SK0-005 Exam Questions

An administrator is troubleshooting performance issues on a server that was recently upgraded. The administrator met with users/stakeholders and documented recent changes in an eff...

A junior administrator needs to configure a single RAID 5 volume out of four 200GB drives attached to the server using the maximum possible capacity. Upon completion, the server re...

A backup application is copying only changed files each time it runs. During a restore, however, only a single file is used. Which of the following backup methods does this describ...

A very old PC is running a critical, proprietary application in MS-DOS. Administrators are concerned about the stability of this computer. Installation media has been lost, and the...

An administrator is troubleshooting a RAID issue in a failed server. The server reported a drive failure, and then it crashed and would no longer turn on. There are two arrays on t...

A security manager is concerned that a rogue employee could boot a server from an outside USB drive. Which of the following actions can be taken to reduce this risk? (Choose two.)

A server administrator is setting up a new payroll application. Compliance regulations require that all financial systems logs be stored in a central location. Which of the followi...

Which of the following concepts is in use when dual power supplies are connected to different power sources?

A technician is decommissioning a server from a production environment. The technician removes the server from the rack but then decides to repurpose the system as a lab server ins...

A server administrator wants to ensure a storage array can survive the failure of two drives without the loss of data. Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator c...

After the installation of an additional network card into a server, the server will not boot into the OS. A technician tests the network card in a different server with a different...

A server room contains ten physical servers that are running applications and a cluster of three dedicated hypervisors. The hypervisors are new and only have 10% utilization. The C...

A company needs to increase the security controls on its servers. An administrator is implementing MFA on all servers using cost-effective techniques. Which of the following should...

An organization implements split encryption keys for sensitive files. Which of the following types of risks does this mitigate?

An administrator is installing a new file server that has four drive bays available. Which of the following RAID types would provide the MOST storage as well as disk redundancy?

A company's servers are all displaying the wrong time. The server administrator confirms the time source is correct. Which of the following is MOST likely preventing the servers fr...

A server administrator encounters some issues with the server OS after applying monthly patches. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform?

An administrator notices that a file server is filling up quickly but has many of the same files in different directories. Which of the following storage management techniques woul...

An administrator is configuring a new server for use as a database server. It will have two mirrored drives to hold the operating system, and there will be three drive bays remaini...

Hosting data in different regional locations but not moving it for long periods of time describes:

A technician learns users are unable to log in to a Linux server with known-working LDAP credentials. The technician logs in to the server with a local account and confirms the sys...

A senior administrator instructs a technician to run the following script on a Linux server: for i in {1..65536}; do echo $i; telnet localhost $i; done The script mostly returns th...

A VLAN needs to be configured within a virtual environment for a new VM. Which of the following will ensure the VM receives a correct IP address?

A user logs in to a Linux server and attempts to run the following command: sudo emacs /root/file However, the user gets the following message: User userid is not allowed to execut...

A server administrator is connecting a new storage array to a server. The administrator has obtained multiple IP addresses for the array. Which of the following connection types is...

A newly installed server is accessible to local users, but remote users are unable to connect. Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

A company's security team has noticed employees seem to be blocking the door in the main data center when they are working on equipment to avoid having to gain access each time. Wh...

Users are able to connect to the wireless network, but they are unable to access the internet. The network administrator verifies connectivity to all network devices, and there are...

Which of the following commands would MOST likely be used to register a new service on a Windows OS?

An administrator receives an alert stating a S.M.A.R.T. error has been detected. Which of the following should the administrator run FIRST to determine the issue?

A storage administrator needs to implement SAN-based shared storage that can transmit at 16Gb over an optical connection. Which of the following connectivity options would BEST mee...

In which of the following media rotation schemes are daily, weekly, and monthly backup media utilized in a first-in, first-out method?

A company has a data center that is located at its headquarters, and it has a warm site that is located 20mi (32km) away, which serves as a DR location. Which of the following shou...

Which of the following cloud models is BEST described as running workloads on resources that are owned by the company and hosted in a company-owned data center, as well as on rente...

Which of the following backup types resets the archive bit each time it is run?

A server administrator is connecting a Linux server to a storage array. The administrator wants to use a file-based storage protocol to store data on the server. Which of the follo...

A hardware technician is installing 19 1U servers in a 42-unit rack. The technician needs to allocate enough space per server for optimal air flow. Which of the following unit size...

A server administrator needs to ensure all Window-based servers within a data center have RDP disabled. There are thousands of servers performing various roles. Which of the follow...

A server administrator is installing servers in a rack that does not have rack unit markings on the sides. The available open space for the new servers is approximately 3.5in (8.9c...

Which of the following backup types will MOST likely have a third party hosting the backup data?

A staff member who is monitoring a data center reports one rack is experiencing higher temperatures than the racks next to it, despite the hardware in each rack being the same. Whi...

An administrator is designing a server for use in a factory environment that contains many pieces of large electrical equipment. Which of the following would be the BEST type of ca...

A junior administrator reported that the website used for anti-malware updates is not working. The senior administrator then discovered all requests to the anti-malware site are be...

A technician is deploying a new workstation. The workstation uses DHCP and can ping other devices on the same VLAN, but it cannot access anything on a different VLAN. Which of the...

A server administrator is gathering business requirements to determine how frequently backups need to be performed on an application server. Which of the following is the administr...

The network's IDS is giving multiple alerts that unauthorized traffic from a critical application server is being sent to a known-bad public IP address. One of the alerts contains...

A technician has been tasked to install a new CPU. Prior to the installation, the server must be configured. Which of the following should the technician update?

Which of the following is a type of replication in which all files are replicated, all of the time?

A technician installed a kernel upgrade to a Linux server. The server now crashes regularly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

An application server cannot communicate with a newly installed database server. The database server, which has static IP information, is reading the following output from ipconfig...