SK0-004 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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:

A. call an electrician to wire the single-phase power into 3-phase power.

B. use a single-phase UPS to power the 3-phase server.

C. call an electrician to see if 3-phase power can be brought into the room.

D. use an adapter to configure the server to use single-phase power.

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?

A. Schedule downtime to update the OS and SQL on the server.

B. Download and test the new version.

C. Develop a plan to build a test server.

D. Request feedback from the accounting department.

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?

A. IP: 192.168.55.1, NETMASK 255.255.255.0

B. IP: 192.168.55.5, NETMASK 255.255.255.128

C. IP: 192.168.55.155, NETMASK 255.255.255.128

D. IP: 192.168.55.255, NETMASK 255.255.255.0

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?

A. Incompatible BIOS

B. Backplane failure

C. Cache battery failure

D. Incorrect firmware version

A user is unable to save a new presentation to the network U:\ drive. The error message indicates that there is no available space. Other users in the department are not experiencing any problems saving to the U:\ drive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A. The user does not have permissions to use the U:\ drive.

B. The user's disk quota has been exceeded on the U:\drive.

C. The user's local drive is out of space.

D. The user does not have the U:\ drive mapped.

A server technician is examining reports of system instability on an email server. The technician reviews the notes from a junior administrator and finds the following information:

To determine the cause of the issue, which of the following actions should be taken FIRST?

A. Review the system logs for errors.

B. Swap the memory with a known-good pair.

C. Restore the OS from a verified backup.

D. Update the system with the latest chipset drivers.

An L6-30 plug is considered:

A. a twist lock.

B. a Molex.

C. three-phase.

D. an Edison.

A server technician is setting up replication for a database server. The technician is designing a server that is fully redundant and highly available. Which of the following replication strategies should be used?

A. Mirroring

B. Log shipping

C. Disk-to-disk

D. Server-to-server

A systems administrator is trying to run a program on the server to query the database. When attempting to launch the program, the screen flashes and the program closes. Which of the following should the technician do to get the program to open correctly? (Choose two.)

A. Launch the program running as the administrator.

B. Check HIPS logs to see if the application is blocked.

C. Log on to the server as the backup administrator.

D. Log on to the server as the database administrator.

E. Stop the database and restart the server.

A user is unable to log in to a database-driven application that is hosted on a server. The server is also configured to be a file server. Which of the following should the technician perform FIRST when troubleshooting the issue?

A. Establish a theory of why the server is malfunctioning.

B. Question the administrators about any recent changes.

C. Perform a full backup on the server and the user's workstation.

D. Perform a database backup on the server.

A user reports a Linux server is running slowly. Which of the following tools is an administrator MOST likely to use to check server performance?

A. top

B. MRTG

C. VNC

D. netstat

A technician is asked to make recommendations for purchase of new server hardware in a datacenter. Currently the datacenter is extremely limited in power available for new hardware, so the technician wants to recommend processors that utilize the least amount of power possible. Which of the following processor architectures should the technician suggest?

A. ARM

B. x64

C. x86

D. RISC

Which of the following should a systems administrator create to enable network connectivity on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A. A virtual network

B. A virtual network adapter

C. A virtual network storage

D. An extra network card on the server

E. A virtual switch

Which of the following BEST describes a benefit of RAID 0?

A. High fault tolerance

B. Ease of failure recovery

C. High performance

D. No configuration

Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

A. RAID 0

B. RAID 5

C. RAID 6

D. RAID 10