A new Windows server has been introduced to the network. The server administrator is trying to connect remotely to the server but is unsuccessful. Basic troubleshooting shows the server is visible on the network. Which of the following should be configured on the server to be able to connect remotely? (Choose two.)

A. Remote desktop connection

B. Remote procedure call

C. Remote assistance

D. Port 443

E. Port 3389

F. Port 5900

Which of the following attacks is the most difficult to mitigate with technology?

A. Ransomware

B. Backdoor

C. SQL injection

D. Phishing

A server in a remote data center is no longer responsive. Which of the following is the BEST solution to investigate this failure?

A. Remote desktop

B. Access via a crash cart

C. Out-of-band management

D. A Secure Shell connection

Which of the following BEST measures how much downtime an organization can tolerate during an unplanned outage?

A. SLA

B. BIA

C. RTO

D. MTTR

Several new components have been added to a mission-critical server, and corporate policy states all new components must meet server hardening requirements. Which of the following should be applied?

A. Definition updates

B. Driver updates

C. OS security updates

D. Application updates

A new virtual server was deployed in a perimeter network. Users have reported the time on the server has been incorrect. The engineer has verified the configuration, and the internal time servers are configured properly. Which of the following should the engineer do to resolve this issue?

A. Check the firewall rules.

B. Replace the CMOS battery in the server.

C. Restart the time servers.

D. Manually correct the time.

Which of the following relates to how much data loss a company agrees to tolerate in the event of a disaster?

A. RTO

B. MTBF

C. PRO

D. MTTR

Which of the following BEST describes the metric that is used to measure server downtime?

A. MTTR

B. BIA

C. RPO

D. SLA

A server administrator has configured a web server. Which of the following does the administrator need to install to make the website trusted?

A. PKI

B. SSL

C. LDAP

D. DNS

A technician learns users are unable to log 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?

A. A local firewall is blocking authentication requests.

B. The users have expired passwords.

C. The system clock is off by more than five minutes.

D. The server has no access to the LDAP host.

Users are experiencing issues when trying to access resources on multiple servers. The servers are virtual and run on an ESX server. A systems administrator is investigating but is unable to connect to any of the virtual servers. When the administrator connects to the host, a purple screen with white letters appears. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform FIRST?

A. Check the power supplies.

B. Review the log files.

C. Reinstall the ESX server.

D. Reseat the processors.

Which of the following actions should a server administrator take once a new backup scheme has been configured?

A. Overwrite the backups

B. Clone the configuration

C. Run a restore test

D. Check the media integrity

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? (Choose three.)

A. Run a vulnerability scanner on the server.

B. Repartition the hard drive that houses the database.

C. Patch the vulnerability.

D. Enable a host firewall.

E. Reformat the OS on the server.

F. Update the antivirus software.

G. Remove the database software.

H. Air gap the server from the network.

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?

A. Reinstall the OS and programs.

B. Configure old drives to RAID.

C. Reconfigure the RAID.

D. Install from backup.

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?

A. Build a warm site and perform a fail over of the application.

B. Build a cloud IaaS and perform a fail over of the application.

C. Build a hot site and perform a fail over of the application.

D. Build a cold site and perform a fail over of the application.

E. Perform a tabletop fail over of the application.

A server administrator is installing an OS on a new server. Company policy states no one is to log in directly to the server. Which of the following installation methods is BEST suited to meet the company policy?

A. GUI

B. Core

C. Virtualized

D. Clone

A technician runs top on a dual-core server and notes the following conditions: top `"- 14:32:27, 364 days, 14 users load average 60.5 12.4 13.6
Which of the following actions should the administrator take?

A. Schedule a mandatory reboot of the server

B. Wait for the load average to come back down on its own

C. Identify the runaway process or processes

D. Request that users log off the server

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?

A. A full, weekly backup with daily open-file backups

B. A full, weekly backup with daily archive backups

C. A full, weekly backup with daily incremental backups

D. A full, weekly backup with daily differential backups

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?

A. SLA

B. MTBF

C. RTO

D. MTTR

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?

A. 255.255.255.0

B. 255.255.255.128

C. 255.255.255.240

D. 255.255.255.254

Which of the following techniques can be configured on a server for network redundancy?

A. Clustering

B. Virtualizing

C. Cloning

D. Teaming

An administrator discovers a misconfiguration that impacts all servers but can be easily corrected. The administrator has a list of affected servers and a script to correct the issue. Which of the following scripting principles should the administrator use to cycle through the list of servers to deliver the needed change?

A. Linked list

B. String

C. Loop

D. Constant

Which of the following licensing models is MOST appropriate for a data center that has a variable daily equipment count?

A. Per site

B. Per server

C. Per user

D. Per core

An administrator is deploying a new secure web server. The only administration method that is permitted is to connect via RDP. Which of the following ports should be allowed? (Choose two.)

A. 53

B. 80

C. 389

D. 443

E. 445

F. 3389

G. 8080

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?

A. DHCP

B. WINS

C. DNS

D. TCP

Which of the following commands should a systems administrator use to create a batch script to map multiple shares?

A. nbtstat

B. net use

C. tracert

D. netstat

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?

A. Replace all the array drives at once and then expand the array.

B. Expand the array by changing the RAID level to 6.

C. Expand the array by changing the RAID level to 10.

D. Replace the array drives one at a time and then expand the array.

A technician needs to provide a VM with high availability. Which of the following actions should the technician take to complete this task as efficiently as possible?

A. Take a snapshot of the original VM

B. Clone the original VM

C. Convert the original VM to use dynamic disks

D. Perform a P2V of the original VM

Which of the following would MOST likely be part of the user authentication process when implementing SAML across multiple applications?

A. SSO

B. LDAP

C. TACACS

D. MFA

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? (Choose two.)

A. Close unneeded ports.

B. Disable unneeded physical ports.

C. Set a BIOS password.

D. Install a SIEM.

E. Disable unneeded services.

F. Install a HIDS.

A server is reporting a hard drive S.M.A.R.T. error. When a technician checks on the drive, however, it appears that all drives in the server are functioning normally. Which of the following is the reason for this issue?

A. A S.M.A.R.T. error is a predictive failure notice. The drive will fail in the near future and should be replaced at the next earliest time possible

B. A S.M.A.R.T. error is a write operation error. It has detected that the write sent to the drive was incorrectly formatted and has requested a retransmission of the write from the controller

C. A S.M.A.R.T. error is simply a bad sector. The drive has marked the sector as bad and will continue to function properly

D. A S.M.A.R.T. error is an ECC error. Due to error checking and correcting, the drive has corrected the missing bit and completed the write operation correctly.

A systems administrator has noticed performance degradation on a company file server, and one of the disks on it has a solid amber light. The administrator logs on to the disk utility and sees the array is rebuilding. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT once the rebuild is finished?

A. Restore the server from a snapshot.

B. Restore the server from backup.

C. Swap the drive and initialize the disk.

D. Swap the drive and initialize the array.

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.)

A. Remote desktop

B. IP KVM

C. A console connection

D. A virtual administration console

E. Remote drive access

F. A crash cart

Following a recent power outage, a server in the data center has been constantly going offline and losing its configuration. Users have been experiencing access issues while using the application on the server. The server technician notices the date and time are incorrect when the server is online. All other servers are working. Which of the following would MOST likely cause this issue? (Choose two.)

A. The server has a faulty power supply.

B. The server has a CMOS battery failure.

C. The server requires OS updates.

D. The server has a malfunctioning LED panel.

E. The servers have NTP configured.

F. CPU frequency scaling is set too high.

SIMULATION -
A recent power outage caused email services to go down. A server administrator also received averts from the datacenter's UPS.
After some investigation, the server administrator learned that each PDU 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 penal icon.
b. VM Hosts 1 and 2 and Mall Relay can be moved between racks. c. Certain devices contain additional details.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An administrator is investigating a physical server that will not boot into the OS. The server has three hard drives configured in a RAID 5 array. The server passes
POST, but the OS does not load. The administrator verifies the CPU and RAM are both 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?

A. The page file is too small.

B. The CPU has failed.

C. There are multiple failed hard drives.

D. There are mismatched RAM modules.

E. RAID 5 requires four drives.

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?

A. Replace the failed module during the next scheduled downtime.

B. Hot swap the failed module immediately.

C. Schedule an outage to replace the failed module immediately.

D. Hot swap the failed module during the next scheduled downtime.

A server that recently received hardware upgrades has begun to experience random BSOD conditions. Which of the following are likely causes of the issue?
(Choose two.)

A. Faulty memory

B. Data partition error

C. Incorrectly seated memory

D. Incompatible disk speed

E. Uninitialized disk

F. Overallocated memory

Which of the following concepts is in use when dual power supplies are connected to different power sources?

A. Fault tolerance

B. Active-passive

C. Component redundancy

D. Heartbeat

E. Link aggregation

A server administrator is setting up a new payroll application. Compliance regulations require that all financial systems logs be stored in a central location.
Which of the following should the administrator configure to ensure this requirement is met?

A. Alerting

B. Retention

C. Shipping

D. Rotation

An administrator is configuring a server that will host a high-performance financial application. Which of the following disk types will serve this purpose?

A. SAS SSD

B. SATA SSD

C. SAS drive with 10000rpm

D. SATA drive with 15000rpm

An administrator is alerted to a hardware failure in a mission-critical server. The alert states that two drives have failed. The administrator notes the drives are in different RAID 1 arrays, and both are hot-swappable.
Which of the following steps will be the MOST efficient?

A. Replace one drive, wait for a rebuild, and replace the next drive.

B. Shut down the server and replace the drives.

C. Replace both failed drives at the same time.

D. Replace all the drives in both degraded arrays.

In which of the following media rotation schemes are daily, weekly, and monthly backup media utilized in a first-in, first-out method?

A. Waterfall

B. Synthetic full

C. Tower of Hanoi

D. Grandfather-father-son

An administrator is troubleshooting a RAID issue in a failed server. The server reported a drive failure, and then it crashed and would no longer turn on. There are two arrays on the failed server: a two-drive RAID 0 set for the OS, and an eight-drive RAID 10 set for data.
Which of the following failure scenarios MOST likely occurred?

A. A drive failed in the OS array.

B. A drive failed and then recovered in the data array.

C. A drive failed in both of the arrays.

D. A drive failed in the data array.

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

A. Differential

B. Snapshot

C. Incremental

D. Synthetic full

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?

A. Stop sharing the volume

B. Replace the disk

C. Shut down the SAN

D. Stop all connections to the volume

An administrator discovers a Bash script file has the following permissions set in octal notation:
777
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate command to ensure only the root user can modify and execute the script?

A. chmod go-rwx

B. chmod u=rwx

C. chmod u+wx

D. chmod g-rwx

A technician is deploying a new workstation. The workstation uses DHCP and can ping other devices on the same VLAN, but it cannot access anything on a different VLAN. Which of the following steps should the technician perform NEXT?

A. Enable IPv6 on the workstation.

B. Create a local hosts file.

C. Examine the DHCP scope configuration.

D. Configure an APIPA reservation.

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?

A. Network port security

B. An improper VLAN configuration

C. A misconfigured DHCP server

D. A misconfigured NIC on the server

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?

A. Creating an exclusion to the antivirus for the application

B. Disabling real-time scanning by the antivirus

C. Validating the checksum for the downloaded installation package

D. Checking for corruption of the downloaded installation package