EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Maintaining operations in the event of a complete power outage requires a tested and established:

Question2: Historical data shows that on average, a server is likely to fail once every nine months. A company has purchased 24x7, four hour hardware response to replace a server's failed hardware. Additionally, the company can restore a server to its operational status within six hours from the time the failed hardware has been replaced. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: A technician is backing up 10 GB of data on a file server to a 250 GB external USB hard drive. After 4 GB has been backed up, the software generates an error that the size of the backup exceeds the file limit.
Which of the following file system types is being used?

Question6: A technician has access to a recent full backup. Data has changed since the last backup. Which of the following provides the fastest restore while minimizing backup size?

Question7: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 5?

Question8: 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?

Question9: An administrator receives a call from a user who is unable to receive email. After troubleshooting the administrator is able to resolve the issue and verify that user is able to access email again.
Which of the following is the NEXT step that the administrator should take?

Question10: A technician would like to restrict when internal hardware components on the server are accessed. Which of the following server hardening techniques should the technician implement?

Question11: A technician is installing a 2U rack mount server. The necessary rack space height to accommodate the server is:

Question12: A company has 700 servers installed in 50 server racks in the datacenter. The Chief Technology Officer issued a memorandum to the IT department with a directive to reduce power and cooling consumptions by
50% in the datacenters. Which of the following should the system administrators recommend?

Question13: Which of the following BEST describes the difference between RAID 5 and RAID 6?

Question14: 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?

Question15: Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?

Question16: A datacenter is in a geologically active area and has no earthquake abatement installed. Which of the following drive types is BEST for general server use?

Question17: Which of the following can limit cabling mistakes?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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:

Question21: A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered?

Question22: A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A newly hired administrator is tasked to change the number of CPUs assigned to a VM. Which of the following if the FIRST step the administrator should do during a scheduled maintenance window?

Question25: A user is unable to save a new presentation to the network U:\ drive. The error message indicates that there is no available space. Other users in the department are not experiencing any problems saving to the U:\ drive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question26: A server repeatedly crashes with a BSOD when running an application that uses a high amount of system resources. Which of the following hardware components MOST likely needs to be checked by a technician?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A technician is tasked with creating servers that are fault tolerant and highly available. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for this task?

Question30: A system administrator is tasked to enable authentication on a web server's login page. One of the requirements for the web server is to encrypt authenticated sessions over HTTP protocol for all static HTML pages. Using the information supplied, which of the following default port numbers should be used to satisfy these requirements?

Question31: An administrator has purchased monitoring software that can be configured to send alerts when hardware and applications are having issues. Which of the following must be installed on the monitoring server so that it can properly monitor details on vendor specific devices?

Question32: A system technician is asked to create a test environment that will consist of 45 computers and a file server. Which of the following types of servers is BEST suited for IP management in the lab network?

Question33: A server administrator recently upgraded a three-year-old server by replacing the old CPU and memory with a new CPU and memory. After the upgrade, the server regularly generates CPU and memory errors; however, the server is working. The administrator has confirmed the new CPU and memory are not faulty.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?

Question34: Multiple users report that an application attempting to open a file retrieved from a server reports that the file is corrupted. Which of the following applications can be used on the server to verify file integrity?

Question35: A company utilizes the GFS backup standard. Which of the following describes this backup method?

Question36: Which of the following security measures would be MOST effective in a datacenter that experiences frequent power surges and spikes? (Choose two.)

Question37: 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?

Question38: 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?

Question39: A technician is configuring switches with SFP ports on multiple floors in a building. A switch on the first floor must be connected to a switch on the second floor for trunking VLAN traffic. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate cable type for the technician to use?

Question40: 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?

Question41: A server technician is tasked to replace a RAID controller battery on a server. The server technician has no prior experience replacing a RAID controller battery. Which of the following should the server technician do to obtain the required knowledge or procedures to replace the battery?

Question42: When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents "something you have"?

Question43: Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?

Question46: Which of the following is an advantage of blade servers over rack-mount servers?

Question47: A new server has two drives and a RAID controller. Which of the following is an option for configuring the storage on this server?

Question48: Which of the following assists with airflow in a server? (Select TWO).

Question49: 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?

Question50: Which of the following would be an advantage to using a blade server as opposed to a rack mount server?

Question51: A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?

Question52: Which of the following methods should be used when classified or sensitive data is stored on a server?

Question53: When installing processors with mixed stepping levels in a server, which of the following guidelines must be followed? (Select TWO).

Question54: An administrator is given the following network information to configure a server with a static IP address:
10.152.0.4/21. Which of the following is the subnet mask for the given IP address?

Question55: Highly classified data is being shared on a company network. The systems administrator needs to ensure the data is safe and only necessary personnel can access it. Which of the following protocols would be BEST to use for this type of data to be shared?

Question56: Which of the following server types is commonly used for authentication and credential storage?

Question57: Which of the following internal storage devices has the GREATEST storage capacity and is WORM media?

Question58: Which of the following RAID levels supports fault tolerance by writing parity to only one drive in the array?

Question59: Which of the following virtual network settings should be used if the IP addresses of the host is to be shared with the virtual machine?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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?

Question62: 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.)

Question63: An administrator needs to create two websites. One website must only be used by internal users and the other website must be a corporate website accessible externally by customers. Which of the following website types is needed?

Question64: Which of the following is BEST described as a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through a fiber channel?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A system administrator is tasked to set up a file server. The file server must be able to support access control lists and logging for auditing purposes. To meet these requirements, with which of the following file system types should the administrator format the file system?

Question67: 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?

Question68: An administrator purchases a new server, which contains only one Xeon processor. This server is also known as a:

Question69: After a virus outbreak, which of the following can be used to deploy a hotfix in a Microsoft environment?
(Select TWO).

Question70: Which of the following protocols can be used to query for host, user, and group information for clients?

Question71: 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?

Question72: Which of the following BEST describes a benefit of RAID 0?

Question73: In a Windows environment, a user is able to access the network folder and open items, but is not able to delete anything. Which of the following folder permissions does the user require?

Question74: In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: An administrator has just upgraded a server from non-hot plug storage to all hot plug storage.
The administrator powers up the server, during POST the RAID controller is recognized but none of the drive lights flash.
Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to troubleshoot the problem?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

Question81: 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?

Question82: Which of the following default ports should be open on a server for remote administration?

Question83: Which of the following is a reason to have a remote cold site readily available in case of a disaster in the primary datacenter?

Question84: 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?

Question85: Which of the following expansion slots is 64-bit?

Question86: An administrator needs to back up changed files only and has time constraints on the back up window.
Which of the following is the BEST choice for a backup strategy?

Question87: 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?

Question88: Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?

Question89: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 10?

Question90: A network administrator installs a new web server and notices that the server was configured with one quad-port NIC. In order to properly provision the hardware resources, how should the NIC be configured?

Question91: Which of the following protocols is used primarily for monitoring and managing network devices?

Question92: Which of the following troubleshooting methods would be performed after resolving an issue?

Question93: An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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?

Question96: Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server's operating system locally?

Question97: 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?

Question98: Which of the following power plug types would MOST likely be found in a medical facility?

Question99: An administrator receives a call from a user who is unable to receive email. After checking the workstation and email settings the administrator is still not able to determine the problem. Which of the following is the NEXT step that the administrator should take?

Question100: 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?

Question101: Which of the following memory technologies has the HIGHEST cost to implement?

Question102: An administrator needs to control servers locally via a console. The administrator wants a rack mounted solution for easy access. Which of the following should be installed?

Question103: Which of the following is a storage system that can be connected to multiple servers through an iSCSI connection?

Question104: 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?

Question105: Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making a change to a server?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: Which of the following protocols would MOST likely be used in the establishment of an IPSec VPN tunnel?

Question109: Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

Question110: A technician is tasked with connecting a server to a NAS. Which of the following connection types should be used?

Question111: 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?

Question112: Which of the following media types allows for the ability to make data written to the media permanent?

Question113: Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

Question114: 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?

Question115: A new server has a battery-backed RAID controller built onto the motherboard. Which of the following will occur if the RAID controller fails?

Question116: 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?

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: When looking at an organization's file server configuration, an IT manager determines that several outages are tied to a lack of redundancy in the disk controller configuration. Which of the following features would the IT manager look for in a new configuration to correct this?

Question119: An administrator needs to deploy 1,000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

Question120: A system administrator has a database server that crashes at random times. No changes have been made to either the server's software or hardware. Which of the following is the FIRST step the administrator should take towards resolving this issue?

Question121: 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?

Question122: A system technician is tasked with destroying several hard drives that contain PII. Which of the following would be the BEST method for disposing of the drives?

Question123: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 1?

Question124: 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?

Question125: Which of the following is the MOST complex way to directly reduce heat for computing components?

Question126: 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?

Question127: Which of the following concepts is described as multiple logical subnets traversing the same physical network?

Question128: 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?

Question129: Which of the following components found in a legacy server has a 16-bit bus?

Question130: 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?

Question131: A small office has installed a server inside a writing closet. Users report losing connectivity to the server at various times throughout the day. Which of the following should have been considered before installing the server to prevent this issue from occurring?

Question132: 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?

Question133: Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

Question134: An enterprise administrator has a server that requires private communication between the application team and the administrator's team. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet this requirement?

Question135: Which of the following represents the directory permissions to provide least privilege for publicly readable directories on a Unix web server?

Question136: An IT manager noticed that specific directories' permissions are being changed by users. Which of the following will prevent this from occurring?

Question137: Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

Question138: Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select TWO).

Question139: Which of the following file types can Microsoft servers package for remote installation by default?

Question140: Which of the following actions will prevent a driver from being reinstalled automatically?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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?

Question143: A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

Question144: 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?

Question145: A server administrator is deploying a new database server and wishes to maximize the number of IOPS.
Which of the following disk types would BEST accomplish this goal?

Question146: Which of the following must be done to properly conduct testing of the data backup portion of a disaster recovery plan?

Question147: An administrator has purchased monitoring software that can be configured to alert administrators when hardware and applications are having issues. All devices are configured with SNMP, but the administrator wants to further secure the SNMP traffic. Which of the following settings would BEST provide additional monitoring security? (Select TWO).

Question148: 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?

Question149: 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?

Question150: Which of the following replication methods is MOST appropriate when integrating data from multiple remote offices?

Question151: 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?

Question152: 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.)

Question153: Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host?

Question154: 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?

Question155: 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?

Question156: A server has a faulty hard drive, and the administrator needs to replace the hard drive while it is running.
The server needs to support which of the following drives?

Question157: 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?

Question158: A host server in a small business environment does not have virtual switching configured. The NIC on a guest is configured with an IP address that is on a different subnet from the host server. Which of the following would MOST likely happen in this case?

Question159: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:

Question160: An administrator was tasked to enforce disk quotas on the Windows file server. The administrator allocated
1GB of space to each user. A month later, the users were still able to save beyond 1GB. Which of the following check boxes should have been selected?

Question161: 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?

Question162: 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?

Question163: A server technician needs to access a remote Unix server for administration. The technician has requested that ports 23, 25, and 161 be opened on the router. After the ports are opened, the technician is still unable to connect to the Unix server. Which of the following ports should be opened on the server to allow for remote administration?

Question164: 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?

Question165: A user reports that each day some files are deleted from the department share. The administrator needs to find who deleted these files. Which of the following actions should the administrator perform?

Question166: Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?

Question167: While performing routine testing of a hot standby site located at a remote hosting center, a system administrator is unable to access one of the server operating systems to verify functionality. Which of the following is MOST applicable to access the host?

Question168: 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?

Question169: Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

Question170: Which of the following BEST describes server virtualization?

Question171: A user is unable to save an image file to the home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user has enough space and required access to write to the directory. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the user is unable to save the file?

Question172: Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

Question173: 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?

Question174: An administrator decides to implement access control techniques to secure a datacenter. Which of the following would be the STRONGEST technique for the administrator to use?

Question175: An administrator has been tasked with making recommendations for purchasing new disks for a low I/O file server. Keeping in mind that budget and capacity are the primary concerns, which the following disk types should the administrator recommend?

Question176: When disposing of computer equipment, which of the following can present an environmental hazard?

Question177: 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?

Question178: Which of the following is an SLA?

Question179: 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?

Question180: 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?

Question181: A SLA document:

Question182: A technician is installing a server using a two-channel RAID controller, using RAID1 for the first channel and RAID5 for the second channel. If the technician has six 1TB disks total, how will this configuration look?

Question183: Which of the following protocols is responsible for the resolution of IP addresses to MAC addresses?

Question184: A technician has connected a previously formatted ext4 eSATA drive to a Linux server. Given the following output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382818 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 - 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0009f31a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 20481 953525168 976761560 83 Linux
Which of the following commands should the technician use to make the partition available under /data/ drive0?

Question185: 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?

Question186: 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?

Question187: 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?

Question188: A server administrator is creating a design for a new datacenter. The servers should be configured for maximum availability and also provide caching for user information requests. Which of the following techniques should be used?

Question189: After successfully authenticating to a remote server, a server administrator is presented with an interactive command line with no graphical interface. Which of the following protocols did the administrator MOST likely use to securely connect to the remote server?

Question190: 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?

Question191: A power loss during a firmware update would MOST likely result in which of the following?

Question192: 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?

Question193: A user cannot save a 2 GB file to a file server. A technician determines that permissions are correct and the file system has 10 MB of available space for new files. The technician wants to enable compression as a short-term fix. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

Question194: Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to:

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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?

Question197: Which of the following must be configured on printers so that the server can properly monitor details on page counts?

Question198: 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?

Question199: A user is unable to connect to the company's intranet server by FQDN, but can connect by IP address.
Other users are not having a problem. An administrator verifies that the user can successfully ping the server by IP address and can properly resolve the FQDN using nslookup.
The problem is persisting after running ipconfig /flushdns.
Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT?

Question200: An administrator sees a message in the system console that a drive is bad in the single-volume JBOD storage array. A few minutes later, a user calls the help desk to report an inability to read a file from a mapped drive. Which of the following should the administrator do?

Question201: After a migration to a new server, users report that they are unable to save files to their home directories. A check of the permissions on the home directories indicate that the permissions are set as follows:
User: r-x
Group: r--
Other: r-x
A server administrator verifies the correct user and group ownership of the home directories. Which of the following will MOST likely resolve the issue?

Question202: 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?

Question203: A company's computer policy dictates that all users workstations must use the company's corporate web page as their default home page. Which of the following methods should an administrator use to BEST comply with this policy?

Question204: 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?

Question205: In a workgroup, all of the following steps are required for a DHCP server EXCEPT:

Question206: A technician is selecting a UPS to use with a blade enclosure containing five blades with room for an additional seven blades. The blade enclosure is currently consuming 2500W of power, and each additional blade will need 200W of power. Assuming runtime to be less than a minute, which of the following is the MINIMUM amount of UPS wattage needed for the blade enclosure with all blades installed?

Question207: 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?

Question208: A technician is asked to troubleshoot a hardware alert on a server. The server is up and running and all users can access their data. Which of the following could the technician use to find the failed component?
(Select TWO).

Question209: Which of the following can occur if the maximum rated load is exceeded on an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)?

Question210: 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?

Question211: A network administrator finds there are several users who cannot access a particular application. The application does not launch for the users. The network administrator finds the server has not been rebooted in 192 days. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of these issues?

Question212: A technician notices a rack mounted server is beeping without booting up. The NEXT step to diagnose this issue would be to:

Question213: Which of the following media types is the MOST durable in harsh environments?

Question214: 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?

Question215: 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?

Question216: Which of the following services provides users with directory services?

Question217: A network administrator is installing additional devices on the network. The network segment is currently utilizing all allocated IP addresses. If there are additional addresses available, which of the following would be BEST for the network administrator to perform to accommodate the new network devices?

Question218: Which of the following can be used to manage a servers BIOS remotely? (Select TWO).

Question219: 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?

Question220: Which of the following graphically depicts the movement of information within a system?

Question221: A storage administrator needs to connect a server to a storage array shared by 12 other servers. Which of the following interface types could be used to accomplish this connection?

Question222: An administrator is unable to install a 64-bit OS on a newly purchased server. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question223: 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?

Question224: A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN. Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).

Question225: A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?

Question226: An administrator thinks that a particular network connection is dropping packets. Which of the following tools would the administrator use to BEST identify where the packets are being dropped?

Question227: A technician troubleshooting a mail server determines that the server is low on available hard drive space and needs an additional hard drive installed. The server will need to be offline for the hardware installation.
Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT?

Question228: 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?

Question229: 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?

Question230: 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?

Question231: 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?

Question232: A server administrator is configuring 10 web servers, each of which can contain up to four hard disks. To get the HIGHEST level of redundancy for these servers, the administrator should:

Question233: Which of the following components is required to connect multiple servers to a SAN?

Question234: 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?

Question235: 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:

Question236: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 0?

Question237: An administrator is looking to apply a new service pack for an OS on several systems that run business critical applications for a large international finance corporation.
Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST?

Question238: A server administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to connect to two servers simultaneously.
Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator?

Question239: Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?

Question240: Which of the following will protect data loss against catastrophic multiple physical drive failure?

Question241: Which of the following is a benefit of using raised floors with specially configured tiles in a server room?

Question242: A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers?

Question243: Which of the following BEST describes a server where several physical server chassis are housed within an enclosure to share some redundant resources?

Question244: 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?

Question245: 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?

Question246: Which of the following RAID levels can withstand the simultaneous loss of two physical drives in an array?

Question247: A technician is upgrading the memory in a server. The server requires DDR3 Registered DIMMs. The server has four banks of three slots for memory and currently there is one 2GB module in each bank.
When the technician attempts to add eight more 4GB modules of DDR3 unbuffered ECC memory, the memory does not fit in the slots. Which of the following is the cause of this issue?

Question248: Which of the following connects the L2 cache to the processor?

Question249: 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?

Question250: 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?

Question251: 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?

Question252: 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?

Question253: 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?

Question254: A new version of the primary operating system used by a company has been released. Due to some significant changes in the OS, a system administrator wants to see which remotely accessible services are enabled by default to assess the security risk prior to upgrading to the new version. Which of the following utilities should the administrator use?

Question255: 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?

Question256: 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?

Question257: A system administrator is tasked to setup a database server with failover clustering feature enabled. One of the requirements is to have one database running at all times with data being synchronized and replicated to the idle database in case the primary database server fails. Both servers will be monitored by a witness on a LUN. Which of the following cluster techniques should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question258: Which of the following describes a rack mounted server that is 2 rack units (2U) in height?

Question259: An administrator is decommissioning a company's old accounting system and will be sending all the hardware to an off-site recycler. Which of the following is the BEST method for the administrator to ensure no company data will be exposed before sending drives to the recycler?

Question260: 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?

Question261: Which of the following expansion cards should be installed into a server to provide fiber channel SAN connectivity?

Question262: In authentication, which of the following represents something you have?

Question263: 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?

Question264: 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?

Question265: 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?

Question266: 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?

Question267: Which of the following is the MOST important factor when considering environmental factors?

Question268: Which of the following server types requires the LARGEST amount of available hard drive space?

Question269: The shortest time to recovery method in the event of a complete datacenter failure is to utilize a:

Question270: A user reports that a script \\Server\Share\Runme.bat, which is run on a daily basis, cannot be accessed.
Which of the following is the FIRST step to take in resolving this issue?

Question271: 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?

Question272: A remote technician is notified that a LED light for a server's hard drive is red. Which of the following should the technician check to verify RAID functionality?

Question273: 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?

Question274: Which of the following will allow devices to be added without turning the server off?

Question275: Which of the following is designed to guarantee that once data is written it cannot be modified? (Select TWO).

Question276: A datacenter audit finds that a number of personnel are not using access cards when entering a secured area with a coworker. Which of the following security methods could be implemented to help prevent this behavior?

Question277: 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?

Question278: Which of the following settings is the jumper set to when installing a DVD-RW as the second device on an IDE cable?

Question279: A new version of the primary OS used by a company has been released. Due to some significant changes in the OS, a system administrator wants to see which remotely accessible services are enabled by default to access the security risk prior to upgrading to the new version. Which of the following utilities should the administrator use?

Question280: 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?