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? - Answer 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? - Answer The company's
MTTR is ten hours.
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? - Answer 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? - Answer IOPS
Seek time and latency
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? - Answer SATA
When looking at an organization's file server configuration, an IT manager determines that several
outages are tied to a lack of redundancy in the disk controller configuration. Which of the following
features would the IT manager look for in a new configuration to correct this? - Answer Disk duplexing
, A new server has two drives and a RAID controller. Which of the following is an option for configuring
the storage on this server? - Answer RAID 0
A technician is installing a server using a two-channel RAID controller, using RAID1 for the first channel
and RAID5 for the second channel. If the technician has six 1TB disks total, how will this configuration
look? - Answer Two disks RAID1, four disks RAID5
A server administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another
administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to connect to two servers
simultaneously. Which of the following storage types was implemented by the first administrator? -
Answer DAS
A technician is tasked with connecting a server to a NAS. Which of the following connection types should
be used? - Answer Ethernet
When using multifactor authentication, which of the following represents "something you have"? -
Answer An ID card
A datacenter audit finds that a number of personnel are not using access cards when entering a secured
area with a coworker. Which of the following security methods could be implemented to help prevent
this behavior? - Answer Mantrap
A technician would like to restrict when internal hardware components on the server are accessed.
Which of the following server hardening techniques should the technician implement? - Answer Chassis
lock
An email administrator is tasked to setup a Linux mail server. One of the requirements is to close all
ports except SSH, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4. Which of the following commands should be used to
see which ports are currently open on the mail server? - Answer lsof
netstat
Which of the following authentication protocols could be used to authenticate network administrators
at a datacenter to manage switches over a remote SSH connection? - Answer TACACS
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