This document contains 70 multiple choice questions from a Microsoft exam on administering a SQL database infrastructure. The questions cover topics like installing new SQL instances, troubleshooting tempdb failures, configuring high availability with failover clusters, monitoring long running queries, and using extended events to identify errors. Correct answers are provided for each question along with links to Microsoft documentation for further reference.
This document contains 70 multiple choice questions from a Microsoft exam on administering a SQL database infrastructure. The questions cover topics like installing new SQL instances, troubleshooting tempdb failures, configuring high availability with failover clusters, monitoring long running queries, and using extended events to identify errors. Correct answers are provided for each question along with links to Microsoft documentation for further reference.
This document contains 70 multiple choice questions from a Microsoft exam on administering a SQL database infrastructure. The questions cover topics like installing new SQL instances, troubleshooting tempdb failures, configuring high availability with failover clusters, monitoring long running queries, and using extended events to identify errors. Correct answers are provided for each question along with links to Microsoft documentation for further reference.
This document contains 70 multiple choice questions from a Microsoft exam on administering a SQL database infrastructure. The questions cover topics like installing new SQL instances, troubleshooting tempdb failures, configuring high availability with failover clusters, monitoring long running queries, and using extended events to identify errors. Correct answers are provided for each question along with links to Microsoft documentation for further reference.
You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance. You plan to install a new application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The application login requires sysadmin permissions. You need to ensure that the application login is unable to access other production databases. What should you do? A. Use the SQL Server default instance and configure an affinity mask. B. Install a new named SQL Server instance on the server. C. Use the SQL Server default instance and enable Contained Databases. D. Install a new default SQL Server instance on the server.
Answer: B
Question: 64
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance. After a routine shutdown, the drive that contains tempdb fails. You need to be able to start the SQL Server. What should you do? A. Modify tempdb location in startup parameters. B. Start SQL Server in minimal configuration mode. C. Start SQL Server in single-user mode. D. Configure SQL Server to bypass Windows application logging.
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
The database contains a Product table created by using the following definition:
You need to ensure that the minimum amount of disk space is used to store the data in the Product table. What should you do? A. Convert all indexes to Column Store indexes. B. Implement Unicode Compression. C. Implement row-level compression. D. Implement page-level compression.
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 failover cluster that contains two nodes named Node A and Node B. A single instance of SQL Server is installed on the cluster. An additional node named Node C has been added to the existing cluster. You need to ensure that the SQL Server instance can use all nodes of the cluster. What should you do? A. Run the New SQL Server stand-alone installation Wizard on Node C. B. Run the Add Node to SQL Server Failover Cluster Wizard on Node C. C. Use Node B to install SQL Server on Node C. D. Use Node A to install SQL Server on Node C.
Answer: B
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191545.aspx To add a node to an existing SQL Server failover cluster,
you must run SQL Server Setup on the node that is to be added to the SQL Server failover cluster instance. Do not run Setup on the active node. The Installation Wizard will launch the SQL Server Installation Center. To add a node to an existing failover cluster instance, click Installation in the lefthand pane. Then, select Add node to a SQL Server failover cluster.
Question: 67
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server. The MSSQLSERVER service uses a domain account named CONTOSOSQLService. You plan to configure Instant File Initialization. You need to ensure that Data File Autogrow operations use Instant File Initialization. What should you do? Choose all that apply. A. Restart the SQL Server Agent Service. B. Disable snapshot isolation. C. Restart the SQL Server Service. D. Add the CONTOSOSQLService account to the Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks local security policy. E. Add the CONTOSOSQLService account to the Server Operators fixed server role. F. Enable snapshot isolation.
Answer: C,D
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175935.aspx http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2752/effect-of-instant-file-initialization-within-sql-server/ How To Enable Instant File Initialization 1. Open Local Security Policy and go to Local Policies –> User Rights Assignment. 2. Double click Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks and add your SQL Server database engine service account. 3. Restart the SQL Server service using SQL Server Configuration Manager and this setting should now be enabled.
Question: 68
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
You need to ensure that the size of the transaction log file does not exceed 2 GB. What should you do? A. Execute sp_configure ‘max log size’, 2G. B. use the ALTER DATABASE…SET LOGFILE command along with the maxsize parameter. C. In SQL Server Management Studio, right-click the instance and select Database Settings. Set the maximum size of the file for the transaction log. D. in SQL Server Management Studio, right-click the database, select Properties, and then click Files. Open the Transaction log Autogrowth window and set the maximum size of the file. Answer: D
Question: 69
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server. One of the databases on the server supports a highly active OLTP application. Users report abnormally long wait times when they submit data into the application. You need to identify which queries are taking longer than 1 second to run over an extended period of time. What should you do? A. use SQL Profiler to trace all queries that are processing on the server. Filter queries that have a Duration value of more than 1,000. B. Use sp_configure to set a value for blocked process threshold. Create an extended event session. C. Use the Job Activity monitor to review all processes that are actively running. Review the Job History to find out the duration of each step. D. Run the sp_who command from a query window. E. Run the DBCC TRACEON 1222 command from a query window and review the SQL Server event log.
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
Users report that an application that accesses the database displays an error, but the error does not provide meaningful information. No entries are found in the SQL Server log or Windows event logs related to the error. You need to identify the root cause of the issue by retrieving the error message. What should you do? A. Create an Extended Events session by using the sqlserver.error_reported event. B. Create a SQL Profiler session to capture all ErrorLog and EventLog events. C. Flag all stored procedures for recompilation by using sp_recompile. D. Execute sp_who.
Answer: A
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630282.aspx Event sqlserver.error_reported: This event gets fired every
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