EMT Practice Test

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Question1: After installing the operating system on a new server, which of the following best practices should be completed before joining the server to the domain? (Choose two.)

Question2: 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?

Question3: Which of the following types of DNS records enables support for email?

Question4: Which of the following media types allows for the ability to make data written to the media permanent?

Question5: When using multifactor authentication, which of the following describes something you have?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A blade server chassis has two power supplies. Which of the following is a benefit of a technician connecting each power supply to a separate UPS unit?

Question8: A server has two power supplies. If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?

Question9: A new server comes with four CPU sockets. Which of the following describes how many dual-core microprocessors will fit on this server?

Question10: 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?

Question11: Which of the following must be done to properly conduct testing of the data backup portion of a disaster recovery plan?

Question12: A technician wants to send a secure message to a user. The technician receives the public encryption keys from the user. Which of the following actions would be a prudent response?

Question13: An administrator has a drive working properly under Linux and moves it to a Windows server. Which of the following should be performed to ensure Windows can read the disk?

Question14: A server administrator is reviewing plans for a new office addition. The plans call for Cat 5e cabling to be used for all servers. Which of the following is the maximum allowable length for Cat 5e communications?

Question15: An administrator has been given a CIDR/22 IP address block and needs to assign addresses to a multiple of virtual workstations. Which of the following servers will MOST likely perform this task?

Question16: Which of the following multifactor authentication methods does the smart card satisfy?

Question17: Which of the following default ports needs to be open on a firewall for a DNS server to function?

Question18: 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?

Question19: A server administrator is updating the kernel for servers during the middle of the work day. After defining the steps required to perform this scope of work, which of the following would be the NEXT step needed to complete this task?

Question20: A technician wants to copy files from one server to another by connecting the servers directly. Which of the following cables should the technician install to achieve this?

Question21: 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?

Question22: Which of the following defines memory interleaving?

Question23: A systems administrator was tasked with decommissioning a server that contains sensitive dat a. The systems administrator powered down the server so it was no longer accessible from the network. Two weeks later, during an investigation by security, it is discovered that an employee within the company accessed the server that morning and attempted to access the restricted data. Physical security logs show no one entered the server room. Which of the following hardening techniques was MOST likely neglected on this server?

Question24: 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?

Question25: An administrator needs to build a new virtualization host. The hypervisor should be able to directly access the server hardware and allow the host to provide maximum performance. Which of the following types of hypervisors should the administrator install to BEST meet these goals?

Question26: A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company. In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

Question27: A technician is asked to troubleshoot a hardware alert on a server. The server is up and running and all users can access their dat a. Which of the following could the technician use to find the failed component? (Select TWO).

Question28: An administrator needs to securely dispose of 150 computers with SATA HDDs. Which of the following methods would ensure all data is erased in the MOST secure manner?

Question29: While installing patches, a systems administrator is disconnected from a server. The administrator attempts to ping the server and receives no response. Which of the following tools is MOST likely to help in this situation?

Question30: 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?

Question31: A system administrator is asked to set up several physical file servers that have recently crashed due to a power failure. Which of the following documents should the administrator refer to in order to complete this task?

Question32: Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?

Question33: An IT manager has indicated the need to deploy a feasible standby storage file server that replicates the production data file server and should be quickly accessible from the network by all users when needed. Which of the following storage technologies would be MOST appropriate?

Question34: An administrator is configuring a RAID array on a new server with parity and striping. Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed to implement this array?

Question35: When setting up a new Linux server that will require files larger than 2 TB in size, which of the following file system types should be used?

Question36: A server administrator wants to increase the availability of a web server without implementing a cluster. Which of the following would accomplish this task?

Question37: A server that can store extensible schema and communicate using SQL for describing transactions to be performed is commonly called a:

Question38: 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?

Question39: A technician is having problems sending a notification from a server. The technician suspects the firewall may be blocking traffic. Which of the following clients can be used to confirm the technician's suspicions?

Question40: Which of the following protocols can be used to query for host, user, and group information for clients?

Question41: A technician has installed an additional CPU into a server, but now the server is failing to pass POST. After verifying the CPU speed and multiplier, which of the following does the technician need to check for potential causes?

Question42: 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?

Question43: An administrator is upgrading the backup server from a single tape drive to a SCSI tape library.
The library has been unpackaged, mounted, and the library drivers installed. Which of the following items should the administrator have to connect the device to the backup server?

Question44: Which of the following is the MOST complex way to directly reduce heat for computing components?

Question45: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 5?

Question46: A server with redundant power supplies connected to two different UPS units fails to gracefully shut down during a power outage. A technician has verified cables and both UPS units are properly connected. Which of the following hardware tools should the technician use to further troubleshoot this issue?

Question47: Which of the following backup types will reset the archive bit? (Select TWO).

Question48: Which of the following BEST describes a benefit of RAID 0?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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?

Question51: An administrator is working on a server with two CPUs. The administrator runs the uptime command and sees the following:
17:52 3 days 12 users 12.0 15.2 17.2
Several users are complaining that their user sessions are running slowly. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT?

Question52: The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) decided all backups should be taken at the storage array level rather than at the OS level. Which of the following backup types would fulfill these requirements?

Question53: 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?

Question54: Which of the following is a benefit of using raised floors with specially configured tiles in a server room?

Question55: An administrator is tasked with deploying a server in a telephone switching station. Which of the following voltages will MOST likely be available at the facility?

Question56: A company hires a third-party vendor to perform a vulnerability scan of the network from outside the network. Which of the following pieces of information will be included in the scan results? (Choose two.)

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 technician finds a pile of cables hanging straight down off the back of several servers. This is preventing the technician from pulling the server out of the rack for maintenance. Which of the following would have prevented this problem?

Question59: A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?

Question60: 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?

Question61: After determining slow access times were affecting server users, a server technician installed more RAM on a server. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?

Question62: 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?

Question63: A systems administrator has been tasked to set up a new server to assign IP addresses on the network. The network administrator logs into the server, but cannot find the management tool to create a scope. Which of the following MOST likely happened to cause this?

Question64: A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?

Question65: 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?

Question66: Which of the following is a standard IEEE 1394 transmission speed?

Question67: 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?

Question68: Users report print jobs are not printing off several different network printers. Which of the following should be checked FIRST?

Question69: A systems administrator recently added more memory to a database server. A week later, end users were reporting memory errors when running large queries, even though these queries worked before. Which of the following should the systems administrator do FIRST to troubleshoot this issue?

Question70: 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?

Question71: When installing processors with mixed stepping levels in a server, which of the following guidelines must be followed? (Select TWO).

Question72: Which of the following security measures would be MOST effective in a datacenter that experiences frequent power surges and spikes? (Choose two.)

Question73: Which of the following is the difference between a Type 1 and a Type 2 hypervisor?

Question74: A technician is troubleshooting a hardware issue with a blade. When the technician inserts the blade into a slot, the blade will not power up. The blade will power up, however, in another chassis that has the same configuration. The blade management software reports no issue with the chassis or with any other blades. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the blade not powering up?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A server administrator wants to minimize the amount of disk thrashing on a server. The BEST way to accomplish this would be to:

Question78: 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).

Question79: A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?

Question80: 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:

Question81: Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

Question82: While working in the server room a technician notices that water is forming on the walls of the server room. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to correct the problem?

Question83: An administrator is configuring a multi-terabyte storage array for high-speed file access by a Unix system. Which of the following filesystem types would be best for the administrator to implement?

Question84: 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?

Question85: An administrator has been given an OS DVD to install on a server. During setup, however, the DVD gives an architecture mismatch warning. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question86: 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?

Question87: A new server has two drives and a RAID controller. Which of the following is an option for configuring the storage on this server?

Question88: A system administrator is creating a backup schedule. Which of the following is a best practice to ensure the data is backed up, based on a five-day business week ?

Question89: A server with a large amount of storage but not necessarily a very fast CPU would be BEST suited for which of the following applications?

Question90: A network administrator is tasked to block all outbound SSH connections on the default port from a network subnet of 10.152.8.0/21 on a Linux based firewall. Which of the following rule sets would accomplish this task?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: A line-of-business software patch notification is received. The notification indicates that version 5.0 of the software has new features that the accounting department has been expecting. The update requires a new version of the OS and new version of SQL on the server. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

Question94: Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

Question95: An administrator is opening a firewall to allow encrypted communication with a website. Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to open on the firewall?

Question96: A server technician has just finished provisioning a Windows server offline. Per company policy, all servers' network settings must be configured manually. The technician is able to ping the IP addresses of servers on multiple networks. When attempting to join the server to the domain, the technician receives the error: Cannot find domain controller. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this issue?

Question97: 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?

Question98: A server administrator was hired by a company to manage and maintain 20 Windows-based servers in five geographical locations. The server administrator is going to run patches manually to ensure they are applied, which would address some major security-related items. Which of the following methods would MOST likely be the way to handle this task?

Question99: An employee is working from home and has to dial into the system. The employee is able to connect to the network but is unable to authenticate. Which of the following is MOST likely offline?

Question100: Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?

Question101: Which of the following would be an advantage to using a blade server as opposed to a rack mount server?

Question102: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:

Question103: 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?

Question104: Which of the following concepts is described as multiple logical subnets traversing the same physical network?

Question105: 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?

Question106: A server is connected to a switch, and the server is experiencing erratic connectivity issues. Which of the following should be checked FIRST?

Question107: 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).

Question108: A company has recently had sensitive data stolen by a contractor who plugged a flash drive into a server. Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent future occurrences?

Question109: Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

Question110: Which of the following will allow devices to be added without turning the server off?

Question111: An administrator needs to run five CAT6 cable runs to a new server. Which of the following steps should the administrator do FIRST?

Question112: A user notices that when plugging a company-assigned laptop into a network port it is able to get an IP address via DHCP. However, when plugging a personal laptop into the same port, it does not get a valid IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this?

Question113: Which of the following is the BEST place to find the latest BIOS upgrade of the server system board?

Question114: A user receives the following error message when attempting to log into a server: Username or password is invalid. Which of the following should the administrator do FIRST to fix the problem?

Question115: 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?

Question116: 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?

Question117: 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?

Question118: Which of the following storage techniques would be BEST suited for distributing backups across a large LAN?

Question119: A technician is tasked with creating a test system containing non-critical dat a. The technician has limited hardware, but needs maximum performance. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician use?

Question120: Which of the following RAID levels supports fault tolerance by writing parity to only one drive in the array?

Question121: A systems administrator is setting up a new SAN. Which of the following protocols should be used to access and manage the system?

Question122: Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?

Question123: An administrator is configuring a server for remote access. The administrator wants to be able to power on a server from a remote location. Which of the following needs to be configured on the server to accomplish this task?

Question124: A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN. Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).

Question125: 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?

Question126: The BEST way for a technician to configure a server rack for full power redundancy is:

Question127: A technician receives a report that two users are having difficulty retaining connections to a server hosting a company application. On testing, the technician sees the following:
Initial connections to the server are sporadic.
If connected, the client is dropped within 30 seconds.
Attempting to reconnect is sometimes successful but other times requires multiple attempts.
Local testing on the server reveals no problems.
Given these symptoms, which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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?

Question131: Users are trying to access the company time card website. They cannot access it by URL, but they can access it by IP address. Which of the following protocols is MOST likely causing this issue?

Question132: 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).

Question133: 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?

Question134: A user was set up with a new computer and is now unable to access a file share on the server. The user was previously able to access the file share from the old computer. The administrator knows the user can access other network resources, and the user's security permissions remain the same. Which of the following is the NEXT logical step for the administrator to troubleshoot this issue?

Question135: Which of the following default ports should be open on a server for remote administration?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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?

Question138: A web server was configured with a 20GB hard drive. Administrators notice the hard drive runs out of space approximately every ten days, even though there were no changes made to the server. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the storage filling up?

Question139: A rack contains 20 1U servers with dual power supplies and two PDUs on separate 15A circuits. Each server is connected to both PDUs, and each server draws 1A of current in normal operation. One of the circuit breakers switches off due to a power surge. Which of the following will happen NEXT?

Question140: Which of the following internal storage devices has the GREATEST storage capacity and is WORM media?

Question141: 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 dat a. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?

Question142: A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

Question143: 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?

Question144: Which of the following is an advantage of blade servers over rack-mount servers?

Question145: A server technician has just installed a server with several roles. The technician then launches a command prompt, runs the netstat command, 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?

Question146: 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?

Question147: Which of the following is a bus mastering method? (Select TWO).

Question148: 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?

Question149: 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?

Question150: Which of the following server types is commonly used for authentication and credential storage?

Question151: 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?

Question152: An administrator wishes to deploy network storage that provides block-level disk access. The solution must use the existing Ethernet infrastructure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this?

Question153: 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?

Question154: Which of the following power plug types would MOST likely be found in a medical facility?

Question155: Which of the following can be used to manage a servers BIOS remotely? (Select TWO).

Question156: 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?

Question157: 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?

Question158: A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance. Which of the following would achieve this requirement?

Question159: A server administrator recently applied a local policy to a computer with gpedit.msc. However, the policy keeps reverting back to its original setting the next day. The server administrator is unaware of what is causing this issue. Which of the following BEST describes what is occurring?

Question160: A systems administrator needs to ensure data cannot be recovered from old medi a. Which of the following is the MOST effective method for the administrator to use?

Question161: 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.)

Question162: 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?

Question163: 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?

Question164: Which of the following server types requires the LARGEST amount of available hard drive space?

Question165: A server administrator wants to isolate a SAN hosted LUN to be visible to only a single host. Which of the following methodologies would be used to present the LUN to only that host?

Question166: 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?

Question167: A technician is trying to configure a NIC on a server. Which of the following is an invalid method to express subnetting?

Question168: An administrator is installing a 2U server from a remote location in a rack with 4U of available rack space. The administrator prepares the rack to accept the server. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question169: 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?

Question170: Which of the following is an SLA?

Question171: 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?

Question172: A power loss during a firmware update would MOST likely result in which of the following?

Question173: 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?

Question174: Which of the following troubleshooting methods would be performed after resolving an issue?

Question175: A technician is troubleshooting a server that is inaccessible to customer at a remote site but accessible to customers locally. The only configuration that has changed is the internal IP address. Which of the following still needs to be configured?

Question176: Which of the following is used in a server to ensure proper cooling and airflow when components are removed?

Question177: An IDS alert is sent to the server administrator indicating an unauthorized access attempt is occurring against a secure file server on the network. Which of the following tools will BEST help confirm this alert?

Question178: A system administrator is tasked with dividing the network so that each department is separate from the other. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task?

Question179: At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)

Question180: 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?

Question181: 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?

Question182: Which of the following provides the BEST security and accountability for a Data Center?

Question183: An emergency power off accidentally occurs in a datacenter during a fire alarm test. On recovery, the server administrator notices that an external storage array is performing consistency checks on all the volumes configured in the array. Which of the following components of the storage array has MOST likely failed or faulted?

Question184: 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?

Question185: An administrator has been asked to put together a JBOD. Which of the following interfaces supports redundant controller? (Choose two.)

Question186: Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

Question187: Which of the following cable types can be used to decrease susceptibility to electronic eavesdropping?

Question188: 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?

Question189: A company is designing its first DRP and has identified a disaster recovery site for use in resuming operations.
The company, however, will be unable to place any equipment in the site until the need arises. Which of the following BEST describes this site type?

Question190: 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?

Question191: 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?

Question192: A technician is responsible for overseeing twelve remote offices. There was a report of a power outage at one of the remote offices the night before, and now one of the servers there has not rebooted even though it was shut down gracefully. The technician was forced to travel two hours just to turn the server on. Which of the following is the MOST cost effective way to prevent future travel?

Question193: 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?

Question194: 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?

Question195: A server technician wishes to buy the best possible server for RAID 5. Which of the following types of servers is BEST suited for RAID 5?

Question196: A sever 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 simultaneously connect to two servers. Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator?

Question197: Which of the following is the purpose of an NTP server?

Question198: Which of the following methods should be used when classified or sensitive data is stored on a server?

Question199: 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?

Question200: Which of the following plans describes the process by which an organization manages a major outage?

Question201: 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?

Question202: A large corporation uses the following methods of multifactor authentication to access secure areas:
Electronic key badges
Facial recognition
Passphrase
An employee who was on extended medical leave returned to work and retained access to the building, but was denied access to a particular secure are a. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why access was denied?

Question203: 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?

Question204: 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?

Question205: Which of the following network solutions would allow a company to connect securely to its internal network over the Internet?

Question206: A server technician is setting up a 42U rack. The technician needs to install a 5U cable tray spacer at the 42U position. Which of the following is the amount of space the 5U cable tray spacer is taking up?

Question207: In order to utilize most server management software, an administrator will have to install which of the following?

Question208: A company utilizes the GFS backup standard. Which of the following describes this backup method?

Question209: 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?

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 technician has a server that requires 120V at 5 A.
Which of the following is the number of watts the server
consumes?

Question212: 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?

Question213: When installing external SCSI devices, terminators are required on: (Select TWO)

Question214: A technician is installing a new server with redundant power supplies in an ISO-certified datacenter. Which of the following should the technician perform?

Question215: Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server's operating system locally?

Question216: 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?

Question217: 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?

Question218: A Unix server completes POST successfully. The server starts to boot but crashes and halts on a transport error. Which of the following components should a technician check FIRST?

Question219: A technician is installing two new four-lane PCIe network cards into a server that has two one-lane PCIe slots open, two four-lane PCIe slots open, two eight-lane PCIe slots open, and two 16-lane PCIe slots open. Which of the following is the BEST option for the technician?

Question220: A technician is tasked with building a test server. Which of the following hard drive types will provide the highest performance?

Question221: A technician has just replaced a server that has been damaged by a lightning strike. A power protection device is installed on the new server. This is an example of:

Question222: Which of the following BEST describes RAID 1?

Question223: A server has a file share for each department. An auditor has discovered that all users have access to all of the departmental shared folders. Which of the following is the BEST solution to ensure users have access to the shared folders of only their department?

Question224: Which of the following expansion slots is 64-bit?

Question225: 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?

Question226: An administrator is determining hardware requirements for a new, virtualized test environment. The vendor requires 8Gb of RAM for each host and 2Gb of RAM for each guest. If the server has a total of 32Gb of RAM, which of the following describes how many hosts and guests the server can support?

Question227: 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?

Question228: An administrator needs to install a server located in an industrial environment. Workers often use electrical equipment nearby, and the server will be almost 500ft (152m) from the nearest switch. Which of the following is the BEST choice for network cabling?

Question229: The process of provisioning guest and host virtualization is considered:

Question230: The systems administrator is configuring a new iSCSI storage, which will be presented to several servers.
Which of the following should the administrator use to present a LUN to a server?

Question231: A user is trying to connect to www.testnetwork.net with a desktop web browser. The user cannot connect to this website, although other sites can be reached. Which of the following tools should the administrator use at the desktop to determine the specific issue? (Choose two.)

Question232: Which of the following backup methods should be used nightly to ensure backups capture all necessary data in the LEAST amount of time?

Question233: Which of the following is the FIRST thing that should be done in order to begin reinstalling TCP/IP on the server?