Microsoft PRO:MS SQL Serv 08,Design,Optimize, and Maintain DB Admin Solu Sample Questions:

1. You administer a SQL Server 2005 instance. The instance is configured to use the named pipes network
communication protocol.
You plan to upgrade the instance to SQL Server 2008.
You need to ensure that the upgraded isntance can continue to use the named pipes network
communication protocol.
You also need to ensure that the server uses the most secure authentication method available.
Which authentication method should you use?

A) Kerberos authentication
B) Mixed-mode authentication
C) NTLM authentication
D) SQL Server authentication

2. Your SQL Server 2008 database contains two tables named Customer and Order inside the Sales schema.
The Sales schema is defined as follows:
It has a stored procedure named SetCustomerStatus that reads from Order and modifies Customer.
It is owned by a user named SalesUser.
Another user named marketingUser wants to be able to call SetCustomerStatus and change the status of Customer.
You need to assign the least permission necessary to MarketingUser.
What should you do? (More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.)

A) Set only Take Ownership on ustomer and Order.
B) Set only Execute on SetCustomerStatus.
C) Perform the following tasks:
Set Execute on SetCustomerStatus.
Set Select on Customer.
Set Update on Order.
D) Perform the following tasks:
Set Select on Customer.
Set Update on Order.

3. You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo.
A 32-bit version is utilized by the instance on a Windows Server 2008 64-bit server. You activate the awe enabled option. A predictable increase in query activity will be experienced by the instance. You are required to figure out the most proper and beneficial time to have the databases migrated to a 64-bit SQL Server 2008 server on the same hardware.
A data collector type that proper information is provided should be identified.
What kind of collector should you utilize?

A) You should utilize Query Activity collector
B) You should utilize SQL Trace collector
C) You should utilize Performance Counters collector
D) You should utilize T-SQL Query collector

4. You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator.
A business-critical database is hosted by the instance, and the database must be constantly available to the users with no data loss. Filestream data is contained by the database.
A high-availability solution should be designed for the site.
Which solution should be utilized?

A) Asynchronous database mirroring should be utilized.
B) Database snapshot should be utilized.
C) Synchronous database mirroring with a witness server should be utilized.
D) Failover clustering should be utilized.

5. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance that hosts a large database.
The following backup strategy is used for the database:
A full database backup is performed at 02:00 hr every Monday.
A differential backup is performed at 23:00 hr every day.
A transaction log backup is performed on an hourly basis.
A power failure on Thursday causes the SQL Server 2008 server to restart at 09:15 hr.
Fifteen minutes after the server restarts, the users report that they are unable to execute certain queries
that access
customer data. You discover that the customer data is unmodified after the power failure.
When you execute the DBCC CHECKDB command on the database, you receive the following error
message:
Object ID 2814307832, index ID 2, partition ID 83127819437122157, alloc unit ID 82134587923221126
(type In-row data): Page (3421:169) could not be processed. See other errors for d etails.
Table error: Object ID 2814307832, index ID 2, partition ID 83127819437122157, alloc unit ID
82134587923221126 (type In-row data), page (3421:169). Test (IS_OFF (BUF_IOERR, pBUF- > bstat))
failed. Values are 16928422 and -8.
CHECKDB found 0 allocatio n errors and 2 consistency errors in table 'tbl_Customer' (object ID
2814307832).
When you execute the sp_help 'tbl_customer' stored procedure you receive the following result set:
index_name index_description PK clustered located on PRIMARY NCIX nonclustered located on PRIMARY
You need to ensure that the data is available as quickly as possible with minimal effect on users.
What should you do?

A) Drop and recreate the NCIX index.
B) Restore the latest full database backup. Restore the latest differential backup. Restore all transaction log backups from the latest differential backup.
C) Restore the latest full database backup. Restore all transaction log backups from the latest full database backup.
D) Drop and recreate the PK index.

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