Q1. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
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You need to configure a Microsoft SQL Server instance to ensure that a user named Mail1 can send mail by using Database Mail.
Solution: You add the DatabaseMailUserRole to Mail1 in the tempdb database. Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B
Explanation:
Database Mail is guarded by the database role DatabaseMailUserRole in the msdb database, not the tempdb database, in order to prevent anyone from sending arbitrary emails. Database users or roles must be created in the msdb database and must also be a member of DatabaseMailUserRole in order to send emails with the exception of sysadmin who has all privileges.
Note: Database Mail was first introduced as a new feature in SQLServer 2005 and replaces
the SQL Mail feature found in previous versions.
References:http://www.idevelopment.info/data/SQLServer/DBA_tips/Database_Administration/DBA_20.shtml
Q2. HOTSPOT
You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. A server fails and writes the following event to the application event log:
MSG_AUDIT_FORCED_SHUTDOWN
You configure the SQL Server startup parameters as shown in the following graphic:
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that answers each question. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: single-user
The startup option -m starts an instance of SQL Server in single-user mode.
Box 2: sysadmin
Starting SQL Server in single-user mode enables anymember of the computer's local Administrators group to connect to the instance of SQL Server as a member of the sysadmin fixed server role.
References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/database-engine-service-startup-options
Q3. 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
Answer: F
Explanation:
References:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188369.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187750.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff848791.aspx
Q4. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.
You have five servers that run Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. Each server hosts a Microsoft SQL Server instance. The topology for the environment is shown in the following diagram.
You have an Always On Availability group named AG1. The details for AG1 are shown in the following table.
Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMain that is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.
Instance4 and Instance5 are not part of AG1. Instance4 is engaged in heavy read-write I/O. Instance5 hosts a database named StagedExternal. A nightly BULK INSERT process loads
data into an empty table that has a rowstore clustered index and two nonclustered rowstore
indexes.
You must minimize the growth of the StagedExternal database log file during the BULK INSERT operations and perform point-in-time recovery after the BULK INSERT transaction. Changes made must not interrupt the log backup chain.
You plan to add a new instance named Instance6 to a datacenter that is geographically distant from Site1 and Site2. You must minimize latency between the nodes in AG1.
All databases use the full recovery model. All backups are written to the network location
\\SQLBackup\. A separate process copies backups to an offsite location. You should minimize both the time required to restore the databases and the space required to store backups. The recovery point objective (RPO) for each instance is shown in the following table.
Full backups of OperationsMain take longer than six hours to complete. All SQL Server backups use the keyword COMPRESSION.
You plan to deploy the following solutions to the environment. The solutions will access a database named DB1 that is part of AG1.
The wait statistics monitoring requirements for the instances are described in the following table.
You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to backup OperationsMain. What should you do?
A. Modify the backup script to use the keyword SKIP in the FILE_SNAPSHOT statement.
B. Modify the backup script to use the keyword SKIP in the WITH statement
C. Modify the backup script to use the keyword NO_COMPRESSION in the WITH statement.
D. Modify the full database backups script to stripe the backup across multiple backup files.
Answer: D
Explanation:
One of the filegroup is read_only should be as it only need to be backup up once. Partial backups are useful whenever you want to exclude read-only filegroups. A partial backup resembles a full database backup, but a partial backup does not contain all the filegroups. Instead, for a read-write database, a partial backup contains the data in the primary filegroup, every read-write filegroup, and, optionally, one or more read-only files. A partial backup of a read-only database contains only the primary filegroup.
From scenario: Instance1 experiences heavy read-write traffic. The instance hosts a database named OperationsMainthat is four terabytes (TB) in size. The database has multiple data files and filegroups. One of the filegroups is read_only and is half of the total database size.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/partial-backups-sql-server
Q5. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
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A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2021 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.
You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1. Solution: You migrate DB1 to a named instance on a server than runs Microsoft SQL
Server 2021 Standard edition.
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B
Explanation:
All editions of SQL Server support server level audits. All editions support database level audits beginning with SQL Server 2021 SP1. Prior to that, database level auditing was limited to Enterprise, Developer, and Evaluation editions.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/auditing/sql-server-audit-database-engine
Q6. You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance.
You plan to install a new application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The application login requires sysadmin permissions.
You need to ensure that the application login is unable to access other production databases. What should you do?
A. Use the SQL Server default instance and configure an affinity mask.
B. Install a new named SQL Server instance on the server.
C. Use the SQL Server default instance and enable Contained Databases.
D. Install a new default SQL Server instance on the server.
Answer: B
Explanation:
I would have gone with Contained Databases, but the application requires sysadmin permissions.
Q7. You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.
You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in near real time.
You also need to ensure that data on the primary server is unaffected. Which configuration should you use?
A. • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
B. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
C. • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
D. • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
E. • 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
F. • Two servers configured on the same subnet
G. • Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
• SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
H. • 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
Answer: A
Original Answer is A and I'll agree as it's the only one using Transactional Replication.
Must be to do with "You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in
near real time. "
Q8. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
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A company has a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2021 Web edition. The server has a default instance that hosts a database named DB1.
You need to ensure that you can perform auditing at the database level for DB1.
Solution: You migrate DB1 to a named instance on a server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2021 Enterprise edition.
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: A
Explanation:
All editions of SQL Server support server level audits. All editions support database level audits beginning with SQL Server 2021 SP1. Prior to that, database level auditing was limited to Enterprise, Developer, and Evaluation editions.
References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/auditing/sql-server-audit-database-engine
Q9. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance named SQL2012 that hosts an OLTP database of 1 terabyte in size.
The database is modified by users only from Monday through Friday from 09:00 hours to 17:00 hours.
Users modify more than 30 percent of the data in the database during the week. Backups are performed as shown in the following schedule:
The Finance department plans to execute a batch process every Saturday at 09:00 hours. This batch process will take a maximum of 8 hours to complete.
The batch process will update three tables that are 10 GB in size. The batch process will update these tables multiple times.
When the batch process completes, the Finance department runs a report to find out whether the batch process has completed correctly.
You need to ensure that if the Finance department disapproves the batch process, the batch operation can be rolled back in the minimum amount of time. What should you do on Saturday?
A. Perform a differential backup at 08:59 hours.
B. Record the LSN of the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 17:01 hours.
C. Create a database snapshot at 08:59 hours.
D. Record the LSN of the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 08:59 hours.
E. Create a marked transaction in the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 17:01 hours.
F. Create a marked transaction in the transaction log at 08:59 hours. Perform a transaction log backup at 08:59 hours.
Answer: C
New questions:
61. HOTSPOT
You manage a Microsoft-SQL Server database named sales Orders.
You need to verify the integrity of the database and attempt to repair any errors that are found. Repair must not cause any data to be lost in the database.
How should you complete the DBCC command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Q10. 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 and 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 the Regions table.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
A. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA
B. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
C. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
D. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
E. EXEC sp_droprolemember 'Sales', 'UserA'
F. REVOKE SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM Sales
G. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM UserA
H. REVOKE SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
I. DENY SELECT ON Schema::Customers FROM UserA
J. DENY SELECT ON Object::Regions FROM Sales
Answer: J
Explanation:
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