SK0-005 Exam Questions

A server administrator is installing a new server on a manufacturing floor. Because the server is publicly accessible, security requires the server to undergo hardware hardening. W...

A human resources analyst is attempting to email the records for new employees to an outside payroll company. Each time the analyst sends an email containing employee records, the...

After installing a new file server, a technician notices the read times for accessing the same file are slower than the read times for other file servers. Which of the following is...

A company wants to find an affordable way to simulate a fail over of a critical application. The company does not currently have a solution for it. The application consists of 15 s...

The management team has mandated the encryption of all server administration traffic. Which of the following should most likely be implemented?

An administrator receives an alert that one of the virtual servers has suddenly crashed. The administrator confirms the data center does not have any power failures and then connec...

A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the OS. Which of the following best describes the OS hardening method?

A technician ordered two additional hard drives to expand an existing RAID 6 configuration. The technician added the new disks and then rebooted. After rebooting, the technician di...

A server administrator needs to verify that a new 4U server will fit into the rack in the data center. Which of the following is the amount of space the 4U server requires?

A server administrator is building a pair of new storage servers. The servers will replicate; therefore, no redundancy is required, but usable capacity must be maximized. Which of...

A user has been unable to authenticate to the company's external, web-based database after clicking a link in an email that required the user to change the account password. Which...

Which of the following types of physical security controls would most likely be a target of a social engineering attack?

An administrator has been asked to disable CPU hyperthreading on a server to satisfy a licensing issue. Which of the following best describes how the administrator will likely perf...

Which of the following concepts refers to prioritizing a connection that had previously worked successfully?

An administrator needs to reconfigure a teamed network connection on a server in a remote data center. Which of the following will offer the most resilient connection while perform...

A server is only able to connect to a gigabit switch at 100Mb. Other devices are able to access the network port at full gigabit speeds, and when the server is brought to another l...

A new virtual server was deployed in a perimeter network. Users have reported the time on the server has been incorrect. The engineer has verified the configuration, and the intern...

A systems administrator is installing Windows on an 8TB drive and would like to create a single 8TB partition on the disk. Which of the following options should the administrator u...

A server administrator has been asked to implement a password policy that will help mitigate the chance of a successful brute-force attack. Which of the following password policies...

A storage engineer responds to an alarm on a storage array and finds the battery on the RAID controller needs to be replaced. However, the replacement part will not be available fo...

An administrator discovers a misconfiguration that impacts all servers but can be easily corrected. The administrator has a list of affected servers and a script to correct the iss...

A server administrator is configuring a new server in a data center in another country. Which of the following technologies should the administrator use to complete this task?

An administrator has deployed a new virtual server from a template. After confirming access to the subnet's gateway, the administrator is unable to log on with the domain credentia...

A technician recently replaced a NIC that was not functioning. Since then, no device driver is found when starting the server, and the network card is not functioning. Which of the...

A systems administrator is troubleshooting write speed performance issues on a server. Which of the following actions should the technician take to best resolve the issue?

Which of the following life-cycle management phases deals with a server that is no longer in operation?

A systems administrator recently installed a new virtual server. After completing the installation, the administrator was only able to reach a few of the servers on the network. Wh...

Which of the following environmental controls must be carefully researched so the control itself does not cause the destruction of the server equipment?

An application needs 10GB of RAID 1 for log files, 20GB of RAID 5 for data files, and 20GB of RAID 5 for the operating system. All disks will be 10GB in capacity. Which of the foll...

Which of the following backup methods protects all the changes that have occurred since the last full backup?

A legacy application server uses Telnet to allow administrators to manage it remotely. A recent security policy is denying access to any Telnet connections. Which of the following...

A security analyst completed a port scan of the corporate production-server network. Results of the scan were then provided to a systems administrator for immediate action. The fol...

A security administrator ran a port scanning tool against a virtual server that is hosting a secure website. A list of open ports was provided as documentation. The management team...

Which of the following types of locks utilizes key fobs or key cards held against a sensor/reader to gain access?

An administrator is configuring the storage for a new database server, which will host databases that are mainly used for archival lookups. Which of the following storage types wil...

Which of the following is an architectural reinforcement that attempts to conceal the interior of an organization?

Which of the following often-overlooked parts of the asset life cycle can cause the greatest number of issues in relation to PII exposure?

A systems engineer is configuring a new VLAN for expansion of a campus network. The engineer configures a new DHCP scope on the existing Windows DHCP server cluster and activates t...

Which of the following physical security concepts would most likely be used to limit personnel access to a restricted area within a data center?

After installing an OS on a new server, the administrator realizes the server does not have any network connectivity. The administrator checks the network cable, and it seems to be...

A technician needs to replace two RAID controllers on a database server as part of an upgrade. The server has six external storage arrays and eight internal disks that are controll...

A technician is provisioning a 4TB LUN on a SAN for a Windows server. Which of the following filesystem types should be used for this server?

A systems administrator is setting up a second VLAN for end users. Which of the following should be provisioned for a DHCP server to be able to receive client requests from a diffe...

A server administrator is tasked with resolving an issue with the server's local storage. The administrator turns on the server and only two out of the four drives are found. After...

A virtual host has four NICs and eight VMs. Which of the following should the technician configure to enable uplink redundancy?

An engineer is configuring the RAID on a new server that will support a large database handling real-time data processing. The system needs to have the largest available space with...

An analyst is planning a new point-to-point Ethernet connection between a university campus and a newly acquired space downtown that is about 5mi (8km) away. The analyst would like...

A technician is attempting to resolve an issue with a file server that is unable to download a file. Given the following output: Which of the following would best allow this file t...

A virtual server that is hosting a legacy line-of-business application has been identified for a critical patch application. Which of the following should be performed prior to the...

Which of the following symbols is used to write a text description per line within a PowerShell script?