SK0-004 Practice Questions

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. Af...

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

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...

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

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 re...

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?

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 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. Additi...

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 possi...

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

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...

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

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 ha...

A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?

Which of the following server types stores the list of network usernames and passwords required for authentication?

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 produc...

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 sp...

Which of the following is the MOST secure to erase data before disposal of server hard drives?

A technician is configuring switches with SFP ports on multiple floors in a building. A switch on the first floor must be connected to a switch on the second floor for trunking VLA...

A system administrator is tasked to setup a database server with failover clustering feature enabled. One of the requirements is to have one database running at all times with data...

A server technician is tasked to replace a RAID controller battery on a server. The server technician has no prior experience replacing a RAID controller battery. Which of the foll...

In a Windows environment, a user is able to access the network folder and open items, but is not able to delete anything. Which of the following folder permissions does the user re...

A system technician is tasked with destroying several hard drives that contain PII. Which of the following would be the BEST method for disposing of the drives?

A technician needs to install six blade servers. Which of the following MUST a technician install along with the blades?

A server repeatedly crashes with a BSOD when running an application that uses a high amount of system resources. Which of the following hardware components MOST likely needs to be...

In authentication, which of the following represents something you have?

A technician troubleshooting a mail server determines that the server is low on available hard drive space and needs an additional hard drive installed. The server will need to be...

In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?

A server has a faulty hard drive, and the administrator needs to replace the hard drive while it is running. The server needs to support which of the following drives?

After successfully authenticating to a remote server, a server administrator is presented with an interactive command line with no graphical interface. Which of the following proto...

A company has 700 servers installed in 50 server racks in the datacenter. The Chief Technology Officer issued a memorandum to the IT department with a directive to reduce power and...

Which of the following protocols can be used to query for host, user, and group information for clients?

A technician is backing up 10 GB of data on a file server to a 250 GB external USB hard drive. After 4 GB has been backed up, the software generates an error that the size of the b...

A system administrator is tasked to enable authentication on a web server's login page. One of the requirements for the web server is to encrypt authenticated sessions over HTTP pr...

An administrator decides to implement access control techniques to secure a datacenter. Which of the following would be the STRONGEST technique for the administrator to use?

An administrator needs to create two websites. One website must only be used by internal users and the other website must be a corporate website accessible externally by customers....

A host server in a small business environment does not have virtual switching configured. The NIC on a guest is configured with an IP address that is on a different subnet from the...

A system administrator has a database server that crashes at random times. No changes have been made to either the server's software or hardware. Which of the following is the FIRS...

An administrator was tasked to enforce disk quotas on the Windows file server. The administrator allocated 1GB of space to each user. A month later, the users were still able to sa...

A network administrator installs a new web server and notices that the server was configured with one quad-port NIC. In order to properly provision the hardware resources, how shou...

Which of the following graphically depicts the movement of information within a system?

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

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 lev...

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?

Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?

Which of the following describes a rack mounted server that is 2 rack units (2U) in height?

Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

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 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. Whi...

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 administrat...