Q1. You maintain a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. The package was developed by using SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS).
The package includes custom scripts that must be upgraded.
You need to upgrade the package to SQL Server 2012.
Which tool should you use?
A. SQL Server Configuration Manager
B. SQL Server Agent
C. SSIS Upgrade Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio
D. SQL Server DTExecUI utility (dtexecui.exe)
Answer: C
Explanation:
Use the SSIS Package Upgrade Wizard to migrate packages that were developed in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) to the package format that the current release of Integration Services uses.
Reference: SSIS Upgrade Wizard (SSIS Package Upgrade Wizard)
Q2. You are implementing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that imports Microsoft Excel workbook data into a Windows Azure SQL Database database. The package has been deployed to a production server that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012.
The package fails when executed on the production server.
You need to ensure that the package can load the Excel workbook data without errors. You need to use the least amount of administrative effort to achieve this goal.
What should you do?
A. Create a custom SSIS source component that encapsulates the 32-bit driver and compile it in 64-bit mode.
B. Install a 64-bit ACE driver and execute the package by using the 64-bit run-time option.
C. Execute the package by using the 32-bit run-time option.
D. Replace the SSIS Excel source with a SSIS Flat File source.
Answer: C
Explanation: * See step 3 below.
To publish an Excel worksheet to Azure SQL Database, your package will contain a Data
Flow Task, Excel Source task, and ADO NET Destination.
1) Create an SSIS project.
2) Drop a.Data Flow Task.onto the.Control Flow.design surface, and double click the
Data Flow Task.
3) Drop an.Excel Source.onto the Data Flow design surface.
Note.When using the.Excel Source.task on a 64-bit machine, set Run64BitRuntime to
False.
* Incorrect:
Not D: The Flat File source reads data from a text file. The text file can be in delimited,
fixed width, or mixed format.
Q3. You develop a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package in a project by using the Project Deployment Model. It is regularly executed within a multi-step SQL Server Agent job.
You make changes to the package that should improve performance.
You need to establish if there is a trend in the durations of the next 10 successful executions of the package. You need to use the least amount of administrative effort to achieve this goal.
What should you do?
A. After 10 executions, view the job history for the SQL Server Agent job.
B. After 10 executions, in SQL Server Management Studio, view the Execution Performance subsection of the All Executions report for the project.
C. Enable logging to the Application Event Log in the package control flow for the Onlnformation event. After 10 executions, view the Application Event Log.
D. Enable logging to an XML file in the package control flow for the OnPostExecute event. After 10 executions, view the XML file.
Answer: B
Explanation: The All Executions Report displays a summary of all Integration Services executions that have been performed on the server. There can be multiple executions of the sample package. Unlike the Integration Services Dashboard report, you can configure the All Executions report to show executions that have started during a range of dates. The dates can span multiple days, months, or years.
The report displays the following sections of information.
* Filter
Shows the current filter applied to the report, such as the Start time range.
* Execution Information
Shows the start time, end time, and duration for each package execution.You can view a
list of the parameter values that were used with a package execution, such as values that
were passed to a child package using the Execute Package task.
Q4. You are the Master Data Services (MDS) administrator at your company.
An existing user needs to integrate data from other systems into MDS.
You need to give the user permissions to integrate data.
Which user management menu item should you select? (To answer, configure the
appropriate option or options in the dialog box in the answer area.)
Answer:
Q5. You are developing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project that contains a project Connection Manager and multiple packages.
All packages in the project must connect to the same database. The server name for the database must be set by using a parameter named ServerParam when any package in the project is executed.
You need to develop this project with the least amount of development effort.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)
A. Set the Sensitive property of the parameter to True.
B. Edit each package Connection Manager. Set the ServerName property to @[$Project::ServerParam].
C. Edit the project Connection Manager in Solution Explorer. Set the ServerName property to @[$Project::ServerParam].
D. Create a project parameter named ServerName.
E. Create a package parameter named ServerName in each package.
F. Set the Required property of the parameter to True.
Answer: B,D,F
Explanation: B: From question: " The server name for the database must be set by using a parameter named ServerParam when any package in the project is executed."
D: SSIS 2012 has introduced the concept of Project level connection managers. An SSIS project is generally more than one package. To simplify lives, the SSIS team now allows for the sharing of common resources across projects, connection managers being one of those resources.
F: When a parameter is marked as required, a server value or execution value must be specified for that parameter. Otherwise, the corresponding package does not execute. Although the parameter has a default value at design time, it will never be used once the project is deployed.
Note:
* Integration Services (SSIS) parameters allow you to assign values to properties within packages at the time of package execution. You can create project parameters at the project level and package parameters at the package level. Project parameters are used to supply any external input the project receives to one or more packages in the project. Package parameters allow you to modify package execution without having to edit and redeploy the package.
Reference: Integration Services (SSIS) Parameters
Q6. A SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package was deployed two weeks ago with the Project Deployment Model.
Sometimes the package is started as part of a multistep SQL job. At other times, the package is started manually by a database administrator by using the Object Explorer in SQL Server Management Studio.
You need to identify the authenticated user responsible for starting the package each time it executes.
How can you find this information?
A. In the SSISDB.[catalog], query the .[executions] view.
B. In the SSISDB.[catalog] , query the [event_messages] view.
C. In SQL Server Management Studio, view the SQL Agent Job History.
D. In SQL Server Management Studio, view the SQL Agent Error Log.
E. In SQL Server Management Studio, view the SQL Server Log.
Answer: A
Q7. You are reviewing the design of a student dimension table in an existing data warehouse hosted on SQL Azure.
The current dimension design does not allow the retention of historical changes to student attributes such as ParentOccupation.
You need to redesign the dimension to enable the full historical reporting of changes to multiple student attributes including ParentOccupation.
What should you do?
A. Add CurrentValue and PreviousValue columns to the student dimension.
B. Enable Snapshot Isolation on the data warehouse.
C. Add an IsCurrent column to the student dimension.
D. Add StartDate and EndDate columns to the student dimension.
Answer: D
Explanation: Adding a start and end date will give you this ability as when a record is inserted and given a start and end date, you’ll have the ability to determine when they were active therefore giving you a retention of historical changes
Q8. You are deploying a project to the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) catalog.
You need to ensure that the project is deployed to the production environment with the least amount of administrative effort.
What should you do?
A. Create an On Error event handler.
B. Add a data tap on the output of a component in the package data flow.
C. Use the gacutil command.
D. Create a reusable custom logging component.
E. Run the package by using the dtexecui.exe utility and the SQL Log provider.
F. Run the package by using the dtexec /rep /conn command.
G. Use the Integration Services Deployment Wizard.
H. Run the package by using the dtexec /dumperror /conn command.
I. Use the dtutil /copy command.
J. Deploy the package to the Integration Services catalog by using dtutil and use SQL Server to store the configuration.
K. Deploy the package by using an msi file.
Answer: G
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh479588.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213290.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213373.aspx
Q9. You are designing a SQL Server Integration Services (SS1S) package that uploads a file to a table named Orders in a SQL Azure database.
The company's auditing policies have the following requirements:
. An entry must be written to a dedicated SQL Server log table named OrderLog.
. The entry must be written as soon as the file upload task completes.
You need to meet the company's policy requirements. Which event handler should you use?
A. OnProgress
B. Onlnformation
C. OnPostExecute
D. OnComplete
Answer: C
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140223.aspx
Q10. A new SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project is deployed to the SSIS catalog.
To troubleshoot some data issues, you must output the data streaming through several data flows into text files for further analysis. You have the list of data flow package paths and identification strings of the various task components that must be analyzed.
You need to create these output files with the least amount of administrative and development effort.
Which three stored procedures should you execute in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Answer: