Comptia (SK0-004) Exam Questions And Answers page 19
A server administrator wants to minimize the amount of disk thrashing on a server. The BEST way to accomplish this would be to:
use the maximum amount of memory.
use a high-speed multicore processor.
use a cached disk controller with battery backup.
Storage
Security
A server administrator wants to upgrade the memory of the server using two memory modules. The server has two banks of memory with the following slots available: A2, A3, A4, B2, B3, and B4. In which of the following two slots should the administrator install the additional RAM?
Slots A2 and A3
Slots A2 and B2
Slots A2 and B4
Slots B2 and B3
Server Administration
A server administrator was asked to implement a site backup solution. The backup window during regular business days is from midnight to 6:00 a.m. because end-of-cycle payroll processing will occur for the next three months. Which of the following backup methodologies would satisfy this restriction in performing short backups?
Perform daily incremental backups.
Perform daily full backups.
Perform daily differential backups.
Perform daily normal backups.
Server Administration
Security
A server administrator was hired by a company to manage and maintain 20 Windows-based servers in five geographical locations. The server administrator is going to run patches manually to ensure they are applied, which would address some major security-related items. Which of the following methods would MOST likely be the way to handle this task?
Physically go to each server
Schedule automatic patching
Use the management interface on the server
Use RDP to log into each server
Server Administration
Security
A server fails to boot. During POST, the technician hears one long beep and two short beeps. Which of the following should the technician reference to determine what hardware has failed?
Operating system vendor s website
Hardware compatibility list
Motherboard documentation
Bios settings
Server Hardware
A server has 500GB of data that must be backed up nightly. The administrator has upgraded the old LTO2 drive to an LTO3, but the data still will not fit on a single tape. Which of the following additional steps should the administrator perform to accommodate the data? (Select TWO).
Enable compression on the new drive
Reformat all tapes
Delete unnecessary system files
Purchase LTO3 tapes for use in the new drive
Purchase new backup software
Storage
Storage Technologies
A server has a disk array controller with battery-backed cache. Which of the following will MOST likely happen if the server loses power?
Information in cache will be written to disk once the server regains power, assuming the battery has a charge.
All information in cache is lost, even if the battery has a change.
The battery will supply power to the disk array in the event of a power failure, and cache will not be written to disk.
Information in cache will be transferred to firmware, and no information will be lost.
Storage Technologies
A server has a file share for each department. An auditor has discovered that all users have access to all of the departmental shared folders. Which of the following is the BEST solution to ensure users have access to the shared folders of only their department?
Create security groups, add the users to the security groups according to their departments, and grant the security groups access to the file shares according to each department.
Delete the shared folders and create new shared folders, and grant the users access to the shared folders according to their departments.
Remove everyone from the shared folders, create a security group for each department, add the users to the security groups, and grant each security group access to its own shared folders.
Remove everyone from the shared folders, grant full access to the IT administrators, and instruct the users to ask managers permission to be re-added to the shared folders according to their department.
Security
Networking
A server has a single, half height, PCI-X 3.3v slot available. Which of the following cards can fit in this slot? (Select THREE).
Half Height, Universally Keyed PCI card
Full Height, 3.3v PCI-X card
Half Height, x16 PCI Express Card
Half Height, 3.3v PCI card
Half Height, Universally Keyed PCI-X card
Full Height, Universally Keyed PCI card
Half Height, x8 PCI Express Card
Server Administration
Server Hardware
A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?
SNMP
SMTP
TCP
DHCP
SFTP
Server Administration
Security
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