Microsoft Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure (070-764) Free Practice Test
Question 1
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Your company has several Microsoft SQL Server instances, Each instance hosts many databases.
You observe I/O corruption on some of the instances
You need to perform the following actions:
* Identify databases where the PAGE VERIFY option is not set
* Configure full page protection for the identified databases.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
For each database that you identify, you run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
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Your company has several Microsoft SQL Server instances, Each instance hosts many databases.
You observe I/O corruption on some of the instances
You need to perform the following actions:
* Identify databases where the PAGE VERIFY option is not set
* Configure full page protection for the identified databases.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
For each database that you identify, you run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
Correct Answer: A
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Question 2
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database that includes a table named dbo.Log. This table contains millions of records about user activity in an application.
Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention withinserts.
You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize dbo.Log.
Which type of solution should you use?
Records in dbo.Log that are more than 90 days old are purged nightly. When records are purged, table locks are causing contention withinserts.
You need to be able to modify dbo.Log without requiring any changes to the applications that utilize dbo.Log.
Which type of solution should you use?
Correct Answer: B
Question 3
You plan to create a database.
The database will be used by a Microsoft .NET application for a special event that will last for two days.
During the event, data must be highly available.
After the event, the database will be deleted.
You need to recommend a solution to implement the database while minimizing costs.
The solution must not affect any existing applications.
What should you recommend? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
The database will be used by a Microsoft .NET application for a special event that will last for two days.
During the event, data must be highly available.
After the event, the database will be deleted.
You need to recommend a solution to implement the database while minimizing costs.
The solution must not affect any existing applications.
What should you recommend? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
Correct Answer: C
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Question 4
You have a customer who has several SQL Server 2012 database servers. You are designing a data warehouse for the customer. The data warehouse will use columnstore indexes.
* Data manipulation language (DML) statements
* Nonclustered columnstore indexes
* Clustered columnstore indexes - Partitioning
The customer identifies that the following must be supported for the column store indexes.
You need to identify which technology requires the customer to implement an SQL Server 2014 database.
What should you identify?
* Data manipulation language (DML) statements
* Nonclustered columnstore indexes
* Clustered columnstore indexes - Partitioning
The customer identifies that the following must be supported for the column store indexes.
You need to identify which technology requires the customer to implement an SQL Server 2014 database.
What should you identify?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 5
Overview
Application Overview
Contoso, Ltd., is the developer of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.
Contoso is designing a new version of the ERP application. The previous version of the ERP application used SQL Server 2008 R2.
The new version will use SQL Server 2014.
The ERP application relies on an import process to load supplier data. The import process updates thousands of rows simultaneously, requires exclusive access to the database, and runs daily.
You receive several support calls reporting unexpected behavior in the ERP application. After analyzing the calls, you conclude that users made changes directly to the tables in the database.
Tables
The current database schema contains a table named OrderDetails.
The OrderDetails table contains information about the items sold for each purchase order. OrderDetails stores the product ID, quantities, and discounts applied to each product in a purchase order.
The product price is stored in a table named Products. The Products table was defined by using the SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation.
A column named ProductName was created by using the varchar data type. The database contains a table named Orders.
Orders contains all of the purchase orders from the last 12 months. Purchase orders that are older than 12 months are stored in a table named OrdersOld.
The previous version of the ERP application relied on table-level security.
Stored Procedures
The current version of the database contains stored procedures that change two tables. The following shows the relevant portions of the two stored procedures:
Customer Problems
Installation Issues
The current version of the ERP application requires that several SQL Server logins be set up to function correctly. Most customers set up the ERP application in multiple locations and must create logins multiple times.
Index Fragmentation Issues
Customers discover that clustered indexes often are fragmented. To resolve this issue, the customers defragment the indexes more frequently. All of the tables affected by fragmentation have the following columns that are used as the clustered index key:
Backup Issues
Customers who have large amounts of historical purchase order data report that backup time is unacceptable.
Search Issues
Users report that when they search product names, the search results exclude product names that contain accents, unless the search string includes the accent.
Missing Data Issues
Customers report that when they make a price change in the Products table, they cannot retrieve the price that the item was sold for in previous orders.
Query Performance Issues
Customers report that query performance degrades very quickly. Additionally, the customers report that users cannot run queries when SQL Server runs maintenance tasks. Import Issues During the monthly import process, database administrators receive many supports call from users who report that they cannot access the supplier data. The database administrators want to reduce the amount of time required to import the data.
Design Requirements
File Storage Requirements
The ERP database stores scanned documents that are larger than 2 MB. These files must only be accessed through the ERP application. File access must have the best possible read and write performance.
Data Recovery Requirements
If the import process fails, the database must be returned to its prior state immediately.
Security Requirements
You must provide users with the ability to execute functions within the ERP application, without having direct access to the underlying tables.
Concurrency Requirements
You must reduce the likelihood of deadlocks occurring when Sales.Prod and Sales.Proc2 execute.
You need to recommend changes to the ERP application to resolve the search issue.
The solution must minimize the impact on other queries generated from the ERP application.
What should you recommend changing?
Application Overview
Contoso, Ltd., is the developer of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.
Contoso is designing a new version of the ERP application. The previous version of the ERP application used SQL Server 2008 R2.
The new version will use SQL Server 2014.
The ERP application relies on an import process to load supplier data. The import process updates thousands of rows simultaneously, requires exclusive access to the database, and runs daily.
You receive several support calls reporting unexpected behavior in the ERP application. After analyzing the calls, you conclude that users made changes directly to the tables in the database.
Tables
The current database schema contains a table named OrderDetails.
The OrderDetails table contains information about the items sold for each purchase order. OrderDetails stores the product ID, quantities, and discounts applied to each product in a purchase order.
The product price is stored in a table named Products. The Products table was defined by using the SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation.
A column named ProductName was created by using the varchar data type. The database contains a table named Orders.
Orders contains all of the purchase orders from the last 12 months. Purchase orders that are older than 12 months are stored in a table named OrdersOld.
The previous version of the ERP application relied on table-level security.
Stored Procedures
The current version of the database contains stored procedures that change two tables. The following shows the relevant portions of the two stored procedures:
Customer Problems
Installation Issues
The current version of the ERP application requires that several SQL Server logins be set up to function correctly. Most customers set up the ERP application in multiple locations and must create logins multiple times.
Index Fragmentation Issues
Customers discover that clustered indexes often are fragmented. To resolve this issue, the customers defragment the indexes more frequently. All of the tables affected by fragmentation have the following columns that are used as the clustered index key:
Backup Issues
Customers who have large amounts of historical purchase order data report that backup time is unacceptable.
Search Issues
Users report that when they search product names, the search results exclude product names that contain accents, unless the search string includes the accent.
Missing Data Issues
Customers report that when they make a price change in the Products table, they cannot retrieve the price that the item was sold for in previous orders.
Query Performance Issues
Customers report that query performance degrades very quickly. Additionally, the customers report that users cannot run queries when SQL Server runs maintenance tasks. Import Issues During the monthly import process, database administrators receive many supports call from users who report that they cannot access the supplier data. The database administrators want to reduce the amount of time required to import the data.
Design Requirements
File Storage Requirements
The ERP database stores scanned documents that are larger than 2 MB. These files must only be accessed through the ERP application. File access must have the best possible read and write performance.
Data Recovery Requirements
If the import process fails, the database must be returned to its prior state immediately.
Security Requirements
You must provide users with the ability to execute functions within the ERP application, without having direct access to the underlying tables.
Concurrency Requirements
You must reduce the likelihood of deadlocks occurring when Sales.Prod and Sales.Proc2 execute.
You need to recommend changes to the ERP application to resolve the search issue.
The solution must minimize the impact on other queries generated from the ERP application.
What should you recommend changing?
Correct Answer: D
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Question 6
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You administer a SQL Server instance at Contoso Ltd.
A new employee named Kim Ralls must be able to read data only from the dbo.order table in the salesDB database.
You create a SQL login named KimRalls. You then create a SQL user account named KimRalls in salesDB.
The user account is associated with the SQL login.
You need to grant KimRalls the necessary permission or permissions. Your solution must follow the principle of least privilege.
Solution: You add KimRalls to the db_datareader database role in SalesDB.
Does the solution meet the goal?
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You administer a SQL Server instance at Contoso Ltd.
A new employee named Kim Ralls must be able to read data only from the dbo.order table in the salesDB database.
You create a SQL login named KimRalls. You then create a SQL user account named KimRalls in salesDB.
The user account is associated with the SQL login.
You need to grant KimRalls the necessary permission or permissions. Your solution must follow the principle of least privilege.
Solution: You add KimRalls to the db_datareader database role in SalesDB.
Does the solution meet the goal?
Correct Answer: A
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Question 7
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You maintain a Microsoft SQL Server instance that contains the following databases SalesDb1, SalesDb2, and SalesDb3. Each database has tabled named Products and Sales. The following table shows the configuration of each database.
The backup strategies for each database are described in the following table.
Each full or differential backup operation writes into a new file and uses a different sequence number. You observe the following database corruption issues.
SalesDb3 reports a number of database corruption issues related to error 823 and 824 when reading data pages. You must display the following information about the corrupted pages:
* database name
* impacted file id
* impacted file physical name
* impacted page id
* event type that identifies the error type
* error count
Users report performance issues when they run queries against You plan to monitor query statistics and execution plans for SalesDb2 by using Query Store. The monitoring strategy must meet the following requirements:
* Perform automatic data cleanup when query store disk usage reaches 500 megabyte (MB).
* Capture queries based on resource consumption.
* Use a stale query threshold value of 60 days.
The query optimizer generates suboptimal execution plans for a number of queries on the Sales table in SalesDb2. You will create a maintenance plan that updates statistics for the table. The plan should only update statistics that were automatically created and have not been updated for 30 days. The update should be based on all data in the table.
You need to view the information about the corrupted pages on SalesDb3.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate Transact-SQL segments to the correct locations. Each Transact-SQL segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
You maintain a Microsoft SQL Server instance that contains the following databases SalesDb1, SalesDb2, and SalesDb3. Each database has tabled named Products and Sales. The following table shows the configuration of each database.
The backup strategies for each database are described in the following table.
Each full or differential backup operation writes into a new file and uses a different sequence number. You observe the following database corruption issues.
SalesDb3 reports a number of database corruption issues related to error 823 and 824 when reading data pages. You must display the following information about the corrupted pages:
* database name
* impacted file id
* impacted file physical name
* impacted page id
* event type that identifies the error type
* error count
Users report performance issues when they run queries against You plan to monitor query statistics and execution plans for SalesDb2 by using Query Store. The monitoring strategy must meet the following requirements:
* Perform automatic data cleanup when query store disk usage reaches 500 megabyte (MB).
* Capture queries based on resource consumption.
* Use a stale query threshold value of 60 days.
The query optimizer generates suboptimal execution plans for a number of queries on the Sales table in SalesDb2. You will create a maintenance plan that updates statistics for the table. The plan should only update statistics that were automatically created and have not been updated for 30 days. The update should be based on all data in the table.
You need to view the information about the corrupted pages on SalesDb3.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate Transact-SQL segments to the correct locations. Each Transact-SQL segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
Correct Answer:
Explanation
Box 1: msdb.dbo.suspect_pages
suspect_pages contains one row per page that failed with a minor 823 error or an 824 error. Pages are listed in this table because they are suspected of being bad, but they might actually be fine. When a suspect page is repaired, its status is updated in the event_type column.
The suspect_pages table resides in the msdb database.
SalesDb3 has pages with checksum errors.
Box 2: msdb.sys.database_files
We want to identify these pages and which database they are in, this is easy enough to do when we join out to sys.databases and sys.master_files, as seen here:
SELECT d.name AS databaseName,
mf.name AS logicalFileName,
mf.physical_name AS physicalFileName,
sp.page_id,
case sp.event_type
when 1 then N'823 or 824 error'
when 2 then N'Bad Checksum'
when 3 then N'Torn Page'
when 4 then N'Restored'
when 5 then N'Repaired'
when 7 then N'Deallocated'
end AS eventType,
sp.error_count,
sp.last_update_date
from msdb.dbo.suspect_pages as sp
join sys.databases as d ON sp.database_id = d.database_id
join sys.master_files as mf on sp.[file_id] = mf.[file_id]
and d.database_id = mf.database_id;
The result of this query will give you a high level view of where you have potential corruption in your databases, from here it is important to use tools such as DBCC CHECKDB and your backups to recover from in line with your RPO and RTO.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/manage-the-suspect-pages-table-sql-ser
https://blogs.sentryone.com/johnmartin/monitoring-for-suspect-pages/
Question 8
You plan to deploy SQL Server 2012. You must create two tables named Table 1 and Table 2 that will have the following specifications:
* Table1 will contain a date column named Column1 that will contain a null value approximately 80 percent of the time.
* Table2 will contain a column named Column2 that is the product of two other columns in Table2.
Both Table1 and Table2 will contain more than 1 million rows.
You need to recommend which options must be defined for the columns. The solution must minimize the storage requirements for the tables.
Which options should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate options to the correct column in the answer area.
* Table1 will contain a date column named Column1 that will contain a null value approximately 80 percent of the time.
* Table2 will contain a column named Column2 that is the product of two other columns in Table2.
Both Table1 and Table2 will contain more than 1 million rows.
You need to recommend which options must be defined for the columns. The solution must minimize the storage requirements for the tables.
Which options should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate options to the correct column in the answer area.
Correct Answer:
Explanation
Column1 - Sparse;
Column2 - Computed
- Sparse columns are ordinary columns that have an optimized storage for null values. Sparse columns reduce the space requirements for null values at the cost of more overhead to retrieve nonnull values. Consider using sparse columns when the space saved is at least 20 percent to 40 percent.
- A Persisted column would be faster to retrieve.
- A computed column is computed from an expression that can use other columns in the same table. The expression can be a noncomputed column name, constant, function, and any combination of these connected by one or more operators. Unless otherwise specified, computed columns are virtual columns that are not physically stored in the table. Their values are recalculated every time they are referenced in a query. The Database Engine uses the PERSISTED keyword in the CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements to physically store computed columns in the table. Their values are updated when any columns that are part of their calculation change.
References:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280604.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186241.aspx
Question 9
Overview
General Overview
ADatum Corporation has offices in Miami and Montreal.
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named adatum.com. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link that has 5-ms latency.
A: Datum standardizes its database platform by using SQL Server
2014 Enterprise edition.
Databases
Each office contains databases named Sales, Inventory, Customers, Products, Personnel, and Dev.
Servers and databases are managed by a team of database administrators. Currently, all of the database administrators have the same level of permissions on all of the servers and all of the databases.
The Customers database contains two tables named Customers and Classifications.
The following graphic shows the relevant portions of the tables:
Classifications (Customers)
The following table shows the current data in the Classifications table:
The Inventory database is updated frequently.
The database is often used for reporting.
A full backup of the database currently takes three hours to complete.
Stored Procedures
A stored procedure named USP_1 generates millions of rows of data for multiple reports. USP_1 combines data from five different tables from the Sales and Customers databases in a table named Table1.
After Table1 is created, the reporting process reads data from Table1 sequentially several times. After the process is complete, Table1 is deleted.
A stored procedure named USP_2 is used to generate a product list. The product list contains the names of products grouped by category.
USP_2 takes several minutes to run due to locks on the tables the procedure accesses. The locks are caused by USP_1 and USP_3.
A stored procedure named USP_3 is used to update prices. USP_3 is composed of several UPDATE statements called in sequence from within a transaction.
Currently, if one of the UPDATE statements fails, the stored procedure fails. A stored procedure named USP_4 calls stored procedures in the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases.
The nested stored procedures read tables from the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases. USP_4 uses an EXECUTE AS clause.
All nested stored procedures handle errors by using structured exception handling. A stored procedure named USP_5 calls several stored procedures in the same database. Security checks are performed each time USP_5 calls a stored procedure.
You suspect that the security checks are slowing down the performance of USP_5. All stored procedures accessed by user applications call nested stored procedures.
The nested stored procedures are never called directly.
Design Requirements
Data Recovery
You must be able to recover data from the Inventory database if a storage failure occurs. You have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 5 minutes.
You must be able to recover data from the Dev database if data is lost accidentally. You have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of one day.
Classification Changes
You plan to change the way customers are classified. The new classifications will have four levels based on the number of orders. Classifications may be removed or added in the future. Management requests that historical data be maintained for the previous classifications. Security A group of junior database administrators must be able to manage security for the Sales database. The junior database administrators will not have any other administrative rights.
A: Datum wants to track which users run each stored procedure.
Storage
ADatum has limited storage. Whenever possible, all storage space should be minimized for all databases and all backups.
Error Handling
There is currently no error handling code in any stored procedure.
You plan to log errors in called stored procedures and nested stored procedures. Nested stored procedures are never called directly.
You need to recommend a disaster recovery strategy for the Inventory database. What should you include in the recommendation?
General Overview
ADatum Corporation has offices in Miami and Montreal.
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named adatum.com. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link that has 5-ms latency.
A: Datum standardizes its database platform by using SQL Server
2014 Enterprise edition.
Databases
Each office contains databases named Sales, Inventory, Customers, Products, Personnel, and Dev.
Servers and databases are managed by a team of database administrators. Currently, all of the database administrators have the same level of permissions on all of the servers and all of the databases.
The Customers database contains two tables named Customers and Classifications.
The following graphic shows the relevant portions of the tables:
Classifications (Customers)
The following table shows the current data in the Classifications table:
The Inventory database is updated frequently.
The database is often used for reporting.
A full backup of the database currently takes three hours to complete.
Stored Procedures
A stored procedure named USP_1 generates millions of rows of data for multiple reports. USP_1 combines data from five different tables from the Sales and Customers databases in a table named Table1.
After Table1 is created, the reporting process reads data from Table1 sequentially several times. After the process is complete, Table1 is deleted.
A stored procedure named USP_2 is used to generate a product list. The product list contains the names of products grouped by category.
USP_2 takes several minutes to run due to locks on the tables the procedure accesses. The locks are caused by USP_1 and USP_3.
A stored procedure named USP_3 is used to update prices. USP_3 is composed of several UPDATE statements called in sequence from within a transaction.
Currently, if one of the UPDATE statements fails, the stored procedure fails. A stored procedure named USP_4 calls stored procedures in the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases.
The nested stored procedures read tables from the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases. USP_4 uses an EXECUTE AS clause.
All nested stored procedures handle errors by using structured exception handling. A stored procedure named USP_5 calls several stored procedures in the same database. Security checks are performed each time USP_5 calls a stored procedure.
You suspect that the security checks are slowing down the performance of USP_5. All stored procedures accessed by user applications call nested stored procedures.
The nested stored procedures are never called directly.
Design Requirements
Data Recovery
You must be able to recover data from the Inventory database if a storage failure occurs. You have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 5 minutes.
You must be able to recover data from the Dev database if data is lost accidentally. You have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of one day.
Classification Changes
You plan to change the way customers are classified. The new classifications will have four levels based on the number of orders. Classifications may be removed or added in the future. Management requests that historical data be maintained for the previous classifications. Security A group of junior database administrators must be able to manage security for the Sales database. The junior database administrators will not have any other administrative rights.
A: Datum wants to track which users run each stored procedure.
Storage
ADatum has limited storage. Whenever possible, all storage space should be minimized for all databases and all backups.
Error Handling
There is currently no error handling code in any stored procedure.
You plan to log errors in called stored procedures and nested stored procedures. Nested stored procedures are never called directly.
You need to recommend a disaster recovery strategy for the Inventory database. What should you include in the recommendation?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 10
You have two databases named DB1 and DB2 that are located on the same server.
You plan to create a stored procedure named SProc1 in DB1. SProc1 will query a table named Table2 in DB2.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that SProc1 can access Table2 without granting users direct access to Table2.
What should you include in the recommendation? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
You plan to create a stored procedure named SProc1 in DB1. SProc1 will query a table named Table2 in DB2.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that SProc1 can access Table2 without granting users direct access to Table2.
What should you include in the recommendation? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
Correct Answer: A
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Question 11
You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Human_Resources. The database contains 2 tables named Employees and SalaryDetails. You add two Windows groups as logins for the server:
* CORP\Employees - All company employees
* CORP\HRAdmins - HR administrators only
* HR Administrators are also company employees.
You need to grant users access according to the following requirements:
* CORP\Employees should have SELECT access to the Employees table.
* Only users in CORP\HRAdmins should have SELECT access to the SalaryDetails table.
* Logins are based only on Windows security groups.
What should you do?
* CORP\Employees - All company employees
* CORP\HRAdmins - HR administrators only
* HR Administrators are also company employees.
You need to grant users access according to the following requirements:
* CORP\Employees should have SELECT access to the Employees table.
* Only users in CORP\HRAdmins should have SELECT access to the SalaryDetails table.
* Logins are based only on Windows security groups.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: A
Question 12
Overview
You are a database administrator for a company named Litware, Inc.
Litware is a book publishing house. Litware has a main office and a branch office.
You are designing the database infrastructure to support a new web-based application that is being developed.
The web application will be accessed at www.litwareinc.com. Both internal employees and external partners will use the application.
You have an existing desktop application that uses a SQL Server 2008 database named App1_DB.
App1_DB will remain in production.
Requirements
Planned Changes
You plan to deploy a SQL Server 2014 instance that will contain two databases named Database1 and Database2.
All database files will be stored in a highly available SAN.
Database1 will contain two tables named Orders and OrderDetails.
Database1 will also contain a stored procedure named usp_UpdateOrderDetails.
The stored procedure is used to update order information. The stored procedure queries the Orders table twice each time the procedure executes.
The rows returned from the first query must be returned on the second query unchanged along with any rows added to the table between the two read operations.
Database1 will contain several queries that access data in the Database2 tables.
Database2 will contain a table named Inventory.
Inventory will contain over 100 GB of data.
The Inventory table will have two indexes: a clustered index on the primary key and a nonclustered index.
The column that is used as the primary key will use the identity property.
Database2 wilt contains a stored procedure named usp_UpdateInventory. usp_UpdateInventory will manipulate a table that contains a self-join that has an unlimited number of hierarchies. All data in Database2 is recreated each day ad does not change until the next data creation process. Data from Database2 will be accessed periodically by an external application named Application1. The data from Database2 will be sent to a database named Appl_Dbl as soon as changes occur to the data in Database2. Litware plans to use offsite storage for all SQL Server 2014 backups.
Business Requirements
You have the following requirements:
* Costs for new licenses must be minimized.
* Private information that is accessed by Application must be stored in a secure format.
* Development effort must be minimized whenever possible.
* The storage requirements for databases must be minimized.
* System administrators must be able to run real-time reports on disk usage.
* The databases must be available if the SQL Server service fails.
* Database administrators must receive a detailed report that contains allocation errors and data corruption.
* Application developers must be denied direct access to the database tables. Applications must be denied direct access to the tables.
You must encrypt the backup files to meet regulatory compliance requirements.
The encryption strategy must minimize changes to the databases and to the applications.
You need to recommend a solution for the deployment of SQL Server 2014. The solution must meet the business requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
You are a database administrator for a company named Litware, Inc.
Litware is a book publishing house. Litware has a main office and a branch office.
You are designing the database infrastructure to support a new web-based application that is being developed.
The web application will be accessed at www.litwareinc.com. Both internal employees and external partners will use the application.
You have an existing desktop application that uses a SQL Server 2008 database named App1_DB.
App1_DB will remain in production.
Requirements
Planned Changes
You plan to deploy a SQL Server 2014 instance that will contain two databases named Database1 and Database2.
All database files will be stored in a highly available SAN.
Database1 will contain two tables named Orders and OrderDetails.
Database1 will also contain a stored procedure named usp_UpdateOrderDetails.
The stored procedure is used to update order information. The stored procedure queries the Orders table twice each time the procedure executes.
The rows returned from the first query must be returned on the second query unchanged along with any rows added to the table between the two read operations.
Database1 will contain several queries that access data in the Database2 tables.
Database2 will contain a table named Inventory.
Inventory will contain over 100 GB of data.
The Inventory table will have two indexes: a clustered index on the primary key and a nonclustered index.
The column that is used as the primary key will use the identity property.
Database2 wilt contains a stored procedure named usp_UpdateInventory. usp_UpdateInventory will manipulate a table that contains a self-join that has an unlimited number of hierarchies. All data in Database2 is recreated each day ad does not change until the next data creation process. Data from Database2 will be accessed periodically by an external application named Application1. The data from Database2 will be sent to a database named Appl_Dbl as soon as changes occur to the data in Database2. Litware plans to use offsite storage for all SQL Server 2014 backups.
Business Requirements
You have the following requirements:
* Costs for new licenses must be minimized.
* Private information that is accessed by Application must be stored in a secure format.
* Development effort must be minimized whenever possible.
* The storage requirements for databases must be minimized.
* System administrators must be able to run real-time reports on disk usage.
* The databases must be available if the SQL Server service fails.
* Database administrators must receive a detailed report that contains allocation errors and data corruption.
* Application developers must be denied direct access to the database tables. Applications must be denied direct access to the tables.
You must encrypt the backup files to meet regulatory compliance requirements.
The encryption strategy must minimize changes to the databases and to the applications.
You need to recommend a solution for the deployment of SQL Server 2014. The solution must meet the business requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 13
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You have a database named DB1 that is 640 GB and is updated frequently.
You enabled log shipping for DB1 and configure backup and restore to occur every 30 minutes.
You discover that the disks on the data server are almost full.
You need to reduce the amount of disk space used by the log shipping process.
Solution: You increase the frequency of the transaction log backups to every 10 minutes.
Does this meet the goal?
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You have a database named DB1 that is 640 GB and is updated frequently.
You enabled log shipping for DB1 and configure backup and restore to occur every 30 minutes.
You discover that the disks on the data server are almost full.
You need to reduce the amount of disk space used by the log shipping process.
Solution: You increase the frequency of the transaction log backups to every 10 minutes.
Does this meet the goal?
Correct Answer: A
Question 14
You manage a Microsoft SQL Server instance. You have a user named User1.
You need to grant the minimum permissions necessary to allow User1 to review audit logs.
For each action, which option should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
You need to grant the minimum permissions necessary to allow User1 to review audit logs.
For each action, which option should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Correct Answer:
Explanation
Box 1: securityadmin
To access log files for instances of SQL Server that are online, this requires membership in the securityadmin fixed server role.
Box 2: sys.server_audit_specifications
sys.server_audit_specifications contains information about the server audit specifications in a SQL Server audit on a server instance.