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1. A change in policy requires a complete backup of the accounting server every seven days and a backup of modified data every day.

Which of the following would be BEST to restore a full backup as quickly as possible in the event of a complete loss of server data?

2. Which of the following is the most effective way to mitigate risks associated with privacy-related data leaks when sharing with a third party?

3. A security analyst suspects a remote server is running vulnerable network applications. The analyst does not have administrative credentials for the server.

Which of the following would MOST likely help the analyst determine if the applications are running?

4. Which of the following describes the concept of allocating more resources than what is available on a hypervisor?

5. A server administrator must respond to tickets within a certain amount of time.

The server administrator needs to adhere to the:

6. After a technician upgrades the firmware on a database server that is connected to two external storage arrays, the server prompts the technician to configure RAID. The technician knows the server had several configured RAID sets and thinks the firmware upgrade cleared the RAID configurations.

Which of the following should the technician do to troubleshoot this issue?

7. Which of the following should a technician verify first before decommissioning and wiping a file server?

8. Which of the following server types would benefit MOST from the use of a load balancer?

9. A system administrator has been alerted to a zero-day vulnerability that is impacting a service enabled on a server OS.

Which of the following would work BEST to limit an attacker from exploiting this vulnerability?

10. A server technician is configuring the IP address on a newly installed server. The documented configuration specifies using an IP address of 10.20.10.15 and a default gateway of 10.20.10.254.

Which of the following subnet masks would be appropriate for this setup?

11. An administrator has been asked to copy files from a Windows server that may not conform to Windows file-naming standards.

Which of the following would best facilitate the copy process?

12. Which of the following BEST describes overprovisioning in a virtual server environment?

13. When configuring networking on a VM, which of the following methods would allow multiple VMs to share the same host IP address?

14. A storage administrator is investigating an issue with a failed hard drive. A technician replaced the drive in the storage array; however, there is still an issue with the logical volume.

Which of the following best describes the NEXT step that should be completed to restore the volume?

15. A server administrator receives the following output when trying to ping a local host:





Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

16. A newly installed server is accessible to local users, but remote users are unable to connect.

Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

17. A server administrator made a change in a server's BIOS in an attempt to fix an issue with the OS not turning on. However, the change did not successfully correct the issue.

Which of the following should the server administrator do NEXT?

18. A server administrator notices the /var/log/audit/audit.log file on a Linux server is rotating loo frequently. The administrator would like to decrease the number of times the leg rotates without losing any of the information in the logs.

Which of the following should the administrator configure?

19. A security administrator ran a port scanning tool against a virtual server that is hosting a secure website. A list of open ports was provided as documentation. The management team has requested that non-essential ports be disabled on the firewall.

Which of the following ports must remain open?

20. An administrator is configuring a server that will host a high-performance financial application.

Which of the following disk types will serve this purpose?

21. Which of the following encryption methodologies would MOST likely be used to ensure encrypted data cannot be retrieved if a device is stolen?

22. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a datacenter is concerned that transmissions from the building can be detected from the outside.

Which of the following would resolve this concern? (Choose two.)

23. Which of me following is the BEST action to perform before applying patches to one of the hosts in a high availability cluster?

24. A datacenter in a remote location lost power. The power has since been restored, but one ol the servers has not come back online. After some investigation, the server is found to still be powered off.

Which of the following is the BEST method to power on the server remotely?

25. An administrator restores several database files without error while participating in a mock disaster recovery exercise. Later, the administrator reports that the restored databases are

corrupt and cannot be used.

Which of the following would best describe what caused this issue?

26. Which of the following refers to the requirements that dictate when to delete data backups?

27. Which of the following backup types should be chosen for database servers?

28. A server administrator wants to ensure a storage array can survive the failure of two drives without the loss of data.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator choose?

29. An administrator gave Ann modify permissions to a shared folder called DATA, which is located on the company server. Other users need read access to the files in this folder.

The current configuration is as follows:





The administrator has determined Ann cannot write anything to the DATA folder using the network.

Which of the following would be the best practice to set up Ann's permissions correctly, exposing only the minimum rights required?

30. Which of the following is an example of load balancing?

31. A company wants to find an affordable way to simulate a fail over of a critical application. The company does not currently have a solution for it. The application consists of 15 servers, and the company would like to simulate on production configurations and IP address schemes.

Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution?

32. A technician runs top on a dual-core server and notes the following conditions:

top C- 14:32:27, 364 days, 14 users load average 60.5 12.4 13.6

Which of the following actions should the administrator take?

33. Which of the following can be used to map a network drive to a user profile?

34. A server administrator implemented a new backup solution and needs to configure backup methods for remote sites. These remote sites have low bandwidth and backups must not interfere with the network during normal business hours.

Which of the following methods can be used to meet these requirements? (Select two).

35. The accounting department needs more storage and wants to retain the current data for quick read-write access. The accounting server does not have any internet drive bays available to keep both disks however the server does have USB 3 0 and eSATA ports available.

Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish the department's goals?

36. A server administrator was asked to build a storage array with the highest possible capacity.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator choose?

37. An organization recently experienced power outages. The administrator noticed the server did not have enough time to shut down properly. After the outages, the administrator had additional batteries installed in the UPS.

Which of the following best describes the solution the administrator implemented?

38. A technician is monitoring a server and notices there is only one NIC plugged in. but the server has two. The NIC is oversaturated, and the technician would like to increase the available bandwidth.

Which of the following solutions would be the BEST option to increase the speed of this NIC?

39. A technician needs to install a Type 1 hypervisor on a server. The server has SD card slots, a SAS controller, and a SATA controller, and it is attached to a NAS.

On which of the following drive types should the technician install the hypervisor?

40. After configuring IP networking on a newly commissioned server, a server administrator installs a straight- through network cable from the patch panel to the switch. The administrator then returns to the server to test network connectivity using the ping command.

The partial output of the ping and ipconfig commands are displayed below:





The administrator returns to the switch and notices an amber link light on the port where the server is connected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the lack of network connectivity?

41. An administrate is helping to replicate a large amount of data between two Windows servers. The administrator is unsure how much data has already been transferred.

Which of the following will BEST ensure all the data is copied consistently?

42. A server administrator was asked to build a storage array with the highest possible capacity.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator choose?

43. An administrator notices high traffic on a certain subnet and would like to identify the source of the traffic.

Which of the following tools should the administrator utilize?

44. An administrator is only able to log on to a server with a local account. The server has been successfully joined to the domain and can ping other servers by IP address.

Which of the following locally defined settings is MOST likely misconfigured?

45. A security manager is concerned that a rogue employee could boot a server from an outside USB drive.

Which of the following actions can be taken to reduce this risk? (Select TWO).

46. The management team has mandated the use of data-at-rest encryption on all corporate servers.

Using this encryption paradigm will ensure:

47. A technician wants to limit disk usage on a server.

Which of the following should the technician implement?

48. A server administrator is creating a new server that will be used to house customer sales records.

Which of the following roles will MOST likely be Installed on the server?

49. An administrator is troubleshooting a failure in the data center in which a server shut down/turned off when utility power was lost The server had redundant power supplies.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this failure?

50. A systems administrator is setting up a server farm for a new company. The company has a public range of IP addresses and uses the addresses internally.

Which of the following IP addresses best fits this scenario?

51. A technician needs maximum power redundancy while configuring a new server rack.

Which of the following should be specified? (Select two).

52. A server administrator encounters some issues with the server OS after applying monthly patches.

Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform?

53. Which of the following commands would MOST likely be used to register a new service on a Windows OS?

54. An administrator is investigating a physical server mat will not Boot into the OS. The server has three hard drives configured in a RAID 5 array. The server passes POST, out the OS does not load. The administrator verities the CPU and RAM are Doth seated correctly and checks the dual power supplies. The administrator then verifies all the BIOS settings are correct and connects a bootable USB drive in the server, and the OS loads correctly.

Which of the following is causing the issue?

55. A datacenter technician is attempting to troubleshoot a server that keeps crashing. The server runs normally for approximately five minutes, but then it crashes. After restoring the server to operation, the same cycle repeats. The technician confirms none of the configurations have changed, and the load on the server is steady from power-on until the crash.

Which of the following will MOST likely resolve the issue?

56. A storage administrator needs to implement SAN-based shared storage that can transmit at 16Gb over an optical connection.

Which of the following connectivity options would BEST meet this requirement?

57. A server has experienced several component failures. To minimize downtime, the server administrator wants to replace the components while the server is running.

Which of the following can MOST likely be swapped out while the server is still running? (Select TWO).

58. The management team has mandated the use of data-at-rest encryption for all dat a.

Which of the following forms of encryption best achieves this goal?

59. A technician is connecting a Linux server to a share on a NAS.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate native protocol to use for this task?

60. Which of the following must a server administrator do to ensure data on the SAN is not compromised if it is leaked?

61. A systems administrator is attempting to install a package on a server. After downloading the package from the internet and trying to launch it, the installation is blocked by the antivirus on the server.

Which of the following must be completed before launching the installation package again?

62. A server administrator receives a report that Ann, a new user, is unable to save a file to her home directory on a server.

The administrator checks Ann’s home directory permissions and discovers the following: dr-xr-xr-- /home/Ann

Which of the following commands should the administrator use to resolve the issue without granting unnecessary permissions?

63. A hardware technician is installing 19 1U servers in a 42 the following unit sizes should be allocated per server?

64. A server administrator is trying to determine the cause of a slowdown on a database server. Upon investigation, the administrator determines the issue is in the storage subsystem.

Which of the following will most likely resolve this issue?

65. A technician re working on a Linux server and re trying to access another server over the network. The technician gets server not found message when trying to execute ping servername but no error messages when using ping servername. Domain.com.

Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the error?

66. A server administrator is using remote access to update a server. The administrator notices numerous error messages when using YUM to update the applications on a server.

Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

67. A Linux server requires repetitive tasks for reconfiguration.

Which of the following would be the best scripting language to use?

68. 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:

69. A technician is deploying a single server to monitor and record me security cameras at a remote site, which of the following architecture types should be used to minimize cost?

70. A startup company needs to set up an initial disaster recovery site. The site must be cost-effective and deployed quickly.

Which of the following sites should the company set up?

71. Which of the following script types uses commands That start with sec-?

72. A systems administrator is performing maintenance on 12 Windows servers that are in different racks at a large datacenter.

Which of the following would allow the administrator to perform maintenance on all 12 servers without having to physically be at each server? (Choose two.)

73. Which of the following asset management documents is used to identify the location of a serves within a data center?

74. Which of the following backup types copies changed data from a server and then combines the backups on the backup target?

75. Which of the following actions should the server administrator perform on the server?

76. Modify the appropriate route entries to resolve the Internet connectivity issue.

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77. Which of the following DR testing scenarios is described as verbally walking through each step of the DR plan in the context of a meeting?

78. An administrator is setting up a new server and has been asked to install an operating system that does not have a GUI because the server has limited resources.

Which of the following installation options should the administrator use?

79. A company’s IDS has identified outbound traffic from one of the web servers coming over port 389 to an outside address. This server only hosts websites. The company’s SOC administrator has asked a technician to harden this server.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to complete this request?

80. Which of the following are measures that should be taken when a data breach occurs? (Select TWO).

81. Which of the following cloud models is BEST described as running workloads on resources that are owned by the company and hosted in a company-owned data center, as well as on rented servers in another company's data center?

82. A server administrator is reviewing the following specifications:

VM01 Host:

CPU: 2 Physical, 4 Cores

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 16TB

Server 1 on VM01:

CPU: 1 virtual socket, 1 core per socket

RAM: 4GB

Storage: 8TB

Server 2 on VM01:

CPU: 2 virtual sockets, 2 cores per socket

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 10TB

Which of the following is described given these specifications?

83. The HIDS logs on a server indicate a significant number of unauthorized access attempts via USB devices at startup.

Which of the following steps should a server administrator take to BEST secure the server without limiting functionality?

84. A technician has been asked to check on a SAN. Upon arrival, the technician notices the red LED indicator shows a disk has failed.

Which of the following should the technician do NEXT, given the disk is hot swappable?

85. A server administrator has received tickets from users who report the system runs very slowly and various unrelated messages pop up when they try to access an internet-facing web application using default ports. The administrator performs a scan to check for open ports and reviews the following report:

Starting Nmap 7.70 https://nmap.org) at 2019-09-19 14:30 UTC Nmap scan report for www.abc.com (172.45.6.85) Host is up (0.0021s latency)

Other addresses for www.abc.com (not scanned): 4503: F7b0: 4293: 703:: 3209

RDNS record for 172.45.6.85: 1ga45s12-in-f1.2d100.net

Port State Service

21/tcp filtered ftp

22/tcp filtered ssh

23/tcp filtered telnet

69/tcp open @username.com

80/tcp open http

110/tcp filtered pop

143/tcp filtered imap

443/tcp open https

1010/tcp open www.popup.com

3389/tcp filtered ms-abc-server

Which of the following actions should the server administrator perform on the server?

86. A large number of connections to port 80 is discovered while reviewing the log files on a server. The server is not functioning as a web server.

Which of the following represent the BEST immediate actions to prevent unauthorized server access? (Choose two.)

87. A systems administrator notices a newly added server cannot see any of the LUNs on the SAN. The SAN switch and the local HBA do not display any link lights.

Which of the following is most likely the issue?

88. Which of the following describes a configuration in winch both nodes of a redundant system respond to service requests whenever possible?

89. Alter rack mounting a server, a technician must install four network cables and two power cables for the server.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate way to complete this task?

90. Which of the following backup types only records changes to the data blocks on a virtual machine?

91. A new application server has been configured in the cloud to provide access to all clients within the network. On-site users are able to access all resources, but remote users are reporting issues connecting to the new application. The server administrator verifies that all users are configured with the appropriate group memberships.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

92. A server administrator wants to check the open ports on a server.

Which of the following commands should the administrator use to complete the task?

93. A server technician arrives at a data center to troubleshoot a physical server that is not responding to remote management software. The technician discovers the servers in the data center are not connected to a KVM switch, and their out-of-band management cards have not been configured.

Which of the following should the technician do to access the server for troubleshooting purposes?

94. An administrator is rebooting servers manually after a group of updates were deployed through SCCM. The administrator notices several of the servers did not receive the deployed update.

Which of the following should the administrator review first?

95. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate scripting language to use for a logon script for a Linux box?

96. An administrator is configuring the storage for a new database server, which will host databases that are mainly used for archival lookups.

Which of the following storage types will yield the fastest database read performance?

97. Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to Pll exposure?

98. A storage engineer responds to an alarm on a storage array and finds the battery on the RAID controller needs to be replaced. However, the replacement part will not be available for 14 days. The engineer needs to identify the impact of the failed battery on the system.

Which of the following best describes the impact?

99. A systems administrator needs to create a data volume out of four disks with the MOST redundancy.

Which of the following is the BEST solution?

100. A web server that is being deployed in the perimeter network needs to be shielded from malicious traffic.

Which of the following could help identify these threats?

101. An administrator is able to ping the default gateway and internet sites by name from a file server. The file server is not able to ping the print server by name. The administrator is able to ping the file server from the print server by both IP address and computer name. When initiating an initiating from the file server for the print server, a different IP address is returned, which of the following is MOST Likely the cause?

102. Which of the following steps in the troubleshooting theory should be performed after a solution has been implemented? (Choose two.)

103. The management team has mandated the encryption of all server administration traffic.

Which of the following should MOST likely be implemented?

104. An administrator is investigating several unexpected documents and video files that recently appeared in a network share. The administrator checks the properties of the files and sees the author's name on the documents is not a company employee. The administrator questions the other users, but no one knows anything about the files. The administrator then checks the log files and discovers the FTP protocol was used to copy the files to the server.

Which of the following needs to be done to prevent this from happening again?

105. DRAG DROP

A recent power Outage caused email services to go down. A sever administrator also received alerts from the datacenter’s UPS.

After some investigation, the server administrator learned that each POU was rated at a maximum Of 12A.



INSTRUCTIONS

Ensure power redundancy is implemented throughout each rack and UPS alarms are resolved.

Ensure the maximum potential PDU consumption does not exceed 80% or 9.6A).

a. PDU selections must be changed using the pencil icon.

b. VM Hosts 1 and 2 and Mail Relay can be moved between racks.

c. Certain devices contain additional details

106. A company is running an application on a file server. A security scan reports the application has a known vulnerability.

Which of the following would be the company’s BEST course of action?

107. A data center has 4U rack servers that need to be replaced using VMs but without losing any data.

Which of the following methods will MOST likely be used to replace these servers?

108. A technician is tasked with upgrading 24 hosts simultaneously with a Type 1 hypervisor.

Which of the following protocols should the technician use for this upgrade?

109. An administrator has been troubleshooting a server issue. The administrator carefully questioned the users and examined the available logs. Using this information, the administrator was able to rule out several possible causes and develop a theory as to what the issue might be. Through further testing, the administrator's theory proved to be correct.

Which of the following should be the next step to troubleshoot the issue?

110. Data availability is a high priority, even in the case of multiple hard drive failures.

Which of the following are the BEST options to comply with the user requirements? (Choose three.)

111. A staff member who a monitoring a data center reports one rack is experiencing higher temperatures than the racks next to it, despite the hardware in each rack being the same.

Which of the following actions would MOST likely remediate the heal issue?

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

113. Due to a recent application migration, a company’s current storage solution does not meet the necessary requirements tor hosting data without impacting performance when the data is accessed in real time by multiple users.

Which of the following is the BEST solution for this Issue?

114. A technician learns users are unable to tog in to a Linux server with known-working LDAP credentials. The technician logs in to the server with a local account and confirms the system is functional can communicate over the network, and is configured correctly However, the server log has entries regarding Kerberos errors.

Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the issue?

115. A server administrator is setting up a disk with enforcement policies on how much data each home share can hold. The amount of data that is redundant on the server must also be minimized.

Which of the following should the administrator perform on the server? (Select two).

116. A security analyst completed a port scan of the corporate production-server network. Results of the scan were then provided to a systems administrator for immediate action.

The following table represents the requested changes:





The systems administrator created local firewall rules to block the ports indicated above. Immediately, the service desk began receiving calls about the internet being down. The systems administrator then reversed the changes, and the internet became available again.

Which of the following ports on DNSSrv must remain open when the firewall rules are reapplied?

117. A server administrator needs to ensure all Window-based servers within a data center have RDP disabled. There are thousands of servers performing various roles.

Which of the following is the best way to meet this requirement?

118. A security administrator ran a port scanning tool against a virtual server that is hosting a secure website. A list of open ports was provided as documentation. The management team has requested that non-essential ports be disabled on the firewall.

Which of the following ports must remain open?

119. A server administrator mounted a new hard disk on a Linux system with a mount point of /newdisk.

It was later determined that users were unable to create directories or files on the new mount point.

Which of the following commands would successfully mount the drive with the required parameters?

120. A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the OS.

Which of the following best describes the OS hardening method?

121. A server administrator has been asked to implement a password policy that will help mitigate the chance of a successful brute-force attack.

Which of the following password policies should the administrator implement first?

122. A server administrator recently installed a kernel update to test functionality Upon reboot, the administrator determined the new kernel was not compatible with certain server hardware and was unable to uninstall the update.

Which of the following should the administrator do to mitigate further issues with the newly instated kernel version?

123. A technician set up a new multifunction printer. After adding the printer to the print server, the technician configured the printer on each user's machine. Several days later, users reported that they were no longer able to print, but scanning to email worked.

Which of the following is most likely causing this issue?

124. An administrator needs to increase the size of an existing RAID 6 array that is running out of available space.

Which of the following is the best way the administrator can perform this task?

125. IDS alerts indicate abnormal traffic patterns are coming from a specific server in a data center that hosts sensitive data. Upon further investigation, the server administrator notices this server has been infected with a virus due to an exploit of a known vulnerability from its database software.

Which of the following should the administrator perform after removing the virus to mitigate this issue from reoccurring and to maintain high availability? (Select three).