An administrator needs to perform a backup of all servers for an upcoming disaster recovery exercise at a company cold site. Which of the following types of backup should be performed?
A. Snapshot
B. Incremental
C. Differential
D. Full
Which of the following allows for a connection of devices to both sides inside of a blade enclosure?
A. Midplane
B. Active backplane
C. Passive backplane
D. Management module
Which of the following protocols utilize SSH and TCP over port 22 for secure communication? (Choose two.)
A. SFTP
B. FTP
C. TFTP
D. SCP
E. FTPS
F. SMTP
A server administrator was hired by a company to manage and maintain 20 Windows-based servers in five geographical locations. The server administrator is going to run patches manually to ensure they are applied, which would address some major security-related items. Which of the following methods would MOST likely be the way to handle this task?
A. Physically go to each server
B. Schedule automatic patching
C. Use the management interface on the server
D. Use RDP to log into each server
A technician is troubleshooting a hardware issue with a blade. When the technician inserts the blade into a slot, the blade will not power up. The blade will power up, however, in another chassis that has the same configuration. The blade management software reports no issue with the chassis or with any other blades.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the blade not powering up?
A. Chassis firmware
B. Chassis power supply
C. Slot in backplane
D. Blade management module
A systems administrator sees a production server is missing a service pack and installs it during the day without notifying anyone. Later that day, users begin reporting issues accessing an application installed on the server. Upon
investigation, it is discovered that the application will not start properly.
Adhering to which of the following processes would have BEST helped avoid this outage?
A. Service level agreement
B. Business continuity plan
C. Business impact analysis
D. Change management policies
A junior systems administrator wants to know which components on a server are normally hot-swappable. Which of the following components are usually hot-swappable? (Select TWO).
A. Hard drive
B. CPU
C. RAM
D. Power supply
E. NIC
An office in another location with hardware and equipment with replicated data is called a:
A. warm site.
B. hot site.
C. cold site.
D. duplicated site.
An administrator checks a server running a RAID 1 with ten drives and notices three drives have blinking amber lights. Which of the following is the FIRST action the administrator should take?
A. Reseat the drives one at a time
B. Inform the users the server is down
C. Shut down the server and replace the drives
D. Call support and open a case
An administrator is securing a network time server by disabling ports. After completing this process, the network time server is not functioning. The administrator should now go back and verify whether which of the following ports is enabled?
A. 23
B. 110
C. 123
D. 389