1. Exam 70-450

2. QUESTION CertKiller.com has hired you as a database administrator for their network. Your duties include administering the SQL Server 2008 servers. You receive an instruction from the CIO to implement page compression on numerous partitions in order to save space. You need to determine what effect implementing compression will have on the SQL Server components. What should you identify? (Choose all that apply.)

3. ANSWER A. Restore operations will not be affected by implementing page compression. B. Backup operations will not be affected by implementing page compression. C. Bulk export operations will not be affected by implementing page compression. D. Bulk import operations will not be affected by implementing page compression. E. Existing query plans will not be affected by implementing page compression. F. Log shipping will not be affected by implementing page compression.

4. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. You are responsible for administering a SQL Server 2008 instance. You are currently planning the deployment of a new database. The database will have the subsequent capacity requirements:45 GB for the transaction log file280 GB for the database data file There are approximately six 120 GB disk drives available for the database in the storage array. CertKiller.com contains a RAID controller that supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10.

5. Question - Continued The disks are on the RAID controller. You receive an instruction from the CIO that is as follows: The transaction log's write performance should be maximized. In the event of a drive failure, it is expected that the database and transaction log files is protected. You then decide to plan a storage system. You need to determine the storage configuration that will accomplish this. What should you identify?

6. Answer A. You should consider using a RAID 1 volume as well as a RAID 5 volume. B. You should consider using a RAID 1 volume as well as a RAID 10 volume. C. You should consider using a RAID 3 volume as well as a RAID 5 volume. D. You should consider using a RAID 1 volume as well as a RAID 3 volume.

7. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. You are responsible for administering the SQL Server 2008 infrastructure for CertKiller.com. During routine monitoring you discover that the instance experiences a low number of CXPACKET waits as well as a large number of lazy writer waits. To ensure productivity you need to better the performance of the instance. What should you do?

8. Answer A. You should consider setting up the Windows System Monitoring tool to better the performance. B. You should consider setting up the Asynchronous database mirroring to better the performance. C. You should consider using the SQLAGENT.OUT log to better the performance. D. You should consider setting up the software non-uniform memory access (soft-NUMA) to better the performance.

9. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You receive an instruction from management to make sure that your department is prepared in the event of a natural disaster. You thus decide to create a disaster readiness plan. You need to determine the appropriate actions that should be included in your disaster readiness plan. What should you do? (Choose all that apply.)

10. Answer A. You should consider testing and using RAID 5 for the volume that contains the database files. B. You should consider testing and using RAID 1 for the volume that has the operating system. C. You should consider maintaining the system logs in a secure manner. D. You should consider performing the recovery of a database(s) on another SQL server. E. You should consider testing and using RAID 5 for the volume that has the operating system. F. You should consider testing and using RAID 1 for the volume that contains the database files.

11. Question CertKiller.com has employed you as a database administrator. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01. You are in the process of enabling FILESTREAM on a volume on CERTKILLER-DB01. You have received instruction from the CIO to ensure that the volume store documents in compressed form. You notice that volume F:\ is not formatted. You need to make sure that the volume will be able to store documents in a compressed form. What should you do?

12. Answer A. You should execute the format F: /FS:NTFS /V:BLOBContainer/A:8192 /C command. B. You should execute the format F: /FS:NTFS /V:BLOBContainer/A:8192 command. C. You should execute the format F: /FS:NTFS /V:BLOBContainer/A:4096 command. D. You should execute the format F: /FS:NTFS /V:BLOBContainer/A:4096 /C command.

13. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_DATA. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to design a RAID solution for the CK_DATA database which has high read/write activity. CertKiller.com wants you to ensure that the I/O performance of CERTKILLER-DB01 is improved whilst ensuring that there is fault tolerance for the database. CertKiller.com wants you to make use of the existing resources as funds are tied to other projects. What should you do?

14. Answer A. You should consider making use of a RAID 5 solution. B. You should consider making use of a RAID 10 solution. C. You should consider making use of a RAID 1 solution. D. You should consider making use of a RAID 0 solution.

15. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_STAFF which is hosted on a RAID 5 volume. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to change the default size of the allocation unit which is set at 4096 bytes. CertKiller.com wants you to accomplish the task which having the RAID 5 volume data assigned to Drive E: to retain is existing volume name. What should you do?

16. Answer A. You should consider making use of the format E: /A:4096 /V:Data command. B. You should consider making use of the format E: /A:4K /V:Data command. C. You should consider making use of the format E: /A: 64K /V:Data command. D. You should consider making use of the format E /A:65536 /V:Data command.

17. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_DATA which is used by an online portal for storing data. The portal is expected to receive large numbers of queries which will require high availability for the data. CertKiller.com wants you to meet the company requirements below: CertKiller.com wants to have the SQL Server 2008 configuration optimized to ensure the database remains intact even when a hard disk fails.CertKiller.com wants to have the data recovery method to be reliable and provide faster recovery if a hard disk fails whilst ensuring database performance is optimized.CertKiller.com wants to have the databases available even when the operating system (OS) disk fails. What should you do?

18. Answer A. You should consider making use of RAID 1 for the operating system and Transaction Logs; and RAID5 for the SQL Server files and filegroups. B. You should consider making use of RAID 0 for the operating system and Transaction Logs; and RAID 5 for the SQL Server files and filegroups. C. You should consider making use of RAID 0 for the operating system; RAID 1 for the Transaction Logs; and RAID 5 for the SQL Server files and filegroups. D. You should consider making use of the same RAID 1 for the operating system and Transaction Logs; and RAID 5 for the SQL Server files and filegroups.

19. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to reconfigure the CK_SALES database for placement on the disk subsystem. CertKiller.com wants you to place the database on the fastest I/O subsystem whilst ensuring user data is not lost when a disk failure occurs. What should you do?

20. Answer A. You should consider placing the CK_SALES database on the same RAID 1 disk as the operating system. B. You should consider placing the CK_SALES database on the same RAID 0 disk as the operating system. C. You should consider placing the CK_SALES database on a separate RAID 0 solution. D. You should consider placing the CK_SALES database on a separate RAID 5 solution.

21. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a Microsoft 70-450: Practice Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 9 ctualTests.com

22. Question continues database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to deploy a new CK_PRODUCTS database which should meet the capacity requirements set below: CERTKILLER-DB01 will require 175 GB for the database data file.CERTKILLER-DB01 will require 60 GB for the transaction log. The CERTKILLER-DB01 storage array has six 200 GB disk drives available for the database which are attached to a RAID controller supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10. CertKiller.com wants to have the write performance of the transaction log maximized whilst having the database and transaction log protected from drive failure by designing the storage system. What should you do?

23. Answer A. You should consider making use of a RAID 0 volume and RAID 5 volume. B. You should consider making use of a RAID 1 volume and RAID 5 volume. C. You should consider making use of a single RAID 5 volume. D. You should consider making use of a single RAID 10 volume.

24. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. CERTKILLER-DB01 hardware configuration is shown below: CERTKILLER-DB01 has eight quad-core processors.CERTKILLER-DB01 has 128-GB RAM. During the course of the day you discover that ERTKILLER- DB01 is experiencing a low number of CXPACKET waits whilst experiencing a large number of lazy writer waits. CertKiller.com wants you to optimize the performance of CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do?

25. Answer A. You should consider having the software non-uniform memory access (soft-NUMA) configured. B. You should consider having an increase configured in the maximum degree of parallelism option. C. You should consider having the Resource Governor configured. D. You should consider having the Windows System Resource Manager configured.

26. Question You are employed as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. You are responsible for administering a SQL Server 2008 database server named CERTKILLER- DB01 that consists of four processors. CERTKILLER-DB01 contains numerous databases which include the databases named CK_PRODUCTS and CK_RESEARCH. The subsequent rules are applied CERTKILLERDB01: Four processors should be used for operations on CK_PRODUCTS.Two processors should be used by the CK_App application for queries on the tables in CK_RESEARCH.Four processors should be used for all imports, exports, queries or operations on the other databases located on CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do? (Choose all that apply)

27. Answer A. This can be accomplished using MAXDOP in order to set the processor number to four. B. This can be accomplished using MAXDOP in order to set the processor number to two. C. This can be accomplished using the max degree of parallelism option and setting the value to 4. D. This can be accomplished using MAXDOP with the default value. E. This can be accomplished using the max degree of parallelism option and setting the value to 2.

28. Question You are employed as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 hosts five databases. CERTKILLER-DB01 contains two processors. You have Received instruction from the CIO to make use of more than one processor for parallelism. You thus set the Show Advanced Options to 1. You then write the subsequent code: sp_configure 'max degree of parallelism', 6; GO RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE; GO You need to determine what the result will be when you execute the code above. What should you identify?

29. Answer A. It will result in four processors being used. B. It will result in three processors being used. C. It will result in two processors being used. D. It will result in one processor being used.

30. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. CertKiller.com requires information about the system resources like the amount of memory available and consumed by CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do?

31. Answer A. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_os_memory_nodes dynamic management view. B. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_os_sys_info dynamic management view. C. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_os_stacks dynamic management view. D. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_os_process_memory dynamic management view.

32. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_ORDERS. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to select mwhat the recommended size of the allocation unit should be when your database is expected to have a high number of transactions. What should you do?

33. Answer A. You should consider having the allocation unit size 64 K. B. You should consider having the allocation unit size 32 K. C. You should consider having the allocation unit size 4096. D. You should consider having the allocation unit size 8192.

34. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 containing four processors with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day CertKiller.com decided to configure the MAX Degree of Parallelism option set to 2. You have later created an index making use of the MAXDOP option and set the number of processors to 3. CertKiller.com wants you to determine what the results would be?

35. Answer A. The current configuration would make use of one processor only. B. The current configuration would make use of two processors by the default setting of Max Degree of Parallelism option overriding the MAXDOP option. C. The current configuration would make use of four processors only. D. The current configuration would make use of three processors only.

36. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 containing multiple processors and has an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to create a large volume of indexes and delete older indexes whilst optimizing CPU performance on CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do?

37. Answer A. You should consider making use of the MAXDOP index option in the index statement. B. You should consider making use of the MAXDOP index option with the ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE statement. C. You should consider setting the Max Degree of Parallelism option to 0. D. You should consider setting the Max Degree of Parallelism option to 1.

38. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. CERTKILLER-DB01 has four quad-core processors and regularly experiences CPU pressure. The users at CertKiller.com use the large mission critical database frequently, which resides on CERTKILLER-DB01. During the course of the day you receive an instruction from the CIO to make sure that the online index rebuilds does not utilize all thye CPU cycles that are available. What should you do?

39. Answer A. You should consider having the max degree of parallelism option configured. B. You should consider running the Netsh utility. C. You should consider using the Hyper-V feature on the quad-core servers. D. You should consider configuring the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) server extensions.

40. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. Your duties include administrating a SQL Server 2008 instance. You are currently planning to deploy a new database named CK_Data to the 2008 instance. CK_Data will have multiple schemas as well as being subjected to regular inserts and updates. A large amount of read-only reference information will be hosted on one of the schemas. You have received instructions from the management to set up a physical database structure to optimize the backup performance. What should you do?

41. Answer A. This can be accomplished by using multiple filegroups and a single log file to set up the database. B. This can be accomplished by using caching on the multiple data files. C. This can be accomplished by using multiple downstream servers to create the database. D. This can be accomplished by using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor tool to create the database.

42. Question You are employed as the database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makesuse of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering adatabase server named CERTKILLER-DB01. CERTKILLER-DB01 is configured with 1024 MB of RAM, 80 GB system drive with SQL Serverinstalled as well as a single Core2 Duo 1.6 GHz processor. CERTKILLER-DB01 hosts a database named CK_DATA. CK_DATA contains: One primary data file Two secondary data files One transaction log file. During routine monitoring you discover that the hard drive has only 2 GB of free space available. You notice that the performance of CK_DATA has degraded. You have received instruction from the CIO to optimize the performance of CK_DATA. What should you do?

43. Answer A. Your best option would be to increase the memory to 2048 MB. B. Your best option would be to add additional hard drives as well as moving the database files across the hard drives. C. Your best option would be to compress the hard drive in order to create more space. D. Your best option would be to add a new processor to CERTKILLER-DB01.

44. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 hosts a database named CK_DATA. You are in the process of adding additional tables to CK_DATA in order to support the new application. The additional tables will BLOBs that is greater than 1 MB. You need to maximize the read access. At present the application makes use of a middle tier for application logic. You need to determine the data type that needs to be configured for CK_DATA. What should you do?

45. Answer A. You should consider configuring the varbinary(max) data that is stored in CK_DATA. B. You should consider configuring the varchar(max) data using FILESTREAM storage on an NTFS partition. C. You should consider configuring the varchar(max) data stored in CK_DATA. D. You should consider configuring the varbinary(max) data using FILESTREAM storage on an NTFS partition.

46. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. You are responsible for a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 server named CERTKILLER-DB01. CERTKILLER-DB01 contains two hard drives named Drive B and Drive C. Both these drives have at least 50 GB of free space available. CERTKILLER-DB01 has one transaction log file and three data files that contain large indexes. You receive an instruction from the CIO to optimize performance of the database. The data files as well as the transaction files is stored in currently stored on Drive A. Drive A also contains the system drive where CERTKILLER-DB01 is installed. Due to budgetary constraints you are unable to add additional hard drives on CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do?

47. Answer A. This can be accomplished by installing a new SQL Server instance on CERTKILLER-DB01. Thereafter the database should be moved to the new SQL Server instance. B. This can be accomplished by placing the transaction log file on Drive B and keeping the database files on the same location. C. This can be accomplished by moving the largest data file from Drive A to Drive B and leaving the remaining files in the same location. D. This can be accomplished by moving the files to Drive B.

48. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES which is accessed frequently by network users updating the CK_SALES database records for online users. CertKiller.com wants you to monitor the transaction log activities being performed on CERTKILLER-DB01. What should you do?

49. Answer A. You should consider making use of the SQL Server: SQL Statistics object. B. You should consider making use of the SQL Server: Workload Group Stats object. C. You should consider making use of the SQL Server: Databases object. D. You should consider making use of the SQL Server: General Statistics object.

50. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES which is used for an online application generating large volumes of transactions on a daily basis including update and insert operations. During the course of the day you receive instruction from CertKiller.com to make use of a number of indexes for update and insert operations whilst optimizing the indexing operations. CertKiller.com wants you to additionally locate the indexes which are most frequently used for performing the update and insert operations. What should you do?

51. Answer A. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats view or function. B. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats view or function. C. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_fts_index_population view or function. D. You should consider making use of the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats view or function.

52. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day you added four disk drives to CERTKILLER-DB01 which configuration are shown below: Disk Drive 1: 40 GB. System drive with SQL Server installed.Disk Drive 2: 40 GB. System drive with SQL Server installed.Disk Drive 3: 60 GB. Formatted and with 35 GB free.Disk Drive 4: 60 GB. Formatted with 38 GB free. CertKiller.com plans on creating an additional database named CK_PRODUCTS which will have a primary data file and secondary data file with one transaction log file which is expected to have high utilization in the production environment. CertKiller.com wants you to optimize the performance of the database. What should you do?

53. Answer A. You should consider having the primary data files placed on Drive 1 and the transaction log file on Drive 2 with the secondary data file on Drive 3. B. You should consider having the primary data files placed on Drive 2 and the transaction log file on Drive 3 with the secondary data file on Drive 4. C. You should consider having the primary and secondary data files placed on Drive 2 and the transaction log file on Drive 3. D. You should consider having the primary and transaction log files placed on Drive 2 and the secondary data file on Drive 3.

54. Question You work as a database administrator at CertKiller.com. CertKiller.com currently makes use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for hosting databases. You are responsible for Administering a database server named CERTKILLER-DB01 with an instance that hosts a database named CK_SALES. During the course of the day you create a partitioned data fact table which is large requiring data to be stored across several disks. CertKiller.com is aware of the partitioning functions which horizontally split tables based on the value in a specific column. CertKiller.com wants you to implement a sliding window scenario switching partitions into and out of the table whilst archiving the oldest data to improve performance. What should you do?

55. Answer A. You should make use of the statement: ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION and MERGE RANGE. B. You should make use of the statement: ALTER TABLE and MERGE RANGE. C. You should make use of the statement: ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION and SPLIT RANGE. D. You should make use of the statement: ALTER TABLE and SPLIT PARTITION.