You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server. You plan to deploy new features to an
application.
You need to evaluate existing and potential clustered and non-clustered indexes that will improve
performance.
What should you do?

DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a database of confidential data.
You need to encrypt the database files at the page level. You also need to encrypt the transaction log
files.
Which four actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from
the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
The database is backed up according to the following schedule:
Daily full backup at 23:00 hours.
Differential backups on the hour, except at 23:00 hours.
Log backups every 10 minutes from the hour, except on the hour.
The database uses the Full recovery model.
A developer accidentally drops a number of tables and stored procedures from the database
between 22:40 hours and 23:10 hours. You perform a database restore at 23:30 hours to recover the
dropped table.
You need to restore the database by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
You also need to ensure minimal data loss.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions
from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.
You want to import data from a text file to the database.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
Data import is performed by using a stored procedure.
Data is loaded as a unit and is minimally logged.
Which data import command and recovery model should you choose? (To answer, drag the
appropriate data import command or recovery model to the appropriate location or locations in the
answer area. Each data import command or recovery model may be used once, more than once, or
not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)

DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
The database uses SQL Server Agent jobs to perform regular FULL and LOG backups. The database
uses the FULL recovery model.
You plan to perform a bulk import of a very large text file.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met during the bulk operation:
The database transaction log is minimally affected.
The database is online and all user transactions are recoverable.
All transactions are fully recoverable prior to the import.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions
from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to write messages to the Application Log when users are added to or removed from a fixed
server role in Server01.
What should you create?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to be notified immediately when fatal errors occur on Server01.
What should you create?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to diagnose deadlocks that happen when executing a specific set of stored procedures by
recording events and playing them back on a different test server.
What should you create?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Contoso on a server named Server01.
You need to prevent users from disabling server audits in Server01.
What should you create?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
A process that normally runs in less than 10 seconds has been running for more than an hour.
You examine the application log and discover that the process is using session ID 60.
You need to find out whether the process is being blocked.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?