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Which of the following can be BEST described as the amount of time a company can afford to be down during recovery from an outage?
The correct answer is C. Option C: RTO
Explanation
Recovery time objective defines the maximum acceptable time to restore a service after disruption.
Which of the following actions should a server administrator take once a new backup scheme has been configured?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Run a restore test
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.)
The correct answer is A, B. Option A: Remote desktop Option B: IP KVM
A server administrator is experiencing difficulty configuring MySQL on a Linux server. The administrator issues the getenforce command and receives the following output: ># Enforcing Which of the following commands should the administrator issue to configure MySQL successfully?
The correct answer is A. Option A: setenforce 0
Which of the following backup types only records changes to the data blocks on a virtual machine?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Incremental
Which of the following server types would benefit MOST from the use of a load balancer?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Web server
A company uses a hot-site, disaster-recovery model. Which of the following types of data replication is required?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Constant
A technician has received multiple reports of issues with a server. The server occasionally has a BSOD, powers off unexpectedly, and has fans that run continuously. Which of the following BEST represents what the technician should investigate during troubleshooting?
The correct answer is B. Option B: CPU overheating
An administrator is configuring a server to communicate with a new storage array. To do so, the administrator enters the WWPN of the new array in the server's storage configuration. Which of the following technologies is the new connection using?
The correct answer is D. Option D: FCoE
A systems administrator needs to configure a new server and external storage for a new production application environment. Based on end-user specifications, the new solution needs to adhere to the following basic requirements: 1. The OS must be installed in a separate disk partition. In case of hard drive failure, it cannot be affected. 2. Application data IOPS performance is a must. 3. 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.)
The correct answer is B, C, E. Option B: Install the OS on a RAID 1 array. Option C: Configure RAID 1 for the application data. Option E: Use SSD hard drives for the data application array.
Explanation
RAID 1 mirrors data across disks, providing redundancy at the cost of half the raw capacity.
A technician is attempting to log in to a Linux server as root but cannot remember the administrator password. Which of the following is the LEAST destructive method of resetting the administrator password?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Adjust the GRUB boot parameters to boot into single-user mode. Run passwd from the command prompt.
A technician noted the RAID hard drives were functional while troubleshooting a motherboard failure. The technician installed a spare motherboard with similar specifications and used the original components. Which of the following should the technician do to restore operations with minimal downtime?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Reconfigure the RAID.
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?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Increasing IOPS by implementing flash storage
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?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Reverse the latest change made to the server and reboot.
Which of the following BEST describes a guarantee of the amount of time it will take to restore a downed service?
The correct answer is A. Option A: RTO
Explanation
Recovery time objective defines the maximum acceptable time to restore a service after disruption.
Which of the following backup types copies changed data from a server and then combines the backups on the backup target?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Synthetic full
A server administrator is taking advantage of all the available bandwidth of the four NICs on the server. Which of the following NIC-teaming technologies should the server administrator utilize?
The correct answer is D. Option D: Link aggregation
A technician is working on a Linux server and is trying to access another server over the network. The technician gets server not found messages 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?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Configure the domain search variable.
Which of the following licensing models is MOST appropriate for a data center that has a variable daily equipment count?
The correct answer is A. Option A: Per site
An administrator is alerted to an issue with server hardware deployed as a virtualization host. The alert indicates a predictive failure in a DIMM module. Which of the following is the BEST action for the administrator to take?
The correct answer is C. Option C: Schedule an outage to replace the failed module immediately.
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