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?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that includes a table named dbo.Log. This
table contains millions of records about user activity in an application.
Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged,
table locks are causing contention with inserts.
You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize
dbo.Log.
Which type of solution should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Orders.
Users report that during peak usage periods, certain operations are taking more time than expected.
Your initial analysis suggests that blocking is the cause.
You need to gather more data to be able to determine which processes are being blocked and to
identify the root cause.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database.
Users report that a billing application becomes unresponsive during busy times of the day.
While investigating, you notice large number of processes taking or waiting for table locks.
You suspect that SQL Server is assigning stronger locks to queries.
You start a SQL Profiler trace.
Which event should you select?