DRAG DROP
You administer several Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers. Your company has a number of
offices across the world connected by using a wide area network (WAN).
Connections between offices vary significantly in both bandwidth and reliability.
You need to identify the correct replication method for each scenario.
What should you do? (To answer, drag the appropriate replication method or methods to the
correct location or locations in the answer area. Each replication method may be used once,
more than once, or not at all.)

You administer several Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database servers. Merge replication has
been configured for an application that is distributed across offices throughout a wide area
network (WAN).
Many of the tables involved in replication use the XML and varchar (max) data types.
Occasionally, merge replication fails due to timeout errors.
You need to reduce the occurrence of these timeout errors.
What should you do?

DRAG DROP
You administer two Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers named ServerA and ServerB. You
use a database named AdventureWorks.
You need to prepare the AdventureWorks database for database mirroring. ServerB will act
as the mirror in a mirroring partnership along with ServerA.
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 create an availability group named HaContoso that has replicas named Server01/HA,
Server02/HA, and Server03/HA
Currently, Server01l/HA is the primary replicA
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

• Backup operations occur on Server02/HA
• If Server02/HA is unavailable, backup operations occur on Server03/HA
• Backup operations do not occur on Server01/HA
How should you configure HaContoso?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that has several SQL Server Agent
jobs configured.
When SQL Server Agent jobs fail, the error messages returned by the job steps are
truncated.
The following error message is an example of the truncated error message:
“Executed as user CONTOSO\ServiceAccount….0.4035.00 for 64-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft
Corp 1984-2011. All rights reserveD. Started 63513 PM Error 2012-06-23 183536.87 Code
0XC001000E Source UserImport Description Code 0x00000000 Source Log Import Activity
Descript… The package execution fa… The step failed. “
You need to ensure that all the details of the job step failures are retained for SQL Server
Agent jobs.
What should you do?

DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment that contains a production SQL
Server 2005 instance named SQL2005 and a development SQL Server 2012 instance
named SQL2012.
The development team develops a new application that uses the SQL Server 2012
functionality. You are planning to migrate a database from SQL2005 to SQL2012 so that the
development team can test their new application.
You need to migrate the database without affecting the production environment.
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 three Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 instances.
Database mirroring is configured in High-Safety mode with Automatic Failover between the
following three servers:
SQL1 is the Principal server.
SQL2 is the mirror server.
SQL3 is the witness server.
You need to upgrade SQL1 and SQL2 to SQL Server 2012. You need to ensure that
downtime is minimized during the upgrade.
Which six 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 server that has SQL Server Integration
Services (SSIS) installed.
You plan to deploy new SSIS packages to the server. The SSIS packages use the Project
Deployment Model together with parameters and Integration Services environment
variables.
You need to configure the SQL Server environment to support these packages.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.
When transaction logs grow, SQL Server must send an email message to the database
administrators.
You need to configure SQL Server to send the email messages.
What should you configure?

You administer two instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You deploy an application that
uses a database on the named instance.
The application is unable to connect to the database on the named instance.
You need to ensure that the application can connect to the named instance.
What should you do?