SK0-004 Practice Questions

An administrator thinks that a particular network connection is dropping packets. Which of the following tools would the administrator use to BEST identify where the packets are be...

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...

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, which of...

A new version of the primary OS used by a company has been released. Due to some significant changes in the OS, a system administrator wants to see which remotely accessible servic...

An email administrator is tasked to set up a Linux mail server. One of the requirements is to close all ports except SSH, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4. Which of the following comma...

A network administrator finds there are several users who cannot access a particular application. The application does not launch for the users. The network administrator finds the...

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

A new server has a battery-backed RAID controller built onto the motherboard. Which of the following will occur if the RAID controller fails?

A network administrator is installing additional devices on the network. The network segment is currently utilizing all allocated IP addresses. If there are additional addresses av...

Which of the following represents the directory permissions to provide least privilege for publicly readable directories on a Unix web server?

A newly hired administrator is tasked to change the number of CPUs assigned to a VM. Which of the following if the FIRST step the administrator should do during a scheduled mainten...

A small office has installed a server inside a writing closet. Users report losing connectivity to the server at various times throughout the day. Which of the following should hav...

A user is unable to save an image file to the home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user h...

Swap space or page file is reserved on the:

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

An administrator needs to deploy 1,000 servers in a short period of time. Which of the following deployment methods will expedite the OS installations?

Which of the following virtual network settings should be used if the IP addresses of the host is to be shared with the virtual machine?

An administrator needs to back up changed files only and has time constraints on the back up window. Which of the following is the BEST choice for a backup strategy?

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:

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 act...

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 needs to access a remote Unix server for administration. The technician has requested that ports 23. 25, and 161 be opened on the router. After the ports are op...

A sever administrator implements external storage for a file server. At a later time, another administrator wants to extend this storage to a second server but is unable to simulta...

An administrator has been tasked with making recommendations for purchasing disks that will support a transactional database where performance is of greatest concern and budget is...

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

A technician is having problems sending a notification from a server. The technician suspects the firewall may be blocking traffic. Which of the following clients can be used to co...

Which of the following is the MOST secure method of storing critical and sensitive system information (e.g., administrative passwords, trusted signing keys)?

An administrator needs to run five CAT6 cable runs to a new server. Which of the following steps should the administrator do FIRST?

A technician needs to install an OS patch on a virtual server. Which of the following backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the...

A technician installs a rack in a datacenter. The rack has two power strips installed in it. To ensure maximum power redundancy for the rack, how should each PDU power strip be con...

Joe, a system administrator, is replacing an aging print server. Once he reached the step to join the new server to the existing domain, he kept getting an error and could not comp...

A secondary office location containing servers already configured with all necessary software and files to minimize downtime is considered to be which of the following types of dis...

A user changed departments from sales to accounting. The user is unable to access the shared network drive containing the accounting department's file. Which of the following shoul...

A clustered server goes offline due to a backplane failure. Which of the following clusters does not lose capacity when a server goes offline?

Which of the following RAID configurations consists of mirrored disks?

The IT director instructed the systems administrator to build a server to support the accounting department's file growth. The IT director requested that the accounting users have...

Which of the following describes a root cause analysis?

An administrator needs to reconfigure a Linux server's OS. Which of the following tools can the administrator use to access a command shell over the network? (Choose two.)

Which of the following hypervisors is physically installed on a server?

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

When setting up a new Linux server that will require files larger than 2 TB in size, which of the following file system types should be used?

A systems administrator receives an email indicating a Windows user in finance cannot access the finance server remotely but is currently logged onto the network. Which of the foll...

A server has rebooted early in the morning on the second Wednesday of each month for the past three months. No one was logged into the server at the time of the reboots, and there...

An existing server has three 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA drives and five empty drive bays. The network manager orders three 2 TB 5400 RPM SAS drives. The technician installs them properly,...

A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no...

An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator...

An outside contractor is hired to perform a business impact analysis of a simulated disaster. The contractor asks stakeholders what they think a hurricane would do to the business....

An administrator is setting up LDAP in the environment to allow directory services authentication and login, and wants to allow secure connection only. Which of the following netwo...

A datacenter customer reports the servers are having hardware failures at an unusual rate. A server technician is dispatched to the datacenter floor and notices several racks have...

Which of the following should a systems administrator create to enable network connectivity on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)