EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: An administrator is alerted to a hardware failure in a mission-critical server. The alert states that two drives have failed. The administrator notes the drives are in different RAID 1 arrays, and both are hot-swappable.
Which of the following steps will be the MOST efficient?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A technician installed a kernel upgrade to a Linux server. The server now crashes regularly. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Question5: A server administrator is installing a new server that uses 40G0 network connectivity. The administrator needs to find the proper cables to connect the server to the switch. Which of the following connectors should the administrator use?

Question6: A server in a remote datacenter is no longer responsive. Which of the following is the BEST solution to investigate this failure?

Question7: 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?

Question8: An application server's power cord was accidentally unplugged. After plugging the cord back in the server administrator notices some transactions were not written to the disk array. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question9: 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?

Question10: Which of the following symbols is used to write a text description per line within a PowerShell script?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: A server technician notices several of the servers in a data center are making loud noises. The servers are still working correctly, and no indicator lights show any issues. Which of the following should the technician do first to ensure the issues are corrected and the servers remain online?

Question14: A virtual host has four NICs and eight VMs. Which of the following should the technician configure to enable uplink redundancy?

Question15: A data center has 4U rack servers that needto be replaced using VMsbutwithout losingany data.
Whichofthefollowingmethodswill MOST likelybe used to replace these servers?

Question16: Which of the following documents would explain the consequences of server downtime?

Question17: A server administrator is connecting a new storage array to a server. The administrator has obtained multiple IP addresses for the array. Which of the following connection types is the server most likely using to connect to the array?

Question18: Which of the following testing exercises for disaster recovery is primarily used to discuss incident response strategies for critical systems without affecting production data?

Question19: 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

Question20: Which of the following backup types only records changes to the data blocks on a virtual machine?

Question21: 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?

Question22: Which of the following techniques can be configured on a server for network redundancy?

Question23: Hosting data in different regional locations but not moving it for long periods of time describes:

Question24: 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?

Question25: A server administrator noticesthe/var/log/audit/audit.logfileon 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?

Question26: A company wants to deploy software to all users, Out very few of men will be using the software at any one point in time. Which of the following licensing models would be BEST lot the company?

Question27: A server administrator is trying to determine the cause of a slowdown on a database server. Upon investigation, the administrator determines the issue is in the storage subsystem. Which of the following will most likely resolve this issue?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A server administrator is tasked with upgrading the network on a server to 40Gbps. After installing the card, which of the following connectors should the administrator use?

Question30: Which of the following describes a configuration inwinch both nodes of a redundant system respond to service requests whenever possible?

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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?

Question33: Which of the following should a technician verify first before decommissioning and wiping a file server?

Question34: 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?

Question35: Which of the following backup methods protects all the changes that have occurred since the last full backup?

Question36: Which of the following licenses would MOST likely include vendor assistance?

Question37: 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?

Question38: Which of the following describes the concept of allocating more resources than what is available on a hypervisor?

Question39: Which of the following types of locks utilizes key fobs or key cards held against a sensor/reader to gain access?

Question40: A technician has been asked to check on a SAN. Upon arrival, the technician notices the red LED indicator shows a disk has failed. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT, given the disk is hot swappable?

Question41: A server administrator must respond to tickets within a certain amount of time. The server administrator needs to adhere to the:

Question42: Which of the following backup types only backs up files that have changed since the last full backup?

Question43: Users at a company work with highly sensitive data. The security department implemented an administrative and technical control to enforce least-privilege access assigned to files. However, the security department has discovered unauthorized data exfiltration. Which of the following is the BEST way to protect the data from leaking?

Question44: A server administrator is experiencing difficulty configuring MySQL on a Linux server. The administrator issues the getenforce command and receives the following output:
># Enforcing
Which of the following commands should the administrator issue to configure MySQL successfully?

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: After the installation of an additional network card into a server, the server will not boot into the OS. A technician tests the network card in a different server with a different OS and verifies the card functions correctly. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT to troubleshoot this issue?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A server administrator is installing a new server with multiple NICs on it. The Chief Information Officer has asked the administrator to ensure the new server will have the least amount of network downtime but a good amount of network speed. Which of the following best describes what the administrator should implement on the new server?

Question51: A server technician notices a server is very low on disk space. Upon inspecting the disk utilization, the technician discovers server logs are taxing up a large amount of space. There is no central log server. Which of the following would help free up disk space?

Question52: A technician replaces a single faulted disk in the following array RAID 10, Four 15K SAS HDD The technician replaces it from a disk in spare parts, and the array rebuilds the data in a few minutes. After the array rebuild is complete, the system reports the IOPS on the disk array have dropped by almost 60% Which of the following should the technician investigate first?

Question53: Which of the following policies would be BEST to deter a brute-force login attack?

Question54: A technician is attempting to update a server's firmware. After inserting the media for the firmware and restarting the server, the machine starts normally into the OS. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT to install the firmware?

Question55: Which of the following physical security concepts would most likely be used to limit personnel access to a restricted area within a data center?

Question56: A technician has beer tasked to install a new CPU. Prior to the retaliation the server must be configured.
Which of the following should the technician update?

Question57: A hardware technician is installing 19 1U servers in a 42 the following unit sizes should be allocated per server?

Question58: 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?

Question59: Which of the following should be created to understand how long data is stored and how frequently data backups should be scheduled?

Question60: An administrator is tasked with building an environment consisting of four servers that can each serve the same website. Which of the following concepts is described?

Question61: An application server cannot communicate with a newly installed database server. The database server, which has static IP information, is reading the following output from ipconf ig:
The application server is reading the following output from ipconf ig:
Which of the following most likely contains an error?

Question62: 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.

Question63: Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that attempts to conceal the interior of an organization?

Question64: 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?

Question65: Which of the following would allow a server administrator to ensure all maximum available resources are being utilized?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: Which of the following supports virtualization?

Question70: Which of the following backup types is used to capture all data regardless of any changes from the previous backup jobs?

Question71: A server technician has received reports of database update errors. The technician checks the server logs and determines the database is experiencing synchronization errors. To attempt to correct the errors, the technician should FIRST ensure:

Question72: 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?

Question73: An administrator is configuring a new server for use as a database server. It will have two mirrored drives to hold the operating system, and there will be three drive bays remaining for storage Which of the following RAID levels will yield the BEST combination of available space and redundancy?

Question74: Which of the following commands would MOST likely be used to register a new service on a Windows OS?

Question75: 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?

Question76: Which of the following is a benefit of failover NIC teaming?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: A remote physical server is unable to communicate to the network through the available NICs, which were misconfigured. However, the server administrator is still able to configure theserver remotely. Which of the following connection types is the server administrator using to access the server?

Question80: An administrator notices high traffic on a certain subnet and would like to identify the source of the traffic.
Which of the following tools should the administrator utilize?

Question81: 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?

Question82: Multiple users have reported an issue accessing files on a specific server. Which of the following should be the first step in troubleshooting this issue?

Question83: Which of the following would a systems administrator implement to ensure all web traffic is secure?

Question84: An administrator is troubleshooting a failure in the data center in which a server shut down/turned off when utility power was lost The server had redundant power supplies. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this failure?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: A technician is attempting to reboot a remote physical Linux server. However, attempts to command a shutdown -----now result in the loss of the SSH connection. The server still responds to pings. Which of the following should the technician use to command a remote shutdown?

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: A server administrator needs to create a new folder on a file server that only specific users can access. Which of the following BEST describes how the server administrator can accomplish this task?

Question91: 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?

Question92: Which of the following BEST describes a guarantee of the amount of time it will take to restore a downed service?

Question93: 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?

Question94: Which of the following backup types resets the archive bit each time it is run?

Question95: A server administrator needs to set up active-passive load balancing for an environment with multiple network paths. The traffic should be directed to one path and switched only in the event that the original path becomes unavailable. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: Which of the following is a system that scans outgoing email for account numbers, sensitive phrases, and other forms of Pll?

Question99: An administrator is troubleshooting a failed NIC in an application server. The server uses DHCP to get all IP configurations, and the server must use a specific IP address. The administrator replaces the NIC, but then the server begins to receive a different and incorrect IP address. Which of the following will enable the server to get the proper IP address?

Question100: Following a recent power outage, a server on a server farm has been running slowly. A technician receives a ticket with a request to check for anything out of the ordinary. The technician sees an orange light on the front console of the server, indicating an error. Which of the following should the technician check next?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: Which of the following is the MOST secure method to access servers located in remote branch offices?

Question104: 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?

Question105: Which of the following would protect data in transit?

Question106: Which of the following is typical of software licensing in the cloud?

Question107: A server administrator is swapping out the GPU card inside a server. Which of the following actions should the administrator take FIRST?

Question108: Which of the following BEST measures how much downtime an organization can tolerate during an unplanned outage?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: A web server that is being deployed in the perimeter network needs to be shielded from malicious traffic.
Which of the following could help identify these threats?

Question113: 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?

Question114: 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?

Question115: 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?

Question116: A server administrator has received tickets from users who report the system runs very slowly and various unrelated messages pop up when they try to access an internet-facing web application using default ports. The administrator performs a scan to check for open ports and reviews the following report:
Starting Nmap 7.70 https://nmap.org) at 2019-09-19 14:30 UTC
Nmap scan report for www.abc.com (172.45.6.85)
Host is up (0.0021s latency)
Other addresses for www.abc.com (not scanned) : 4503 : F7b0 : 4293: 703: : 3209 RDNS record for 172.45.6.85: 1ga45s12-in-f1.2d100.net Port State Service
21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp filtered ssh
23/tcp filtered telnet
69/tcp open @username.com
80/tcp open http
110/tcp filtered pop
143/tcp filtered imap
443/tcp open https
1010/tcp open www.popup.com
3389/tcp filtered ms-abc-server
Which of the following actions should the server administrator perform on the server?

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: A systems administrator is performing a routine update to a server. The administrator applies the update, restarts the server, and then conducts routine testing that reveals the critical functionality provided by the server is unavailable. Event logs indicate a core service is failing to start. The service is configured to start automatically, and rolling back the update does not correct the issue. Which of the following is most likely causing the service failure?

Question119: A server technician is placing a newly configured server into a corporate environment. The server will be used by members of the accounting department, who are currently assigned by the VLAN identified below:

Which of the following IP address configurations should the technician assign to the new server so the members of the accounting group can access the server?

Question120: Which of the following is used for fail over, providing access to all the services currently in use by an organization without having to physically move any servers or employees?

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: Which of the following licensing models allows the greatest number of concurrent Windows VMS to run on a host for the lowest cost?

Question124: 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?

Question125: 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?

Question126: A technician is configuring a server that will need to accommodate a planned network upgrade. All hosts will be changed from 10Gb copper to 25Gb fiber. Which of the following would best suit the requirements?

Question127: A technician set up a new multifunction printer. After adding the printer to the print server, the technician configured the printer on each user's machine. Several days later, users reported that they were no longer able to print, but scanning to email worked. Which of the following is most likely causing this issue?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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?

Question131: An administrator has been asked to disable CPU hyperthreading on a server to satisfy a licensing issue. Which of the following best describes how the administrator will likely perform this action?

Question132: Which of the following BEST describes the concept of right to downgrade?

Question133: 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?

Question134: Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that is used to attempt to conceal the exterior of an organization?

Question135: 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?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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?

Question138: Users have noticed a server is performing below Baseline expectations. While diagnosing me server, an administrator discovers disk drive performance has degraded. The administrator checks the diagnostics on the RAID controller and sees the battery on me controller has gone bad. Which of the following is causing the poor performance on the RAID array?

Question139: 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?

Question140: An administrator needs to disable root login over SSH. Which of the following tiles should be edited to complete this task?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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?

Question143: A systems administrator notices a newly added server cannot see any of the LUNs on the SAN. The SAN switch and the local HBA do not display any link lights. Which of the following is most likely the issue?

Question144: Which of the following tools will analyze network logs in real time to report on suspicious log events?

Question145: 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?

Question146: An administrator is installing a new file server that has four drive bays available. Which of the following RAID types would provide the MOST storage as well as disk redundancy?

Question147: 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?

Question148: An administrator received an alert that a backup job has been unsuccessful in the previous three attempts. The administrator discovers the issue occurred while backing up a user's data on a network share. Which of the following actions would be best to allow the job to complete successfully?

Question149: 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?

Question150: A server is only able to connect to a gigabit switch at 100Mb. Other devices are able to access the network port at full gigabit speeds, and when the server is brought to another location, it is able to connect at full gigabit speed. Which of the following should an administrator check first?

Question151: A user can successfully connect to a database server from a home office but is unable to access it from a hotel room. Which of the following authentication methods is most likely configured?

Question152: Which of the following would be BEST to help protect an organization against social engineering?

Question153: Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to Pll exposure?

Question154: 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?

Question155: 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?

Question156: Which of the following factors would most likely impact the selection of an organization's cloud provider?

Question157: Which of the following commands should a systems administrator use to create a batch script to map multiple shares'?

Question158: An administrator has been asked to verify that all traffic egressing from a company is secured. The administrator confirms all the information that is sent over the network is encrypted. Which of the following describes the type of traffic being encrypted?

Question159: A technician wants to limit disk usage on a server. Which of the following should the technician implement?

Question160: 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?

Question161: 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?

Question162: After a technician upgrades the firmware on a database server that is connected to two external storage arrays, the server prompts the technician to configure RAID. The technician knows the server had several configured RAID sets and thinks the firmware upgrade cleared the RAID configurations. Which of the following should the technician do to troubleshoot this issue?

Question163: A technician learns users are unable to tog in to a Linux server with known-working LDAP credentials. The technician logs in to the server with a local account and confirms the system is functional can communicate over the network, and is configured correctly However, the server log has entries regarding Kerberos errors.
Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the issue?

Question164: Which of the following should be configured in pairs on a server to provide network redundancy?

Question165: 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?

Question166: 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?

Question167: An administrator is configuring a server that will host a high-performance financial application. Which of the following disk types will serve this purpose?

Question168: 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?

Question169: A server administrator is installing a new server on a manufacturing floor. Because the server is publicly accessible, security requires the server to undergo hardware hardening. Which of the following actions should the administrator take?

Question170: 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?

Question171: 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?

Question172: 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?

Question173: 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?

Question174: A technician is configuring a server that requires secure remote access. Which of the following ports should the technician use?

Question175: 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?

Question176: 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?

Question177: 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?
* HTTP

Question178: A company wants to find an affordable way to simulate a fail over of a critical application. The company does not currently have a solution for it. The application consists of 15 servers, and the company would like to simulate on production configurations and IP address schemes. Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution?

Question179: A company created a new DR plan. The management team would like to begin performing a review of this plan without endangering company data and with a minimal time commitment. Which of the following testing methods would best allow for this type of review?

Question180: Which of the following describes when a site is considered a warm site?

Question181: 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?

Question182: 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?

Question183: A server administrator encounters some issues with the server OS after applying monthly patches. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform?

Question184: Which of the following distributes a load across all interfaces?

Question185: When a user plugs a USB drive into a workstation and attempts to transfer a file from the server, an error appears that indicates the file cannot be copied. However, the user can copy or create new files from the local workstation. Which of the following is part of this security strategy?

Question186: Which of the following relates to how much data loss a company agrees to tolerate in the event of a disaster?

Question187: A technician is configuring a server with eight available drive bays. The technician wants a combination of the most redundancy and the maximum available storage. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician use?

Question188: 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?

Question189: A company has implemented a requirement to encrypt all the hard drives on its servers as part of a data loss prevention strategy. Which of the following should the company also perform as a data loss prevention method?

Question190: A technician is preparing a deployment of servers to be used by staff at a remote location. Which of the following should the technician do to prevent access to the hardware configuration?

Question191: Which of the following environmental controls must be carefully researched so the control itself does not cause the destruction of the server equipment?

Question192: 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?

Question193: Which of the following encryption methodologies would MOST likely be used to ensure encrypted data cannot be retrieved if a device is stolen?

Question194: Which of the following security risks provides unauthorized access to an application?

Question195: 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?

Question196: A server in the data center reportedly has a BSOD and is not responding. The server needs to be rebooted.
Which of the following is the best method to reboot the server remotely?

Question197: Which of the following is an example of load balancing?

Question198: In which of the following media rotation schemes are daily, weekly, and monthly backup media utilized in a first-in, first-out method?

Question199: A Linux server requires repetitive tasks for reconfiguration. Which of the following would be the best scripting language to use?

Question200: A technician has several possible solutions to a reported server issue. Which of the following BEST represents how the technician should proceed with troubleshooting?

Question201: 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

Question202: 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?

Question203: A security team must ensure that unauthorized individuals are unable to tailgate through the data center's entrance. Which of the following should be implemented to stop this type of breach from happening?

Question204: A systems administrator is installing Windows on an 8TB drive and would like to create a single 8TB partition on the disk. Which of the following options should the administrator use?

Question205: A company is reviewing options for its current disaster recovery plan and potential changes to it. The security team will not allow customer data to egress to non-company equipment, and the company has requested recovery in the shortest possible time. Which of the following will BEST meet these goals?

Question206: 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?

Question207: 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?

Question208: Which of the following ensures a secondary network path is available if the primary connection fails?