EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A security technician generated a public/private key pair on a server. The technician needs to copy the key pair to another server on a different subnet. Which of the following is the most secure method to copy the keys?
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Question2: Which of the following server types would benefit MOST from the use of a load balancer?

Question3: Which of the following is an example of load balancing?

Question4: An organization purchased six new 4TB drives for a server. An administrator is tasked with creating an efficient RAID given the minimum disk space requirement of 19TBs. Which of the following should the administrator choose to get the most efficient use of space?

Question5: A server administrator is taking advantage of all the available bandwidth of the four NICs on the server.
Which of the following NIC-teaming technologies should the server administrator utilize?

Question6: A company is running an application on a file server. A security scan reports the application has a known vulnerability. Which of the following would be the company's BEST course of action?

Question7: A server administrator added a new drive to a server. However, the drive is not showing up as available.
Which of the following does the administrator need to do to make the drive available?

Question8: A server administrator wants to ensure a storage array can survive the failure of two drives without the loss of data. Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator choose?

Question9: Which of the following should be configured in pairs on a server to provide network redundancy?

Question10: Which of the following BEST describes a guarantee of the amount of time it will take to restore a downed service?

Question11: A server technician installs a new NIC on a server and configures the NIC for IP connectivity. The technician then tests the connection using the ping command. Given the following partial output of the ping and ipconfig commands:

Which of the following caused the issue?

Question12: A datacenter in a remote location lost power. The power has since been restored, but one ol the servers has not come back online. After some investigation, the server is found to still be powered off. Which of the following is the BEST method to power on the server remotely?

Question13: An administrator needs to increase the size of an existing RAID 6 array that is running out of available space.
Which of the following is the best way the administrator can perform this task?

Question14: A systems administrator is setting up a server farm for a new company. The company has a public range of IP addresses and uses the addresses internally. Which of the following IP addresses best fits this scenario?

Question15: A technician is working on a Linux server. The customer has reported that files in the home directory are missing. The /etc/ f stab file has the following entry:
nfsserver:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
However, a df -h /home command returns the following information:
/dev/sda2 10G 1G 9G 10% /home
Which of the following should the technician attempt FIRST to resolve the issue?

Question16: Which of the following commands should a systems administrator use to create a batch script to map multiple shares'?

Question17: A user has been unable to authenticate to the company's external, web-based database after clicking a link in an email that required the user to change the account password. Which of the following steps should the company take next?

Question18: A server administrator is creating a script that will move files only if they were created before a date input by the user. Which of the following constructs will allow the script to apply this test until all available files are assessed?

Question19: Which of the following can be BEST described as the amount of time a company can afford to be down during recovery from an outage?

Question20: A systems administrator is setting up a new server that will be used as a DHCP server. The administrator installs the OS but is then unable to log on using Active Directory credentials. The administrator logs on using the local administrator account and verifies the server has the correct IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. The administrator then gets on another server and can ping the new server. Which of the following is causing the issue?

Question21: A server administrator is configuring a new server that will hold large amounts of information. The server will need to be accessed by multiple users at the same time. Which of the following server roles will the administrator MOST likely need to install?

Question22: An administrator receives an alert stating a S.MAR.T. error has been detected. Which of the following should the administrator run FIRST to determine the issue?

Question23: After installing a new file server, a technician notices the read times for accessing the same file are slower than the read times for other file servers.
Which of the following is the first step the technician should take?

Question24: A change in policy requires a complete backup of the accounting server every seven days and a backup of modified data every day. Which of the following would be BEST to restore a full backup as quickly as possible in the event of a complete loss of server data?

Question25: Users report that the FinanceApp software is not running, and they need immediate access. Issues with the FinanceApp software occur every week after the IT team completes server system updates. The users, however, do not want to contact the help desk every time the issue occurs. The users also report the new MarketApp software is not usable when it crashes, which can cause significant downtime. The technician who restarted the MarketApp software noticed it is running under a test account, which is a likely cause of the crashes.
INSTRUCTIONS
Using the Services menu provided, modify the appropriate application services to remedy the stated issues.

Question26: Two developers are working together on a project, and they have built out a set of snared servers that both developers can access over the internet. Which of the following cloud models is this an example of?

Question27: When configuring networking on a VM, which of the following methods would allow multiple VMs to share the same host IP address?

Question28: A server administrator notices the on a Linux server is rotating loo frequently. The administrator would like to decrease the number of times the leg rotates without losing any of the information in the logs. Which of the following should the administrator configure?

Question29: An administrator is working on improving the security of a new domain controller. A report indicates several open ports on the server. Which of the following ports should the administrator disable?

Question30: Which of the following backup types copies changed data from a server and then combines the backups on the backup target?

Question31: A technician is troubleshooting a server issue. The technician has determined several possible causes of the issue and has identified various solutions. Which of the following should the technician do next?

Question32: A backup application is copying only changed files each time it runs. During a restore, however, only a single file is used. Which of the following backup methods does this describe?

Question33: Which of the following techniques can be configured on a server for network redundancy?

Question34: Which of the following concepts is in use when dual power supplies are connected to different power sources?

Question35: A server administrator wants to check the open ports on a server. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to complete the task?

Question36: A server administrator is completing an OS installation for a new server. The administrator patches the server with the latest vendor-suggested software, configures DHCP, and verifies all network cables are properly connected in the IDF, but there is no network connectivity. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the lack of connectivity?

Question37: Which of the following BEST describes the concept of right to downgrade?

Question38: A technician recently replaced a NIC that was not functioning. Since then, no device driver is found when starting the server, and the network card is not functioning. Which of the following should the technician check first?

Question39: Winch of the following is a type of replication in which all files are replicated, all the time?

Question40: A technician noted the RAID hard drives were functional while troubleshooting a motherboard failure. The technician installed a spare motherboard with similar specifications and used the original components. Which of the following should the technician do to restore operations with minimal downtime?

Question41: A technician is setting up a small office that consists of five Windows 10 computers. The technician has been asked to use a simple IP configuration without manually adding any IP addresses. Which of the following will the technician MOST likely use for the IP address assignment?

Question42: Which of the following encryption methodologies would MOST likely be used to ensure encrypted data cannot be retrieved if a device is stolen?

Question43: A technician has received multiple reports of issues with a server. The server occasionally has a BSOD, powers off unexpectedly, and has fans that run continuously. Which of the following BEST represents what the technician should investigate during troubleshooting?

Question44: Which of the following licensing models was created by software companies in response to the increasing density of processors?

Question45: A server technician arrives at a data center to troubleshoot a physical server that is not responding to remote management software. The technician discovers the servers in the data center are not connected to a KVM switch, and their out-of-band management cards have not been configured. Which of the following should the technician do to access the server for troubleshooting purposes?

Question46: An administrator discovers a Bash script file has the following permissions set in octal notation;
777
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate command to ensure only the root user can modify and execute the script?

Question47: Which of the following backup types resets the archive bit each time it is run?

Question48: A server administrator is configuring the IP address on a newly provisioned server in the testing environment.
The network VLANs are configured as follows:

The administrator configures the IP address for the new server as follows:
IP address: 192.168.1.1/24
Default gateway: 192.168.10.1
A ping sent to the default gateway is not successful. Which of the following IP address/default gateway combinations should the administrator have used for the new server?

Question49: Which of the following is a method that is used to prevent motor vehicles from getting too close to building entrances and exits?

Question50: Which of the following concepts refers to prioritizing a connection that had previously worked successfully?

Question51: Which of the following refers to the requirements that dictate when to delete data backups?

Question52: A technician is configuring a server that requires secure remote access. Which of the following ports should the technician use?

Question53: A senior administrator instructs a technician to run the following script on a Linux server:
for i in {1..65536); do echo Si; telnet localhost $i; done
The script mostly returns the following message: Connection refused. However, there are several entries in the console display that look like this:
80
Connected to localhost
443
Connected to localhost
Which of the following actions should the technician perform NEXT?

Question54: A company's IDS has identified outbound traffic from one of the web servers coming over port 389 to an outside address. This server only hosts websites. The company's SOC administrator has asked a technician to harden this server. Which of the following would be the BEST way to complete this request?

Question55: A technician is trying to determine the reason why a Linux server is not communicating on a network. The returned network configuration is as follows:
eth0: flags=4163<UP, BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 127.0.0.1 network 255.255.0.0 broadcast 127.0.0.1
Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

Question56: An administrator is configuring the storage for a new database server, which will host databases that are mainly used for archival lookups. Which of the following storage types will yield the fastest database read performance?

Question57: Which of the following documents would be useful when trying to restore IT infrastructure operations after a non-planned interruption?

Question58: After configuring IP networking on a newly commissioned server, a server administrator installs a straight- through network cable from the patch panel to the switch. The administrator then returns to the server to test network connectivity using the ping command. The partial output of the ping and ipconfig commands are displayed below:

The administrator returns to the switch and notices an amber link light on the port where the server is connected. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the lack of network connectivity?

Question59: A security analyst suspects a remote server is running vulnerable network applications. The analyst does not have administrative credentials for the server. Which of the following would MOST likely help the analyst determine if the applications are running?

Question60: A server room with many racks of servers is managed remotely with occasional on-site support. Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective option to administer and troubleshoot network problems locally on the servers?

Question61: A server technician is deploying a server with eight hard drives. The server specifications call for a RAID configuration that can handle up to two drive failures but also allow for the least amount of drive space lost to RAID overhead. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician configure for this drive array?

Question62: Which of the following technologies would allow an administrator to build a software RAID on a Windows server?

Question63: A security administrator ran a port scanning tool against a virtual server that is hosting a secure website. A list of open ports was provided as documentation. The management team has requested that non-essential ports be disabled on the firewall. Which of the following ports must remain open?

Question64: An organization is donating its outdated server equipment to a local charity. Which of the following describes what the organization should do BEFORE donating the equipment?

Question65: A technician is able to copy a Me to a temporary folder on another partition but is unable to copy it to a network share or a USB flash drive. Which of the following is MOST likely preventing the file from being copied to certain locations?

Question66: A technician needs to install a Type 1 hypervisor on a server. The server has SD card slots, a SAS controller, and a SATA controller, and it is attached to a NAS. On which of the following drive types should the technician install the hypervisor?

Question67: An administrator needs to reconfigure a teamed network connection on a server in a remote data center. Which of the following will offer the most resilient connection while performing this change?

Question68: An organization recently experienced power outages. The administrator noticed the server did not have enough time to shut down properly. After the outages, the administrator had additional batteries installed in the UPS.
Which of the following best describes the solution the administrator implemented?

Question69: Which of the following tools will analyze network logs in real time to report on suspicious log events?

Question70: A company is building a new datacenter next to a busy parking lot. Which of the following is the BEST strategy to ensure wayward vehicle traffic does not interfere with datacenter operations?

Question71: An administrator is investigating several unexpected documents and video files that recently appeared in a network share. The administrator checks the properties of the files and sees the author's name on the documents is not a company employee. The administrator questions the other users, but no one knows anything about the files. The administrator then checks the log files and discovers the FTP protocol was used to copy the files to the server. Which of the following needs to be done to prevent this from happening again?

Question72: Which of the following relates to how much data loss a company agrees to tolerate in the event of a disaster?

Question73: A server administrator has been asked to implement a password policy that will help mitigate the chance of a successful brute-force attack. Which of the following password policies should the administrator implement first?

Question74: Which of the following is the most effective way to mitigate risks associated with privacy-related data leaks when sharing with a third party?

Question75: A newly installed server is accessible to local users, but remote users are unable to connect. Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

Question76: A company has a data center that is located at its headquarters, and it has a warm site that is located 20mi (32km) away, which serves as a DR location. Which of the following should the company design and implement to ensure its DR site is adequate?

Question77: A system administrator has been alerted to a zero-day vulnerability that is impacting a service enabled on a server OS. Which of the following would work BEST to limit an attacker from exploiting this vulnerability?

Question78: A technician needs to deploy an operating system that would optimize server resources. Which of the following server installation methods would BEST meet this requirement?

Question79: An administrator is configuring a server to communicate with a new storage array. To do so, the administrator enters the WWPN of the new array in the server's storage configuration. Which of the following technologies is the new connection using?

Question80: Which of the following licensing concepts is based on the number of logical processors a server has?

Question81: An administrator needs to perform bare-metal maintenance on a server in a remote datacenter. Which of the following should the administrator use to access the server's console?

Question82: A technician is monitoring a server and notices there is only one NIC plugged in. but the server has two. The NIC is oversaturated, and the technician would like to increase the available bandwidth. Which of the following solutions would be the BEST option to increase the speed of this NIC?

Question83: Ann, an administrator, is configuring a two-node cluster that will be deployed. To check the cluster's functionality, she shuts down the active node. Cluster behavior is as expected, and the passive node is now active. Ann powers on the server again and wants to return to the original configuration. Which of the following cluster features will allow Ann to complete this task?

Question84: Users are able to connect to the wireless network, but they are unable to access the internet. The network administrator verifies connectivity to all network devices, and there are no ISP outages. The server administrator removes the old address leases from the active leases pool, which allows users to access the internet. Which of the following is most likely causing the internet issue?

Question85: Users ate experiencing issues when trying to access resources on multiple servers. The servers are virtual and run on an ESX server. A systems administrator is investigating but is unable to connect to any of the virtual servers. When the administrator connects to the host, a purple screen with while letters appears. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform FIRST?

Question86: An administrator is troubleshooting performance issues on a server that was recently upgraded. The administrator met with users/stakeholders and documented recent changes in an effort to determine whether the server is better or worse since the changes. Which of the following would BEST help answer the server performance question9

Question87: A server in a remote datacenter is no longer responsive. Which of the following is the BEST solution to investigate this failure?

Question88: The management team has mandated the encryption of all server administration traffic. Which of the following should MOST likely be implemented?

Question89: A server technician is installing a Windows server OS on a physical server. The specifications for the installation call for a 4TB data volume. To ensure the partition is available to the OS, the technician must verify the:

Question90: Which of the following is a system that scans outgoing email for account numbers, sensitive phrases, and other forms of Pll?

Question91: A Linux administrator created a script that will run at startup. After successfully writing the script, the administrator received me following output when trying to execute the script:
Bash ./startup,sh:Permission denied
Which of the following commands would BEST resolve the error message?

Question92: Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that attempts to conceal the interior of an organization?

Question93: An administrator is troubleshooting an application performance issue on a virtual server with two vCPUs. The application performance logs indicate CPU contention. The administrator adds more vCPU cores to the VM, yet the issue persists. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this issue?

Question94: A server administrator is installing an OS on a new server. Company policy states no one is to log in directly to the server. Which of the following Installation methods is BEST suited to meet the company policy?

Question95: Which of the following would be BEST to help protect an organization against social engineering?

Question96: A server is reporting a hard drive S.M.A.R.T. error. When a technician checks on the drive, however, it appears that all drives in the server are functioning normally. Which of the following is the reason for this issue?

Question97: A technician has moved a data drive from a new Windows server to an order Windows server. The hardware recognizes the drive, but the data is not visible to the OS. Which of the following is the MOST Likely cause of the issue?

Question98: Which of the following BEST describes overprovisioning in a virtual server environment?

Question99: An administrator is able to ping the default gateway and internet sites by name from a file server. The file server is not able to ping the print server by name. The administrator is able to ping the file server from the print server by both IP address and computer name. When initiating an initiating from the file server for the print server, a different IP address is returned, which of the following is MOST Likely the cause?

Question100: Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to Pll exposure?

Question101: A server administrator receives the following output when trying to ping a local host:

Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

Question102: A data center has 4U rack servers that need to be replaced using VMs but without losing any data. Which of the following methods will MOST likely be used to replace these servers?

Question103: A data center employee shows a driver's license to enter the facility Once the employee enters, the door immediately doses and locks, triggering a scale that then weighs the employee before granting access to another locked door. This is an example of.

Question104: A server administrator mounted a new hard disk on a Linux system with a mount point of /newdisk. It was later determined that users were unable to create directories or files on the new mount point. Which of the following commands would successfully mount the drive with the required parameters?

Question105: Alter rack mounting a server, a technician must install four network cables and two power cables for the server. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate way to complete this task?

Question106: Which of the following DR testing scenarios is described as verbally walking through each step of the DR plan in the context of a meeting?

Question107: A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the OS. Which of the following best describes the OS hardening method?

Question108: A technician is creating a network snare that will be used across both Unix and Windows clients at the same time. Users need read and write access to the files. Which of the following would be BEST for the technician to deploy?

Question109: Which of the following backup types only records changes to the data blocks on a virtual machine?

Question110: Which of the following will correctly map a script to a home directory for a user based on username?

Question111: A systems administrator is setting up a server on a LAN that uses an address space that follows the RFC 1918 standard. Which of the following IP addresses should the administrator use to be in compliance with the standard?

Question112: A technician is decommissioning a server from a production environment. The technician removes the server from the rack but then decides to repurpose the system as a lab server instead of decommissioning it. Which of the following is the most appropriate NEXT step to recycle and reuse the system drives?

Question113: Which of the following environmental controls must be carefully researched so the control itself does not cause the destruction of the server equipment?

Question114: Which of the following cloud models is BEST described as running workloads on resources that are owned by the company and hosted in a company-owned data center, as well as on rented servers in another company's data center?

Question115: A server administrator is exporting Windows system files before patching and saving them to the following location:
\\server1\ITDept\
Which of the following is a storage protocol that the administrator is MOST likely using to save this data?

Question116: A server administrator is creating a new server that will be used to house customer sales records. Which of the following roles will MOST likely be Installed on the server?

Question117: A server administrator purchased a single license key to use for all the new servers that will be imaged this year. Which of the following MOST likely refers to the licensing type that will be used?

Question118: A technician recently applied a critical OS patch to a working sever. After rebooting, the technician notices the server Is unable to connect to a nearby database server. The technician validates a connection can be made to the database from another host. Which of the following is the best NEXT step to restore connectivity?

Question119: A technician runs top on a dual-core server and notes the following conditions:
top -- 14:32:27, 364 days, 14 usersload average 60.5 12.4 13.6
Which of the following actions should the administrator take?

Question120: A server administrator is using remote access to update a server. The administrator notices numerous error messages when using YUM to update the applications on a server. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

Question121: A server administrator is implementing an authentication policy that will require users to use a token during login. Which of the following types of authentication is the administrator implementing?

Question122: Which of me following should be placed at the top of a Bash script to ensure it can be executed?

Question123: A Linux server was recently updated. Now, the server stops during the boot process with a blank screen and an f prompt. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

Question124: Users in an office lost access to a file server following a short power outage. The server administrator noticed the server was powered off. Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent this situation in the future?

Question125: A recent power Outage caused email services to go down. A sever administrator also received alerts from the datacenter's UPS.
After some investigation, the server administrator learned that each POU was rated at a maximum Of 12A.
INSTRUCTIONS
Ensure power redundancy is implemented throughout each rack and UPS alarms are resolved. Ensure the maximum potential PDU consumption does not exceed 80% or 9.6A).
a. PDU selections must be changed using the pencil icon.
b. VM Hosts 1 and 2 and Mail Relay can be moved between racks.
c. Certain devices contain additional details

Question126: An administrate is helping to replicate a large amount of data between two Windows servers. The administrator is unsure how much data has already been transferred. Which of the following will BEST ensure all the data is copied consistently?

Question127: Which of the following would a systems administrator implement to ensure all web traffic is secure?

Question128: A company stores extremely sensitive data on an alt-gapped system. Which of the following can Be Implemented to increase security against a potential insider threat?

Question129: A server administrator made a change in a server's BIOS in an attempt to fix an issue with the OS not turning on. However, the change did not successfully correct the issue. Which of the following should the server administrator do NEXT?

Question130: Which of me following is the BEST action to perform before applying patches to one of the hosts in a high availability cluster?

Question131: A technician is attempting to log in to a Linux server as root but cannot remember the administrator password.
Which of the following is the LEAST destructive method of resetting the administrator password?

Question132: A server administrator needs to ensure all Window-based servers within a data center have RDP disabled.
There are thousands of servers performing various roles. Which of the following is the best way to meet this requirement?

Question133: Which of the following describes the installation of an OS contained entirely within another OS installation?

Question134: An administrator is researching the upcoming licensing software requirements for an application that usually requires very little technical support. Which of the following licensing models would be the LOWEST cost solution?

Question135: A backup application is copying only changed files each line it runs. During a restore, however, only a single file is used. Which of the following backup methods does this describe?