CompTIA CompTIA Certifications SK0-005 Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  After installing a new file server, a technician notices the read times for accessing the same file are slower than the read times for other file servers. Which of the following is the first step the technician should take?

  A. Add more memory.

  B. Check if the cache is turned on.

  C. Install faster hard drives.

  D. Enable link aggregation.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 22:

  A company wants to find an affordable way to simulate a fail over of a critical application. The company does not currently have a solution for it. The application consists of 15 servers, and the company would like to simulate on production configurations and IP address schemes. Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution?

  A. Build a warm site and perform a fail over of the application.

  B. Build a cloud IaaS and perform a fail over of the application.

  C. Build a hot site and perform a fail over of the application.

  D. Build a cold site and perform a fail over of the application.

  E. Perform a tabletop fail over of the application.

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 23:

  An administrator receives an alert that one of the virtual servers has suddenly crashed. The administrator confirms the data center does not have any power failures and then connects to the remote console of the crashed server. After connecting to the server console, which of the following should the administrator complete first?

  A. Use the keyboard command Alt+F12 to switch to the kernel log screen.

  B. Perform a hard reboot on the server and monitor the server startup.

  C. Collect a screenshot of the PSOD and note the details after the line detailing the OS version.

  D. Collect a core dump from the server and store locally before rebooting the hardware.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 24:

  A server administrator just installed a new physical server and needs to harden the OS. Which of the following best describes the OS hardening method?

  A. Apply security updates.

  B. Disable unneeded hardware.

  C. Set a BIOS password.

  D. Configure the boot order.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 25:

  A technician ordered two additional hard drives to expand an existing RAID 6 configuration. The technician added the new disks and then rebooted. After rebooting, the technician did not see the additional space in the existing disk, and the OS detected two new disks that needed signatures. Which of the following should the technician complete next to expand the existing RAID configuration?

  A. Modify the existing disk to a dynamic disk and add the two new raw disks to the existing array.

  B. Allow the OS to write GPT signatures to the disks and add them as dynamic disks to the existing disk.

  C. Reboot the server, start the RAID utility from the BIOS, and expand the RAID 6 with the two new disks.

  D. Use the software RAID in the OS to create a RAID 0 with the existing array and the two new disks.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 26:

  A server administrator needs to verify that a new 4U server will fit into the rack in the data center. Which of the following is the amount of space the 4U server requires?

  A. 4in (10.2cm)

  B. 5in (12.7cm)

  C. 7in (17.8cm)

  D. Sin (20.3cm)

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 27:

  A server administrator is building a pair of new storage servers. The servers will replicate; therefore, no redundancy is required, but usable capacity must be maximized. Which of the following RAID levels should the server administrator implement?

  A. 0

  B. 1

  C. 5

  D. 6

  E. 10

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 28:

  A user has been unable to authenticate to the company's external, web-based database after clicking a link in an email that required the user to change the account password. Which of the following steps should the company take next?

  A. Disable the user's account and inform the security team.

  B. Create a new log-in to the external database.

  C. Ask the user to use the link again to reset the password.

  D. Reset the user's password and ask the user to log in again.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 29:

  An administrator gave Ann modify permissions to a shared folder called DATA, which is located on the company server. Other users need read access to the files in this folder. The current configuration is as follows:

  

  The administrator has determined Ann cannot write anything to the DATA folder using the network. Which of the following would be the best practice to set up Ann's permissions correctly, exposing only the minimum rights required?

  

  A. Option A

  B. Option B

  C. Option C

  D. Option D

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 30:

  A security analyst completed a port scan of the corporate production-server network. Results of the scan were then provided to a systems administrator for immediate action. The following table represents the requested changes:

  

  The systems administrator created local firewall rules to block the ports indicated above. Immediately, the service desk began receiving calls about the internet being down. The systems administrator then reversed the changes, and the internet became available again. Which of the following ports on DNSSrv must remain open when the firewall rules are reapplied?

  A. 20

  B. 21

  C. 22

  D. 23

  E. 53

  Correct Answer: E