Microsoft UPGRADE:MCDBA Skills to MCITP DB Admin by Using MS SQL 2005 Sample Questions:

1. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as the database administrator for your company. A database named DB1 is used by the company. The SQL statements used to create the Sales table in DB1, an existing index, and the two most common queries executed against this table are shown in the exhibit. The existing indexes have just been rebuilt. The VideoID and VideoTitle fields are highly selective. The RetailPrice, WholesalePrice and Genre fields have low selectivity. Since you are the technical support, the company asks you to optimize the performance of both queries. The company also requires that you must reduce the size of the index to the least when trying to achieve this goal. What action should you perform to accomplish your task?

A) On the VideoTitle field, drop the clustered index. On the VideoTitle field, a nonclustered index should be created.
B) On the VideoTitle, Barcode, VideoID, WholesalePrice, and Genre fields, a nonclustered index should be created.
C) You should use the REORGANIZE option to change the existing nonclustered index.
D) On the Barcode and VideoID fields, a nonclustered index should be created. The WholesalePrice and Genre fields should be included.
E) On the VideoTitle and RetailPrice columns, a clustered index should be created.

2. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment.
In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer, and the computer is named SQL1. And it is reported by the users report that SQL01 responses slowly. You find that the network of SQL01 is excessively utilized. You cannot utilize the graphical SQL Server administrative tools to connect to SQL01. It is doubted whether a Denial of Service (DoS) attack targets at SQL01.
SQL01 should be connected to examine the present activities. Which action should be performed first to achieve the goal?

A) To achieve the goal, the SQL Server service should be stopped and restarted on SQL1.
B) To achieve the goal, SQL Server Profiler should be utilized to connect to SQL1.
C) To achieve the goal, the dedicated administrative connection should be utilized to connect to SQL1.
D) To achieve the goal, SQL1 should be restarted.

3. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment.
In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as the database administrator for your company. There is a SQL Server 2005 computer in the company. A single user database named DB01 is contained in this computer. All company employees connect to DB1. According to the requirement of the company policy, the database should be fault-tolerant and that failovers require no administrative effort. Therefore, you are asked to provide fault tolerance for the database.
Your solution must guarantee that even if a complete hardware failure occurs on the SQL Server 2005 computer, client computers are able to connect to the database, including a failure of all disks. What action should you perform to achieve your goal?

A) Database mirroring to another SQL Server 2005 computer needs to be implemented.
B) A two-node server cluster that contains the database needs to be implemented.
C) Log shipping needs to be implemented to another SQL Server 2005 computer.
D) Transactional replication needs to be implemented to another SQL Server 2005 computer.

4. According to the company requirement, tempdb performance should be improved. Therefore, you have to decide on the best configuration for the tempdb database on SQL01 after reviewing the current storage system. Company requirements and policies must be satisfied in your solution. So what should you do? (choose more than one)

A) After a RAID-0 set is created, tempdb and the user database with the largest index should be moved to this drive set.
B) The starting size of tempdb should be set to 3 GB.
C) After a RAID-0 set is created, tempdb should be moved to this drive set.
D) On tempdb, automatic file growth should be disabled.
E) After a RAID-1 set is created, tempdb should be moved to this drive set.

5. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer, and the computer is named SQL1. The company has backups of all system databases performed every Saturday night, and have backups of all user databases performed every Sunday night. And the company has all backups stored in an off-site facility. Because of the power outage, SQL1 accidentally turns off. And after bringing SQL1 back online, the users cannot start the SQL Server service. You can see the SQL Server error log from the exhibit below. SQL1 should be returned to working order in the shortest time. Which action should be performed first?

A) All of the system databases should be restored.
B) All of the user databases should be restored from backup.
C) Setup.exe should be run from a command line and a rebuild of the master database should be specified.
D) The SQL Server 2005 installation CD should be inserted and the setup utility should be run to have the default instance reinstalled.

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