes to avoid excessive typing.

Which of the following should the administrator configure on the server?

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 types of network cable would be BEST to attach to a high-performance server?

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?

A server administrator was asked to implement a site backup solution. The backup window during regular business days is from midnight to 6:00 a.m. because end-of-cycle payroll processing will occur for the next three months.

Which of the following backup methodologies would satisfy this restriction in performing short backups?

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 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?

During a lunch-and-learn session, IT staff and members participate in virtualization trivia.
Which of the following are valid answers about hosts, guests, virtual NICs, and virtual switches?
(Select TWO).

A server administrator is deploying a new database server and wishes to maximize the number of IOPS.

Which of the following disk types would BEST accomplish this goal?

An 800W power supply running full load at 220VAC (single phase) draws approximately:

A SAN attached production file server is required to be backed up nightly according to company policy.

Recently the data to be backed up has increased to approximately 4TB. Currently, the server has a single attached LTO2 tape drive.

Which of the following should the server administrator do to provide enough backup capacity for the nightly job?

A technician is installing multiple servers into a rack. The technician wants to install them so airflow is maximized to keep the servers running according to manufacturer recommendations.

Which of the following is the BEST method to install the servers?

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?

When grid power goes out, all servers in a rack lose power immediately. The server administrator confirms the servers have dual power supplies, which are connected to separate PDUs. Each of the PDUs is connected to a different UPS.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

A server administrator needs to validate the integrity of all system files.

Which of the following methods should the administrator use?

When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents "something you have"?

A technician is implementing a RAID 10 array on a server.

Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed for this array?

A user is unable to save an image file to the 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 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 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?

A company would like to upgrade an old server to a multi-processor box. The server currently has a single 3.0GHz 1Mb cache processor in it with a single empty socket. The only processor that is available from a manufacturer is a 3.0GHz 2Mb cache model.

Which of the following is the BEST reason why this upgrade will not work?

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?

A systems administrator needs to ensure data cannot be recovered from old media.

Which of the following is the MOST effective method for the administrator to use?

A server administrator recently replaced an overheating CPU in a server at a datacenter. Following the CPU replacement, the server logs indicate the server continues to overheat.

Which of the following could help mitigate this issue?

Which of the following replication methods is MOST appropriate when integrating data from multiple remote offices?

A systems administrator is tasked to add an existing user to an existing group on a local Linux system.

Which of the following files should be edited to accomplish this task?

A technician is selecting a UPS to use with a blade enclosure containing five blades with room for an additional seven blades. The blade enclosure is currently consuming 2500W of power, and each additional blade will need 200W of power.
Assuming runtime to be less than a minute, which of the following is the MINIMUM amount of UPS wattage needed for the blade enclosure with all blades installed?

A company is being audited by its operating system vendor. The company needs to report the number of operating systems in use, the versions of the operating systems, and the product keys.

Which of the following will be MOST helpful in passing the audit?

Which of the following RAID configurations consists of mirrored disks?

Users in the accounting department report that they are unable to access a shared network drive used by all departments. Upon troubleshooting, a technician determines that three users in the marketing department, two in sales, five in human resources, and ten in IT are all successfully accessing the shared network drive.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

Which of the following RAID levels can withstand the simultaneous loss of two physical drives in an array?

A network administrator is installing additional devices on the network. The network segment is currently utilizing all allocated IP addresses.
If there are additional addresses available, which of the following would be BEST for the network administrator to perform to accommodate the new network devices?

An administrator is installing a 2U server from a remote location in a rack with 4U of available rack space.
The administrator prepares the rack to accept the server.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?