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

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?

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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?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that has multiple databases. You have a twonode SQL Server failover cluster. The cluster uses a storage area network (SAN).
You discover I/O issues. The SAN is at capacity and additional disks cannot be added.
You need to reduce the I/O workload on the SAN at a minimal cost.
What should you do?