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1. A technician is installing an operating system on a server using source files on a USB storage device. The technician is unable to boot to the USB device using different USB ports on the server.

Which of the following should the technician do to ensure that the operating system can be installed from the USB storage?

2. Users on a network segment report that they are unable to connect to a newly installed file server.

The file server IP address settings are as follows:

IP address: 10.0.10.254

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1

Which of the following changes should the server administrator make?

3. An administrator needs to reconfigure a Linux server's operating system.

Which of the following tools can the administrator use to access a command shell over the network? (Select TWO).

4. An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time.

Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

5. As a best practice, which of the following should be determined prior to provisioning a server? (Select TWO).

6. A system administrator is asked to set up several physical file servers that have recently crashed due to a power failure.

Which of the following documents should the administrator refer to in order to complete this task?

7. A server technician in a datacenter configures a daemon to monitor the battery health in a UPS. Over a two day time period, the daemon generates a warning message.

Which of the following represents the FIRST action that should be taken by the server technician?

8. A system administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue and runs ipconfig/all on the host.

The command returns the following:

IPv4 Address: 169.254.0.12

Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

The client is configured for DHCP.

Which of the following commands should be run on the client to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).

9. Which of the following server types translates FQDNs to IP addresses?

10. A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

11. Which of the following are required characteristics of database servers in high transaction environments? (Select THREE).

12. Two RAID arrays are created from eight disks. One is created using RAID 6, the other is created using RAID 5 with a hot spare.

Which of the following is the operational difference between these configurations?

13. A server administrator is configuring a new server for an organization. The server will function as a firewall and proxy server, as well as provide NAT services for other devices on the network.

Which of the following BEST describes how the network hardware on the server should be configured?

14. A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored.

Which of the following types of site does the company have?

15. A technician is tasked with building a test server.

Which of the following hard drive types will provide the highest performance?

16. Which of the following is the purpose of an NTP server?

17. An administrator is tasked with deploying a server in a telephone switching station.

Which of the following voltages will MOST likely be available at the facility?

18. A blade chassis can hold 16 half-height blades or eight full-height blades.

Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of half-height blades that can be installed in the chassis if six full-height blades are already installed?

19. A server technician is replacing a web server in an organization. The new server has two integrated NICs.

Which of the following describes how the NICs should be configured for fault protection?

20. A technician notices a rack mounted server is beeping without booting up.

The NEXT step to diagnose this issue would be to:

21. Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host?

22. A technician is troubleshooting a Linux server and wants to inspect the free disk space on the /dev/sda partition of the system.

Which of the following command line tools should the administrator run to view available disk space on the partition?

23. A server's runtime during power outages is too short to shut down properly. A system technician is asked to remediate the problem.

Which of the following would be the result of adding additional batteries to the UPS?

24. The IT director instructed the systems administrator to build a server to support the accounting department's file growth. The IT director requested that the accounting users have the ability to encrypt their files; however, the accounting users have reported the inability to encrypt their files.

Which of the following file system types is MOST likely causing this issue?

25. A server technician is performing a server installation. This server must be able to resolve host names for users running a variety of client operating systems. At a minimum, which of the following services should be enabled on the new server? (Select TWO).

26. Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?

27. A technician is asked to troubleshoot a server that constantly reboots. There are no error messages displayed on the server.

Which of the following should the technician check?

28. Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

29. A database server stops responding to requests, and the administrator suspects that the server is experiencing memory faults during heavy network traffic and database access.

Which of the following is the FIRST troubleshooting step?

30. A system administrator wants to assure that a server is responsive.

Which of the following networking tools should the administrator use to verify network connectivity?

31. A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy.

Which of the following implements this backup strategy?

32. A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30.

Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

33. A technician is replacing a faulty NIC in a server.

According to best practices, which of the following should be used to configure the IP address on the server?

34. In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as long as compatible hardware is available.

Which of the following backup types meets this requirement?

35. A hardware compatibility list recommends striping with double parity as storage for an application. In a test environment, a technician realizes that a different RAID level can be used to compensate for a limited number of available disks.

Which of the following is the closest RAID level the technician should deploy while minimizing the number of disks and maintaining fault tolerance?

36. A server technician is investigating a potential data breach. It is believed that the breach occurred via telnet access.

Which of the following could validate this hypothesis?

37. An administrator is asked to change a configuration using a GUI on a Windows server, but does not have access to a KVM.

Which of the following is BEST to make the change?

38. A technician is experiencing overheating on a rack mounted server. After powering off and removing the cover of the server, a large amount of dust is noticed on one of the fans. After cleaning out the dust and powering the server back on, the server is still overheating.

Which of the following would BEST explain this issue?

39. A system administrator needs to rebuild a server by booting to the OS DVD. The server powers up but attempts to boot from the network.

Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?

40. Two servers are to be configured for high availability in a cluster. Both servers will be running applications at the same time.

This feature is known as:

41. Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?

42. Network devices between two firewalls are included in which of the following?

43. A server administrator is setting up a new set of hosts for an application that requires communication between all the hosts on a dedicated private subnet. Initially, the configuration consists of four hosts and is expected to grow to 48 total as the application is implemented for the entire company.

When configuring the private subnet, which of the following CIDR netmasks would allow for the full number of hosts once the application is fully in production with the least number of unused addresses allocated?

44. A blade server chassis has two power supplies.

Which of the following is a benefit of a technician connecting each power supply to a separate UPS unit?

45. A server administrator is implementing disk redundancy in all database servers.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administrator use so that a MINIMUM number of disks are required?

46. An emergency power off accidentally occurs in a datacenter during a fire alarm test. On recovery, the server administrator notices that an external storage array is performing consistency checks on all the volumes configured in the array.

Which of the following components of the storage array has MOST likely failed or faulted?

47. A technician needs to add a processor to a server.

Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).

48. Which of the following is an example of the principle of least privilege and is the MOST secure when granting access to a shared network drive used by the Accounting department?

49. A system administrator needs to directly control a server that has no network connectivity.

Which of the following should be used to accomplish this?

50. Which of the following methods should a technician perform to properly clear a hard drive before disposal?

51. When troubleshooting a failed backup, a technician runs the backup using the same tape but on a different tape drive in the same tape library. The backup fails again.

Which of the following should be the FIRST item the technician should examine as a failure?

52. A technician receives an error message when trying to boot the server stating the operating system was not found. Change management logs indicate a new hard drive backplane was installed in the server last night.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST when troubleshooting the issue?

53. An administrator is securing a secure web server by disabling ports. After completing this process, clients cannot access the secure web server.

The administrator should now go back and verify whether which of the following ports is enabled?

54. A server administrator is notified that all three hard disks in a server array have failed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

55. A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports.

Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?

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

57. A technician needs to install additional memory in a server to help resolve performance issues.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

58. A server unexpectedly shut down as a result of overheating. An alert was sent to the administrator's email address but the administrator was away from the workstation when the alert arrived.

Which of the following would have been a more effective method for sending the alert notification?

59. A certain rack mounted blade server chassis needs 3-phase power for operation. There is currently only single-phase power coming into the room.

The administrator needs to:

60. Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

61. An administrator is developing a storage growth plan for a new file server.

Which of the following should be implemented on the server so that storage growth is restricted?

62. A company has recently had sensitive data stolen by a contractor who plugged a flash drive into a server.

Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent future occurrences?

63. A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company.

In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

64. A company has hired a consultant to review the production storage infrastructure and provide suggestions on improving performance. The consultant has identified a bottleneck in the production switching fabric and successfully tested the solution in a lab environment.

Which of the following should the consultant perform NEXT, according to best practices?

65. Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open.

Which of the following protocols is being blocked?

66. An administrator needs to perform a backup of all servers for an upcoming disaster recovery exercise at a company cold site.

Which of the following types of backup should be performed?

67. A system administrator needs to install an operating system onto a new server in a remote location using PXE.

Which of the following methods will BEST accomplish this?

68. A line-of-business software patch notification is received. The notification indicates that version 5.0 of the software has new features that the accounting department has been expecting. The update requires a new version of the OS and new version of SQL on the server.

Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

69. A technician is troubleshooting an issue with a new server, which is unable to download OS patches from the Internet. The technician reviews the following configuration:

Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : comptia.org

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . : fe80::c95:3f59:1a01:c050%11

IPv4 Address . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.20

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.129

Which of the following is the reason that the server is unable to connect to the Internet?

70. An administrator wishes to use KVM remotely to monitor and control a server farm.

In order to perform this function:

71. A system administrator notices that a server is consistently getting slower and less responsive the longer it has been since the last reboot. Once the server is rebooted, the system performs at the expected baseline, but starts slowing down again until the system is unresponsive.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?

72. Which of the following is a benefit of utilizing a type 2 hypervisor to manage guests?

73. A system administrator is tasked with dividing the network so that each department is separate from the other.

Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task?

74. A server administrator is researching the purchase of SSD for a server.

The administrator receives a report from the datacenter technician detailing current storage requirements and future growth planning estimates as follows:

ServerA: Current-15TB-Future-50% growth

ServerB: Current-20TB-Future-80% growth

Based on this report, which of the following represents the MINIMUM storage requirements needed?

75. Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow.

An appropriate plan of action is to:

76. A technician is assigned a task to configure a new server with six hard drives. The senior administrator requested the technician utilize the drives for maximum fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the technician use?

77. An organization has agreed on the software that will be used to virtualize the company's web servers.

Which of the following should the administrator reference prior to purchasing physical servers to be deployed as hosts in the new virtual architecture?

78. Users report that an application is unable to connect to a server on the same network segment.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

79. A customer reports that connectivity to their web server has been sporadic throughout the morning. An administrator has applied OS patches periodically throughout the morning and rebooted the server.

Which of the following has the administrator MOST likely violated?

80. A server technician has been tasked with purchasing cables and connectors for a new server room. The server room consists of one switch, two servers, and one IP telephone.

Which of the following types of cables and connectors should the technician purchase?

81. Which of the following is the height of 1U of space in a server rack?

82. A system administrator has determined that more storage is needed for company data. The storage requires the highest speed data transfer rate with maximum performance.

Which of the following solutions MUST be implemented to meet the business requirements?

83. A technician has finished installing the operating system on a new server and needs to provide IP addressing information. The server will be connected to the DMZ network. Devices on the network use a default gateway address of 192.168.55.1.

Which of the following is a valid IP address for a server in the DMZ network?

84. A new DHCP server is placed on a network segment during off hours. When work resumes, users on a different network segment report connectivity issues. Users on the same network segment report no connectivity issues.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the connectivity issues?

85. Which of the following protocols can be used to perform configuration management on a remote server using the MOST secure methods? (Select TWO).

86. Which of the following is the MOST redundant power solution?

87. A network administrator is installing additional devices on the network. Currently, the network segment is utilizing all allocated IP addresses.

If there are additional addresses available, which of the following would be BEST for the network administrator to perform to accommodate the new network devices?

88. A server technician is connecting a server to a switch in the server room. Both the server and the switch are equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.

Which of the following cable choices would produce the BEST throughput?

89. A server administrator wants to isolate a SAN hosted LUN to be visible to only a single host.

Which of the following methodologies would be used to present the LUN to only that host?

90. A technician needs to install an operating system patch on a virtual server.

Which of the following backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the server to be restored the FASTEST?

91. Which of the following provides two-factor authentication?

92. A technician is asked to install an additional NIC in a server.

Which of the following hardware considerations would be BEST for the technician to make?

93. Several of the finance department computers are experiencing timeouts while in their financial program. The program will not open or close; however, the previous day the program was running without issues.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?

94. A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance.

Which of the following would achieve this requirement?

95. A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the maximum performance for accessing many small files.

Which of the following specifications should the technician focus on when selecting the drive to add to the server?

96. A network administrator is tasked to block all outbound SSH connections on the default port from a network subnet of 10.152.8.0/21 on a Linux based firewall.

Which of the following rule sets would accomplish this task?

97. Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

98. Which of the following protocols is considered stateless and utilizes TCP when communicating between a server and client?

99. An ISP is currently drafting and compiling a Service Level Agreement that states there should only be 5.26 minutes of downtime per year, 25.9 seconds per month, and 6.05 seconds per week.

Which of the following percentages should be used to meet these metrics?

100. An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations.

Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?