Updated 70-764 Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure Dumps

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You need to configure a Microsoft SQL Server instance to ensure that a user named Mail1 can send mail by using Database Mail.

Solution: You add the DatabaseMailUserRole to Mail1 in the tempdb database.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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You need to configure a Microsoft SQL Server instance to ensure that a user named Mail1 can send mail by using Database Mail.

Solution: You add the DatabaseMailUserRole to Mail1 in the msdb database.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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You need to configure a Microsoft SQL Server instance to ensure that a user named Mail1 can send mail by using Database Mail.

Solution: You add the DatabaseMailUserRole to Mail1 in the master database.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.

You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1.

Solution: You migrate DB1 to the default instance on a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard edition.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.

You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1.

Solution: You migrate DB1 to a named instance on a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Enterprise edition.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.

You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1.

Solution: You migrate DB1 to a named instance on a server than runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard edition.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases.

One customer reports that their database is not responding as quickly as the service level agreements dictate. You observe that the database is fragmented.

You need to optimize query performance.

Solution: You reorganize all indexes.

Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database

instances. The environment hosts several customer databases. One customer reports that their database is not responding as quickly as the service level agreements dictate. You observe that the database is fragmented.

You need to optimize query performance. Solution: You rebuild all indexes. Does the solution meet the goal?

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A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database

instances. The environment hosts several customer databases. One customer reports that their database is not responding as quickly as the service level agreements dictate. You observe that the database is fragmented.

You need to optimize query performance. Solution: You run the DBCC CHECKDB command. Does the solution meet the goal?

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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

One instance hosts a user database named HRDB. The database contains sensitive human resources data.

You need to grant an auditor permission to view the SQL Server audit logs while following the principle of least privilege.

Which permission should you grant?

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You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You implement Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).

A user will assist in managing TDE.

You need to ensure that the user can view the TDE metadata while following the principle of lease privilege.

Which permission should you grant?

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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

You have a user database named HRDB that contains sensitive human resources data. The HRDB backup files must be encrypted.

You need to grant the correct permission to the service account that backs up the HRDB database.

Which permission should you grant?

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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

You plan to delegate encryption operations to a user.

You need to grant the user permission to implement cell-level encryption while following the principle of least privilege.

Which permission should you grant?

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A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts a customer database named DB1.

Customers connect to hosted database instances by using line-of-business applications. Developers connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

You need to grant the developers permission to alter views for DB1 while following the principle of least privilege.

Which permission should you grant?

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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

Clients connect to databases by using line-of-business applications. Developers connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

You need to provide permissions to a service account that will be used to provision a new database for a client.

Which permission should you grant?

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You are examining information about users, sessions, and processed in an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine instance.

You need to return information about processes that are not idle, that belong to a specific user, or that belong to a specific session.

What should you use?

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You observe that several indexes are fragmented.

You need to rebuild the indexes.

What should you use?

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You need to examine information about logins, CPU times, and Disk I/O on a particular database in Microsoft Azure.

What should you use?

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You collect performance metrics on multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances and store the data in a single repository.

You need to examine disk usage, query statistics, and server activity without building custom counters.

What should you use?

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You are examining information about users, sessions, and processes in an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition server.

You need to identify waits for resources and return only the following information:

- a list of all databases on the SQL Server instance, along with information about the database files, their paths, and names

- a list of the queries recently executed that use most of memory, disk, and network resources

What should you use?

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You have an on-premises server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition.

You need to identify missing indexes.

What should you use?

22. HOTSPOT

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to configure monitoring for Tailspin Toys. In the table below, identify the monitoring tool that you must use for each activity. NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

23. DRAG DROP

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to implement a process for importing data into WingDB.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

24. HOTSPOT

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to configure auditing for the Adventure Works environment.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

25. HOTSPOT

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to configure the Contoso instance.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate Transact-SQL segments in the answer area.

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to monitor WingDB and gather information for troubleshooting issues.

What should you use?

27. HOTSPOT

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You are a database administrator for a company that has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts several customer databases, and each customer uses a dedicated instance.

The environments that you manage are shown in the following table.

You need to configure auditing for WDWDB. In the table below, identify the event type that you must audit for each activity. NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

28. HOTSPOT

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You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas. Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to create the connection strings for the operations and reporting systems.

In the table below, identify the option that must be specified in each connection string. NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

29. DRAG DROP

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You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas.

Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to propose a new process for the StagedExternal database.

Which five actions should you recommended be performed in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

30. DRAG DROP

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You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas. Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to analyze the wait type and statistics for specific instanced in the environment.

Which object should you use to gather information about each instance? To answer, drag the appropriate

objects to the correct instances. Each object may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

31. DRAG DROP

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You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server

instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas. Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to configure a new replica of AG1 on Instance6.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate Transact-SQL statements to the correct locations. Each Transact-SQL segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

32. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas.

Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to create a backup plan for Instance4.

Which backup plan should you create?

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You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.

You have an Always On Availability group named AG1.

The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.

Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.

Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O.

Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore indexes.

You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.

You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.

All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location SQLBackup. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.

Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.

You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.

Reporting system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader role. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries make no changes to the data. The queries must be load balanced over variable read-only replicas.

Operations system: This solution accesses data inDB1with a login that is mapped to a database user that is a member of the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles. The user has EXECUTE permissions on the database. Queries from the operations system will perform both DDL and DML operations.

The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to backup OperationsMain.

What should you do?

34. DRAG DROP

You have a database.

The existing backups for the database and their corresponding files are listed in the following table.

You purchase a new server. You must restore the database to the new server. You need to restore the data to the most recent time possible.

Which three files should you restore in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate files from the list of

files to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

35. A Microsoft SQL Server database named DB1 has two filegroups named FG1 and FG2. You implement a backup strategy that creates backups for the filegroups.

DB1 experiences a failure. You must restore FG1 and then FG2. You need to ensure that the database remains in the RECOVERING state until the restoration of FG2 completes. After the restoration of FG2 completes, the database must be online.

What should you specify when you run the recovery command?

36. DRAG DROP

You have a test server that contains a database named DB1. Backups of the database are written to a single backup device. The backup device has a full, differential, and transaction log backup.

You discover that the database is damaged. You restore the database to the point at which the differential backup was taken.

You need to rebuild the database with data stored in the latest transaction logs.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer. drag the appropriate Transact-SQL segments to the correct locations. Each Transact-SQL segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

37. You have a database named DB1 that is configured to use the full recovery model. You have a full daily backup job that runs at 02:00. The job backs up data from DB1 to the file B:DB1.bak.

You need to restore the DB1 database to the point in time of May 25, 2016 at 02:23 and ensure that the database is functional and starts to accept connections.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?

38. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft-SQL Server database named sales Orders. You need to verify the integrity of the database and attempt to repair any errors that are found. Repair must not cause any data to be lost in the database.

How should you complete the DBCC command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

39. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You have a database named salesOrders that includes a table named Table1.

Table1 becomes corrupt. You repair the table.

You need to verify that all the data in Table1 complies with the schema.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL code statement? To answer, select the appropriate Transact-SQL code segments in the dialog box in the answer area.

40. DRAG DROP

You are configuring a new Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group. You plan to configure a shared network location at DATA-CI1SQL.

You need to create an availability group listener named AGL1 on port 1433.

In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

41. HOTSPOT

You are configuring log shipping for a Microsoft SQL Server database named salesOrders.

You run the following Transact-SQL script:

You need to determine the changes that the script has on the environment.

How does the script affect the environment? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

42. HOTSPOT

You are planning the deployment of two new Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) of Microsoft SQL Server to a single Windows Server Cluster with three nodes.

The planned configuration for the cluster is shown in the Server Layout exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

The SAN team has configured storage for the cluster and sent the configuration to you in the email shown in the SAN Team Email exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

Each node of the cluster has identical local storage available as shown in the Local Storage exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

All local storage is on SSD. You need to plan specific configurations for the new cluster. For each of the following statement, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

43. HOTSPOT

You are planning to deploy log shipping for Microsoft SQL Server and store all backups on a dedicated fileshare.

You need to configure the servers to perform each log shipping step.

Which server instance should you configure to perform each action? To answer, select the appropriate

server instances in the dialog box in the answer area.

44. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You have a user named User1.

You need to grant the minimum permissions necessary to allow User1 to review audit logs.

For each action, which option should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

45. DRAG DROP

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database named Contoso.

You create a stored procedure named Sales.ReviewInvoice by running the following Transact-SQL statement:

You need to create a Windows-authenticated login named ContosoSearch and ensure that ContosoSearch can run the Sales.ReviewInvoices stored procedure.

Which three Transact-SQL segments should you use to develop the solution? To answer, move the appropriate Transact-SQL segments from the list of Transact-SQL segments to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

46. You have a database that stores information for a shipping company.

You create a table named Customers by running the following Transact-SQL statement. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)

You need to ensure that salespeople can view data only for the customers that are assigned to them.

Which Transact-SQL segment should you insert at line 07?

47. You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You plan to encrypt data when you create backups.

You need to configure the encryption options for backups.

What should you configure?

48. You have a database named DB1 that stores more than 700 gigabyte (GB) of data and serves millions of requests per hour.

Queries on DB1 are taking longer than normal to complete.

You run the following Transact-SQL statement:

SELECT * FROM sys.database_query_store_options

You determine that the Query Store is in Read-Only mode.

You need to maximize the time that the Query Store is in Read-Write mode.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?

49. HOTSPOT

You deploy a Microsoft SQL Server instance to support a global sales application. The instance includes the following tables: TableA and TableB.

TableA is a partitioned table that uses an incrementing integer number for partitioning. The table has millions of rows in each partition. Most changes to the data in TableA affect recently added data. The UPDATE STATISTICS for TableA takes longer to complete than the allotted maintenance window.

Thousands of operations are performed against TableB each minute. You observe a large number of Auto Update Statistics events for TableB.

You need to address the performance issues with each table.

In the table below, identify the action that will resolve the issues for each table.

NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

50. DRAG DROP

You administer a database that is used for reporting purposes. The database has a large fact table that contains three hundred million rows. The table includes a clustered columnstore index and a nonclustered index on the Product ID column. New rows are inserted into the table every day.

Performance of queries that filter the Product ID column have degraded significantly.

You need to improve the performance of the queries.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

51. HOTSPOT

You are the database administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server instance. Developers are writing stored procedures to send emails using sp_send_dbmail. Database Mail is enabled.

You need to configure each account’s profile security and meet the following requirements:

- Account SMTP1_Account must only be usable by logins that have been given explicit permissions to use the SMTP1_profile.

- Account SMTP2_Account must only be usable by logins who are a member of the [DatabaseMailUserRole] role in msdb.

In the table below. identify the profile type that must be used for each account.

NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

52. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft SQL Server instance that hosts a database named DB1 that contains 800 gigabyte (GB) of data. The database is used 24 hours each day. You implement indexes and set the value of the Auto Update Statistics option set to True.

Users report that queries take a long time to complete.

You need to identify statistics that have not been updated for a week for tables where more than 1,000 rows changed.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, configure the appropriate Transact-SQL segments in the answer area.

53. DRAG DROP

You are the database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You develop an Extended Events package to look for events related to application performance.

You need to change the event session to include SQL Server errors that are greater than error severity 15.

Which five Transact-SQL segments should you use to develop the solution? To answer, move the appropriate Transact-SQL segments from the list of Transact-SQL segments to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

54. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. A server fails and writes the following event to the application event log: MSG_AUDIT_FORCED_SHUTDOWN.

You configure the SQL Server startup parameters as shown in the following graphic:

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that answers each question. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

55. HOTSPOT

A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instanced. The environments host several customer databases. You host a local database and a Stretch database that has a table named Members for one specific

customer. You need to provide the customer with information about the space used in the databases.

In the table below, identify the query that provides the required information for each database. NOTE: Make only one selection in each column.

56. You have configured Resource Governor with three resource pools. You have assigned the first resource pool a minimum CPU and memory value of 20%. You have assigned the second resource pool a minimum CPU and memory value of 30%. You want to assign maximum CPU and memory values to the third resource pool.

What is the maximum CPU and memory value you can assign to this resource pool?

57. You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 default instance on which several production databases have been deployed.

You plan to install a new ticketing application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The SQL login for this application requires sysadmin permissions. You need to ensure that the login for the ticketing application cannot access other production databases.

What should you do?

58. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 failover cluster that contains two nodes named Node A and Node B.

A single instance of SQL Server is installed on the cluster.

An additional node named Node C has been added to the existing cluster.

You need to ensure that the SQL Server instance can use all nodes of the cluster.

What should you do?

59. You plan to integrate an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment with Microsoft Azure. You need to create the authentication object so that you can connect to Azure.

Which Windows PowerShell command or commands should you run?

60. You are creating an application that will connect to the AgentPortal database by using a SQL login named AgentPortalUser. Stored procedures in the database will use sp_send_dbmail to send email messages.

You create a user account in the msdb database for the AgentPortalUser login.

You use the Database Mail Configuration Wizard to create a Database Mail profile. Security has not been configured for the Database Mail profile.

You need to ensure that AgentPortalUser can send email messages.

What should you do?

61. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 default instance. The instance is hosted by a server that has a local firewall configured.

The firewall only allows inbound connections on port 1433. The server only hosts a single instance of SQL Server.

You need to ensure that the instance is configured to allow remote connections even if the SQL Server is unresponsive to client connections.

What should you do?

62. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in your company.

You need to ensure that an OLTP database that includes up-to-the-minute reporting requirements can be off- loaded from the primary database to another server.

You also need to be able to add indexes to the secondary database.

Which configuration should you use?

63. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in your company.

You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in near real time.

You also need to ensure that data on the primary server is unaffected.

Which configuration should you use?

64. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in your company.

A database contains a large product catalog that is updated periodically.

You need to be able to send the entire product catalog to all branch offices on a monthly basis.

Which configuration should you use?

65. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in your company.

You need to ensure that an OLTP database that uses a storage area network (SAN) remains available if any of the servers fail.

You also need to minimize the amount of storage used by the database.

Which configuration should you use?

66. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database.

The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day.

The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

The differential backup of the reporting database fails.

Then, the reporting database fails at 14:00 hours.

You need to ensure that the reporting database is restored.

You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

67. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day.

The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

At 14:00 hours, you discover that pages 71, 520, and 713 on one of the database files are corrupted on the reporting database.

You need to ensure that the databases are restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

68. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

At 16:20 hours, you discover that pages 17, 137, and 205 on one of the database files are corrupted on the transactional database. You need to ensure that the transactional database is restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

69. You administer several Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database servers.

Merge replication has been configured for an application that is distributed across offices throughout a wide area network (WAN). Many of the tables involved in replication use the XML and varchar (max) data types.

Occasionally, merge replication fails due to timeout errors.

You need to reduce the occurrence of these timeout errors.

What should you do?

70. You create an availability group named HaContoso that has replicas named Server01/HA, Server02/HA, and Server03/HA.
Currently, Server01l/HA is the primary replica.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
- Backup operations occur on Server02/HA.
- If Server02/HA is unavailable, backup operations occur on Server03/HA.
- Backup operations do not occur on Server01/HA.
How should you configure HaContoso?

71. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 instance that has several SQL Server Agent jobs configured.

SQL Server Agent jobs fail, the error messages returned by the job steps are truncated.

The following error message is an example of the truncated error message:

"Executed as user CONTOSOServiceAccount. ...0.4035.00 for 64-bit Copyright (C)Microsoft Corp 1984-2011. All rights reserved. Started 63513 PM Error 2012-06­23 183536.87 Code 0XC001000E Source UserImport Description Code 0x00000000Source Log Import Activity Descript... The package execution fa... The stepfailed."

You need to ensure that all the details of the job step failures are retained for SQL Server Agent jobs.

What should you do?

72. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server that has SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) installed.

You plan to deploy new SSIS packages to the server.

The SSIS packages use the Project Deployment Model together with parameters and Integration Services environment variables.

You need to configure the SQL Server environment to support these packages.

What should you do?

73. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server.

When transaction logs grow, SQL Server must send an email message to the database administrators.

You need to configure SQL Server to send the email messages.

What should you configure?

74. You administer two instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2016. You deploy an application that uses a database on the named instance. The application is unable to connect to the database on the named instance. You need to ensure that the application can connect to the named instance.

What should you do?

75. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database.

Users report that an application that accesses the database displays an error, but the error does not provide meaningful information. No entries are found in the SQL Server log or Windows event logs related to the error. You need to identify the root cause of the issue by retrieving the error message.

What should you do?

76. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

- A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).

- A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).

- Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.

- Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours.

Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands.

Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time. A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours.

Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.

You implement log shipping of the financial database to another SQL Server 2016 instance. You decide to failover to this secondary database.

You need to ensure that all transactions will be replicated to the secondary database.

Which backup option should you use?

77. You use Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to write code for a transaction that contains several statements.

There is high contention between readers and writers on several tables used by your transaction. You need to minimize the use of the tempdb space. You also need to prevent reading queries from blocking writing queries.

Which isolation level should you use?

78. You plan to migrate the db to azure.

You verify that all objects are valid for azure sql database. You need to ensure that users and logins are migrated to azure.

What should you do?

79. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database instance.

You create a new user named UserA. You need to ensure that UserA is able to create SQL Server Agent jobs and to execute SQL Server Agent jobs.

To which role should you add UserA?

80. You are the administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server. Some applications consume significant resources. You need to manage the server workload by restricting resource-intensive applications. You need to dynamically limit resource consumption.

What should you do?

81. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database that includes a table named dbo.Log. This table contains millions of records about user activity in an application.

Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention withinserts.

You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize dbo.Log.

Which type of solution should you use?

82. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database named Orders.

Users report that during peak usage periods, certain operations are taking more time than expected. Your initial analysis suggests that blocking is the cause. You need to gather more data to be able to determine which processes are being blocked and to identify the root cause.

What should you do?

83. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database.

Users report that a billing application becomes unresponsive during busy times of the day. While investigating, you notice large number of processes taking or waiting for table locks. You suspect that SQL Server is assigning stronger locks to queries. You start a SQL Profiler trace.

Which event should you select?

84. You install Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on a new server. After setup is complete, you attempt to start the SQL Server service. After being in a starting state for a few moments, the service goes back to a stopped state. You need to determine the cause of the failure.

Which file should you use?

85. You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Inventory that contains a stored procedure named p_AddInventory. Users need to be able to SELECT from all tables in the database and execute the stored procedure. You need to grant only the necessary permissions.

What should you do?

86. You administer a SQL Server 2016 database instance. You need to configure the SQL Server Database Engine service on a failover cluster.

Which user account should you use?

87. You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Human_Resources. The database contains 2 tables named Employees and SalaryDetails.

You add two Windows groups as logins for the server:

- CORPEmployees - All company employees

- CORPHRAdmins - HR administrators only

- HR Administrators are also company employees.

You need to grant users access according to the following requirements:

- CORPEmployees should have SELECT access to the Employees table.

- Only users in CORPHRAdmins should have SELECT access to the SalaryDetails table.

- Logins are based only on Windows security groups.

What should you do?

88. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database instance.

You plan to migrate the database to Windows Azure SQL Database.

You verify that all objects contained in the database are compatible with Windows Azure SQL Database.

You need to ensure that database users and required server logins are migrated to Windows Azure SQL Database.

What should you do?

89. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database. The database is currently configured to log ship to a secondary server. You are preparing to cut over to the secondary server by stopping log-shipping and bringing the secondary

database online. You want to perform a tail-log backup. You need to leave the primary database in a restoring state.

Which option of the BACKUP LOG command should you use?

90. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database. You want to make a full backup of the database to a file on disk. In doing so, you need to output the progress of the backup.

Which backup option should you use?

91. You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2016 servers named ProdSrv1 and ProdSrv2. ProdSrv1 is configured as a Distributor.

Both servers are configured to use the Windows NT Service virtual accounts for all SQL Services. You are configuring snapshot replication from ProdSrv1 to ProdSrv2 by using ProdSrv2 as a pull subscriber.

The distribution agent on ProdSrv2 regularly fails, displaying the following error message:

"Cannot access the file. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)."

You need to configure the distribution agent by granting only the minimum required access to all accounts.

What should you do?

92. You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 environment.

You want to deploy a new application that will scale out the workload to at least five different SQL Server instances. You need to ensure that for each copy of the database, users are able to read and write data that will then be synchronized between all of the database instances.

Which feature should you use?

93. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 instance that has multiple databases. You have a two-node SQL Server failover cluster. The cluster uses a storage area network (SAN). You discover I/O issues. The SAN is at capacity and additional disks cannot be added. You need to reduce the I/O workload on the SAN at a minimal cost.

What should you do?

94. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database that includes a table named Application.Events. Application.Events contains millions of records about user activity in an application. Records in Application.Events that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention with inserts. You need to be able to modify Application.Events without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize Application.Events.

Which type of solution should you use?

95. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 environment. One of the SQL Server 2016 instances contains a database named Sales. You plan to migrate Sales to Windows Azure SQL Database. To do so, you need to implement a contained database.

What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)

96. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to track all SELECT statements issued in the Contoso database only by users in a role named Sales.

What should you create?

97. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to collect data for a long period of time to troubleshoot wait statistics when querying Contoso.

You also need to ensure minimum impact to the server.

What should you create?

98. You plan to install Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for a web hosting company. The company plans to host multiple web sites, each supported by a SQL Server database. You need to select an edition of SQL Server that features backup compression of databases, basic data integration features, and low total cost of ownership.

Which edition should you choose?

99. You plan to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 instance.

The instance will support a database that has the following requirements:

- Store Excel workbooks on the file system.

- Access the workbooks through Transact-SQL.

- Include the workbooks in database backups.

- During installation, you need to ensure that the requirements will be met.

Which feature should you use?

100. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database. You have a SQL Server Agent job instance that runs using the service account. You have a job step within the job that requires elevated privileges.

You need to ensure that the job step can run using a different user account.

What should you use?