Exam 14: CompTIA Server+ Certification Exam

Question 1

A technician is troubleshooting an issue with a new server, which is unable to download OS patches from the Internet. The technician reviews the following configuration:   Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : comptia.org Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . : fe80::c95:3f59:1a01:c050%11 IPv4 Address . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.20 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.129 Which of the following is the reason that the server is unable to connect to the Internet?

A) Incorrect default gateway
B) Invalid IPv6 address
C) Wrong subnet mask
D) Misconfigured DNS suffix

Answer 1

Incorrect default gateway

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

The DHCP relay agent was not configured on the adjacent network segment.

Question 3

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: 10.0.10.254 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1 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.

Answer 3

Change the IP address on the server to 10.10.10.254.

Question 4

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

Question 5

A company has hired a consultant to review the production storage infrastructure and provide suggestions on improving performance. The consultant has identified a bottleneck in the production switching fabric and successfully tested the solution in a lab environment. Which of the following should the consultant perform NEXT, according to best practices?

A) Implement the solution in production since it was tested in the lab.
B) Establish a plan of action to implement the solution in production.
C) Perform a root cause analysis of what caused the bottleneck.
D) Establish a theory describing the possible issue in the production network.

Question 6

A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

A) Outsource a hardware-certified courier to move the server to the datacenter.
B) Check the DRP and BCP and talk to the company stakeholders before making the decision.
C) Unrack the server from the warm site and move it to the datacenter.
D) Order the parts from the hardware vendor and notify affected users that the server will be down.

Question 7

A system administrator needs to rebuild a server by booting to the OS DVD. The server powers up but attempts to boot from the network. Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?

A) Incorrect media type
B) Driver failure
C) Incorrect mount point
D) Memory failure

Question 8

An administrator needs to perform a backup of all servers for an upcoming disaster recovery exercise at a company cold site. Which of the following types of backup should be performed?

A) Snapshot
B) Incremental
C) Differential
D) Full

Question 9

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

Question 10

A technician needs to install an operating system patch on a virtual server. Which of the following backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the server to be restored the FASTEST?

A) Snapshot
B) Incremental
C) Differential
D) Full

Question 11

A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy. Which of the following implements this backup strategy?

A) Assign a different set of tapes for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.
B) Use a different set of tapes for every two, four, and eight days.
C) Designate a different set of tapes for odd-day and even-day backups.
D) Use a queue to rotate tapes based on the age and usage of the tape.

Question 12

In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as long as compatible hardware is available. Which of the following backup types meets this requirement?

A) Incremental
B) Bare metal
C) Snapshot
D) Full

Question 13

Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance issues?

A) Root cause analysis
B) Replicating the problem
C) Defining preventative action
D) Theory of probable cause

Question 14

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

Question 15

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.

Question 16

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

Question 17

An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations. Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?

A) Cold site
B) Hot site
C) Warm site
D) Replication site

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the company have? 

A) Warm site
B) Cold site
C) Hot site
D) Standby site

Question 21

A technician is assigned a task to configure a new server with six hard drives. The senior administrator requested the technician utilize the drives for maximum fault tolerance. Which of the following RAID configurations should the technician use?

A) RAID 3
B) RAID 5
C) RAID 10
D) RAID 0

Question 22

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.

Question 23

Which of the following allows virtual machines to share the NIC of the host?

A) Virtual LANs
B) NAT
C) Bridging
D) Virtual NICs

Question 24

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

Question 25

A system administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue and runs ipconfig/all on the host. The command returns the following:   IPv4 Address: 169.254.0.12 Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0 The client is configured for DHCP. Which of the following commands should be run on the client to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).

A) ipconfig/release
B) tracert
C) ipconfig/flushdns
D) ipconfig/renew
E) ipconfig/showclassid
F) nslookup

Question 26

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

Question 27

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.

Question 28

Which of the following is the core software application that manages computer virtualization?

A) Hypervisor
B) Hyperthreading
C) Console
D) KVM

Question 29

Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

A) motherboard.
B) memory.
C) hard disk.
D) CPU.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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.

Question 32

Which of the following are required characteristics of database servers in high transaction environments? (Select THREE).

A) Two-factor authentication
B) High bandwidth
C) Higher RPM drives
D) Load balancing
E) High latency
F) Hotswappable drives
G) Encryption

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

Two RAID arrays are created from eight disks. One is created using RAID 6, the other is created using RAID 5 with a hot spare. Which of the following is the operational difference between these configurations?

A) RAID 6 has the ability to recover from two disks simultaneously failing.
B) The RAID 5 array will be significantly faster than the RAID 6 array.
C) The RAID 6 array will be significantly faster than the RAID 5 array.
D) RAID 6 has a higher storage capacity than RAID 5.

Question 38

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

Question 39

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.

Question 40

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

Question 41

A server technician has been tasked with purchasing cables and connectors for a new server room. The server room consists of one switch, two servers, and one IP telephone. Which of the following types of cables and connectors should the technician purchase?

A) Coaxial cable and BNC connectors
B) Straight through Ethernet cable and RJ-45 connectors
C) Silver satin and RJ-11 connectors
D) Crossover Ethernet cable and RJ-11 connectors

Question 42

A system administrator is concerned with employees connecting removable storage to the server to copy sensitive data. Which of the following solutions addresses this concern?

A) Disable write access
B) Disable WOL
C) Disable TPM
D) Disable physical ports

Question 43

A technician is tasked with providing network-based high availability to a pair of identical web servers. Which of the following minimum server NIC configurations fulfills these requirements?

A) Two physical NICs per server: one NIC configured for multicast and one for broadcast.
B) One physical NIC per server: each individual NIC configured for network load balancing.
C) Two physical NICs per server: one NIC for network traffic, and one for web traffic.
D) One physical NIC per server: each NIC configured with the same MAC and IP address.

Question 44

Which of the following protocols is used primarily for monitoring and managing network devices?

A) SNMP
B) SMTP
C) FTPS
D) NTP

Question 45

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

Question 46

Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

A) NAS requires fibre channel; DAS does not.
B) NAS is faster than DAS when using NFS.
C) DAS operates its own OS; NAS does not.
D) DAS is directly connected to a server; NAS is connected via IP networking.

Question 47

A mission critical server has faulted with a dead 66 MHz 3.3V PCI-X network interface card. The system administrator has been directed to get the server functional as soon as possible, even if it is connected with less bandwidth. There are no onsite spare cards available and the vendor does not expect to have the parts for at least a week. Which of the following immediately available NICs could be substituted instead?

A) 33 MHz 3.3V PCI
B) 66 MHz 5V PCI
C) 266 MHzx 3.3V PCI-X
D) 533 MHz 5V PCI-X

Question 48

A technician is experiencing overheating on a rack mounted server. After powering off and removing the cover of the server, a large amount of dust is noticed on one of the fans. After cleaning out the dust and powering the server back on, the server is still overheating. Which of the following would BEST explain this issue?

A) The power supply has failed.
B) The server is using excessive power.
C) The hard drives are running too hot.
D) Some of the cooling fans are defective.

Question 49

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

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

A datacenter technician encounters a power receptacle labeled NEMA L5-30. Which of the following powers is this socket rated for?

A) 115v 30 amp
B) 208v 30 amp
C) 220v 1 phase
D) 440v 3 phase

Question 53

A server in a small company functions as a print server. Suddenly it stops sending print jobs to the printers. A technician verifies that the printers are working correctly. Additionally, the print spooler had been restarted and is running on the server, it is accessible from workstations, and it shows as being ready to accept print jobs. Which of the following has MOST likely caused the print server to stop processing print jobs?

A) The print quota has been exceeded.
B) The server needs an updated print driver.
C) The server needs pooling enabled.
D) The server's hard drive is out of space.

Question 54

A technician notices a rack mounted server is beeping without booting up. The NEXT step to diagnose this issue would be to:

A) continue to power cycle the server until it boots normally.
B) count the beeps and reference the service manual.
C) disable the alarm within the server.
D) install the server into a different rack.

Question 55

Which of the following is the MOST energy efficient way of powering equipment within a datacenter with a large UPS battery bank?

A) 48V DC
B) 120V single-phase
C) 240VAC 3-phase
D) 480V 3-phase

Question 56

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.

Question 57

A server is giving a fault code indicating that a RAM chip is producing errors and should be replaced. According to best practices, which of the following is the proper sequence of steps to replace the faulty module?

A) Attach ESD protection, open server case, replace module, close server case, baseline configuration
B) Open server case, baseline configuration, attach ESD protection, replace module, close server case
C) Attach ESD protection, baseline configuration, open server case, replace module, close server case
D) Open server case, replace module, attach ESD protection, close server case, baseline configuration

Question 58

Which of the following is a reason to have a remote cold site readily available in case of a disaster in the primary datacenter?

A) It provides a company with a redundant location that mirrors the primary datacenter hardware but requires no data restoration.
B) It provides a company with a backup location to install the necessary equipment to restore critical services.
C) It provides a company with a backup location equipped with resources necessary for immediate restoration of critical services.
D) It provides a company with a redundant location that mirrors the primary datacenter hardware and data.

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

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

Question 62

A technician is tasked with creating a test system containing non-critical data. The technician has limited hardware, but needs maximum performance. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician use?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 5
D) 10

Question 63

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

Question 64

A system administrator has just performed a backup. Which of the following should the administrator perform to easily identify the backup tape?

A) Label the tape
B) Mount the tape in the drive
C) Place the tape in the rack
D) Update the site log

Question 65

Which of the following will protect data loss against catastrophic multiple physical drive failure?

A) RAID 10
B) Snapshot
C) Tape backup
D) RAID 5

Question 66

An administrator has been tasked with consolidating six individual servers into one blade enclosure. The administrator completed the task successfully. A week later, all of the blades would not boot properly. Which of the following would MOST likely be causing this issue?

A) The blade servers are faulty.
B) The network module on the blade enclosure is faulty.
C) The backplane of the enclosure is faulty.
D) The management modules in the enclosure are faulty.

Question 67

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

Question 68

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)

Question 69

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: 199.90.10.32/28 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, 255.255.255.240
B) 199.90.10.47, 255.255.255.224
C) 199.90.10.47, 255.255.255.240
D) 199.90.10.48, 255.255.255.240

Question 70

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.

Question 71

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

Question 72

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

Question 73

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

Question 74

An older server has performance problems writing files to a RAID array. After checking for failed drives, no problems are found. Which of the following should be checked NEXT?

A) The cooling system
B) The cache battery
C) The hard drive tray
D) The hard drive cables

Question 75

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.

Question 76

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.

Question 77

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

Question 78

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

Question 79

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.

Question 80

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