Your company has a server named SQL1 that runs SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. SQL1

has 2 GB of RAM, 1.6 GB of which are used by the default SQL Server database engine instance. The average data growth of all databases combined is 100 MB a month.
Users state that report execution times are increasing. You want to assess whether more RAM is needed. You need to use System Monitor to create a counter log that will help you decide whether to add RAM. Which performance object should you add to the counter log?

Your company has a server named SQL1 that is dedicated to SQL Server 2005. SQL1 is configured for SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode. Using Windows Authentication, you have sysadmin privileges on SQL1.
All users who work with SQL1 report that all applications that use SQL1 stop responding. Your supervisor asks you to investigate the problem. In Task Manager, you notice that CPU usage is at 100 percent.
You try to connect to SQL1 by using SQL Server Management Studio. SQL1 does not respond. You need to connect to SQL1 to diagnose the problem. What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

Your database named DB1 is one of 15 databases located on a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL1. Recently, users who work with DB1 report that they experience long query execution times.
You want to reproduce and analyze this problem in a test environment that holds all copies of the production databases.
You need to record the workload for an entire day on SQL1 for later execution on the test server.
You must ensure that all events are captured without skipping any, even if SQL1 is under stress. What should you do?

A full backup of your database named DB1 is created auMikeatically at midnight every day. Differential backups of DB1 occur twice each day at 10:00 and at 16:00. A database snapshot is created every day at noon.
A developer reports that he accidentally dropped the Pricelist table in DB1 at 12:30. The last update to Pricelist occurred one week ago. You need to recover the Pricelist table.
You want to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort. You must also minimize the amount of data that is lost. What should you do?

You are implementing transaction log shipping for a database named DB1 from a server named SOL1 to a server named SQL2. Because DB1 is 100 GB in size, it is too big to transfer over the network in a reasonable amount of time.
You need to minimize the impact on the network while you initialize the secondary database. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

Your company has a network that consists of two domains named DOM1 and DOM2. There is no trust relationship between DOM1 and DOM2. DOM1 contains a server named SQL1. DOM2 contains a server named SQL2.

Both servers run SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server instance on SQL1 uses the DOM1 SQLService1 service account.
The SQL Server instance on SQL2 uses the DOM2SQLService2 service account. There are no mirroring endpoints on either server. SQL1 contains a database named DB1 .
You want to mirror DB1 to SQL2 by using high-protection mode without a witness. You need to create the database mirroring endpoints and configure security on all participating server instances. What should you do?

Your company uses SQL Server 2005. A user reports that an order processing application stopped responding in the middle of an order transaction. The users SQL Server session ID is
54. You need to find out if session 54 is blocked by another connection. If it is, you need to identity the blocking session ID. What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

You use a SQL Server 2005 computer that was installed with the default settings. A database named DB1 is located on the server. Due to the recent failure of a hard disk controller, you decide to check the integrity of DB1.
You create a maintenance task named CheckDB1 that uses default settings. Because this check must not interfere with user transactions, you schedule it to run over the weekend.
The following Monday, you need to retrieve the outcome details of the CheckDB1 maintenance plan.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

You are responsible for managing a SQL Server 2005 database. This database is updated with data that is exported from another site. On a monthly basis, data is loaded into the database from a flat file by using the bcp utility.
This operation should be minimally logged. However, users report that they receive error messages indicating that the transaction log is full.
You investigate and discover that the errors occur when the data is being imported.
You need to prevent this problem from occurring. What should you do?

You are creating a Web-based application to manage data aggregation for reports. The application connects to a SQL Server 2005 database named DataManager.
One page in the application has controls that execute stored procedures in a database named ReportingDatabase. There is an existing Service Broker connection between the DataManager database and ReportingDatabase.
You want to add two new message types to the existing service. In each database, you create message types named ProcessReport and SendResult. You need to add the two new message types to the existing service.
What should you do first?