DRAG DROP
You administer a single Microsoft SQL Server instance on a two-node failover cluster that has nodes
named Node A and Node B. The instance is currently running on Node
A
You want to patch both Node A and Node B by using the most recent SQL Server Service Pack.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
Both nodes receive the update.
Downtime is minimized.
No data is lost.
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.
The database contains a Product table created by using the following definition:

You need to ensure that the minimum amount of disk space is used to store the data in the Product
table.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance. After a routine shutdown, the drive that
contains tempdb fails.
You need to be able to start the SQL Server.
What should you do?

You administer a single server that contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 default instance.
You plan to install a new application that requires the deployment of a database on the server. The
application login requires sysadmin permissions.
You need to ensure that the application login is unable to access other production databases.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition server that uses 64 cores.
You discover performance issues when large amounts of data are written to tables under heavy
system load.
You need to limit the number of cores that handle I/O.
What should you configure?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a
storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday
between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15
hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of
data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be
performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
You need to ensure that your backup will continue if any invalid checksum is encountered.
Which backup option should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a
storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday
between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15
hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of
data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be
performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
On Wednesday at 10:00 hours, the development team requests you to refresh the database on a
development server by using the most recent version.
You need to perform a full database backup that will be restored on the development server.
Which backup option should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a
storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday
between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15
hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of
data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be
performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
You need to ensure that the minimum amount of data is lost.
Which recovery model should the database use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a
storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
Drive E has 5 GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday
between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15
hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of
data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be
performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
You need to ensure that the backup size is as small as possible.
Which backup should you perform every two hours?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance named SQL2012 that hosts an OLTP database
of 1 terabyte in size.
The database is modified by users only from Monday through Friday from 09:00 hours to 17:00
hours. Users modify more than 30 percent of the data in the database during the week.
Backups are performed as shown in the following schedule:

The Finance department plans to execute a batch process every Saturday at 09:00 hours. This batch
process will take a maximum of 8 hours to complete.
The batch process will update three tables that are 10 GB in size. The batch process will update
these tables multiple times.
When the batch process completes, the Finance department runs a report to find out whether the
batch process has completed correctly.
You need to ensure that if the Finance department disapproves the batch process, the batch
operation can be rolled back in the minimum amount of time.
What should you do on Saturday?