DES-4121 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A technician creates two virtual disks and assigns a dedicated hot spare to each virtual disk. They also create a global hot spare. A drive fails on the second virtual disk.

What is the result?

A. Dedicated hot spare for the virtual disk replaces the failed drive.

B. Global hot spare replaces the failed drive.

C. Copyback operation occurs between the failed drive and the dedicated hot spare.

D. Copyback operation occurs between the failed drive and the global hot spare.

What can a technician do to ensure that no malicious code can be introduced into any of the servers through physical access?

A. Set USB 3.0 to disabled

B. Set Secure Boot Policy to enabled

C. Set User Accessible Ports to disabled

D. Set UEFI Variable Acces to disabled

A technician needs to set a server to always attempt PXE boot before booting to the hard drive. What actions does the technician need to take to achieve this?

A. Change the Boot Sequence so the network card is first Remove all boot options except network card

B. Change the Boot Sequence so the network card is first Disable the boot option for the hard drive

C. Set the Legacy Boot Protocol for the network card to PXE Change the Boot Sequence so the network card is first

D. Set the Legacy Boot Protocol for the network card to PXE Select PXE Boot from F11 Boot Manager

A technician plugs in a server that has dual power supply units. After powering on the system, they notice that the power supply status indicators blink green then turn off.

What troubleshooting steps should the technician take to resolve this issue?

A. Set the power supply redundancy option to `No Redundancy'

B. Check that the PSUs are not connected to a 240VAC source

C. Update the iDRAC firmware to enable control of new PSU features

D. Check that the PSUs are the same efficiency, feature set, health status, and supported voltage

A technician is working on an operational PowerEdge R640 server that cannot be rebooted. Observing that all drives are hot-swappable devices, the technician decides to remove a drive that has been giving intermittent errors. After the single drive is removed the operating system crashes.

What could have caused the operating system to crash?

A. System Lockdown mode was enabled, which does not allow any component to be hot-swapped

B. iDRAC was not configured for hot-swappable components

C. Drive was part of a RAID 0 virtual disk

D. PERC was configured to allow a single drive removal

A technician replaces a faulty system board on a server. In addition to powering on the system, what step must the technician take to install the correct service tag?

A. Type asset to change the asset tag

B. Login in to the iDRAC

C. Press F11 to start the Boot Manager

D. When prompted by Easy Restore, press Y to restore the Service Tag, license, and diagnostics information

A technician needs to update the iDRAC license on a PowerEdge R740 server from Express to Enterprise. The server has the following components:

2x CPUs 384 GB RAM 6x 1 TB drives 1x PSU

The server is powered down but connected to active AC. The user wants it to stay powered down and not connect to any networks. No errors are presently displayed.

How can the technician upgrade the license?

A. The license cannot be upgraded because the user will not allow the server to be powered on

B. The license cannot be upgraded on a single PSU system

C. Power on the server then connect to the iDRAC and upgrade iDRAC license before powering the server down

D. Connect to the iDRAC GUI and upgrade the iDRAC license while the server is powered down.

A technician is ready to deploy a server. If a critical part such as the system board fails, they must be able to replace the system board, reconfigure components, and update the firmware revisions in the fastest possible time.

How should the technician meet this requirement?

A. Back up the profile using the System Profile Settings

B. Use the iDRAC Rollback feature to restore the firmware revisions

C. Use the iDRAC GUI to back up the Server Profile

D. Back up component configurations using iSM

A technician needs to deploy a server into production and needs to verify that the firmware levels match corporate policy before putting the server on the business network.

Which method is recommended for verifying the firmware version of iDRAC and BIOS?

A. Scroll through the menus on the LCD panel to view the BIOS and iDRAC firmware levels

B. SSH into the iDRAC and run the racadm systemconfig command to view current firmware

C. Use the Lifecycle Controller and navigate to Firmware Update to view current versions

D. Use the OMSA DVD that came with the server to view Current Drivers and Firmware

A PowerEdge R640 server has a failure on one of its onboard NICs and sends an alert to technician support. The assigned technician needs to order a FRU to resolve the issue.

What action should the technician take?

A. Replace the system board after first backing up the server profile

B. Order a new NDC and replace the failing NDC

C. Use the iDRAC to reset the NDC to default values then reconfigure. If that fails replace the NDC

D. Order a new NIC port then replace the failing NIC port on the NDC

What are benefits of installing the Dell iDRAC Service Module?

A. Ability to update firmware on the server. iDRAC access via host OS

B. Remote iDRAC reset. Ability to update firmware on the server

C. iDRAC access via host OS. Ability to access the Lifecycle Controller for server updates

D. In-band SNMP traps for hardware alerts. Remote iDRAC reset

What operation should a technician perform to ensure configuration recovery if a server must be physically replaced?

A. Create and export a Server Configuration Profile

B. Back up the Server Profile to a network share or vFlash SD card

C. Enable the export configuration option in System Setup

D. View and export the current hardware inventory

A technician needs to initially configure a server from a bare metal condition in the following area. Processor settings Disk configuration iDRAC network settings

The technician can only reboot the server once to achieve these tasks.

Where should the technician configure these settings?

A. PERC Configuration Utility and iDRAC Settings

B. PERC Configuration Utility only

C. System BIOS, iDRAC Settings, Device Settings

D. Device and PXE Settings

A technician is remotely installing ESXi 6.0 on a PowerEdge R640 in BIOS boot mode. The system has dual internal SD cards. After the OS is installed, the system reboots and shows an error screen with the following message: "No boot device found".

What should the technician do to resolve this issue?

A. Enable vFlash in iDRAC web GUI

B. Set the boot made from BIOS to UEFI

C. Reseat the SD cards and try to boot to them again

D. Change the Hard Disk Drive Sequence

A server has two power supply units (PSUs) in a redundant configuration. One PSU fails. A technician replaces the failed PSU, but the server does not return to redundant power mode.

What is the cause of this issue?

A. Power redundant option is disabled in the System Setup Utility.

B. Server has not been power cycled to bring the new PSU online

C. Both PSUs were not replaced at the same time

D. New PSU has a different wattage than the existing PSU