A server room contains ten physical servers that are running applications and a cluster of three dedicated hypervisors. The hypervisors are new and only have 10% utilization. The Chief Financial Officer has asked that the IT department do what it can to cut back on power consumption and maintenance costs in the data center. Which of the following would address the request with minimal server downtime?

Convert the physical servers to the hypervisors and retire the ten servers.

Unplug the power cables from the redundant power supplies, leaving just the minimum required.

Convert the physical servers to the hypervisors and retire the ten servers.

Reimage the physical servers and retire all ten servers after the migration is complete.

Convert the ten servers to power-efficient core editions.

A new application server has been configured in the cloud to provide access to all clients within the network. On-site users are able to access all resources, but remote users are reporting issues connecting to the new application. The server administrator verifies that all users are configured with the appropriate group memberships. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

There are misconfigured firewall rules.

Telnet connections are disabled on the server.

Role-based access control is misconfigured.

There are misconfigured firewall rules.

Group policies have not been applied.

Which of the following is the MOST secure method to access servers located in remote branch offices?

Use an MFAout-of-band solution.

Use a password complexity policy.

Use a role-based access policy.

A security manager is concerned that a rogue employee could boot a server from an outside USB drive. Which of the following actions can be taken to reduce this risk? (Select TWO).

Disable unneeded physical ports.

A technician re working on a Linux server and re trying to access another server over the network. The technician gets server not found message when trying to execute ping servername but no error messages when using ping servername. Domain.com. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the error?

Configure the domain search variable

Change the permissions on resolv. conf

An administrator has been asked to increase the storage capacity of a stand-alone file server but no further expansion slots are available. Which of the following would be the FASTEST solution to implement with no downtime?

Replace the current drives with higher-capacity disks.

Implement FCoE for more storage capacity.

A server administrator recently installed a kernel update to test functionality Upon reboot, the administrator determined the new kernel was not compatible with certain server hardware and was unable to uninstall the update. Which of the following should the administrator do to mitigate further issues with the newly instated kernel version?

Edit the bootloader configuration file and change the first Kernel stanza to reflect the file location for the last known-good kernel files.

Perform a complete OS reinstall on the server using the same media that was used during the initial install.

Edit the bootloader configuration file and move the newest kernel update stanza lo the end of the file.

Set a BIOS password to prevent server technicians from making any changes to the system.

A change in policy requires a complete backup of the accounting server every seven days and a backup of modified data every day. Which of the following would be BEST to restore a full backup as quickly as possible in the event of a complete loss of server data?

A full, weekly backup with daily differential backups

A full, weekly backup with daily open-file backups

A full, weekly backup with daily archive backups

A full, weekly backup with daily incremental backups

A full, weekly backup with daily differential backups

Users report they ate unable to access an application after a recent third-party patch update. The physical server that is hosting the application keeps crashing on reboot. Although the update was installed directly from the manufacturer's support website as recommended it has now been recalled and removed from the website as the update unintentionally installed unauthorized software after a reboot. Which of the following steps should the administrator perform to restore access to the application while minimizing downtime? (Select TWO)

Reformat the server and restore the image from the latest backup.

Reimage the server with a different OS.

Run a port scan to verify open ports.

Enable a GPO to uninstall the update.

Reformat the server and restore the image from the latest backup.

An administrator is troubleshooting a failure in the data center in which a server shut down/turned off when utility power was lost The server had redundant power supplies. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this failure?

Both power supplies were connected to the same power feed

The UPS batteries were overcharged.

Redundant power supplies require 220V power

Both power supplies were connected to the same power feed

The power supplies were not cross-connected

A data center has 4U rack servers that need to be replaced using VMs but without losing any dat

Unattended scripted OS installation

Which of the following methods will MOST likely be used to replace these servers?

Unattended scripted OS installation

The accounting department needs more storage and wants to retain the current data for quick read-write access. The accounting server does not have any internet drive bays available to keep both disks however the server does have USB 3 0 and eSATA ports available. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish the department's goals?

Transfer the existing data to an external eSATA enclosure.

Copy the existing data to an external USB 3 0 enclosure.

Place the existing data on a DVD and use the internal DVD-ROM drive.

Transfer the existing data to an external eSATA enclosure.

Move the existing data to a new. larger internal hard drive.

A Linux server was recently updated. Now, the server stops during the boot process with a blank screen and an s> prompt. When of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

The UEFI boot was interrupted by a missing Linux boot file

The system is booting to a USB flash drive

The UEFI boot was interrupted by a missing Linux boot file

The BIOS could not find a bootable hard disk

The BIOS firmware needs to be upgraded

An organization is donating its outdated server equipment to a local charity. Which of the following describes what the organization should do BEFORE donating the equipment?

Remove all the data from the server drives using the least destructive method.

Repurpose and recycle any usable server components.

Remove all the components from the server.

A staff member who a monitoring a data center reports one rack is experiencing higher temperatures than the racks next to it, despite the hardware in each rack being the same. Which of the following actions would MOST likely remediate the heal issue?

Installing blanking panels in all the empty rack spaces

installing an additional POU and spreading out the power cables

Installing servers on the shelves instead of sliding rails

installing front bezels on all the server's m the rack

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