EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A technician needs to install another PCle NIC in a server. The server currently has four fully populated PCle slots. Which of the following must the technician install before installing the card?

Question2: Which of the following would be an advantage to using a blade server as opposed to a rack mount server?

Question3: Which of the following is used in a server to ensure proper cooling and airflow when components are removed?

Question4: Users report that they are unable to connect to a server. An administrator confirms that it is unreachable across the network. Other administrators have been working in the server room throughout the day. Which of the following is the NEXT step the administrator should take?

Question5: A power loss during a firmware update would MOST likely result in which of the following?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A server is giving a fault code indicating that a RAM chip is producing errors and should be replaced.
According to best practices, which of the following is the proper sequence of steps to replace the faulty module?

Question8: Which of the following is designed to guarantee that once data is written it cannot be modified? (Select TWO).

Question9: Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

Question10: A server is connected to a gigabit Ethernet switch and has negotiated 1Gbps / Full Duplex. When transferring large files to and from other servers on the segment via FTP slow performance is noticed. All network cabling, network hardware and server hardware were verified to be working correctly. Which of the following could be done to improve performance?

Question11: A company has a corporate office building that is used by 50 to 100 unique visitors each day for meetings.
Users routinely report that they are unable to access the network with their laptops when visiting this location.
The help desk reports that these users are not getting IP addresses automatically assigned.
After an investigation, the server administrator has determined that the DHCP service is functioning, but a minimal number of addresses are available for lease.
The building is on its own class C subnet and has 250 addresses in the scope. Which of the following represents a long term solution tothe problem?

Question12: Employees working for a company were harmed by toxic fumes during a fire. To prevent this from reoccurring, which of the following cable types is SAFEST to use?

Question13: Which of the following media types is the MOST durable in harsh environments?

Question14: A system administrator is concerned with employees connecting removable storage to the server to copy sensitive data. Which of the following solutions addresses this concern?

Question15: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 1?

Question16: 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?

Question17: Which of the following should a systems administrator create to enable network connectivity on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question18: 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?

Question19: A technician has a current baseline and is told to install additional memory and a faster NIC card.
At which point in time should the next baseline be run?

Question20: Which of the following will allow devices to be added without turning the server off?

Question21: A user calls the system administrator and states that they can no longer access the file server they had been working on all morning. To troubleshoot this problem, which step should the administrator take FIRST?

Question22: Two RAID arrays are created from eight disks. One is created using RAID 6, the other is created using RAID 5 with a hot spare. Which of the following is the operational difference between these configurations?

Question23: Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

Question24: Which of the following is the MOST important factor when considering environmental factors?

Question25: Which of the following components found in a legacy server has a 16-bit bus?

Question26: Users report that an application is unable to connect to a server on the same network segment. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

Question27: The last available backup is from 12 months ago. Which of the following should an administrator perform prior to applying a critical application patch to a guest OS? (Choose two.)

Question28: Which of the following BEST describes server virtualization?

Question29: A user reports they cannot access the network share folder, the users workstation is configured to use automatic IP. When the administrator checks the IP address the response returns as 169.254.0.5.
Which of the following should the administrator verify?

Question30: After a virus outbreak, which of the following can be used to deploy a hotfix in a Microsoft environment?
(Select TWO).

Question31: A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy. Which of the following implements this backup strategy?

Question32: Which of the following can be used to manage a servers BIOS remotely? (Select TWO).

Question33: Which of the following is the BEST place to find the latest BIOS upgrade of the server system board?

Question34: Which of the following is the MOST common problem that occurs in server rooms?

Question35: 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?

Question36: An administrator is securing a secure web server by disabling ports. After completing this process, clients cannot access the secure web server. The administrator should now go back and verify whether which of the following ports is enabled?

Question37: An administrator notes that after a recent power outage, some open files were corrupted on one affected file server. Which of the following items should the administrator consider to determine the cause of this corruption?

Question38: Which of the following is a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through an iSCSI connection?

Question39: A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN. Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).

Question40: A datacenter administrator is reallocating CPU and memory resources for a guest VM. The guest VM runs on a hypervisor that has direct access to the hardware resources being allocated. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario?

Question41: A systems administrator wants to run a report that will analyze a network's server performance at a specific point in time. Which of the following documents would be the best practice to create?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A server technician is notified that Linux web services are no longer accessible. The technician is at a remote site only has access to a Windows workstation. Which of the following should the technician use to remotely restart the web services?

Question44: A technician has completed the installation and configuration of a third email server. The technician has configured the firewall to permit email traffic, but the mail is only being received by the two older servers.
Which of the following should the technician configure to ensure incoming email will be processed by all three servers?

Question45: A server administrator has been given the following information from the network team in order to configure IP addresses on a new server:
Network Address: 199.90.10.32/28
The network team also instructed the server administrator to use the LAST usable address on the given network. Which of the following IP address/subnet mask combinations should the server administrator use?

Question46: 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?

Question47: An auditor wants to reduce the server footprint in a company's remote datacenter to decrease hosting costs. Regarding life-cycle management, which if the following is the auditor MOST likely to look for in reviewing the company's asset data?

Question48: A server administrator is notified of an OS hot fix for a production server. Which of the following BEST represent how the hot fix should be applied? (Choose two.)

Question49: Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?

Question50: A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

Question51: 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?

Question52: An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take?

Question53: Which of the following will protect data loss against catastrophic multiple physical drive failure?

Question54: Which of the following memory technologies has the HIGHEST cost to implement?

Question55: An administrator purchases a new server, which contains only one Xeon processor. This server is also known as a:

Question56: An administrator attempts to install the latest security patches for an older server. When the administrator runs the patch installer, the install fails. The administrator tries again, and the installer fails again. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this?

Question57: 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?

Question58: A user is unable to save an image file to their 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?

Question59: Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to:

Question60: A technician is working on a server that is experiencing network connectivity issues. The technician replaces the NIC on the server, but this does not resolve the issue. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT?

Question61: A company has hired a consultant to review the production storage infrastructure and provide suggestions on improving performance. The consultant has identified a bottleneck in the production switching fabric and successfully tested the solution in a lab environment. Which of the following should the consultant perform NEXT, according to best practices?

Question62: An administrator has a UPS rated at 200 amps per hour. Which of the following is the maximum runtime of this UPS when hooked up to a server drawing 400 amps per hour?

Question63: A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?

Question64: A system administrator notices that there is a low level of available storage space on a file server. Which of the following should be implemented to limit the amount of storage space users can utilize on the file server?

Question65: A technician is troubleshooting a Linux server and wants to inspect the free disk space on the /dev/sda partition of the system. Which of the following command line tools should the administrator run to view available disk space on the partition?

Question66: In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as long as compatible hardware is available. Which of the following backup types meets this requirement?

Question67: A server administrator is notified that all three hard disks in a server array have failed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question68: Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?

Question69: Which of the following is an environmental server maintenance task that should be performed every three months?

Question70: Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host?

Question71: 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?

Question72: Which of the following expansion slots is 64-bit?

Question73: A technician is setting up a server with a RAID 1 array for the boot partition and a RAID 5 array for the data partition. Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed to implement these partitions?

Question74: A company has had problems with their HVAC system being able to cool their datacenter as they have grown. Which of the following could BEST be used to help reduce the load on the HVAC system?

Question75: Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: A systems administrator has performed a memory upgrade on a server. The server does not recognize the new memory. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question79: Which of the following ports does a telnet application utilize?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: An administrator is setting up LDAP in the environment to allow directory services authentication and login, and wants to allow secure connection only. Which of the following network ports should be allowed on the internal and external firewalls?

Question83: Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making a change to a server?

Question84: Users have reported that they cannot access certain Internet sites. An administrator wants to test that the sites are properly resolving to an IP address. Which of the following tools would allow the administrator to test name resolution?

Question85: A server technician is connecting a server directly to a multilayer switch, without MDI-X. Which of the following cables should the server technician use?

Question86: A systems administrator receives an email indicating a Windows user in finance cannot access the finance server remotely but is currently logged onto the network. Which of the following ports should be checked to determine if it is listening or open?

Question87: Which of the following replication methods is MOST appropriate when integrating data from multiple remote offices?

Question88: After applying a set of OS patches, a systems administrator finds that, on reboot, a server hangs with a blinking cursor after the system POST. Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST?

Question89: Which of the following describes a rack mounted server that is 2 rack units (2U) in height?

Question90: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 0?

Question91: An administrator is using IPv4 on all servers. If a new technician installs only IPv6 on a workstation, which of the following servers will the workstation be able to access?

Question92: Maintaining operations in the event of a complete power outage requires a tested and established:

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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?

Question95: Which of the following troubleshooting methods would be performed after resolving an issue?

Question96: 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?

Question97: A company utilizes the GFS backup standard. Which of the following describes this backup method?

Question98: A customer reports their mail can send emails but not receive them. A technician arrives on-site to troubleshoot the issue. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do FIRST?

Question99: Which of the following BEST describes a server where several physical server chassis are housed within an enclosure to share some redundant resources?

Question100: 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?

Question101: A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A technician is configuring the IP networking portion on a server installation. Which of the following types of IP addresses would be BEST to use for this server?

Question104: Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

Question105: A user is reporting lack of connectivity to the server. Which of the following tools will provide feedback to the administrator while troubleshooting basic IP connectivity? (Choose two.)

Question106: A technician correctly powers off and replaces a cache battery on a RAID controller. When the server is powered back up, it restarts but indicates there are no logical disk volumes found. The server halts. Which of the following components should the technician check FIRST?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A technician is asked to troubleshoot a server that constantly reboots. There are no error messages displayed on the server. Which of the following should the technician check?

Question109: A systems administrator has determined that there are several users experiencing problems within two offices that have recently merged into one OU. Users within one of these offices are not having these issues. Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

Question110: The purpose of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is to:

Question111: Which of the following components is required to connect multiple servers to a SAN?

Question112: Which of the following is an SLA?

Question113: 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?

Question114: Which of the following expansion cards should be installed in a server to allow the server to connect to a SAN via a fiber channel?

Question115: Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?

Question116: 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?

Question117: Server A hosts a mission-critical business application. The server has one disk and one NIC. The administrator has been asked to implement a solution to meet the business requirement that the application must maintain high availability, even in case of a hardware failure. Which of the following BEST meets this requirement?

Question118: Which of the following protocols would MOST likely be used in the establishment of an IPSec VPN tunnel?

Question119: After installing a 1 TB hard drive, a technician notices the OS is reporting significantly less unformatted capacity than was expected. Which of the following is the root cause?

Question120: A user in the accounting department reports that print jobs are not printing. A user in the software development department also cannot print to the same printer, but can print to two other printers on different print servers. Which of the following should be the administrator's FIRST step?

Question121: An administrator is building a web server to host an online banking application. The server should not have access to the internal network, and only ports that are used by the application should be opened. Which of the following MUST be implemented to meet the business requirements?

Question122: Which of the following can occur if the maximum rated load is exceeded on an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)?

Question123: Which of the following expansion cards should be installed into a server to provide fiber channel SAN connectivity?

Question124: Which of the following internal storage devices has the GREATEST storage capacity and is WORM media?

Question125: 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?

Question126: A system administrator wants to assure that a server is responsive. Which of the following networking tools should the administrator use to verify network connectivity?

Question127: A technician notices a rack mounted server is beeping without booting up. The NEXT step to diagnose this issue would be to:

Question128: Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

Question129: 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?

Question130: Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

Question131: After starting an operating system installation from DVD, a system administrator goes to work on another task and comes back to find the server back at the installation start screen. Which of the following should be done to correct this problem?

Question132: A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the company have?

Question133: A new server was installed. Most clients are located in the same subnet as the server and can successfully access the server. Clients located on different subnets have been unable to access the server, but have no trouble accessing other servers on their subnet. Which of the following is the reason that these clients are unable to access the server?

Question134: A new DHCP server is placed on a network segment during off hours. When work resumes, users on a different network segment report connectivity issues. Users on the same network segment report no connectivity issues. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the connectivity issues?

Question135: An administrator is securing a network time server by disabling ports. After completing this process, the network time server is not functioning. The administrator should now go back and verify whether which of the following ports is enabled?

Question136: Which of the following protocols is responsible for the resolution of IP addresses to MAC addresses?

Question137: An administrator identifies that a server is shutting down. The administrator powers up the server and OS loads but after a few minutes it powers down again. Which of the following is the cause?

Question138: Which of the following methods should be used when classified or sensitive data is stored on a server?

Question139: An administrator is asked to move a 64-bit guest to a new host. However, the guest will not boot on the new host. Which of the following is the cause of the problem?

Question140: Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server's operating system locally?

Question141: A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

Question142: Users on multiple network segments report that they are unable to retrieve email from a server. Which of the following commands will allow a server technician to ensure that the email service is running on the server?

Question143: 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?

Question144: A technician is assigned a task to configure a new server with six hard drives. The senior administrator requested the technician utilize the drives for maximum fault tolerance. Which of the following RAID configurations should the technician use?

Question145: Which of the following protocols is used primarily for monitoring and managing network devices?

Question146: A technician notices inlet temperatures to rack-mounted servers are significantly higher in the center of the rack as compared to the top and bottom of the rack. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

Question147: 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?

Question148: 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?

Question149: A new server was installed for the purpose of monitoring network traffic. The network has been configured in such a way that all traffic will be mirrored out the port this server is connected to.
When reviewing the network traffic logs on the server only traffic destined to the server is listed in the logs.
Which of the following is preventing the server from seeing all network traffic?

Question150: 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?

Question151: An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

Question152: 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?

Question153: 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?

Question154: Which of the following ports should be open on a server that provides IP addressing for clients?

Question155: A technician working in the datacenter has finished racking a new 4U server into a new rack. Which of the following should the technician do to allow for hot/cold aisle containment?

Question156: 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?

Question157: 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?

Question158: A technician receives an error message when trying to boot the server stating the operating system was not found. Change management logs indicate a new hard drive backplane was installed in the server last night. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST when troubleshooting the issue?

Question159: 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?

Question160: Which of the following BEST describes the difference between RAID 5 and RAID 6?

Question161: Which of the following RAID arrays performs mirroring of the disks first, then striping of the disks?

Question162: Which of the following is the FIRST thing that should be done in order to begin reinstalling TCP/IP on the server?

Question163: A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no change between production and the remote site. Which of the following site types BEST represents the purpose of this remote site?

Question164: While reviewing a network connectivity issue to a Linux server, the systems administrator issues the ifconfigcommand with the following results:

According to the output above, which of the following is the problem?

Question165: A server technician is updating the operating system on a server. Currently, the server is running the following services:
DHCP
WINS
DNS
HTTP
The updated server will be used to allow clients to access Web services, resolve host names to IP addresses for mobile iOS clients, and provide network access to thin clients running a Linux operating system. Which of the following services can be removed?

Question166: An administrator is required to backup 250GB nightly utilizing a single LTO2 tape. The administrator reports that the tape drive is running out of available space before the job completes. Which of the following would allow the administrator to backup this data? (Select TWO).

Question167: An administrator is connecting a laptop to administer a switch using an Ethernet cable, which works on a PC to a wall jack. The switch is functioning, but the administrator is unable to establish a connection with the switch. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

Question168: Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

Question169: A network administrator is installing additional devices on the network. Currently, the network segment is 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?

Question170: Which of the following must be done to properly conduct testing of the data backup portion of a disaster recovery plan?

Question171: Which of the following concepts is described as multiple logical subnets traversing the same physical network?

Question172: Which of the following file types can Microsoft servers package for remote installation by default?

Question173: Which of the following is a reason to have a remote cold site readily available in case of a disaster in the primary datacenter?

Question174: Which of the following RAID levels can withstand the simultaneous loss of two physical drives in an array?

Question175: A system administrator needs to rebuild a server by booting to the OS DVD. The server powers up but attempts to boot from the network. Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?

Question176: A systems administrator is installing a new software package on a server. The software has many dependencies. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for the systems administrator to take to ensure there is no downtime with the installation of this software package?

Question177: 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?

Question178: Which of the following settings is the jumper set to when installing a DVD-RW as the second device on an IDE cable?

Question179: A technician is trying to install the operating system on a new server. When the server is powered on, it searches for the installation information on CD and then on the local hard drive. The operating system installation is on a PXE server. Which of the following should the technician change to successfully install the operating system?

Question180: A server with a number of graphics cards installed was recently upgraded with additional graphics cards.
Once the server is started, the system powers off unexpectedly. Prior to the upgrade, the server was stable and exhibited no odd behavior. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

Question181: A datacenter recently experienced a breach committed by a group that was able to access a server that had been shut down but not disconnected from the network. Which of the following could have prevented the breach from occurring?

Question182: Which of the following BEST describes a benefit of RAID 0?

Question183: The logs on a server in a datacenter indicate that the server unexpectedly shut down minutes after the night cleaning crew started their shift. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the shut down?

Question184: Which of the following would be the BEST configuration when using seven SCSI drives in order to have full fault tolerance?

Question185: Which of the following ports should be open if a server is configured as an email server with high security for incoming connections? (Choose two.)

Question186: A systems administrator is unable to back up user files. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for this issue?

Question187: After applying a new driver to a NIC, the server reboots and fails to restart. Which of the following is the BEST way to resolve the problem?

Question188: The shortest time to recovery method in the event of a complete datacenter failure is to utilize a:

Question189: When troubleshooting a failed backup, a technician runs the backup using the same tape but on a different tape drive in the same tape library. The backup fails again. Which of the following should be the FIRST item the technician should examine as a failure?

Question190: Which of the following RAID levels supports fault tolerance by writing parity to only one drive in the array?

Question191: When disposing of computer equipment, which of the following can present an environmental hazard?

Question192: 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?

Question193: 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?

Question194: An older server has performance problems writing files to a RAID array. After checking for failed drives, no problems are found. Which of the following should be checked NEXT?

Question195: A systems administrator is troubleshooting a server that will not turn on. The LED lights are not blinking, and no status light indicators are available. The administrator has checked the PDU and UPS to verify proper functionality. Which of the following components is the MOST likely cause of this problem?

Question196: Which of the following MUST be configured to automate client deployment over PXE boot? (Choose two.)

Question197: A technician is tasked with creating a test system containing non-critical data. The technician has limited hardware, but needs maximum performance. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician use?

Question198: A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?

Question199: Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

Question200: Which of the following types of DNS records enables support for email?

Question201: A server technician has just installed a server with several roles. The technician then launches a command prompt, runs the netstatcommand, 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: Which of the following services provides users with directory services?

Question204: 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?

Question205: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 5?

Question206: Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select TWO).

Question207: Which of the following is BEST described as a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through a fiber channel?

Question208: 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?

Question209: Which of the following default ports should be open on a server for remote administration?

Question210: A server failed Thursday evening before the nightly backup. The backup scheme in place was full backups every Sunday, incremental backups on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and differential backups on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. To fully restore the server, which of the following is the LEAST amount of backup sets required?

Question211: 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?

Question212: Which of the following commands displays the network path between two devices?

Question213: Which of the following are the MOST appropriate permissions to set on files required to be publicly accessible but only modified by the file's original owner?

Question214: A technician needs to install more add-on cards than there are available expansion slots. Which of the following would allow the technician to accomplish this?

Question215: A server has two power supplies. If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?

Question216: A technician is tasked by an administrator to patch a virtual machine. The technician needs to ensure that in case of failure, recovery of the virtual machine will be possible. Which of the following recovery principles should the technician employ?

Question217: Which of the following access control methods allows or blocks devices based on MAC addresses?

Question218: Which of the following RAID configurations consists of mirrored disks?

Question219: A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered?

Question220: 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?

Question221: Which of the following assists with airflow in a server? (Select TWO).

Question222: At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)

Question223: An administrator is setting up a new mail server on the network and wants to open necessary ports to allow POP3 protocol for mail delivery. Which of the following ports should be opened in the internal and external firewalls?

Question224: Which of the following hypervisors is physically installed on a server?

Question225: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 10?

Question226: A security incident occurs that requires a systems administrator to take an image of a user's workstation hard drive. Which of the following should be taken at the time the system image is generated and retained through the file of the investigation to assure files have not been modified since?

Question227: An outside contractor is hired to perform a business impact analysis of a simulated disaster. The contractor asks stakeholders what they think a hurricane would do to the business. This is an inadequate method because:

Question228: 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:

Question229: 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?

Question230: A server technician has been tasked with purchasing cables and connectors for a new server room. The server room consists of one switch, two servers, and one IP telephone. Which of the following types of cables and connectors should the technician purchase?

Question231: 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?

Question232: An administrator receives multiple reports that users cannot access a secure website hosted on a server the administrator manages. The administrator investigates and discovers that the reason users cannot access the secure site is because:

Question233: An administrator is asked to change a configuration using a GUI on a Windows server, but does not have access to a KVM. Which of the following is BEST to make the change?

Question234: A technician is replacing a faulty NIC in a server. According to best practices, which of the following should be used to configure the IP address on the server?

Question235: 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?

Question236: While troubleshooting a video problem on an application server, the system administrator has determined that the video firmware should be updated. Which of the following sources should be used to locate an appropriate update for this hardware? (Select TWO).

Question237: A technician is configuring a new server on the network. The technician wants the server to be a default gateway for network devices. Which of the following should the technician use to BEST provide the server with the proper IP address?

Question238: A technician needs to install an operating system 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?

Question239: A stripe set of maximum size is to be configured using two physical disks. One disk has 150GB and the other has 250GB in unallocated space. Which of the following will be the size of the stripe set?

Question240: 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?

Question241: Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

Question242: A SLA document:

Question243: 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?

Question244: An administrator has just installed a new NIC into the server. The system POSTs fine and the NIC is recognized by the OS, but it does not receive an IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this?

Question245: A server technician is applying a security patch to an active-passive failover SQL cluster. However, the cluster must continue to service clients during the process with limited outages. Given this scenario, which of the following should the technician do to adhere to these maintenance requirements?

Question246: An administrator is validating disaster recovery mechanisms and wants to ensure backup data is usable and accurate. Which of the following should the administrator do?

Question247: Which of the following describes a root cause analysis?

Question248: Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?

Question249: 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?