HOTSPOT
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance.
You need to configure an existing SQL Authenticated Login that meets the following
requirements:
Enforces password policy
No password expiration enforcement
Resets the default database to AdventureWorks database
Which option or options should you choose in the Login Properties of the login for User1?
(To answer, configure the appropriate option or options in the dialog box in the answer area.)

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Orders.
Orders contains a table named OrderShip that is defined as follows:

A NULL value represents a domestic order. Ninety percent of the values in CountryCode are NULL.
Customers require a procedure that will return orders for all customers from a specified
country. You create a new procedure:

Performance on this procedure is slow.
You need to alter the schema to optimize this query. Objects created must use a minimum
amount of resources.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database is currently configured
to log ship to a secondary server.
You are preparing to cut over to the secondary server by stopping log-shipping and bringing
the secondary database online. You want to perform a tail-log backup.
You need to leave the primary database in a restoring state.
Which option of the BACKUP LOG command should you use?

HOTSPOT
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.
The database is in the Simple recovery mode.
You schedule the following backup plan:
Full backup every day at midnight
Differential backups every hour on the hour, except at midnight
The database fails at 20:45 hours.
You need to use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to begin restoring the database to
a new server instance with a minimum amount of data loss.

Which options should you select on the Options page of the Restore Database window? (To
answer, configure the appropriate option or options in the dialog box in the answer area.)

DRAG DROP

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database contains two tables
named Table A and Table B.
You perform an import and export operation by using the following steps in sequence, as
shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

Load data from a third-party database to Table A.

Insert a subset of records from Table A to Table B. Export the data from Table B to a flat
file.
You also create a format file for the data export.
You need to choose the correct command or tool for each task. You need to ensure that
each task is performed efficiently.
Which command(s) or tool(s) should you use? (To answer, drag the appropriate
command(s) or tool(s) to their corresponding task or tasks in the answer area. Answer
choices may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Answer targets may be used once
or not at all. Additionally, you may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. You want to make a full backup of
the database to a file on disk.
In doing so, you need to output the progress of the backup.
Which backup option should you use?

You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named
AdventureWorks2012.
You create an Availability Group defined by the following schema. (Line numbers are
included for reference only.)

You need to implement an AlwaysOnAvailablity Group that will meet the following conditions:
Production transactions should be minimally affected.
The secondary server should allow reporting queries to be performed.
If the primary server goes offline, the secondary server should not automatically take over.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you insert at line 06?

DRAG DROP

You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment that
contains two SQL Server instances named Server01 and Server02. The Contoso database
is located on Server01. Through database mirroring, a copy of the Contoso database is on
Server02.
During the last manual failover of database mirroring, the recovery took longer than usual.
You need to determine where the synchronization bottleneck is for the database mirroring
topology.
Which performance counter or counters should you use for each server? (To answer, drag
the appropriate performance counter or counters to their corresponding server or servers in
the answer area. Answer choices may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Answer
targets may be used once or not at all. Additionally, you may need to drag the split bar
between panes or scroll to view content.)

You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ProdSrv1 and ProdSrv2.
ProdSrv1 is configured as a Distributor. Both servers are configured to use the Windows NT
Service virtual accounts for all SQL Services.
You are configuring snapshot replication from ProdSrv1 to ProdSrv2 by using ProdSrv2 as a
pull subscriber.
The distribution agent on ProdSrv2 regularly fails, displaying the following error message:
“Cannot access the file. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.).”
You need to configure the distribution agent by granting only the minimum required access
to all accounts.

What should you do?

You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment.
You want to deploy a new application that will scale out the workload to at least five different
SQL Server instances.
You need to ensure that for each copy of the database, users are able to read and write data
that will then be synchronized between all of the database instances.
Which feature should you use?