Q1. A technician working in the datacenter has finished racking a new 4U server into a new rack. Which of the following should the technician do to allow for hot/cold aisle containment?

A. Close the perforated floor tile in front of the new rack.

B. Reset the rack temperature and humidity control.

C. Install blanking panels in the rack.

D. Lower the temperature of the data center HVAC.

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Q2. A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports. Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?

A. Rollover cables

B. CAT6 crossover cables

C. CAT6 straight-through cables

D. CAT5 straight-through cables

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Q3. A server has been assigned a role of mail server. Which of the following services will be installed as a result of this selection?

A. SNMP

B. SMTP

C. TCP

D. DHCP

E. SFTP

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Q4. A certain rack mounted blade server chassis needs 3-phase power for operation. There is currently only single-phase power coming into the room. The administrator needs to:

A. call an electrician to wire the single-phase power into 3-phase power.

B. use a single-phase UPS to power the 3-phase server.

C. call an electrician to see if 3-phase power can be brought into the room.

D. use an adapter to configure the server to use single-phase power.

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Q5. 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. Which of the following recovery principles should the technician employ?

A. Incremental

B. Snapshot

C. Bare metal

D. Selective

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Q6. A technician is installing a server using a two-channel RAID controller, using RAID1 for the first channel and RAID5 for the second channel. If the technician has six 1TB disks total, how will this configuration look?

A. One disk RAID1, five disks RAID5

B. Two disks RAID1, four disks RAID5

C. Three disks RAID1, three disks RAID5

D. Four disks RAID1, two disks RAID5

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Q7. A technician is installing an operating system on a server using source files on a USB storage device. The technician is unable to boot to the USB device using different USB ports on the server. Which of the following should the technician do to ensure that the operating system can be installed from the USB storage?

A. Copy the source files to a CD

B. Install the latest USB device drivers

C. Reconfigure the boot order

D. Update the BIOS firmware

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Q8. A system administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue and runs ipconfig/all on the host. The command returns the following:

IPv4 Address: 169.254.0.12

Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

The client is configured for DHCP. Which of the following commands should be run on the client to resolve this issue? (Select TWO).

A. ipconfig/release

B. tracert

C. ipconfig/flushdns

D. ipconfig/renew

E. ipconfig/showclassid

F. nslookup

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Q9. Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

A. NAS requires fibre channel; DAS does not.

B. NAS is faster than DAS when using NFS.

C. DAS operates its own OS; NAS does not.

D. DAS is directly connected to a server; NAS is connected via IP networking.

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Q10. Which of the following is the number of 7-inch high servers that can be installed in a 42U rack?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 10

D. 12

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