Which of the following involves finding and correcting the MOST important reason for performance
issues?

A company has hired a consultant to review the production storage infrastructure and provide
suggestions on improving performance. The consultant has identified a bottleneck in the production
switching fabric and successfully tested the solution in a lab environment. Which of the following
should the consultant perform NEXT, according to best practices?

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 technician needs to install an operating system patch on a virtual server. Which of the following
backup types should the technician perform prior to the patch installation that will allow the server
to be restored the FASTEST?

In an effort to reduce recovery time during hardware failures, a server administrator needs to
implement a backup method that will allow for complete OS and service/application recovery as
long as compatible hardware is available. Which of the following backup types meets this
requirement?

A technician wants to implement a grandfather-father-son tape rotation policy. Which of the
following implements this backup strategy?

A hardware failure affects a server in a datacenter. The server is critical to company operation, and
the hardware vendor is out of stock on the parts needed to repair the server. A network technician
suggests replacing it with a server from the warm site. Which of the following should the technician
do FIRST?

A technician has traveled to a company’s alternate site to assess current operations of the network
infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything
is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the
company have?

An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company’s disaster recovery site.
Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations.
Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?

A server administrator is setting up a new set of hosts for an application that requires
communication between all the hosts on a dedicated private subnet. Initially, the configuration
consists of four hosts and is expected to grow to 48 total as the application is implemented for the
entire company. When configuring the private subnet, which of the following CIDR netmasks would
allow for the full number of hosts once the application is fully in production with the least number of
unused addresses allocated?