SK0-004 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A technician reads a hardware manufacturer's blog indicating a critical firmware update is available for the company's file server. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

A. Download and install a firmware update from a centralized server.

B. Download the firmware update and test it on a VM.

C. Download the firmware update and test it on a non-production server.

D. Download the firmware update and run it on the company's file server immediately.

In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?

A. Root CA

B. Intermediate CA

C. Subordinate CA

D. Delegated CA

A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. Solid state drive

D. Flash drive

A server technician is installing a new server and configuring the newly installed OS. Which of the following steps should be performed FIRST after booting the OS?

A. Create a backup.

B. Address security concerns.

C. Connect to the network.

D. Join to the domain.

Which of the following RAID arrays performs mirroring of the disks first, then striping of the disks?

A. RAID 1

B. RAID 0+1

C. RAID 6

D. RAID 10

A user is reporting that access to a file server is much slower than it has been. The system administrator completes a test of the server using a system monitoring tool and compares it to the previously taken baseline. The comparison shows that there are no significant changes in the use of system resources. Which of the following actions should be taken to resolve this users problem?

A. Add additional RAM to the users PC

B. Troubleshoot the users PC

C. Add additional RAM to the server

D. Add additional hard drive space to the server

Which of the following defines memory interleaving?

A. The distribution of data written across all the memory DIMMs and the L1 cache

B. The distribution of data written across all the memory DIMMs in one bank

C. The distribution of data written across all the memory DIMMs and the processor

D. The distribution of data written across all the memory DIMMs and the L2 cache

As a best practice, which of the following should be performed before placing a server on a network?

A. Secure the disk

B. Secure the server rack

C. Harden the OS

D. Install the application

A systems administrator is experiencing slowness with an application. Users are reporting the same problem. Which of the following documents would MOST likely be used to determine the cause of the slowness?

A. Network diagram

B. Server manuals

C. Dataflow diagram

D. Recovery documentation

A systems administrator is installing a new software package on a server. The software has many dependencies. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for the systems administrator to take to ensure there is no downtime with the installation of this software package?

A. Deploy the software to production

B. Deploy the software in a sandbox

C. Uninstall the application software

D. Uninstall the software updates