Q1. You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance on which several production databases have been deployed. 

You plan to install a new ticketing application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The SQL login for this application requires sysadmin permissions. 

You need to ensure that the login for the ticketing application cannot access other production databases. 

What should you do? 

A. Use the SQL Server default instance and enable Contained Databases. 

B. Use the SQL Server default instance and configure a user-defined server role. Add the login for the ticketing application to this role. 

C. Install a new named SQL Server instance on the server. 

D. Install a new default SQL Server instance on the server. 

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Q2. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company. 

You need to ensure that an OLTP database that includes up-to-the-minute reporting requirements can be off-loaded from the primary database to another server. You also need to be able to add indexes to the secondary database. 

Which configuration should you use? 

A. . Two servers configured in different data centers 

. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode 

. One server configured as an Active Secondary 

B. . Two servers configured in the same data center 

. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode 

. One server configured as an Active Secondary 

C. . Two servers configured in the same data center 

. A primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes 

. A backup server configured as a warm standby 

D. . Two servers configured in different data centers 

. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode 

E. . Two servers configured on the same subnet 

. SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode 

F. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication 

G. . SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication 

H. . Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center 

. SQL Server configured as a clustered instance 

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Q3. You develop a database for a travel application. You need to design tables and other database objects. You create a view that displays the dates and times of the airline schedules on a report. 

You need to display dates and times in several international formats. 

What should you do? 

A. Use the CAST function. 

B. Use the DATE data type. 

C. Use the FORMAT function. 

D. Use an appropriate collation. 

E. Use a user-defined table type. 

F. Use the VARBINARY data type. 

G. Use the DATETIME data type. 

H. Use the DATETIME2 data type. 

I. Use the DATETIMEOFFSET data type. 

J. Use the TODATETIMEOFFSET function. 

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Q4. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. 

Users report that an application that accesses the database displays an error, but the error does not provide meaningful information. No entries are found in the SQL Server log or Windows event logs related to the error. 

You need to identify the root cause of the issue by retrieving the error message. 

What should you do? 

A. Create an Extended Events session by using the sqlserver.error_reported event. 

B. Create a SQL Profiler session to capture all ErrorLog and EventLog events. 

C. Flag all stored procedures for recompilation by using sp_recompile. 

D. Execute sp_who. 

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Q5. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN). 

The financial database has the following characteristics: 

A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D). 

A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E). 

Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space. 

Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space. 

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day. 

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database. 

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time. 

A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours. 

You need to ensure that the backup size is as small as possible. 

Which backup should you perform every two hours? 

A. BULK_LOGGED 

B. NO_CHECKSUM 

C. FULL 

D. RESTART 

E. CHECKSUM 

F. STANDBY 

G. DBO.ONLY 

H. NORECOVERY 

I. SIMPLE 

J. SKIP 

K. Transaction log 

L. COPY_ONLY 

M. Differential 

N. CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR 

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Q6. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database has a table named Customers owned by UserA and another table named Orders owned by UserB. You also have a stored procedure named GetCustomerOrderInfo owned by UserB. GetCustomerOrderInfo selects data from both tables. 

You create a new user named UserC. 

You need to ensure that UserC can call the GetCustomerOrderInfo stored procedure. You also need to assign only the minimum required permissions to UserC. 

Which permission or permissions should you assign to UserC? Choose all that apply. 

A. The Select permission on Customers 

B. The Execute permission on GetCustomerOrderInfo 

C. The Take Ownership permission on Customers 

D. The Control permission on GetCustomerOrderInfo 

E. The Take Ownership permission on Orders 

F. The Select permission on Orders 

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Q7. You administer a SQL Server 2012 server that contains a database named SalesDB. SalesDb contains a schema named Customers that has a table named Regions. A user named UserA is a member of a role named Sales. 

UserA is granted the Select permission on the Regions table. The Sales role is granted the Select permission on the Customers schema. 

You need to ensure that the Sales role, including UserA, is disallowed to select from any of the tables in the Customers schema. 

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use? 

A. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA 

B. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA 

C. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA' 

D. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales 

E. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA 

F. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales 

G. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA 

H. EXEC sp_droprolemember 'Sales', 'UserA' 

I. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales 

J. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales 

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Q8. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. 

The database contains a customer table created by using the following definition: 

You need to ensure that the minimum amount of disk space is used to store the data in the customer table. 

What should you do? 

A. Implement row-level compression. 

B. Implement page-level compression. 

C. Convert all indexes to Column Store indexes. 

D. Implement Unicode compression. 

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Q9. You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ProdSrv1 and ProdSrv2. ProdSrv1 is configured as a Distributor. Both servers are configured to use the Windows NT Service virtual accounts for all SQL Services. 

You are configuring snapshot replication from ProdSrv1 to ProdSrv2 by using ProdSrv2 as 

a pull subscriber. 

The distribution agent on ProdSrv2 regularly fails, displaying the following error message: 

"Cannot access the file. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)." 

You need to configure the distribution agent by granting only the minimum required access to all accounts. 

What should you do? 

A. Configure the Subscriber to use the Local System account. 

B. Configure the SQL Server Agent service to run under the Local System account. 

Configure the Subscriber to use the SQL Server Agent service account. 

C. Configure the SQL Server Agent service to run under a Windows domain account. Configure the Subscriber to use the SQL Server Agent service account. Grant FULL CONTROL access for the domain account to the ReplData share on ProdSrv1. 

D. Configure the Subscriber to use a Windows domain account. Grant READ access for the domain account to the ReplData share on ProdSrv1. 

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Q10. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso that contains a single user-defined database role namedBillingUsers. 

All objects in Contoso are in the dbo schemA. 

You need to grant EXECUTE permission for all stored procedures in Contoso to BillingUsers. 

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use? 

A. GREATE ROLE proc_caller GRANT EXECUTE ON Schema : : dbo TO proc_caller ALTER ROLE proc_caller ADD MEMBER BillingUsers 

B. GRANT EXECUTE ON INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES TO BillingUsers 

C. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'executor' , 'BillingUsers' 

D. GREATE ROLE proc_caller GRANT EXECUTE ON ALL PROCEDURES TO proc_caller ALTER MEMBER BillingUsers ADD TO ROLE proc_caller 

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