EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?

Question3: Which of the following memory technologies has the HIGHEST cost to implement?

Question4: Which of the following provides two-factor authentication?

Question5: 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?

Question6: A SLA document:

Question7: A server technician is procuring and installing a single-phase rack PDU that will meet the following requirements:
Maximum line current per phase: 30A
Rate current per phase: 24A
Maximum current draw: 6 x 16A
Nominal voltage: 208V
Based on these requirements, which of the following can be implied regarding load capacity?

Question8: A technician is backing up 10GB of data on a file server to a 250GB external USB hard drive. After 4GB 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?

Question9: An administrator is creating a comprehensive backup system to backup a single web server.
Which of the following is the BEST way to provide full restore?

Question10: Which of the following is a reason for setting up a VLAN?

Question11: Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

Question12: A SAN attached production file server is required to be backed up nightly according to company policy.
Recently the data to be backed up has increased to approximately 4TB. Currently, the server has a single attached LTO2 tape drive. Which of the following should the server administrator do to provide enough backup capacity for the nightly job?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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).

Question15: After installing a 1 TB hard drive, a technician notices the OS is reporting significantly less unformatted capacity than was expected. Which of the following is the root cause?

Question16: A datacenter recently experienced a breach committed by a group that was able to access a server that had been shut down but not disconnected from the network. Which of the following could have prevented the breach from occurring?

Question17: 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?

Question18: A technician correctly powers off and replaces a cache battery on a RAID controller. When the server is powered back up, it restarts but indicates there are no logical disk volumes found. The server halts. Which of the following components should the technician check FIRST?

Question19: While preparing a server for a failed component swap, a server administrator notices there is a large number of static discharges prior to connecting the ESD strap. Which of the following controlled environmental attributes could cause a large number of static shocks?

Question20: Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

Question21: During a reboot, a server displays an OS not found error message. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: When attempting to diagnose service access issues between multiple hosts that coordinate information, which of the following can be used to track dependencies?

Question25: A cable management arm should be used:

Question26: 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?

Question27: Which of the following allows for a connection of devices to both sides inside of a blade enclosure?

Question28: Users at a company cannot log into a server. An administrator reboots the server with liveCD and executes a df -h command. The following is returned:

Which of the following should be done NEXT?

Question29: To capture only the files that have changed since the last full backup, an administrator should perform which of the following backups?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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.)

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: A clustered server goes offline due to a backplane failure. Which of the following clusters does not lose capacity when a server goes offline?

Question37: A server technician is reviewing a server and notices the server hard disk supports up to 15000rpm. The technician is reviewing whether the hard drive can be upgraded from 40GB to 136GB for primary storage size. Given this scenario, which of the following is the technician MOST likely to do next ?

Question38: Which of the following must be configured on printers so that the server can properly monitor details on page counts?

Question39: An administrator needs to back up files from a server to the cloud. The administrator must select the most efficient type of backup technology that will update file changes the fastest and utilize the least amount of bandwidth. Which of the following backup technologies should the administrator select?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: Which of the following services provides users with directory services?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A server technician installs a new CPU and heat sink in a server and reconnects all of the cables. After powering on the server, the technician discovers the server is now overheating. The technician ensures the fans in the server are all operating properly. Which of the following power and cooling components is the next MOST likely cause of the temperature issues?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A server technician has installed a full rack in a server room and must place the following items in the rack:
One 2U server
One 2U firewall
One 1U server
Two 3U UPS devices
Which of the following describes how the technician should arrange the rack?

Question48: A server administrator needs to validate the integrity of all system files. Which of the following methods should the administrator use?

Question49: 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?

Question50: An administrator needs three distinct security zones in a company's network. Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to implement?

Question51: An administrator is installing a server to be used to dynamically assign IP addresses to the network devices. Which of the following server roles must be used?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A server administrator has run the netstat -ano command locally on a system. Upon inspection, the administrator notices a listener for port 123 is set up on the server. Which of the following can the administrator conclude about the server role running on the system?

Question55: 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?

Question56: A server is installed in a location that is prone to power failures. While the server is connected to a UPS, the systems administrator is still concerned about ensuring the integrity of the data being written to the RAID array. Which of the following is the systems administrator MOST likely to do?

Question57: A technician needs to create a rule in the firewall to convert the directory server's private IP address to its public IP address. Which of the following should the technician enable to accomplish this?

Question58: A server administrator completed an OS installation on new server hardware. The administrator installed the license key and finished configuring the server. After 90 days, users were unable to log in to the server. Only the local administrator was able to log in. Which of the following steps did the server administrator forget to do?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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?

Question62: A technician needs to install an OS patch on a virtual server. Which of the following backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the server to be restored the FASTEST?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports. Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?

Question65: A user calls the system administrator and states that they can no longer access the file server they had been working on all morning. To troubleshoot this problem, which step should the administrator take FIRST?

Question66: Which of the following is a benefit of performing asset management?

Question67: A technician is wiring up a new rack. Which of the following is the appropriate place for the power cord to wire this rack correctly?

Question68: A new server has a battery-backed RAID controller built onto the motherboard. Which of the following will occur if the RAID controller fails?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: A systems administrator is configuring new storage for a high availability server. Which of the following RAID configurations can still function it half its disks are lost?

Question72: While performing critical maintenance on a remote server, the administrator loses connectivity to the server but is still able to connect to other servers in a central management LAN on the network. If already set up, which of the following methods will allow remote troubleshooting of this unreachable server?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take?

Question76: A syslog server is configured to use UDP port 514. The administrator uses Telnet to check port 514 against the syslog server. However, the syslog server is not responding. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the syslog server is not responding?

Question77: A systems administrator sees a production server is missing a service pack and installs it during the day without notifying anyone. Later that day, users begin reporting issues accessing an application installed on the server. Upon investigation, it is discovered that the application will not start properly.
Adhering to which of the following processes would have BEST helped avoid this outage?

Question78: Which of the following is the MOST complex way to directly reduce heat for computing components?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: A datacenter technician is working on a problem with a server that has an error code related to the hard drive. The error code shows a predictive failure. Which of the following should the technician do to fix this problem?

Question82: Which of the following is an environmental server maintenance task that should be performed every three months?

Question83: An administrator is given two hard drives and asked to build a redundant storage solution. Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator use?

Question84: Which of the following storage techniques would be BEST suited for distributing backups across a large LAN?

Question85: 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?

Question86: Which of the following best practices should an administrator use to build a database server?

Question87: A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company. In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

Question88: A technician is sizing a blade server that requires 220 VAC drawing 5 amps. Which of the following is the power consumed in watts?

Question89: When running a Windows server, which option is used with the ping command to define the number of packets transmitted?

Question90: A user reports that a server is not accessible. A technician sees the following message on the server: PXE server not found. Which of the following should the technician attempt FIRST to resolve the issue?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A server technician has changed a hard disk in a RAID 5 array. The array status is now reported as being in a
"degraded" state. Given this scenario, which of the following should the technician do NEXT?

Question93: A server is connected to a switch, and the server is experiencing erratic connectivity issues. Which of the following should be checked FIRST?

Question94: An administrator is preparing to carve the LUNs on the SAN and must select the appropriate type of disks for the database, OS, and archival dat a. The administrator must keep performance, redundancy, and cost as a consideration. Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely to select?

Question95: A server is having problems accessing its presented storage on a SAN. Which of the following could be causing the problem? (Select TWO).

Question96: A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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?

Question100: An engineer is running a server as a hypervisor for 15-20 VMs. Which of the following components are the MOST essential for this server to maintain this parameter? (Choose two.)

Question101: A junior systems administrator wants to know which components on a server are normally hot-swappable. Which of the following components are usually hot-swappable? (Select TWO).

Question102: Which of the following default ports needs to be open on a firewall for a DNS server to function?

Question103: 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?

Question104: A systems administrator wishes to improve security in a datacenter. The administrator wants to be alerted whenever a hard drive is removed from the server room. Which of the following security measures would BEST accomplish this?

Question105: An IT manager needs to purchase client access licenses for servers. The network has ten workstations and 100 on-site users. Which of the following licensing models should the systems administrator recommend ?

Question106: Which of the following devices should be installed BEFORE installing a server's operating system locally?

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: Which of the following MUST be configured to automate client deployment over PXE boot? (Choose two.)

Question112: A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

Question113: A server administrator is assigning an internally routable IPv6 unique local address to servers in a datacenter. Which of the following network addresses should the administrator assign to a server?

Question114: 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?

Question115: Which of the following interfaces in Windows server can be used to add a new volume for storage? (Select TWO).

Question116: 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?

Question117: A technician installs a rack in a datacenter. The rack has two power strips installed in it. To ensure maximum power redundancy for the rack, how should each PDU power strip be connected?

Question118: When attempting to restore a folder from a backup, a systems administrator receives an error stating the media is corrupted and must be erased. The administrator tries several tapes and receives the same error. Which of the following would the administrator MOST likely do to ensure future backups are usable? (Choose two.)

Question119: A technician needs to configure a new server with multiple drives. The technician was instructed to make the OS RAID 1. The two drives the technician is using are from different manufacturers, but both are 1TB drives. However, one drive is 953,980MB, and the other is 953,740MB, a difference of 240MB. When attempting to create the RAID 1, the option is grayed out. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

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

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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?

Question125: Corporate policy requires data replication to continue even if the servers, which are being protected, crash. Which of the following replication methods fulfills this requirement?

Question126: Which of the following components is required to connect multiple servers to a SAN?

Question127: A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no change between production and the remote site. Which of the following site types BEST represents the purpose of this remote site?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: An existing server has three 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA drives and five empty drive bays. The network manager orders three 2 TB 5400 RPM SAS drives. The technician installs them properly, but when attempting to provision the drives, a message displays "Type mismatch". Which of the following is the reason for this error message?

Question131: A systems administrator received an alert from the central monitoring tool indicating /var/mail/logs on a Linux system is running out of disk space. Before troubleshooting the issue, the administrator needs to verify the total disk space available on the volume. Which of the following commands would allow the administrator to gather the required information?

Question132: A technician is installing multiple servers into a rack. The technician wants to install them so airflow is maximized to keep the servers running according to manufacturer recommendations. Which of the following is the BEST method to install the servers?

Question133: A system administrator needs to rebuild a server by booting to the OS DVD. The server powers up but attempts to boot from the network. Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?

Question134: An administrator needs to install two hard drives in a server and configure the system for maximum redundancy. Which of the following RAID levels would be BEST suited for the administrator?

Question135: A manager has noticed that the staff of administrators spends a lot of time running power cords and network cables when installing new servers. The manager would like to reduce the amount of time administrators spend doing the power and network cabling. Which of the following will BEST allow staff to reduce that time?

Question136: The systems administrator received an alert that one of the servers went offline. The systems administrator logged on remotely to the machine using the IPMI connection and noticed the following message upon boot up: No logical volumes present. Press F1 to continue. Which of the following is the BEST step for the systems administrator to take to resolve the issue?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: A server technician is enforcing server hardening on Telnet ports in DMZ-facing servers. Which of the following ports should the technician block on the company firewall?

Question140: Which of the following ports should be open on a server that provides IP addressing for clients?

Question141: A server has five hot swappable drives in a hardware RAID 5 configuration. One of those drives has issued a predictive failure warning to the server's management console. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

Question142: 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?

Question143: 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?

Question144: 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?

Question145: Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making a change to a server?

Question146: After installing a second processor and corresponding heatsink into a server, an administrator notices that the new processor is not showing up during POST. Which of the following could be the cause of this issue?

Question147: 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?

Question148: A hardware vendor contacts an administrator about a critical firmware update. Which of the following resources would the administrator MOST likely consult to determine which systems are affected?

Question149: A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

Question150: 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.)

Question151: Which of the following is an SLA?

Question152: Which of the following multifactor authentication methods does the smart card satisfy?

Question153: When running a Windows server, which option is used with the ping command to convert numerical addresses to host names?

Question154: An administrator is working to improve the speed at which archived data can be accessed. This data is currently stored on DLT and is accessed for random searches. Which of the following methods would provide the FASTEST access to the data?

Question155: An office in another location with hardware and equipment with replicated data is called a:

Question156: When installing external SCSI devices, terminators are required on: (Select TWO)

Question157: After configuring a server, a technician is unable to access websites by URL but can access websites by typing in an IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question158: 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?

Question159: Which of the following connection types should a technician use to connect a server to a SAN?

Question160: Which of the following types of network cable would be BEST to attach to a high-performance server?

Question161: A new server has two drives and a RAID controller. Which of the following is an option for configuring the storage on this server?

Question162: 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?

Question163: A technician is installing a new server with redundant power supplies in an ISO-certified datacenter. Which of the following should the technician perform?

Question164: 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?

Question165: 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?

Question166: The IT director instructed the systems administrator to build a server to support the accounting department's file growth. The IT director requested that the accounting users have the ability to encrypt their files; however, the accounting users have reported the inability to encrypt their files. Which of the following file system types is MOST likely causing this issue?

Question167: A technician is installing an operating system on a server using source files on a USB storage device. The technician is unable to boot to the USB device using different USB ports on the server. Which of the following should the technician do to ensure that the operating system can be installed from the USB storage?

Question168: 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?

Question169: An administrator needs to run five CAT6 cable runs to a new server. Which of the following steps should the administrator do FIRST?

Question170: A systems administrator is trying to run a program on the server to query the database. When attempting to launch the program, the screen flashes and the program closes. Which of the following should the technician do to get the program to open correctly? (Choose two.)

Question171: Which of the following server types requires the LARGEST amount of available hard drive space?

Question172: Which of the following PKI elements will a web server distribute to all of its clients using HTTPS?

Question173: 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?

Question174: Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?

Question175: Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?

Question176: Which of the following media types allows for the ability to make data written to the media permanent?

Question177: 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?

Question178: 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?

Question179: A technician created a job on a backup server to back up the new email server. After a few days, the technician notices the email server logs are not cleaning up after the backups are completed. Which of the following actions can the technician take to correct this issue?

Question180: In a workgroup, all of the following steps are required for a DHCP server EXCEPT:

Question181: A systems administrator attempts to shut down a server, but the server will not cleanly power down. The administrator then performs a power cycle on the server. When the server is back online, which of the following should the administrator check?

Question182: 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?

Question183: 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?

Question184: 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?

Question185: Two servers are to be configured for high availability in a cluster. Both servers will be running applications at the same time. This feature is known as:

Question186: A server technician is replacing hard disk drives in a server. The server currently has 136GB SAS drives configured with a RAID 0 solution and is using approximately 90GB of its maximum storage capacity. Given this scenario, management would like the technician to replace the hard drives, utilize a "mirroring" RAID configuration, and support 20% growth in space annually for the next five years. Which of the following statements BEST supports these goals?

Question187: 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?

Question188: 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?

Question189: A system administrator is concerned with employees connecting removable storage to the server to copy sensitive dat a. Which of the following solutions addresses this concern?

Question190: 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?

Question191: While deploying a new four-node web server cluster, a systems administrator has been instructed to use a technology that will make the website highly available without incurring any additional hardware costs. Which of the following clustering options is the BEST solution?

Question192: 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?

Question193: A company utilizes the GFS backup standard. Which of the following describes this backup method?

Question194: Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?

Question195: The process of provisioning guest and host virtualization is considered:

Question196: Users report the system is running slow. The administrator walks into the server room and notices it is noisier than usual. The fans in particular seem to be very loud. Which of the following should the administrator conclude from this observation?

Question197: 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?

Question198: A security breach occurred in a datacenter. An analysis of the HIPS log files on a sever reveals an intrusion was logged, but no action was taken to prevent the intrusion. Which of the following represents how the HIPS should have been configured to prevent the intrusion, while also creating an alert?

Question199: A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered?

Question200: An administrator is adding NAS-based storage to a server. Which of the following strategies will allow users to see BEST performance with this new NAS storage?

Question201: 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: Users at a remote site have reported that a regularly used server is inaccessible. The systems administrator knows users at another site also use the same server, so the administrator contacts them to see if the same issue is occurring. Which of the following troubleshooting steps is this an example of?

Question204: An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations. Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?

Question205: 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?

Question206: An administrator has installed an OS on a server. The administrator is able to ping directory server by IP address but is unable to join the domain. Which of the following could be causing the problem?

Question207: When installing processors with mixed stepping levels in a server, which of the following guidelines must be followed? (Select TWO).

Question208: 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?

Question209: A remote Linux server requires an IP address change before being moved to a new datacenter. The server does not have X installed on it. Which of the following is an administrator MOST likely to use to log in and change the address?

Question210: Which of the following is the BEST place to find the latest BIOS upgrade of the server system board?

Question211: 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?

Question212: 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?

Question213: 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?

Question214: Which of the following hypervisors is physically installed on a server?

Question215: A technician added a new mail relay server to the network. During testing, the server fails to forward mail.
Which of the following firewall ports should the technician check?

Question216: 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?

Question217: A server technician is connecting a server to a switch in the server room. Both the server and the switch are equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Which of the following cable choices would produce the BEST throughput?

Question218: 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?

Question219: Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

Question220: A vendor has released an update pack for the virtualization servers used by a company. The systems administrator has been directed to deploy the update pack following proper change management procedures. Which of the following BEST reflects the order of actions the administrator should follow?

Question221: 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?

Question222: A server administrator has just configured two web front-ends for high availability and even distribution of workload. Which of the following should the administrator implement to achieve the required goals?

Question223: 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.)

Question224: 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?

Question225: When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents "something you have"?

Question226: An administrator has just installed a new NIC into the server. The system POSTs fine and the NIC is recognized by the OS, but it does not receive an IP address. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this?

Question227: A server administrator suspects that an unauthorized email relay agent is running on a web server. The web server has a hostname of web1.example.com and an IP address of 199.90.89.51. Which of the following commands should the server administrator execute to verify these suspicions?

Question228: 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?

Question229: 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?

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

Question231: A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance. Which of the following would achieve this requirement?

Question232: An administrator is backing up a database server. The administrator must select a backup method that does not change the archive bit. Which of the following backup techniques should be used to meet these requirements?

Question233: FILE-SERVER-1 is being decommissioned. A server technician powers off the server labeled FILE-SERVER-1 only to find out the label on the server was incorrect, causing an outage. Which of the following could have helped avoid this outage?

Question234: An administrator is concerned about a volume on a server containing SQL databases with only 3% available disk space. The administrator is considering turning on NTFS compression to create space. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question235: An administrator is setting up a new mail server on the network and wants to open necessary ports to allow POP3 protocol for mail delivery. Which of the following ports should be opened in the internal and external firewalls?

Question236: A server is rebooted after maintenance. Upon reboot, the video display reports it cannot find the boot loader. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Question237: While reviewing a network connectivity issue to a Linux server, the systems administrator issues the ifconfig command with the following results:

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

Question238: A technician is installing a 2U rack mount server. The necessary rack space height to accommodate the server is:

Question239: 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?

Question240: Which of the following failover designs BEST describes a warm site?

Question241: During monthly security scans, a new server is found on the network. It is determined the server is listening on the following TCP ports: 25, 80, 110, 443, and 587. Which of the following roles is this server MOST likely fulfilling?

Question242: 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?

Question243: A server technician is notified that a server IP address is changing on the network. The technician changes the static IP address on the NIC to match the new address. However, when the technician issues the nslookup command with the hostname of the machine, the old IP address assignment is still being reported. The technician also performs a reverse DNS lookup using the old IP and verifies the FQDN of the server is reported. Given this scenario, which of the following should the technician inspect to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).

Question244: A system is having disk performance issues, and the administrator wants to upgrade the storage system. Which of the following would provide the fastest and MOST reliable storage?

Question245: A server has the following network setup:
IP address 192.168.10.27
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.9.1
DNS address 192.168.1.1
The server can ping other servers on its subnet, but nothing beyond that. Which of the following should the administrator change?

Question246: Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

Question247: A technician runs report and notices utilization on one of the application servers in a round-robin pool is much lower than the others. Which of the following services should be checked FIRST to ensure the server is being fully utilized?

Question248: Which of the following provides the BEST security and accountability for a Data Center?

Question249: Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of power supplies with which most blade servers normally come?

Question250: Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

Question251: A server administrator is attempting to restore a file from monthly backups. The administrator mentions to a coworker that the backup media has the longest seek time of any of the restore methods. From which of the following types of media is the administrator MOST likely restoring?

Question252: A technician is asked to make recommendations for purchase of new server hardware in a datacenter. Currently the datacenter is extremely limited in power available for new hardware, so the technician wants to recommend processors that utilize the least amount of power possible. Which of the following processor architectures should the technician suggest?

Question253: An office experienced a long power outage that will require the servers to be powered on manually by a technician once a power is restored. Based on server roles, which of the following servers should be powered on manually by a technician once power is restored. Based on server roles, which of the following servers should be powered on FIRST?

Question254: An administrator is wiring some Cat 5 cable into a serial cable. Which of the following wiring types should the administrator use?

Question255: 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?

Question256: A server administrator is installing a new OS on a server using an image from the network. The server administrator successfully connects to the network and applies the image. Upon reboot, the system displays the following message: Operating system not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?

Question257: 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?