Exam 12: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019

Can you distinguish between proactive and reactive maintenance with examples?

Your organization has installed a new application that fetches project details from a database installed on a Windows Server 2019 system to perform financial computations. A bug in the application causes the program to fetch details of incorrect project IDs. The network administrator tries reinstalling the operating system, but the issue remains to be fixed. Can you identify why reinstalling the operation system did not work?

Ahmed, a network administrator, is looking at the events added to a Windows Server 2019 system log in the Event Viewer. He notices three events being highlighted with a yellow exclamation mark. The events were related to a remote access attempt. If Ahmed were to treat this as a warning sign, what kind of issues should he anticipate?

List and explain the processor-related information available in the Performance tab of Task Manager.

What logs are created by Windows for reporting general operating system and software application events?

The programs running on the client systems in your organization are not able to access a service on the server. The problem is not with the server because the network services are running and you are able interact with the network service on your local machine. What do you see as other possible issues with the server access?

Rahul is a systems administrator in a multinational corporation. As part of the routine auditing process, he checks the Security event log and finds out that there was a failed attempt to view a file on the server. He remembers that there was a similar attempt made a year ago. But he is not able to find the event in the log file. Can you explain the cause of the problem?

A computer is running multiple applications simultaneously. They all demand large amounts of processor time, which affects the processing speed of the system. Which of the following options will you use to identify and terminate the process that is consuming the highest processor time?

The workstations in your organization have been upgraded with the latest GPUs. To save costs, the company has procured a brand that is not widely known in the market. To install the drivers, the system administrator reboots the system using the Disable Early Launch Anti-Malware Driver option in the Advanced Boot Options menu. Why do you think this step was required to install the driver?

List the options that are listed when you right-click a process on the Details tab of Task Manager.

You notice a critical operating system-related event under the System event log in the Event Viewer. You or your colleagues have not encountered this error before. How will you resolve it?

Joshua works as a systems administrator. A computer running Windows 2019 Server crashes. However, he is not able to find the root cause of the problem. If the root cause of the problem is processor overload, which of the following should Joshua investigate to troubleshoot the issue?

Your organization runs several applications that store information on a specific volume on a Windows 2019 Server system. Of late, the applications have become slow and fail to perform as they did earlier. The performance improves after the server administrator defragments the volume. Can you identify what the problem must have been?

You have created a data collector set called SERVERX Data Collector set. As a system administrator, you want to restrict other users from accessing the results of the data set. Which of the following options under the properties dialog box will you use?

Andrade is a systems administrator. He goes through several event logs with thousands of events on a regular basis to troubleshoot system issues. What is the easiest way to limit the events to only those that are relevant to a specific problem?

The terms "program" and "process" are one and the same.

The ping utility is used to test the connectivity between two devices on a network.