Question 1

A system administrator is creating a backup schedule. Which of the following is a best practice to ensure the data is backed up, based on a five-day business week ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Full on Sundays ; incremental on business days 
B)  Incremental on Sundays ;differential on business days 
C)  Snapshot on Sundays, differential on business days 
D)  Incremental on Sundays ;snapshot on business days

Question 2

A technician has a current baseline and is told to install additional memory and a faster NIC card. At which point in time should the next baseline be run?

Accepted Answer

A)  After the memory is installed 
B)  Before the upgrade is performed 
C)  After the NIC is installed 
D)  After the upgrades are performed

Question 3

An administrator is planning to purchase a new server and wants to ensure the RAM in the server will support double-bit error correction. Which of the following RAM technologies will the server require to support?

Accepted Answer

A)  Parity memory 
B)  Standard ECC memory 
C)  Static RAM memory 
D)  Standard non-ECC memory

Question 4

While preparing a server for a failed component swap, a server administrator notices there is a large number of static discharges prior to connecting the ESD strap. Which of the following controlled environmental attributes could cause a large number of static shocks?

Accepted Answer

A)  Low air humidity 
B)  High temperature 
C)  Excessive dust buildup 
D)  Lack of ventilation

Question 5

A technician wants to send a secure message to a user. The technician receives the public encryption keys from the user. Which of the following actions would be a prudent response?

Accepted Answer

A)  Notify the security team 
B)  Send the user an encrypted message 
C)  Revoke the compromised keys 
D)  Add the encryption keys to the CRL

Question 6

A server technician is examining reports of system instability on an email server. The technician reviews the notes from a junior administrator and finds the following information:  To determine the cause of the issue, which of the following actions should be taken FIRST?

Accepted Answer

A)  Review the system logs for errors. 
B)  Swap the memory with a known-good pair. 
C)  Restore the OS from a verified backup. 
D)  Update the system with the latest chipset drivers.

Question 7

A systems administrator is inspecting a file server setup with a RAID 10 configuration among four 160GB SAS drives. The administrator has replaced all of the drives with 500GB SAS drives. Which of the following storage tools should the administrator use NEXT to effectively administer the change?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disk management tool 
B)  Disk monitoring tool 
C)  Disk cloning tool 
D)  Disk partitioning tool

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  dd 
B)  du 
C)  ls 
D)  df

Question 9

A datacenter administrator is reallocating CPU and memory resources for a guest VM. The guest VM runs on a hypervisor that has direct access to the hardware resources being allocated. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario?

Accepted Answer

A)  The guest is using a Type I hypervisor 
B)  The hypervisor is running on a virtual hardware 
C)  The host is using a Type II hypervisor 
D)  The guest is using a hybrid hypervisor

Question 10

A server has two power supplies. If power is lost to the second power supply, which of the following will occur?

Accepted Answer

A)  The server will gracefully shut down 
B)  The server will remain in operation 
C)  The automatic transfer switch will bring in generator power 
D)  The UPS will exceed maximum load

Question 11

Which of the following storage technologies provides block-level data access to storage volumes and arrays? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Optical drive 
B)  DAS 
C)  NAS 
D)  SAN 
E)  CIFS
F) NFS

Question 12

A technician wants to employ RAID to store a large amount of data and has a large number of drives available. Which of the following RAID levels should the technician utilize to achieve maximum capacity and fault tolerance?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

An administrator wishes to deploy network storage that provides block-level disk access. The solution must use the existing Ethernet infrastructure. Which of the following would BEST achieve this?

Accepted Answer

A)  NAS 
B)  CIFS 
C)  FC 
D)  iSCSI 
E)  DAS

Question 14

Which of the following commands displays the network path between two devices?

Accepted Answer

A)  ping 
B)  tracert 
C)  netstat 
D)  route

Question 15

In a workgroup, all of the following steps are required for a DHCP server EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  activate the scopes. 
B)  authorize the server. 
C)  configure the scopes. 
D)  install DHCP service.

Question 16

Which of the following allows for a connection of devices to both sides inside of a blade enclosure?

Accepted Answer

A)  Midplane 
B)  Active backplane 
C)  Passive backplane 
D)  Management module

Question 17

A blade chassis can hold 16 half-height blades or eight full-height blades. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of half-height blades that can be installed in the chassis if six full-height blades are already installed?

Accepted Answer

A)  2 
B)  4 
C)  8 
D)  16

Question 18

While attempting to take a snapshot of a virtual server before a major OS upgrade, a server administrator gets an error. Which of the following should the server administrator perform FIRST?

Accepted Answer

A)  Turn off the virtual machine. 
B)  Turn off the physical machine. 
C)  Remove any directly connected hardware to the virtual server. 
D)  Remove any directly connected hardware to the physical server.

Question 19

An organization has agreed on the software that will be used to virtualize the company's web servers. Which of the following should the administrator reference prior to purchasing physical servers to be deployed as hosts in the new virtual architecture?

Accepted Answer

A)  The vendor's software compatibility list 
B)  The vendor's service level agreement 
C)  The vendor's hardware compatibility list 
D)  The vendor's end user licensing agreement

Question 20

Which of the following cable types can be used to decrease susceptibility to electronic eavesdropping?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fiber optic 
B)  Fast Ethernet 
C)  Coaxial 
D)  Thicknet

Exam 14: CompTIA Server+ Certification Exam

A system administrator is creating a backup schedule. Which of the following is a best practice to ensure the data is backed up, based on a five-day business week ?