EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of me following is the BEST action to perform before applying patches to one of the hosts in a high availability cluster?

Question2: 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?

Question3: Which of the following types of asset management documentation is commonly used as a reference when processing the replacement of a faulty server component?

Question4: Which of the following would be BEST to help protect an organization against social engineering?

Question5: A senior administrator was notified that a junior administrator installed software on a server that should not have new software installed on it. The senior administrator decides to restrict the server via a Group Policy.
Which of the following can be used to elevate the permissions?

Question6: Which of me following BEST describes a disaster recovery site with a target storage array that receives replication traffic and servers that are only powered on In the event of a disaster?

Question7: A hardware technician is installing 19 1U servers in a 42 the following unit sizes should be allocated per server?

Question8: 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:

Question9: A technician is installing an OS on ten servers. Which of the following media installation types would allow for the fastest installation time?

Question10: Hackers recently targeted a company with an attack that resulted in a system breach, which compromised the organization's data. Because of the system breach, the administrator had to bypass normal change management procedures. Which of the following change management activities was necessary?

Question11: A systems administrator is trying to determine why users in the human resources department cannot access an application server. The systems administrator reviews the application logs but does not see any attempts by the users to access the application. Which of the following is preventing the users from accessing the application server?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: An administrator is upgrading a group of legacy blade servers to the latest version of the hypervisor. After restarting the server, the upgrade is interrupted. The hypervisor is not available, and the update is not successful. Which of the following should the administrator do next to accomplish this upgrade?

Question16: Which of the following asset management documents is used to identify the location of a serves within a data center?

Question17: An administrator is patching a file and print server After rebooting the server, it begins acting strangely. The administrator tries to open Print Management, but it will not open Upon inspection, the spooler service has been disabled. The administrator then notices the server has services that should be enabled but are disabled.
Which of the following actions should the administrator take next to resolve the issue as quickly as possible?

Question18: A technician is configuring a point-to-point heartbeat connection between two servers using IP addressing.
Which of the following is the most efficient
subnet mask for this connection?

Question19: 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?

Question20: Which of the following should a server administrator use when writing a script with a function that needs to be run ten times?

Question21: A Linux server was recently updated. The server now stops during the boot process with a blank screen and an fs> prompt. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

Question22: A server technician installs a new NIC on a server and configures the NIC for IP connectivity. The technician then tests the connection using thepingcommand. Given the following partial output of thepingandipconfigcommands:

Which of the following caused the issue?

Question23: Which of the following would protect data in transit?

Question24: A global organization keeps personnel application servers that are local to each country. However, a security audit shows these application servers are accessible from sites in other countries. Which of the following hardening techniques should the organization use to restrict access to only sites that are in the same country?

Question25: A server in a remote datacenter is no longer responsive. Which of the following is the BEST solution to investigate this failure?

Question26: A VLAN needs to be configured within a virtual environment for a new VM. Which of the following will ensure the VM receives a correct IP address?

Question27: Which of the following technologies best describes Hyper-V Replica?

Question28: The management team at a healthcare organization is concerned about being able to access the dairy vital records if there is an IT disaster that causes both servers and the network lo be offline. Which of the following backup types can the organization use to mitigate this risk?

Question29: An administrator is unable to get server updates from a WSUS server. However, the administrator was able to patch the server successfully last month. Which of the following should the administrator check first?

Question30: 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?

Question31: Which of the following backup methods can be performed while a server is running, will not interrupt files in use, and can be used to fully restore the server if needed?

Question32: A technician has moved a data drive from a new Windows server to an orderWindows 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?

Question33: A Linux server requires repetitive tasks for reconfiguration. Which of the following would be the best scripting language to use?

Question34: 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?

Question35: The internal IT department policy for monitoring server health requires that evidence of server reboots be collected and reviewed on a regular basis. Which of the following should be monitored to best provide this evidence?

Question36: 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.

Question37: Which of the following should an administrator use to transfer log files from a Linux server to a Windows workstation?

Question38: A company's servers are all displaying the wrong time. The server administrator confirms the time source is correct. Which of the following is MOST likely preventing the servers from obtaining the correct time?

Question39: 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?

Question40: A systems administrator recently installed a new virtual server. After completing the installation, the administrator was only able to reach a few of the servers on the network. While testing, the administrator discovered only servers that had similar IP addresses were reachable. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question41: An analyst is planning a new point-to-point Ethernet connection between a university campus and a newly acquired space downtown that is about 5mi (8km) away. The analyst would like the fastest possible connection speed. Which of the following would best meet the analyst's needs?

Question42: 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?

Question43: Network connectivity to a server was lost when it was pulled from the rack during maintenance. Which of the following should the server administrator use to prevent this situation in the future?

Question44: Which of the following distributes a load across all interfaces?

Question45: 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?

Question46: A technician is setting up a repurposed server. The minimum requirements are 2TB while ensuring the highest performance and providing support for one drive failure. The technician has the following six drives available:
* 500GB, 10,000rpm
* 600GB, 10,000rpm
* 500GB, 7,200rpm
* 500GB, 10,000rpm
* 600GB, 15,000rpm
* 600GB, 10,000rpm
Which of the following drive selections should the technician utilize to best accomplish this goal?

Question47: A server administrator deployed a new product that uses a non-standard port for web access on port 8443.
However, users are unable to access the new
application. The server administrator checks firewall rules and determines 8443 is allowed. Which of the following is most likely the cause of the issue?

Question48: Which of me following should be placed at the top of a Bash script to ensure it can be executed?

Question49: Several mobile users are reporting intermittent performance issues when attempting to access network shares on the file server. After some investigation, the server administrator notices the server resources are running at maximum capacity, even during non-peak usage times. A recent port scan of the network identified this server as having too many unnecessary ports open to the public. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the performance issues?

Question50: While running a local network security scan an administrator discovers communication between clients and one of the web servers is happening in cleartext. Company policy requires all communication lo be encrypted.
Which of the following ports should be closed to stop the deartext communication?

Question51: A storage engineer responds to an alarm on a storage array and finds the battery on the RAID controller needs to be replaced. However, the replacement part will not be available for 14 days. The engineer needs to identify the impact of the failed battery on the system. Which of the following best describes the impact?

Question52: 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?

Question53: A new 40GB NIC has just been installed in a server but is not detected within the Windows server OS. Which of the following would most likely fix the issue?

Question54: 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?

Question55: An administrator is working locally in a data center with multiple server racks. Which of the following is the best low-cost option to connect to any server while on site?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A systems administrator needs to create a data volume out of four disks with the MOST redundancy. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question58: Which of the following symbols is used to write a text description per line within a PowerShell script?

Question59: Which of the following allows for a connection of devices to both sides inside of a blade enclosure?

Question60: 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?

Question61: A technician is connecting a Linux server to a share on a NAS. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate native protocol to use for this task?

Question62: A server technician has been asked to upload a few files from the internal web server to the internal FTP server. The technician logs in to the web server using PuTTY, but the connection to the FTP server fails.
However, the FTP connection from the technician's workstation is su#cessful. To troubleshoot the issue, the technician executes the following command on both the web server and the workstation:
ping ftp.acme.local
The IP address in the command output is different on each machine. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the connection failure?

Question63: An administrator notices a server is offline. Upon checking the console, the administrator discovers the server is stuck at:
Configuring Memory.............
After a reboot, the server still exhibits the same behavior. The administrator is able to log in to the OOB remote management but is unable to log in to the server. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

Question64: An administrator has been asked to copy files from a Windows server that may not conform to Windows file- naming standards. Which of the following would best facilitate the copy process?

Question65: Which of the following will correctly map a script to a home directory for a user based on username?

Question66: An administrator is installing a new server and OS. After installing the OS, the administrator logs in and wants to quickly check the network configuration. Which of the following is the best command to use to accomplish this task?

Question67: A storage administrator is configuring a new array to provide storage to a virtual cluster. The array has a built- in backup agent to allow data that is stored on the array to be backed up. The storage administrator wants the virtual cluster to use a file-based storage protocol so the backup agent can just back up the files that change and not the whole data store. Which of the following storage protocols should the administrator use?

Question68: A server technician is installing application updates on a Linux server. When the technician tries to install a MySQL update, the GUI displays the following error message: AVC denial. Which of the following should the technician do for the MySQL update to install?

Question69: An administrator notices nigh traffic on a certain subnetand wouldlike to identify the source of the traffic.
Which of the following tools should the administrator utilize?

Question70: Which of the following types of physical security controls would most likely be a target of a social engineering attack?

Question71: A server administrator is tasked with resolving an issue with the server's local storage. The administrator turns on the server and only two out of the four drives are found. After several reboots, an additional hard drive connects and disconnects randomly. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

Question72: A server technician is configuring the IP address on a newly installed server. The documented configuration specifies using an IP address of 10.20.10.15 and a default gateway of 10.20.10.254. Which of the following subnet masks would be appropriate for this setup?

Question73: A systems engineer is configuring a new VLAN for expansion of a campus network. The engineer configures a new DHCP scope on the existing Windows DHCP server cluster and activates the scope for the clients.
However, new clients in the area report they are not receiving any DHCP address information. Which of the following should the engineer do first?

Question74: A server administrator needs to keep a copy of an important fileshare that can be used to restore the share as quickly as possible. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question75: 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?

Question76: An administrator has been troubleshooting a server issue. The administrator carefully questioned the users and examined the available logs. Using this information, the administrator was able to rule out several possible causes and develop a theory as to what the issue might be. Through further testing, the administrator's theory proved to be correct. Which of the following should be the next step to troubleshoot the issue?

Question77: An administrator receives an alert that one of the virtual servers has suddenly crashed. The administrator confirms the data center does not have any power failures and then connects to the remote console of the crashed server After connecting to the server console, which of the following should the administrator complete first?

Question78: A technician is configuring a new server with four disks for the development team. The requirements are disk redundancy and maximum usable disk capacity. Which of the following RAID levels should be used for this server?

Question79: Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that is used to attempt to conceal the exterior of an organization?

Question80: Which of the following physical security concepts would most likely be used to limit personnel access to a restricted area within a data center?

Question81: 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?

Question82: A user cannot save large files to a directory on a Linux server that was accepting smaller files a few minutes ago. Which of the following commands should a technician use to identify the issue?

Question83: Which of the following environmental controls must be carefully researched so the control itself does not cause the destruction of the server equipment?

Question84: A server located in an IDF of a paper mill reboots every other day at random times. Which of the following should the technician perform on the server first?

Question85: 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?

Question86: Which of the following should be created to understand how long data is stored and how frequently data backups should be scheduled?

Question87: Which of the following actions should the server administrator perform on the server?

Question88: An administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue with an application. The application performs many small reads and writes in its operation. The administrator determines that the underlying storage is currently configured to use a general-purpose array with RAID 5. Which of the following should the administrator consider doing in order to offer higher application performance yet still retain data protection?

Question89: 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?

Question90: A server administrator has been creating new VMs one by one. The administrator notices the system requirements are very similar, even with different applications. Which of the following would help the administrator accomplish this task in the SHORTEST amount of time and meet the system requirements?

Question91: A server administrator is setting up a new payroll application. Compliance regulations require that all financial systems logs be stored in a central location. Which of the following should the administrator configure to ensure this requirement is met?

Question92: Which of the following techniques can be configured on a server for network redundancy?

Question93: A company needs to increase the security controls on its servers. An administrator is implementing MFA on all servers using cost effective techniques. Which of the following should the administrator use to satisfy the MFA requirement?

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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?

Question96: Which of the following backup types copies changed data from a server and then combines the backups on the backup target?

Question97: A systems administrator has several different types of hard drives. The administrator is setting up a MAS that will allow end users to see all the drives within the NAS. Which of the following storage types should the administrator use?

Question98: Users cannot access a new server by name, but the server does respond to a ping request using its IP address.
All the user workstations receive their IP information from a DHCP server. Which of the following would be the best step to perform NEXT?

Question99: A datacenter technician is attempting to troubleshoot a server that keeps crashing. The server runs normally for approximately five minutes, but then it crashes. After restoring the server to operation, the same cycle repeats. The technician confirms none of the configurations have changed, and the load on the server is steady from power-on until the crash. Which of the following will MOST likely resolve the issue?

Question100: An administrator is receiving reports that users in a remote office are unable to log in to the domain. The network appears to be up between the sites, which are in different states. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question101: A new application server has been configured in the cloud to provide access to all clients within the network.
On-site users are able to access all resources, but remote users are reporting issues connecting to the new application. The server administrator verifies that all users are configured with the appropriate group memberships. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

Question102: 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?

Question103: Which of the following backup types resets the archive bit each time it is run?

Question104: A storage administrator needs to implement SAN-based shared storage that can transmit at 16Gb over an optical connection. Which of the following connectivity options would BEST meet this requirement?

Question105: An administrator is rebooting servers manually after a group of updates were deployed through SCCM. The administrator notices several of the servers did not receive the deployed update. Which of the following should the administrator review first?

Question106: A systems administrator noticed a new network card is not being recognized by the operating system. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

Question107: A server administrator is replacing a faulty PSU. The management team has asked for a solution that prevents further downtime in the future. Which of the following can the server administrator implement?

Question108: A technician notices that every time a server is powered on, it turns off after several minutes. After reviewing logs, the technician notices the server registers execution of the shutdown. Which of the following should the technician do to fix this issue?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: Corporate policy mandates that logs from all servers be available for review regardless of the state of the server. Which of the following must be configured to comply with this policy?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A user is unable to access the database server from a workstation. All other workstations are able to access the database server. The technician issues the following command to check the workstation:
userGhost:!# nmap localhost
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.001 ms latency).
Not shown: 1023 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
3306 open mysql
Which of the following should the technician perform next to allow access?

Question115: A systems administrator has noticed performance degradation on a company file server, and one of the disks on it has a solid amber light. The administrator logs on to the disk utility and sees the array is rebuild ing.
Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT once the rebuild is finished?

Question116: A database developer recently requested a 4TB SATA drive utilizing spinning disks be added to an existing system for a new, heavily used database. The storage administrator turned down the request after reviewing it.
Which of the following is the most likely reason the administrator did that?

Question117: A technician is laying out a filesystem on a new Linux server. Which of the following tools would work BEST to allow the technician to increase a partition's size in the future without reformatting it?

Question118: 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?

Question119: A technician needs to provide a VM with high availability. Which of the following actions should the technician take to complete this task as efficiently as possible?

Question120: Which of the following types of locks utilizes key fobs or key cards held against a sensor/reader to gain access?

Question121: A server administrator needs to implement load balancing without purchasing any new hardware or implementing any new software. Which of the following will the administrator most likely implement?

Question122: A company's security team has noticed employees seem to be blocking the door in the main data center when they are working on equipment to avoid having to gain access each time. Which of the following should be implemented to force the employees to enter the data center properly?

Question123: A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the applications on the server.
Which of the following best describes a method of application hardening?

Question124: 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?

Question125: 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?

Question126: A server administrator is gathering business requirements to determine how frequently backups need to be performed on an application server. Which of the following is the administrator attempting to establish?

Question127: A systems administrator needs to back up changes made to a data store on a daily basis during a short time frame. The administrator wants to maximize RTO when restoring data. Which of the following backup methodologies would best fit this scenario?

Question128: Which of the following license types most commonly describes a product that incurs a yearly cost regardless of how much it is used?

Question129: A technician is investigating a server's configuration to secure it from physical threats. The technician checks the BIOS and sees the following boot order:
USB Drive CDROM Drive Network Adapter RAID Controller
Additionally, the server's host OS is stored on mirrored drives. Which of the following should the technician do to secure the server?

Question130: An administrator is only able to log on to a server with a local account. The server has been successfully joined to the domain and can ping other servers by IP address. Which of the following locally defined settings is MOST likely misconfigured?

Question131: A systems administrator is investigating a server with a RAID array that will not boot into the OS. The administrator notices all the hard drives are reporting to be offline. The administrator checks the RAID controller and verifies the configuration is correct. The administrator then replaces one of the drives with a known-good drive, but it appears to be unavailable as well. Next, the administrator takes a drive out of the server and places it in a spare server, and the drive is available and functional. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

Question132: When configuring networking on a VM, which of the following methods would allow multiple VMs to share the same host IP address?

Question133: Which of the following script types uses commands That start with sec-?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A junior administrator reported that the website used for anti-malware updates is not working. The senior administrator then discovered all requests to the anti-malware site are being redirected to a malicious site.
Which of the following tools should the senior administrator check first to identify the potential cause of the issue?

Question136: A server administrator encounters some issues with the server OS after applying monthly patches. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform?

Question137: Which of the following licensing models was created by software companies in response to the increasing density of processors?

Question138: A technician is troubleshooting a database server that has 12 external disk arrays. Multiple disks are in a degraded state. The server is in a remote colocation facility and has on-site support. The technician notices all of the external storage arrays are degraded, but the internal arrays are functional. Which of the following steps should the technician take next to quickly address this issue?

Question139: A systems administrator is setting up a second VLAN for end users. Which of the following should be provisioned for a DHCP server to be able to receive client requests from a different subnet?

Question140: A server recently started sending error messages about running out of memory while in use. After a maintenance period during which more memory was added, the server is still unable to consistently remain powered on. Which of the following should the technician check first?

Question141: Which of the following documents would explain the consequences of server downtime?

Question142: The accounting department needs more storage and wants to retain the current data for quick read-write access. The accounting server does not have any internet drive bays available to keep both disks however the server does have USB 3 0 and eSATA ports available. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish the department's goals?

Question143: 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?

Question144: Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to Pll exposure?

Question145: Which of the following BEST measures now much downtime an organization can tolerate Curing an unplanned outage?

Question146: A server administrator is tasked with ensuring that information stored on company database systems is secure from bad actors. Which of the following security practices would accomplish this task?

Question147: A systems administrator is provisioning a large number of virtual Linux machines that will be configured identically. The administrator would like to configure the machines quickly and easily but does not have access to an automation/orchestration platform. Additionally, the administrator would like to set up a system that can be used in the future, even on newer versions of the OS. Which of the following will best meet the administrator's requirements?

Question148: A company needs a media server set up that provides the highest availability with a minimum requirement of at least 10TB. The company purchased five HDDs, each with a 4TB capacity. Which of the options would provide the highest fault tolerance and meet the requirements?

Question149: 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?

Question150: A technician is tasked with upgrading 24 hosts simultaneously with a Type 1 hypervisor. Which of the following protocols should the technician use for this upgrade?

Question151: A junior administrator needs to configure a single RAID 5 volume out of four 200GB drives attached to the server using the maximum possible capacity. Upon completion, the server reports that all drives were used, and the approximate volume size is 400GB. Which of the following BEST describes the result of this configuration?

Question152: Which of the following access control methodologies can be described BEST as allowing a user the least access based on the jobs the user needs to perform?

Question153: Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that attempts to conceal the interior of an organization?

Question154: A server administrator is racking new servers in a cabinet with multiple connections from the servers to power supplies and the network. Which of the following should the administrator recommend to the organization to best address this situation?

Question155: An organization stores backup tapes of its servers at cold sites. The organization wants to ensure the tapes are properly maintained and usable during a DR scenario. Which of the following actions should the organization perform?

Question156: 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?

Question157: A recently deployed server is experiencing significant connection issues after being plugged into the network switch. An administrator was asked to review the server configuration and finds the following:
* 10Gb server NIC with 50-micron optic installed
* 10m single-mode fiber patch cable to the switch
* 10Gb switch interface with short-range optic installed
Which of the following steps should the administrator take next?

Question158: A technician needs to restore data from a backup. The technician has these files in the backup inventory:

Which of the following backup types is being used if the file 01062020.bak requires another file to restore data?

Question159: Which of the following is the MOST secure method to access servers located in remote branch offices?

Question160: A server administrator notices drive C on a critical server does not have any available space, but plenty of unallocated space is left on the disk. Which of the following should the administrator perform to address the availability issue while minimizing downtime?

Question161: A staff memberwho a monitoring a data center reports one rack is experiencing higher temperatures than the racks next to it, despite the hardware in each rack being the same. Which of the following actions would MOST likely remediate the heal issue?

Question162: A new company policy requires that any lost functionality must be restored within 24 hours in the event of a disaster. Which of the following describes this policy requirement?

Question163: Which of the following should a server administrator configure to ensure access to motherboard software is restricted?

Question164: An administrator is setting up a new server and has been asked to install an operating system that does not have a GUI because the server has limited resources. Which of the following installation options should the administrator use?

Question165: A user logs in to a Linux server and attempts to run the following command:
sudo emacs /root/file
However the user gets the following message:
User userid is not allowed to execute Temacs' on this server. Which of the following would BEST allow the user to find out which commands can be used?

Question166: A technician is installing a variety of servers in a rack. Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the technician to take while loading the rack?

Question167: Which of the following describes when a site is considered a warm site?

Question168: A server administrator set up a monitoring application on various servers to keep track of CPU usage, memory consumption, and disk space utilization. Which of the following should be configured on the application so it can send email alerts about a specific issue?

Question169: Users at a company are licensed to use an application that is restricted by the number of active sessions.
Which of the following best describes this licensing model?

Question170: A technician is checking a server rack. Upon entering the room, the technician notices the tans on a particular server in the rack are running at high speeds. This is the only server in the rack that is experiencing this behavior. The ambient temperature in the room appears to be normal. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the fans in that server are operating at full speed?

Question171: An administrator connects a server to an external gigabit switch, but the server can only get a speed of
100Mbps. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

Question172: An administrator is troubleshooting a RAID issue in a failed server. The server reported a drive failure, and then it crashed and would no longer boot. There are two arrays on the failed server: a two-drive RAIO 0 set tor the OS, and an eight-drive RAID 10 set for data. Which of the following failure scenarios MOST likely occurred?

Question173: 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?

Question174: A technician receives reports that a file server is performing slower than usual after a power failure. While investigating the issue, the technician discovers the write cache was disabled. The technician checks a server configuration document and confirms the cache was previously enabled. Which of the following events most likely caused this change?

Question175: Which of the following backup types is used to capture all data regardless of any changes from the previous backup jobs?

Question176: The management team has mandated the use of data-at-rest encryption for all data. Which of the following forms of encryption best achieves this goal?

Question177: 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?

Question178: Which of the following refers to the requirements that dictate when to delete data backups?

Question179: An administrator restores several database files without error while participating in a mock disaster recovery exercise. Later, the administrator reports that the restored databases are corrupt and cannot be used. Which of the following would best describe what caused this issue?

Question180: A software developer is unable to reach an internal website. The developer's attempt to ping the FQDN returns the following IP address: 104.18.17.32. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this result?

Question181: While a technician is troubleshooting a performance issue on a database server, users are disconnected from the database. An administrator is asked to intervene and restore access. Which of the following steps should the administrator take first?

Question182: Which of the following attacks is the most difficult to mitigate with technology?

Question183: 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?

Question184: 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?

Question185: Which of the following would a systems administrator implement to ensure all web traffic is secure?

Question186: Which of the following will protect critical data during a natural disaster?

Question187: A server administrator has configured a web server. Which of the following does the administrator need to install to make the website trusted?

Question188: An administrator gave Ann modify permissions to a shared folder called DATA, which is located on the company server. Other users need read access to the files in this folder. The current configuration is as follows:
The administrator has determined Ann cannot write anything to the DATA folder using the network. Which of the following would be the best practice to set up Ann's permissions correctly, exposing only the minimum rights required?

Question189: A server administrator is swapping out the GPU card inside a server. Which of the following actions should the administrator take FIRST?

Question190: An IT administrator is configuring ten new desktops without an operating system. The infrastructure contains an imaging server and operating system loaded on a USB, a DVD, and an SD card. Which of the following options would minimize the amount of time the administrator needs to load the operating system on every machine?

Question191: Winch of the following is a type of replication in which all files are replicated, all the time?

Question192: Which of the following is an example of load balancing?

Question193: Which of the following concepts refers to prioritizing a connection that had previously worked successfully?

Question194: 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?

Question195: Due to a disaster incident on a primary site, corporate users are redirected to cloud services where they will be required to be authenticated just once in order to use all cloud services.
Which of the following types of authentications is described in this scenario?

Question196: An upper management team is investigating a security breach of the company's filesystem. It has been determined that the breach occurred within the human resources department. Which of the following was used to identify the breach in the human resources department?

Question197: Which of the following backup types only records changes to the data blocks on a virtual machine?

Question198: 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 thefollowing should the technician do to access the server for troubleshooting purposes?

Question199: A server technician downloaded new firmware from the manufacturer's website. The technician then attempted to install the firmware on the server, but the installation failed, stating the file is potentially corrupt.
Which of the following should the technician have checked prior to installing the firmware?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A systems administrator notices the fans are running at full speed in a newly upgraded server. Which of the following should be done to address this issue?

Question202: 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?

Question203: Which of the following BEST describes a warm site?

Question204: A bad actor leaves a USB drive with malicious code on it in a company's parking lot. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Question205: An administrator has deployed a new virtual server from a template. After confirming access to the subnet's gateway, the administrator is unable to log on with the domain credentials. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question206: An administrator is configuring a server that will host a high-performance financial application. Which of the following disk types will serve this purpose?

Question207: A Windows server has experienced a BSOD, and the administrator needs to monitor thereboot. The server is in a datacenter with no OOB management. Which of the following tools should the administrator use to complete this task?

Question208: 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?

Question209: 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?

Question210: 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 thedatabasefrom another host. Which of the following is the best NEXT step to restore connectivity?

Question211: A server administrator receives the following output when trying to ping a local host:

Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

Question212: A company recently implemented VolP across a multicampus environment with ten locations. The company uses many network technologies, including fiber, copper, and wireless. Users calling between three of the locations have reported that voices sound strange.
Which of the following should be monitored to
narrow down the issue?

Question213: A storage administrator is investigating an issue with a failed hard drive. A technician replaced the drive in the storage array; however, there is still an issue with the logical volume. Which of the following best describes the NEXT step that should be completed to restore the volume?

Question214: A company is implementing a check-in desk to heighten physical security. Which of the following access controls would be the most appropriate to facilitate this implementation?

Question215: In which of the following media rotation schemes are daily, weekly, and monthly backup media utilized in a first-in, first-out method?

Question216: Which of the following relates to how much data loss a company agrees to tolerate in the event of a disaster?

Question217: Which of the following commands should a systems administrator use to create a batch script to map multiple shares'?

Question218: A corporation is implementing a cloud model that must meet security and privacy requirements for application development and testing. The company would like to use its own hardware to save money. Which of the following cloud models should be deployed?

Question219: A server administrator is instating a new server in a data center. The administrator connects the server to a midplane but does not connect any cables Which of the following types of servers is the administrator MOST likely installing?

Question220: A systems administrator recently upgraded the memory in a server, and now the server does not turn on, and nothing is displayed on the screen.
Which of the following is the next step the administrator should take to diagnose the error without opening the machine?

Question221: 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?