SK0-004 Practice Questions

As a best practice, which of the following should be determined prior to provisioning a server? (Select TWO).

A system administrator needs to install an operating system onto a new server in a remote location using PXE. Which of the following methods will BEST accomplish this?

When attempting to diagnose service access issues between multiple hosts that coordinate information, which of the following can be used to track dependencies?

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...

Which of the following is a benefit of utilizing a type 2 hypervisor to manage guests?

A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company. In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

An ISP is currently drafting and compiling a Service Level Agreement that states there should only be 5.26 minutes of downtime per year, 25.9 seconds per month, and 6.05 seconds pe...

A technician is tasked with building a test server. Which of the following hard drive types will provide the highest performance?

A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance. Which of the following would achieve this requirement?

A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the maximum performance for accessing many small files. Which of the following spe...

A hardware compatibility list recommends striping with double parity as storage for an application. In a test environment, a technician realizes that a different RAID level can be...

An emergency power off accidentally occurs in a datacenter during a fire alarm test. On recovery, the server administrator notices that an external storage array is performing cons...

Which of the following is an example of the principle of least privilege and is the MOST secure when granting access to a shared network drive used by the Accounting department?

Which of the following methods should a technician perform to properly clear a hard drive before disposal?

A server unexpectedly shut down as a result of overheating. An alert was sent to the administrator's email address but the administrator was away from the workstation when the aler...

A server technician in a datacenter configures a daemon to monitor the battery health in a UPS. Over a two day time period, the daemon generates a warning message. Which of the fol...

A server technician is performing a server installation. This server must be able to resolve host names for users running a variety of client operating systems. At a minimum, which...

A technician has finished installing the operating system on a new server and needs to provide IP addressing information. The server will be connected to the DMZ network. Devices o...

Clients cannot connect to the network. A technician determines that port 68 is not open. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?

Which of the following protocols can be used to perform configuration management on a remote server using the MOST secure methods? (Select TWO).

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 ins...

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...

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 th...

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 syste...

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 Subn...

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 A...

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 seg...

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?

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...

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 bac...

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?

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 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 technician needs to add a processor to a server. Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).

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 add...

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?

Two new applications have been added to a working server. The server response is now very slow. An appropriate plan of action is to:

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

Which of the following is a requirement for a server to allow guests to be installed on a hypervisor host?

Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

An administrator needs to deploy 1000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

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

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 a...

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

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?

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 wa...

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:...

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. Wh...

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...

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