Microsoft 70-462 Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases Online Training

Topic 1, Exam Pool A

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?

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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?

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

A database contains a large product catalog that is updated periodically.

You need to be able to send the entire product catalog to all branch offices on a monthly basis.

Which configuration should you use?

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

You need to ensure that an OLTP database that uses a storage area network (SAN) remains available if any of the servers fail.

You also need to minimize the amount of storage used by the database.

Which configuration should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

The differential backup of the reporting database fails. Then, the reporting database fails at 14:00 hours.

You need to ensure that the reporting database is restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

At 14:00 hours, you discover that pages 71, 520, and 713 on one of the database files are corrupted on the reporting database.

You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

At 16:20 hours, you discover that pages 17, 137, and 205 on one of the database files are corrupted on the transactional database.

You need to ensure that the transactional database is restored.

You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.

The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

One of the hard disk drives that stores the reporting database fails at 16:40 hours.

You need to ensure that the reporting database is restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal.

What should you do?

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You administer three Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ServerA, ServerB, and ServerC. ServerA is the acting principal and ServerB is the mirror.

You need to add ServerC as a witness to the existing mirroring session between ServerA and ServerB.

You need to achieve this goal without delaying synchronization.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

You create an availability group named haContosoDbs. Your primary replica is available at Server01Contoso01. You need to configure the availability group to prevent data loss. In the event of a database failure,

the designed secondary database must come online automatically.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

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You administer several Microsoft SQL Server servers. Your company has a number of offices across the world connected by using a wide area network (WAN).

Connections between offices vary significantly in both bandwidth and reliability.

You need to identify the correct replication method for each scenario.

What should you do? (To answer, drag the appropriate replication method or methods to the correct location or locations in the answer area. Each replication method may be used once, more than once, or not at all.)

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You administer several Microsoft SQL Server database servers. Merge replication has been configured for an application that is distributed across offices throughout a wide area network (WAN).

Many of the tables involved in replication use the XML and varchar (max) data types. Occasionally, merge replication fails due to timeout errors.

You need to reduce the occurrence of these timeout errors.

What should you do?

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You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ServerA and ServerB. You use a database named AdventureWorks.

You need to prepare the AdventureWorks database for database mirroring. ServerB will act as the mirror in a mirroring partnership along with ServerA.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You create an availability group named HaContoso that has replicas named Server01/HA, Server02/HA, and Server03/HA.

Currently, Server01/HA is the primary replica.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

– Backup operations occur on Server02/HA.

– If Server02/HA is unavailable, backup operations occur on Server03/HA.

– Backup operations do not occur on Server01/HA.

How should you configure HaContoso?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that has several SQL Server Agent jobs configured.

When SQL Server Agent jobs fail, the error messages returned by the job steps are truncated.

The following error message is an example of the truncated error message:

"Executed as user CONTOSOServiceAccount….0.4035.00 for 64-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2011. All rights reserveD. Started 63513 PM Error 2012-06-23 183536.87 Code 0XC001000E Source UserImport Description Code 0x00000000 Source Log Import Activity Descript… The package execution fA. .. The step failed. "

You need to ensure that all the details of the job step failures are retained for SQL Server Agent jobs.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment that contains a production SQL Server 2005 instance named SQL2005 and a development SQL Server 2012 instance named SQL2012.

The development team develops a new application that uses the SQL Server 2012 functionality.

You are planning to migrate a database from SQL2005 to SQL2012 so that the development team can test their new application.

You need to migrate the database without affecting the production environment.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer three Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 instances.

Database mirroring is configured in High-Safety mode with Automatic Failover between the following three servers:

– SQL1 is the Principal server.

– SQL2 is the mirror server.

– SQL3 is the witness server.

You need to upgrade SQL1 and SQL2 to SQL Server 2012. You need to ensure that downtime is minimized during the upgrade.

Which six actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server server that has SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) installed.

You plan to deploy new SSIS packages to the server. The SSIS packages use the Project Deployment Model together with parameters and Integration Services environment variables.

You need to configure the SQL Server environment to support these packages.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.

When transaction logs grow, SQL Server must send an email message to the database administrators.

You need to configure SQL Server to send the email messages.

What should you configure?

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You administer two instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You deploy an application that uses a database on the named instance. The application is unable to connect to the database on the named instance. You need to ensure that the application can connect to the named instance.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

You use an OrderDetail table that has the following definition:

You need to create a non-clustered index on the SalesOrderID column in the OrderDetail table to include only rows that contain a value in the SpecialOfferID column.

Which four Transact-SQL statements should you use? (To answer, move the appropriate statements from the list of statements to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

The database contains a table that has the following definition:

You want to export data from the table to a flat file by using the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

– The first row of the file contains the first row of data.

– Each record is of the same length.

– The date follows the U.S. date format.

– The file supports international characters.

What should you do? (To answer, configure the appropriate option or options in the dialog box in the answer area.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 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 two permission or permissions should you assign to UserC? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named ContosoDB. The database contains a table named Suppliers and a column named IsActive in the Purchases schemA.

You create a new user named ContosoUser in ContosoDB. ContosoUser has no permissions to the Suppliers table.

You need to ensure that ContosoUser can delete rows that are not active from Suppliers. You also need to grant ContosoUser only the minimum required permissions.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

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You use a contained database named ContosoDb within a domain.

You need to create a user who can log on to the ContosoDb database. You also need to ensure that you can port the database to different database servers within the domain without additional user account configurations.

Which type of user should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database that has multiple tables in the Sales schema.

Some users must be prevented from deleting records in any of the tables in the Sales schema.

You need to manage users who are prevented from deleting records in the Sales schema. You need to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.

What should you do?

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You are the lead database administrator (DBA) of a Microsoft SQL Server environment.

All DBAs are members of the DOMAINJrDBAs Active Directory group. You grant DOMAINJrDBAs access to the SQL Server.

You need to create a server role named SpecialDBARole that can perform the following functions:

– View all databases.

– View the server state.

– Assign GRANT, DENY, and REVOKE permissions on logins.

You need to add DOMAINJrDBAs to the server role. You also need to provide the least level of privileges necessary.

Which three SQL statements should you use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

All database traffic to the SQL Server must be encrypted by using secure socket layer (SSL) certificates or the connection must be refused.

Network administrators have deployed server certificates to the Windows store of all Windows servers on the network from a trusted Certificate Authority. This is the only Certificate Authority allowed to distribute certificates on the network.

You enable the Force Encryption flag for the MSSQLServer protocols, but client computers are unable to connect. They receive the following error message:

"A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 – The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.) (Microsoft SQL Server)"

You notice the following entry in the SQL Server log:

"A self-generated certificate was successfully loaded for encryption." You need to configure SQL Server to encrypt all client traffic across the network. You also need to ensure that client computers are able to connect to the server by using a trusted

certificate.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database that has Trustworthy set to On. You create a stored procedure that returns database-level information from Dynamic Management Views.

You grant User1 access to execute the stored procedure.

You need to ensure that the stored procedure returns the required information when User1 executes the stored procedure. You need to achieve this goal by granting the minimum permissions required.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

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You are migrating a database named Orders to a new server that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

You attempt to add the [CorpnetUser1] login to the database.

However, you receive the following error message:

"User already exists in current database."

You need to configure the [CorpnetUser1] login to be able to access the Orders database and retain the original permissions. You need to achieve this goal by using the minimum required permissions.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

You configure Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on the Orders database by using the following statements:

You attempt to restore the Orders database and the restore fails. You copy the encryption file to the original location.

A hardware failure occurs and so a new server must be installed and configured. After installing SQL Server to the new server, you restore the Orders database and copy the encryption files to their original location.

However, you are unable to access the database.

You need to be able to restore the database.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use before attempting the restore?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that has multiple databases. You need to ensure that users are unable to create stored procedures that begin with sp_.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions

from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that has multiple databases. You need to ensure that users are unable to create stored procedures that begin with sp_.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions

from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that has multiple databases. You need to ensure that users are unable to create stored procedures that begin with sp_.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions

from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that has multiple databases. You need to ensure that users are unable to create stored procedures that begin with sp_.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions

from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that has multiple databases. You need to ensure that users are unable to create stored procedures that begin with sp_.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions

from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Policies are created and managed by using Management Studio. The process includes the following steps:

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

You provide temporary securityadmin access to User1 to the database server.

You need to know if User1 adds logins to securityadmin.

Which server-level audit action group should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.

You need to stop a blocking process that has an SPID of 64 without stopping other processes

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database server.

A variety of issues occur from time to time in the production environment. You need to identify the appropriate tool for each issue.

Which tool or tools should you use? (To answer, drag the appropriate tool or tools to the correct issue or issues in the answer area. Each tool may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 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?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database server. One of the databases on the server supports a highly active OLTP application.

Users report abnormally long wait times when they submit data into the application. You need to identify which queries are taking longer than 1 second to run over an extended period of time.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database that is used by an application. Users of the application report performance issues. You need to choose the appropriate tool for performance-tuning of SQL Server databases.

Which tool or tools should you use? (To answer, drag the appropriate tool or tools to their

corresponding task or tasks in the answer area. Each tool may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

You need to ensure that the size of the transaction log file does not exceed 2 GB.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server. The MSSQLSERVER service uses a domain account named CONTOSOSQLService.

You plan to configure Instant File Initialization.

You need to ensure that Data File Autogrow operations use Instant File Initialization.

What should you do? Choose all that apply.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You use a two-node SQL Server failover cluster. Node B is primary, and Node A is secondary.

You need to install a security patch on both nodes.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

– Both nodes receive the update.

– Downtime is minimized.

– No data is lost.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Starting with the update to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, customers with SQL Server 2012 failover cluster instances can greatly benefit from the fully automated update process provided by Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU). CAU causes minimal down time for SQL Server 2012 client connectivity. While the primary node is being updated, the SQL Server clustered role (also called the resource group) goes through two failovers. The first failover happens before updating the primary node when CAU brings the original primary node into maintenance mode. During the update process on the original primary node, the SQL clustered role is temporarily brought online on a new primary node. The second failover happens once the update process is complete on the original primary node, and CAU fails back the SQL Server clustered role to the original primary node and brings it online.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

The database contains a Product 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 Product table.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance. After a routine shutdown, the drive that contains tempdb fails.

You need to be able to start the SQL Server.

What should you do?

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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?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition server that uses 64 cores.

You discover performance issues when large amounts of data are written to tables under heavy system load. You need to limit the number of cores that handle I/O.

What should you configure?

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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 your backup will continue if any invalid checksum is encountered.

Which backup option should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 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.

On Wednesday at 10:00 hours, the development team requests you to refresh the database on a development server by using the most recent version.

You need to perform a full database backup that will be restored on the development server.

Which backup option should you use?

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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 minimum amount of data is lost.

Which recovery model should the database use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 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?

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Topic 2, Exam Pool B

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 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?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.

The instance contains a database that supports a retail sales application. The application generates hundreds of transactions per second and is online 24 hours per day and 7 days per week.

You plan to define a backup strategy for the database.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

– No more than 5 minutes worth of transactions are lost.

– Data can be recovered by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.

What should you do? Choose three.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains a table named OrderDetail. You discover that the NCI_OrderDetail_CustomerID non-clustered index is fragmented.

You need to reduce fragmentation. You need to achieve this goal without taking the index offline.

Which Transact-SQL batch should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database named Sales. The database is 3 terabytes in size.

The Sales database is configured as shown in the following table.

You discover that all files except Sales_2.ndf are corrupt. You need to recover the corrupted data in the minimum amount of time.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

The database uses SQL Server Agent jobs to perform regular FULL and LOG backups. The database uses the FULL recovery model. You plan to perform a bulk import of a very large text file.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met during the bulk operation:

– The database transaction log is minimally affected.

– The database is online and all user transactions are recoverable.

– All transactions are fully recoverable prior to the import.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

You want to import data from a text file to the database.

You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

– Data import is performed by using a stored procedure.

– Data is loaded as a unit and is minimally logged.

Which data import command and recovery model should you choose? (To answer, drag the appropriate data import command or recovery model to the appropriate location or locations in the answer area. Each data import command or recovery model may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

The database is backed up according to the following schedule:

– Daily full backup at 23:00 hours.

– Differential backups on the hour, except at 23:00 hours.

– Log backups every 10 minutes from the hour, except on the hour.

The database uses the Full recovery model. A developer accidentally drops a number of tables and stored procedures from the database between 22:40 hours and 23:10 hours. You perform a database restore at 23:30 hours to recover the dropped table.

You need to restore the database by using the minimum amount of administrative effort. You also need to ensure minimal data loss.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server instance that contains a database of confidential data.

You need to encrypt the database files at the page level. You also need to encrypt the transaction log files.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server server. You plan to deploy new features to an application.

You need to evaluate existing and potential clustered and non-clustered indexes that will improve performance.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to write messages to the Application Log when users are added to or removed from a fixed server role in Server01.

What should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to be notified immediately when fatal errors occur on Server01.

What should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to diagnose deadlocks that happen when executing a specific set of stored procedures by recording events and playing them back on a different test server.

What should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.

You need to prevent users from disabling server audits in Server01.

What should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database server that has a database named Contoso. The Contoso database has a table named EmployeeSalary in a schema named HumanResources.

You need to create a script that writes audit events into the application log whenever data in the EmployeeSalary table is modified by the public principal.

Which four Transact-SQL statements should you use? (To answer, move the appropriate statements from the list of statements to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database. Your database is experiencing deadlock issues. You need to be able to monitor deadlocks.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

A process that normally runs in less than 10 seconds has been running for more than an hour. You examine the application log and discover that the process is using session ID 60. You need to find out whether the process is being blocked.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

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You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company. You have two servers in the same data center that hosts your production database.

You need to ensure that the database remains available if a catastrophic server failure or a disk failure occurs.

You also need to maintain transactional consistency of the data across both servers.

You need to achieve these goals without manual intervention.

Which configuration should you use?

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You are a database administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment. The environment contains two servers named SQLServer01 and SQLServer02. The database Contoso exists on SQLServer01.

You plan to mirror the Contoso database between SQLServer01 and SQLServer02 by using database mirroring.

You need to prepare the Contoso database for database mirroring.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You create an availability group that has replicas named HA/Server01 and HA/Server02. Currently, HA/Server01 is the primary replica.

You have multiple queries that read data and produce reports from the database.

You need to offload the reporting workload to the secondary replica when HA/Server01 is the primary replica.

What should you do?

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You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers. Each server resides in a different, untrusted domain. You plan to configure database mirroring. You need to be able to create database mirroring endpoints on both servers.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that has several SQL Server Agent jobs configured.

When SQL Server Agent jobs fail, the error messages returned by the job steps do not provide the required detail.

The following error message is an example error message:

"The job failed. The Job was invoked by User CONTOSOServiceAccount. The last step to run was step 1 (Subplan_1)."

You need to ensure that all available details of the job step failures for SQL Server Agent jobs are retained.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database. Service accounts for SQL Agent are configured to use a local user.

A Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) job step has been created within a SQL Server Agent job.

The SSIS package accesses a network share when exporting data from a SQL Server database.

When you execute the SQL Server Agent job, it fails due to a permissions failure on a share on a remote server.

You need to ensure that the SQL Server Agent job can execute the SSIS package.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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SQL Server Agent allows creating a proxy account which defines the security context for the job step. We need to do is to create a credential to be used by the proxy account.

The created proxy need to have access to the SSIS subsystem

References: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2163/running-a-ssis-package-from-sql-server­agent-using-a-proxy-account/

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You need to configure a new database to support FILETABLES.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

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You administer two instances of Microsoft SQL Server. You deploy an application that uses a database on the named instance.

The application is unable to connect to the database on the named instance.

You need to ensure that the application can connect to the named instance.

What should you do?

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You use a contained database named ContosoDb within a domain.

You need to create a user who can log on to the ContosoDb database. You also need to ensure that you can port the database to different database servers within the domain without additional user account configurations.

Which type of user should you create?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

You configure Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on the Orders database by using the following statements:

CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = ‘MyPassword1!’

CREATE CERTIFICATE TDE_Certificate WITH SUBJECT = ‘TDE Certificate’;

BACKUP CERTIFICATE TDE_Certificate TO FILE = ”d:TDE_Certificate.cer’

WITH PRIVATE KEY (FILE = ‘D:TDE_Certificate.key’, ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = ‘MyPassword1!’);

CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY

WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256

ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE TDE_Certificate;

ALTER DATABASE Orders SET ENCRYPTION ON;

You attempt to restore the Orders database and the restore fails. You copy the encryption file to

the original location.

A hardware failure occurs and so a new server must be installed and configured.

After installing SQL Server to the new server, you restore the Orders database and copy the encryption files to their original location.

However, you are unable to access the database.

You need to be able to restore the database.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use before attempting the restore?

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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?

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You administer a SQL 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 remove the Select permission for UserA on the Regions table. You also need to ensure that UserA can still access all the tables in the Customers schema, including the Regions table, through the Sales role permissions.

Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

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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?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster that contains two nodes named Node A and Node B. A single instance of SQL Server is installed on the cluster.

An additional node named Node C has been added to the existing cluster.

You need to ensure that the SQL Server instance can use all nodes of the cluster.

What should you do?

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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?

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You are creating an application that will connect to the AgentPortal database by using a SQL login named AgentPortalUser. Stored procedures in the database will use sp_send_dbmail to send email messages.

You create a user account in the msdb database for the AgentPortalUser login. You use the Database Mail Configuration Wizard to create a Database Mail profile. Security has not been configured for the Database Mail profile.

You need to ensure that AgentPortalUser can send email messages.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.

You need to convert the database to a contained database. You also need to ensure that all users are converted to contained users.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance.

The instance is hosted by a server that has a local firewall configured. The firewall only allows inbound connections on port 1433. The server only hosts a single instance of SQL Server. You need to ensure that the instance is configured to allow remote connections even if the SQL

Server is unresponsive to client connections.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 clustered instance that has two nodes named Node 1 and Node 2.

Node 1 fails and the cluster fails over to Node 2.

You need to replace Node 1 and add it to the cluster.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to write code for a transaction that contains several statements. There is high contention between readers and writers on several tables used by your transaction. You need to minimize the use of the tempdb space.

You also need to prevent reading queries from blocking writing queries.

Which isolation level should you use?

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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 implement log shipping of the financial database to another SQL Server 2012 instance. You decide to failover to this secondary database.

You need to ensure that all transactions will be replicated to the secondary database.

Which backup option should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.

You need to install the Power View components on a stand-alone server.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.

You have a SQL Server Agent job instance that runs using the service account. You have a job step within the job that requires elevated permissions. You need to ensure that the job step can run using a different user account.

What should you use?

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You maintain several databases on a 32-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 instance on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit server.

You need to migrate the databases to a 64-bit SQL Server 2012 instance on the same server. You also need to ensure that the new Transact-SQL functionality in SQL Server 2012 can be used in the database after the migration.

What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You discover that the SQL Agent Error Log file is rapidly growing in size.

You need to ensure that the SQL Agent Error Log file does not grow rapidly when SQL Server

agent jobs execute.

What should you do?

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You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server instance.

You need to ensure that data can be migrated from a production server to two reporting servers with minimal data latency. You also need to ensure that data on the reporting server is always accessible.

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains a table named

AccountTransaction.

You discover that query performance on the table is poor due to fragmentation on the IDX_AccountTransaction_AccountCode non-clustered index.

You need to defragment the index. You also need to ensure that user queries are able to use the index during the defragmenting process.

Which Transact-SQL batch should you use?

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You administer a Windows 2008 server hosting an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition. The server hosts a database named Orders.

Users report that a query that filters on OrderDate is taking an exceptionally long time. You discover that an index named IX_OrderDate on the CustomerOrder table is heavily fragmented.

You need to improve the performance of the IX_OrderDate index. The index should remain online during the operation.

Which Transact-SQL command should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft Azure SQL Database database named Orders.

You need to create a copy of Orders named Orders_Reporting.

Which Transact-SQL command should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster.

You need to ensure that a failover occurs when the server diagnostics returns query_processing error.

Which server configuration property should you set?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database instance. Other applications run on the server. Some of the applications are throwing errors because of insufficient memory.

You need to ensure that the other applications have sufficient memory.

Which setting should you configure?

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You are the administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server database server.

Some applications consume significant resources. You need to manage the server workload by restricting resource-intensive applications

You need to dynamically limit resource consumption.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database that includes a table named dbo.Log. This table contains millions of records about user activity in an application.

Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention with inserts.

You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize dbo.Log.

Which type of solution should you use?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database named Orders.

Users report that during peak usage periods, certain operations are taking more time than expected. Your initial analysis suggests that blocking is the cause.

You need to gather more data to be able to determine which processes are being blocked and to identify the root cause.

What should you do?

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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database. Users report that a billing application becomes unresponsive during busy times of the day. While investigating, you notice large number of processes taking or waiting for table locks. You suspect that SQL Server is assigning stronger locks to queries. You start a SQL Profiler trace.

Which event should you select?

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