Which of the following represents the directory permissions to provide least privilege for publicly readable directories on a Unix web server?

A small office has installed a server inside a writing closet. Users report losing connectivity to the server at various times throughout the day.
Which of the following should have been considered before installing the server to prevent this issue from occurring?

A user is unable to save an image file to the home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user’s home directory and finds that the user has enough space and required access to write to the directory. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the user is unable to save the file?

Which of the following virtual network settings should be used if the IP addresses of the host is to be shared with the virtual machine?

An administrator needs to back up changed files only and has time constraints on the back up window. Which of the following is the BEST choice for a backup strategy?

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) allows:

A technician reads a hardware manufacturer’s blog indicating a critical firmware update is available for the company’s file server. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

A systems administrator receives an email indicating a Windows user in finance cannot access the finance server remotely but is currently logged onto the network.
Which of the following ports should be checked to determine if it is listening or open?

A server has rebooted early in the morning on the second Wednesday of each month for the past three months. No one was logged into the server at the time of the reboots, and there was no planned maintenance on any of the mornings in question. Which of the following is a server technician likely to inspect FIRST to determine the cause of the reboots?

An existing server has three 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA drives and five empty drive bays. The network manager orders three 2 TB 5400 RPM SAS drives. The technician installs them properly, but when attempting to provision the drives, a message displays “Type mismatch”. Which of the following is the reason for this error message?

An email administrator is tasked to set up a Linux mail server. One of the requirements is to close all ports except SSH, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4. Which of the following commands should be used to see which ports are currently open on the email server? (Choose two.)

A server technician is configuring a remote site and must ensure an active-active, site-to-site replication is enabled to adhere to disaster recovery initiatives with little to no change between production and the remote site. Which of the following site types BEST represents the purpose of this remote site?

A technician needs to install more add-on cards than there are available expansion slots. Which of the following would allow the technician to accomplish this?

A newly hired administrator is tasked to change the number of CPUs assigned to a VM. Which of the following if the FIRST step the administrator should do during a scheduled maintenance window?

An administrator is setting up a new mail server on the network and wants to open necessary ports to allow POP3 protocol for mail delivery. Which of the following ports should be opened in the internal and external firewalls?

A server technician is procuring rail kits for a 2U rack mount server. Company policy dictates all rail kits must allow full extension of the system out of the rack.
Given these requirements, which of the following rail kit types should the technician obtain?

A server has five hot swappable drives in a hardware RAID 5 configuration. One of those drives has issued a predictive failure warning to the server’s management console. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

FILE-SERVER-1 is being decommissioned. A server technician powers off the server labeled FILE-SERVER-1 only to find out the label on the server was incorrect, causing an outage. Which of the following could have helped avoid this outage?

An administrator is installing a server to be used to dynamically assign IP addresses to the network devices. Which of the following server roles must be used?

A technician is logged into the network through VPN. Which of the following utilities can be used to connect to a server to verify a process is running? (Choose two.)

A server administrator is deploying a new database server and wishes to maximize the number of IOPS. Which of the following disk types would BEST accomplish this goal?

An administrator is unable to install a 64-bit OS on a newly purchased server. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

An IT manager noticed that specific directories’ permissions are being changed by users. Which of the following will prevent this from occurring?

A technician is selecting a UPS to use with a blade enclosure containing five blades with room for an additional seven blades. The blade enclosure is currently consuming 2500W of power, and each additional blade will need 200W of power. Assuming runtime to be less than a minute, which of the following is the MINIMUM amount of UPS wattage needed for the blade enclosure with all blades installed?

A server has been operating normally for several months. Users suddenly begin reporting that the server is responding very slowly. Which of the following tools are the BEST choices for the administrator to use to troubleshoot the problem? (Choose two.)

Maintaining operations in the event of a complete power outage requires a tested and established:

A security incident occurs that requires a systems administrator to take an image of a user’s workstation hard drive. Which of the following should be taken at the time the system image is generated and retained through the file of the investigation to assure files have not been modified since?

A technician is asked to install three servers: a 1U, a 4U, and a 6U. Which of the following is the MOST correct order to install these servers starting from the top of the rack?

A systems administrator is installing a new software package on a server. The software has many dependencies. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for the systems administrator to take to ensure there is no downtime with the installation of this software package?

Payroll checks are not printing. A job scheduled to run \\Payroll_File_Server\Checks\Print.cmd is failing with an “Access Denied” error message. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A systems administrator has determined that there are several users experiencing problems within two offices that have recently merged into one OU. Users within one of these offices are not having these issues. Which of the following is MOST likely misconfigured?

A technician is configuring the IP networking portion on a server installation. Which of the following types of IP addresses would be BEST to use for this server?

A technician has a server with ten hard drives in a RAID 6 configuration. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of drives that can fail in the array while maintaining data integrity?

An outside contractor is hired to perform a business impact analysis of a simulated disaster. The contractor asks stakeholders what they think a hurricane would do to the business. This is an inadequate method because:

An administrator is setting up LDAP in the environment to allow directory services authentication and login, and wants to allow secure connection only. Which of the following network ports should be allowed on the internal and external firewalls?

A datacenter customer reports the servers are having hardware failures at an unusual rate. A server technician is dispatched to the datacenter floor and notices several racks have condensation on their cold-side doors. Which of the following is the technician likely to report as the MOST likely cause of the hardware failures?

Which of the following should a systems administrator create to enable network connectivity on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A systems administrator creates a new file server. Before the users can access the server, which of the following must be done FIRST?

A server administrator is notified of an OS hot fix for a production server. Which of the following BEST represent how the hot fix should be applied? (Choose two.)

A customer reports their mail can send emails but not receive them. A technician arrives on-site to troubleshoot the issue. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician do FIRST?

A server technician is connecting a server directly to a multilayer switch, without MDI-X. Which of the following cables should the server technician use?

A company executive asks the network administrator to help to reduce power consumption in a datacenter. The administrator suggests changing the servers running on 110V to 220V. Which of the following will occur as a result of this action?

After installing a 1 TB hard drive, a technician notices the OS is reporting significantly less unformatted capacity than was expected. Which of the following is the root cause?

At the time of implementing a solution, it is important to: (Choose two.)

Immediately following a BIOS firmware update, a server detects an overheat condition and shuts down after five minutes. Which of the following should the systems administrator do FIRST?

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 systems administrator wants to run a report that will analyze a network’s server performance at a specific point in time. Which of the following documents would be the best practice to create?

A technician correctly powers off and replaces a cache battery on a RAID controller. When the server is powered back up, it restarts but indicates there are no logical disk volumes found. The server halts. Which of the following components should the technician check FIRST?