Microsoft UPGRADE:MCDBA Skills to MCITP DB Admin by Using MS SQL 2005 Sample Questions:

1. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international
corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You administer a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL01.A database named AssetTrack is hosted on SQL01. The company CIO assigns a task to you. You have to work out a strategy to quickly perform point-in-time and page-level restores of the AssetTrack database. What should you do? (Choose more than one.)

A) A backup strategy should be designed. This strategy should involve full and transaction log backups.
B) The Recovery model database option should be configured as Full.
C) A backup strategy should be designed. This strategy should involve full and differential backups.
D) The Recovery model database option should be configured as Simple.
E) The Restrict access database option should be configured as Restricted.

2. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.You work as the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer, and the computer is called SQL01. The users complain the slow response of all client applications which connect to SQL01. You find that the CPU and memory utilization of SQL01 is low. In addition, the disk activity is low. The cause of the performance problem should be identified. Which action should be performed?

A) The sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats dynamic management function (DMF) should be examined.
B) The sys.dm_db_partition_stats dynamic management view (DMV) should be examined.
C) System Monitor should be utilized to have SQL1s cache hit ratio examined.
D) Task Manager should be utilized to have utilization of SQL1s network adapter examined.

3. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as a database administrator for your company. There is a user in the Windows SalesManagers group, and he is called Simon. A Reporting Services report is required by Simon to have annual sales information displayed by territory. There is another user in the Windows Sales group, and he is called Jack. He is responsible to report to Simon. A report is required by Jack, and the report is limited to his sales territory, but the same detailed sales data is still displayed, and the detailed sales data is on Simon's report. A secure solution should be designed to meet the requirements of the users listed above, and the least amount of server resources should be utilized. Which action should be performed?

A) First, two data regions should be contained by a report which is designed for Simon. Second, one data region should be utilized for summary sales data. Third, the other data region should be utilized for the detailed sales data for each sales representative. Four, a report that displays the detailed sales data should be designed for Jack.
B) First, the territory information should be contained by a report which is designed for Simon. Second, a report which detailed sales data for Jack's territories is contained should be designed for Jack. Third, Simon??s report should be set to have the data in Jacks report contained.
C) First, all territory information should be contained by a parameterized report which is designed for Simon. Second, a linked report that links to Simons report should be designed for Jack.
D) First, two reports should be designed for Simon. Second, the territory information should be contained by one, and the detailed sales data should be contained by another. At last, a report that displays the detailed sales data for Jack's territories should be designed for Jack.

4. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You administer a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL01. A database named DB01 is hosted on SQL01. DB1 plays the role of backend database for an application that tracks issues. DB01 helps desk technicians receive and the associated trouble tickets. When installed, the help desk application loaded several stored procedures and views that are used for data manipulation and reporting purposes. There are more than 50 tables in DB01. The bulk of the data is stored within the Employees, Issues, Assets, and AssetTracker tables. The AssetTracker table in DB01 is deleted by an application developer carelessly. The AssetTracker table is referenced by several views and functions in the database. You must make sure that critical tables cannot be removed by users such as this that are referenced by views or functions. So what action should you perform to make sure of this?

A) First you should identify the dependencies of each critical table. Then the syntax of each view and function should be changed to include the SCHEMABINDING syntax.
B) All critical tables should be added to the same schema by using the ALTER SCHEMA Transact-SQL statement. For the Public role, the DENY-DELETE permission should be configured on the schema.
C) For DB01, a new read-only filegroup should be created and all tables should be moved to the new filegroup.
D) First you should identify the dependencies of each view and function. Then For the Public role, the DENY-CONTROL permission should be configured on each critical table listed as a dependency.

5. You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as the database administrator for your company. You are in charge of 20 SQL Server 2005 computers. Other administrators are responsible for monitoring these computers. These administrators need to guarantee that query response times meet company service level agreements (SLAs). Since you are the technical support, you are asked to provide these administrators with a consistent way of monitoring query response times on the servers. What action should you perform to achieve this goal?

A) You should write a query. This query queries the sys.dm_db_partition_stats dynamic management view (DMV). This query should be distributed to the administrators.
B) The administrators should be asked to monitor cache hit ratio statistics by using System Monitor.
C) SQL Server Profiler templates should be created. Query start times and end times should be include in the templates. Distribute these templates to the database administrators.
D) You should create an XML document that contains the event and column names of the query response times that must be captured in SQL Server Profiler. The XML file should be distributed to the database administrators.

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