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CompTIA Server+ Exam 2024/2025: Practice Questions and Answers, Exams of Nursing

A set of practice questions and answers for the comptia server+ exam, covering essential concepts in server administration. The questions focus on topics such as storage management, network security, troubleshooting, and server configuration. This resource can be valuable for individuals preparing for the comptia server+ certification exam.

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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? A. Disk quotas B. Disk compression C. Automatic usage reports D. Automatic defragmentation - Aswer A. Disk quotas 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? A. ServerA-18TB, ServerB-24TB B. ServerA-22TB, ServerB-22TB C. ServerA-23TB, ServerB-36TB D. ServerA-25TB, ServerB-40TB - Aswer C 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? A. iptables -i OUTPUT -d 10.152.8.0/21 -p TCP --dport 22 -j REJECT B. iptables -i OUTPUT -d 10.152.8.0/21 -p TCP --dport 23 -j REJECT C. iptables -i OUTPUT -d 10.152.8.0/21 -p TCP --dport 22 -j ACCEPT D. iptables -i OUTPUT -d 10.152.8.0/21 -p TCP --dport 23 -j ACCEPT - Aswer A

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? A. Disable any unused physical ports until needed B. Implement a BIOS password on all the servers C. Install chassis locks on all the servers D. Restrict usage of flash drives in company policy - Aswer A Network devices between two firewalls are included in which of the following? A. VPN B. SAN C. VLAN D. DMZ - Aswer D. DMZ 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? A. VLAN B. VPN C. VNC D. VM - Aswer A. VLAN Which of the following provides two-factor authentication? A. Bank card and PIN. B. Username and password. C. Fingerprint and iris scan. D. Key and proximity badge. - Aswer A. Bank card and PIN.

Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)? A. Store the information encrypted and offline in a storage safe. B. Encrypt the information using a zip file with a password. C. Utilize a drive with full disk encryption enabled. D. Create an encrypted virtual disk for storage - Aswer A 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? A. Grant appropriate permissions to only users in the Accounting department for both the share and NTFS B. Grant all users full control permissions for the share only C. Grant the Accounting department full control for the share and appropriate NTFS permissions D. Grant modify permissions to the Accounting department and deny NTFS permissions to all other users

  • Aswer A Which of the following methods should a technician perform to properly clear a hard drive before disposal? A. Delete the FAT B. Zero all block sectors C. Delete the partition D. Zero the NTFS journal - Aswer B. Zero all block sectors 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? A. Broadcast messages B. SMS messages C. Telephone calls D. Console notifications - Aswer B. SMS messages

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? A. Perform a test on the UPS batteries B. Immediately replace the UPS batteries C. Move the servers connected to the UPS to another existing UPS D. Immediately replace the UPS with a new UPS - Aswer A. Perform a test on the UPS batteries 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). A. NAT B. DNS C. LDAP D. WINS E. SNMP F. DHCP Correct Answer: - Aswer DNS and WINS 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. B. IP: 192.168.55.5, NETMASK 255.255.255. C. IP: 192.168.55.155, NETMASK 255.255.255. D. IP: 192.168.55.255, NETMASK 255.255.255.0 - Aswer B

Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked? A. POP B. DNS C. LDAP D. DHCP - Aswer D. DHCP 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? A. Cooling failure B. Cable mismatch C. BIOS driver failure D. Port conflict - Aswer A. Cooling failure 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? A. Check system board cables B. Rebuild RAID array C. Reinstall server OS D. Remove newly installed hardware - Aswer A. Check system board cables 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? A. Check the security log. B. Check the application logs. C. Check the debug report. D. Check the POST error log. - Aswer B. Check the application logs.

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? A. dd B. du C. ls D. df - Aswer D. df 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? A. OS performance misconfiguration B. Service/application memory leak C. Incorrect server resource specifications D. Corrupted application files - Aswer B. Service/application memory leak 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. Subnet Mask: 255.255.255. Default Gateway: 10.10.10. Which of the following changes should the server administrator make? A. Change the IP address on the server to 10.10.0.254. B. Change the IP address on the server to 10.10.10.254. C. Change the default gateway on the server to 10.10.10.254. D. Change the subnet mask on the server to 255.255.0.0. - Aswer B 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?

A. The DHCP server was configured without specifying a WINS server address for the users. B. The DHCP server was configured without specifying a DNS server address for the users. C. The DHCP relay agent was not configured on the adjacent network segment. D. The DHCP server was configured to use private IP addressing to all network segments. - Aswer C 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 - Aswer B. Backplane failure 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? A. Tape drive B. Tape library C. Tape media D. Tape capacity - Aswer C. Tape media 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? A. 23 B. 389 C. 443 D. 445 - Aswer C. 443 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? A. Port scanner

B. Cipher tools C. Checksum analyzer D. TDR - Aswer A. Port scanner 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? A. The external firewall is preventing access to the server. B. The DMZ is incorrectly configured. C. The syslog server detects malware on the server. D. The application is using a port that is closed on the server - Aswer D 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? A. DNS reservation B. DHCP IP address C. DHCP reservation D. Static IP address - Aswer D. Static IP address A technician needs to add a processor to a server. Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE). A. Bus multiplier B. Processor speed C. Socket type D. Processor stepping E. L3 cache size F. Thermal specifications - Aswer protocol speed, socket type, procesor stepping 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?

A. Increased load balancing B. Extended uptime C. Greater efficiency D. Increased power output - Aswer B. Extended uptime 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? A. arp B. netstat C. ipconfig D. ping - Aswer D. ping Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to: A. uninstall each server application and reinstall the two new applications. B. install another application to see if this improves the server response time. C. install antivirus and malware software. D. uninstall the newly installed applications one at a time. - Aswer D Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization? A. Hypervisor B. Hyperthreading C. Console D. KVM - Aswer A. Hypervisor Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host? A. Processors with multiple cores B. Processors with available cache C. Processors that support virtualization

D. Processors that support hyperthreading - Aswer C. Processors that support virtualization Swap space or page file is reserved on the: A. motherboard. B. memory. C. hard disk. D. CPU. - Aswer C. hard disk. An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations? A. Use disk duplicating software. B. Use USB disk images to deploy servers. C. Use a disk replicator. D. Use PXE boot to retrieve an image. - Aswer D 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? A. Create a new DHCP scope for the network segment in question. B. Configure the DHCP server for IPv6. C. Configure the network to use NAT for the network segment in question. D. Increase the size of the DHCP scope for the network segment in question. - Aswer D Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host? A. Virtual LANs B. NAT C. Bridging D. Virtual NICs - Aswer C. Bridging

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? A. SSH B. SCP C. RDP D. NTP - Aswer C. RDP 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? A. Service priority B. Rogue processes C. Firewall problem D. Processor affinity - Aswer B. Rogue processes A number of users are indicating that access to a network file server is responding very slowly when reading or writing to the share. The server administrator notes that a drive has failed in a four-disk RAID 5 array. The array is running in a degraded state because no hot spare was configured. After replacing the failed disk, which of the following steps would be BEST to take to prevent slow response after a drive failure? A. Add a drive to the array, but do not configure it as a hot spare. B. Add an additional hard drive, and convert the volume to a RAID 6 configuration. C. Add an additional hard drive, and convert the volume to a RAID 10 configuration. D. Add a drive to the array, and configure it as a cold spare. - Aswer B A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection? A. SNMP B. SMTP C. TCP D. DHCP

E. SFTP - Aswer B. SMTP Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication? A. File server B. Directory C. DHCP D. SNMP - Aswer B. Directory A company is being audited by its operating system vendor. The company needs to report the number of operating systems in use, the versions of the operating systems, and the product keys. Which of the following will be MOST helpful in passing the audit? A. Asset management documentation B. Change management logs C. Service manuals D. Server baselines - Aswer A. Asset management documentation A system administrator notices that there is a low level of available storage space on a file server. Which of the following should be implemented to limit the amount of storage space users can utilize on the file server? A. Disk shadowing B. Disk compression C. Disk quota D. Disk indexing - Aswer C. Disk quota Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives? A. Hard wipe B. Reformat C. Degaussing D. Delete partitions - Aswer C. Degaussing

Users in the accounting department report that they are unable to access a shared network drive used by all departments. Upon troubleshooting, a technician determines that three users in the marketing department, two in sales, five in human resources, and ten in IT are all successfully accessing the shared network drive. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue? A. Corrupt user profiles B. Incorrect NTFS group permissions C. The share is unsecured D. Excessive page filing on server - Aswer B. Incorrect NTFS group permissions A network administrator is tasked to set up zoning for a SAN infrastructure that requires redundancy. Which of the following types of hardware should the administrator implement? A. Multiple VLANs B. Multiple host nodes C. Multiple HBAs D. Multiple routers - Aswer C. Multiple HBAs The logs on a server in a datacenter indicate that the server unexpectedly shut down minutes after the night cleaning crew started their shift. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the shut down? A. A hard disk on the server failed. B. A power surge occurred. C. The CPU on the server overheated. D. A memory module on the server failed. - Aswer B. A power surge occurred. A technician reads a hardware manufacturer's blog indicating a critical firmware update is available for the company's file server. Which of the following is the BEST course of action? A. Download and install a firmware update from a centralized server. B. Download the firmware update and test it on a VM. C. Download the firmware update and test it on a non-production server.

D. Download the firmware update and run it on the company's file server immediately - Aswer C A system administrator is tasked to set up a file server. The file server must be able to support access control lists and logging for auditing purposes. To meet these requirements, with which of the following file system types should the administrator format the file system? A. SMB B. NTFS C. VMFS D. CIFS - Aswer B. NTFS A user reports that a script \Server\Share\Runme.bat, which is run on a daily basis, cannot be accessed. Which of the following is the FIRST step to take in resolving this issue? A. Check the network cable. B. Ping the gateway. C. Verify the workstation IP address. D. Ping the server - Aswer D. Ping the server After a migration to a new server, users report that they are unable to save files to their home directories. A check of the permissions on the home directories indicate that the permissions are set as follows: User: r-x Group: r-- Other: r-x A server administrator verifies the correct user and group ownership of the home directories. Which of the following will MOST likely resolve the issue? A. Add the w permission for the users. B. Add the x permission for the group. C. Remove the x permission for other. D. Remove the r permission for the group. - Aswer A

Which of the following is the MOST complex way to directly reduce heat for computing components? A. Liquid cooling units B. Integrated high RPM fans C. Directed airflow with baffles D. Hot aisle/cold aisle - Aswer A. Liquid cooling units A datacenter is in a geologically active area and has no earthquake abatement installed. Which of the following drive types is BEST for general server use? A. Solid state drives B. High RPM drives C. Low RPM drives D. USB drives - Aswer A. Solid state drives Which of the following server types requires the LARGEST amount of available hard drive space? A. Database server B. Remote access server C. Print server D. Directory server - Aswer A. Database server A technician is configuring switches with SFP ports on multiple floors in a building. A switch on the first floor must be connected to a switch on the second floor for trunking VLAN traffic. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate cable type for the technician to use? A. Multimode fiber B. Coaxial cable C. CAT5e rollover D. CAT6 straight through - Aswer A. Multimode fiber A system administrator is tasked to setup a database server with failover clustering feature enabled. One of the requirements is to have one database running at all times with data being synchronized and replicated to the idle database in case the primary database server fails. Both servers will be monitored

by a witness on a LUN. Which of the following cluster techniques should be implemented to meet these requirements? A. Active/Active B. Active/Passive C. Single Local Quorum D. Passive/Passive E. Shared Multiple Quorum - Aswer B. Active/Passive A server technician is tasked to replace a RAID controller battery on a server. The server technician has no prior experience replacing a RAID controller battery. Which of the following should the server technician do to obtain the required knowledge or procedures to replace the battery? A. Review software specifications B. Review architecture diagrams C. Review service manuals D. Review service logs - Aswer C. Review service manuals In a Windows environment, a user is able to access the network folder and open items, but is not able to delete anything. Which of the following folder permissions does the user require? A. Execute B. Read C. Write D. Modify - Aswer D. Modify A system technician is tasked with destroying several hard drives that contain PII. Which of the following would be the BEST method for disposing of the drives? A. Shred the hard drives. B. Complete a hard wipe. C. Perform a soft wipe. D. Delete the partition table. - Aswer A. Shred the hard drives.

A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades? A. Blade rail kits B. Blade shelves C. Blade enclosure D. Blade station - Aswer C. Blade enclosure QUESTION 63 A server repeatedly crashes with a BSOD when running an application that uses a high amount of system resources. Which of the following hardware components MOST likely needs to be checked by a technician? A. Memory B. Hard drive C. RAID controller D. CPU - Aswer A. Memory In authentication, which of the following represents something you have? A. Password B. Fingerprint C. Token D. PIN - Aswer C. Token A technician troubleshooting a mail server determines that the server is low on available hard drive space and needs an additional hard drive installed. The server will need to be offline for the hardware installation. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do NEXT? A. Notify impacted users of the scheduled maintenance. B. Implement one change at a time. C. Collect additional information. D. Document findings, actions, and outcomes. - Aswer A

In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority? A. Root CA B. Intermediate CA C. Subordinate CA D. Delegated CA - Aswer A. Root CA A server has a faulty hard drive, and the administrator needs to replace the hard drive while it is running. The server needs to support which of the following drives? A. Hot swappable B. Hot spare C. SAS D. USB E. Firewire - Aswer A. Hot swappable A company has 700 servers installed in 50 server racks in the datacenter. The Chief Technology Officer issued a memorandum to the IT department with a directive to reduce power and cooling consumptions by 50% in the datacenters. Which of the following should the system administrators recommend? A. Implement 208V 3-phase servers B. Implement hot aisle / cold aisle C. Virtualize the servers in the datacenter D. Replace each server with a blade server - Aswer C Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium? A. Speed B. Power consumption C. Form factor D. Cost - Aswer D. Cost Which of the following describes a rack mounted server that is 2 rack units (2U) in height?

A. 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) B. 3.0 inches (7.62 cm) C. 3.5 inches (8.89 cm) D. 4.0 inches (10.16 cm) - Aswer C Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established? A. Mirror site B. Warm site C. Hot site D. Cold site - Aswer D. Cold site An administrator has a UPS rated at 200 amps per hour. Which of the following is the maximum runtime of this UPS when hooked up to a server drawing 400 amps per hour? A. 15 minutes B. 30 minutes C. 60 minutes D. 120 minutes - Aswer B. 30 minutes A technician is tasked by an administrator to patch a virtual machine. The technician needs to ensure that in case of failure, recovery of the virtual machine will be possible. Which of the following recovery principles should the technician employ? A. Incremental B. Snapshot C. Bare metal D. Selective - Aswer B. Snapshot An administrator would like to determine what port and services are running locally on a server. Which of the following Windows command lines and shell tools should the administrator use? (Select THREE).

A. get-services B. show ports C. sc query D. netstat E. vmstat F. show services - Aswer ACD Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack? A. 4 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12 - Aswer C A server administrator has been given the following information from the network team in order to configure IP addresses on a new server: Network Address: 199.90.10.32/ The network team also instructed the server administrator to use the LAST usable address on the given network. Which of the following IP address/subnet mask combinations should the server administrator use? A. 199.90.10.49, 255.255.255. B. 199.90.10.47, 255.255.255. C. 199.90.10.47, 255.255.255. D. 199.90.10.48, 255.255.255.240 - Aswer C A technician performs monthly backups on a file server to a NAS device that can hold 1TB of data. The size of the monthly backups has been as follows: Month 1 = 50GB Month 2 = 65GB Month 3 = 80GB

Starting with Month 1, based on the current rate of growth, in how many months will the NAS run out of available storage space? A. 4 B. 5 C. 9 D. 11 - Aswer C. 9 A technician is installing a rack mounted server into a rack in a datacenter with CRAC units and blanking panels. Blanking panels are used to: A. lower the UPS power requirements. B. limit airflow leakage in the rack. C. limit the amount of servers that will fit into the rack. D. color match the server color. - Aswer B An administrator purchases a new server, which contains only one Xeon processor. This server is also known as a: A. load balancing server. B. multicore server. C. redundant server. D. single-core server. - Aswer B. multicore server. A technician is concerned about memory data corruption in a server. Which of the following memory types should be considered? A. Static B. SDRAM C. Dynamic D. ECC - Aswer D. ECC 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?

A. Slots A2 and A3 B. Slots A2 and B2 C. Slots A2 and B4 D. Slots B2 and B3 - Aswer B. Slots A2 and B2 A technician is upgrading the memory in a server. The server requires DDR3 Registered DIMMs. The server has four banks of three slots for memory and currently there is one 2GB module in each bank. When the technician attempts to add eight more 4GB modules of DDR3 unbuffered ECC memory, the memory does not fit in the slots. Which of the following is the cause of this issue? A. In a bank, 2GB and 4GB memory cannot be mixed. B. The server cannot use ECC memory. C. The server requires fully buffered memory. D. The total memory on the server cannot exceed 24GB of RAM. - Aswer C Which of the following power plug types would MOST likely be found in a medical facility? A. Tip/Ring/Sleeve B. Speed lock C. Tip/Ring D. Twist lock - Aswer D. Twist lock Which of the following is a benefit of using raised floors with specially configured tiles in a server room? A. To provide for heat dissipation using forced air through the sub-floor. B. To provide for liquid cooling systems through the sub-floor. C. To provide a location for baffles or shrouds in the sub-floor. D. To provide a location for redundant power supplies in the sub-floor. - Aswer A Which of the following server types is commonly used for authentication and credential storage? A. File server B. Directory server C. Web server

D. DNS server - Aswer B. Directory server Which of the following services provide hostname to IP address resolution? (Select TWO). A. NTP B. NAT/PAT C. DHCP D. DNS E. WINS F. LDAP - Aswer DNS and WINS A server technician needs to access a remote Unix server for administration. The technician has requested that ports 23, 25, and 161 be opened on the router. After the ports are opened, the technician is still unable to connect to the Unix server. Which of the following ports should be opened on the server to allow for remote administration? A. TCP 21 B. TCP 22 C. UDP 69 D. TCP 3389 - Aswer B. TCP 22 While performing routine testing of a hot standby site located at a remote hosting center, a system administrator is unable to access one of the server operating systems to verify functionality. Which of the following is MOST applicable to access the host? A. KVM over IP B. RDP over HTTP C. Secure shell D. Serial console access E. VNC - Aswer A. KVM over IP A technician is tasked with creating servers that are fault tolerant and highly available. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for this task? A. Load balancing

B. Virtualization C. Clustering D. Round robin - Aswer C. Clustering A technician is asked to troubleshoot a hardware alert on a server. The server is up and running and all users can access their data. Which of the following could the technician use to find the failed component? (Select TWO). A. LEDs B. Dataflow diagram C. Power supply tester D. LCD messages E. Cabling diagram - Aswer AD A server administrator is creating a design for a new datacenter. The servers should be configured for maximum availability and also provide caching for user information requests. Which of the following techniques should be used? A. Active/Passive B. Round robin C. Heartbeat D. Active/Active E. Passive/Passive - Aswer D. Active/Active A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers? A. The server's warranty information. B. The server's life cycle schedule. C. The asset management database. D. The software licensing agreement. - Aswer C. The asset management database. Historical data shows that on average, a server is likely to fail once every nine months. A company has purchased 24x7, four hour hardware response to replace a server's failed hardware. Additionally, the

company can restore a server to its operational status within six hours from the time the failed hardware has been replaced. Which of the following describes this scenario? A. The company's MTTR is ten hours. B. Individual servers have 99.999% uptime. C. Service can be restored within four hours. D. The operational SLA is six hours. - Aswer A A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage? A. SCSI B. SATA C. Solid state drive D. Flash drive - Aswer C. Solid state drive A server administrator has been asked to make recommendations for purchase of a new database server that will be processing all of the company accounts. One area of concern from prior experience is the storage type used by the database server. The server is expected to have a large number of transactions that occur, but will not require a large amount of capacity for the data storage. Given these requirements, which of the following storage criteria are MOST important? (Select TWO). A. Capacity B. RPM C. IOPS D. Seek time and latency E. Form factor F. Bus width - Aswer CD An administrator has been tasked with making recommendations for purchasing new disks for a low I/O file server. Keeping in mind that budget and capacity are the primary concerns, which the following disk types should the administrator recommend? A. SATA