Which of the following is used for fail over, providing access to all the services currently in use by an organization without having to physically move any servers or employees?
A. The cloud
B. A cold site
C. A warm site
D. An emergency operations center
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The cloud can provide failover access to an organization’s services without requiring servers or employees to be physically relocated.
Question 142
A technician has moved a data drive from a new Windows server to an older Windows server. The hardware recognizes the drive, but the data is not visible to the OS. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A. The disk uses GPT.
B. The partition is formatted with ext4.
C. The partition is formatted with FAT32.
D. The disk uses MBR.
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: A newer Windows server may use GPT, which an older Windows version may not support. FAT32 is supported by Windows, and an ext4-formatted partition would be unusual for a drive moved from a Windows server.
Question 143
A technician has received tickets reporting a server is responding slowly during business hours. Which of the following should the technician implement so the team will be informed of this behavior in real time?
A. Log rotation
B. Alerts
C. Reports
D. Log shipping
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Alerts can notify the team in real time when server performance crosses a defined threshold. Reports provide summarized information, log rotation manages log files, and log shipping forwards logs to another system.
Question 144
Which of the following licensing concepts is based on the number of logical processors a server has?
A. Per core
B. Per socket
C. Per instance
D. Per server
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Per-core licensing is the intended answer because it bases licensing on processor cores rather than sockets, instances, or whole servers. A logical processor is not always a core—hyper-threading can create multiple logical processors per physical core—so the exact count depends on the vendor’s licensing rules.
Sources:
https://www.cursor-distribution.de/en/sales-informix/db2-sub-capacity-licensing
https://q-advise.com/articles/knowledge-base/the-complete-guide-to-microsoft-server-licensing
Question 145
Users have noticed a server is performing below baseline expectations. While diagnosing the server, an administrator discovers disk drive performance has degraded. The administrator checks the diagnostics on the RAID controller and sees the battery on the controller has gone bad. Which of the following is causing the poor performance on the RAID array?
A. The controller has disabled the write cache.
B. The controller cannot use all the available channels.
C. The drive array is corrupt.
D. The controller has lost its configuration.
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: A failed RAID-controller battery prevents safe retention of cached writes during a power loss. The controller therefore disables write caching or switches to write-through mode, forcing writes to complete on the drives and reducing array performance.
Question 146
A server technician arrives at a data center to troubleshoot a physical server that is not responding to remote management software. The technician discovers the servers in the data center are not connected to a KVM switch, and their out-of-band management cards have not been configured. Which of the following should the technician do to access the server for troubleshooting purposes?
A. Connect the diagnostic card to the PCIe connector.
B. Connect a console cable to the server NIC.
C. Connect to the server from a crash cart.
D. Connect the virtual administration console.
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Correct Answer: C
Explanation: With no KVM switch and no configured out-of-band management, the technician needs direct local access. A crash cart provides a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to troubleshoot the server.
Question 147
Which of the following script types would MOST likely be used on a modern Windows server OS?
A. Batch
B. VBS
C. Bash
D. PowerShell
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: PowerShell is the primary scripting environment for modern Windows Server administration. Batch and VBScript are older Windows options, while Bash is most commonly associated with Linux and Unix systems.
Question 148
The network's IDS is giving multiple alerts that unauthorized traffic from a critical application server is being sent to a known-bad public IP address.
One of the alerts contains the following information:
Exploit Alert
Attempted User Privilege Gain
2/2/07-3:09:09 10.1.200.32 --> 208.206.12.9:80
This server application is part of a cluster in which two other servers are also servicing clients. The server administrator has verified the other servers are not sending out traffic to that public IP address. The IP address subnet of the application servers is 10.1.200.0/26. Which of the following should the administrator perform to ensure only authorized traffic is being sent from the application server and downtime is minimized? (Choose two.)
A. Disable all services on the affected application server.
B. Perform a vulnerability scan on all the servers within the cluster and patch accordingly.
C. Block access to 208.206.12.9 from all servers on the network.
D. Change the IP address of all the servers in the cluster to the 208.206.12.0/26 subnet.
E. Enable GPO to install an antivirus on all the servers and perform a weekly reboot.
F. Perform an antivirus scan on all servers within the cluster and reboot each server.
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Correct Answer: B, C
Explanation: Block outbound access to the known-bad IP to immediately stop the unauthorized traffic. Then scan the cluster for vulnerabilities and patch as needed to address the underlying cause, while avoiding unnecessary service shutdowns or reboots that could increase downtime.
Question 149
A technician is deploying a new workstation. The workstation uses DHCP and can ping other devices on the same VLAN, but it cannot access anything on a different VLAN. Which of the following steps should the technician perform NEXT?
A. Enable IPv6 on the workstation.
B. Create a local hosts file.
C. Examine the DHCP scope configuration.
D. Configure an APIPA reservation.
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Correct Answer: C
Explanation: Communication within the same VLAN shows the workstation has basic local connectivity. To reach other VLANs, it needs the correct default gateway and related network settings, which are typically supplied by DHCP. Examine the DHCP scope configuration.
Question 150
A junior administrator reported that the website used for anti-malware updates is not working. The senior administrator then discovered all requests to the anti-malware site are being redirected to a malicious site. Which of the following tools should the senior administrator check FIRST to identify the potential cause of the issue?
A. Data loss prevention
B. File integrity monitor
C. Port scanner
D. Sniffer
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: A sniffer captures and analyzes network traffic, allowing the administrator to inspect the requests and responses and identify where the redirect is occurring. DLP, file integrity monitoring, and port scanning do not directly analyze the traffic involved.
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