You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
You have a SQL Server Agent job instance that runs using the service account. You have a job step
within the job that requires elevated permissions.
You need to ensure that the job step can run using a different user account.
What should you use?

You maintain several databases on a 32-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 instance on a Windows Server
2008 R2 64-bit server.
You need to migrate the databases to a 64-bit SQL Server 2012 instance on the same server. You also
need to ensure that the new Transact-SQL functionality in SQL Server 2012 can be used in the
database after the migration.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.
You discover that the SQL Agent Error Log file is rapidly growing in size.
You need to ensure that the SQL Agent Error Log file does not grow rapidly when SQL Server agent
jobs execute.
What should you do?

You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.
You need to ensure that data can be replicated from a production server to two reporting servers in
real time.
You also need to ensure that data on the reporting server is always accessible.
Which solution should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains a table named
AccountTransaction.
You discover that query performance on the table is poor due to fragmentation on the
IDX_AccountTransaction_AccountCode non-clustered index.
You need to defragment the index. You also need to ensure that user queries are able to use the
index during the defragmenting process.
Which Transact-SQL batch should you use?

You administer a Windows 2008 server hosting an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard
Edition. The server hosts a database named Orders.
Users report that a query that filters on OrderDate is taking an exceptionally long time. You discover
that an index named IX_OrderDate on the CustomerOrder table is heavily fragmenteD.
You need to improve the performance of the IX_OrderDate index. The index should remain online
during the operation.
Which Transact-SQL command should you use?

You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Orders.
You need to create a copy of Orders named Orders_Reporting.
Which Transact-SQL command should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 failover cluster.
You need to ensure that a failover occurs when the server diagnostics returns query_processing
error.
Which server configuration property should you set?

HOTSPOT
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database instance. Other applications run on the server.
Some of the applications are throwing errors because of insufficient memory.
You need to ensure that the other applications have sufficient memory.
Which setting should you configure?

You are the administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.
Some applications consume significant resources. You need to manage the server workload by
restricting resource-intensive applications
You need to dynamically limit resource consumption.
What should you do?