Microsoft 70-764 Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure Exam Practice Test

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You are designing a new high availability (HA) solution for a set of application databases. The solution will be contained within a single datacenter and provided instance-level HA protection.

You need to deploy a solution that allows for minimal downtime if the production server goes offline.

Which should you implement?

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You are designing a new disaster recovery (DR) solution for a heavily-utilized application database. The DR site is in a remote datacenter. You should minimize network traffic to the DR site during business hours.

You need to deploy a solution that allows near-real time queries to be run on the secondary instance and

minimizes the effect on performance for the main production database.

Which should you implement?

Which task should you perform before you can create a utility control point by using the service account option?

You run the sp_who system stored procedure. A process is blocked by a long-running operation.

You need to identify details of the processes involved in the deadlock including the resources that are being accessed. You must able to view the deadlock chain.

What should you use?

You maintain two Microsoft SQL Server instances that are hosted on two servers named SVR1 and SVR2.

You configure log shipping using the following information:

DB1 on SVR1 is configured as the primary database

Logs are backed up to a shared folder on SVR1

DB2 on SVR2 is configured as the secondary database

The service accounts for SQL Server Agent are set up using different domain accounts.

After changes are made to SVR1, log shipping is failing with the following error message:

You need to resolve the issue.

What should you do?

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Start of repeated scenario

Contoso, Ltd. has Microsoft SQL Server databases that support a custom application. The current SQL Server environment consists of two servers: ContosoSQL1 and ContosoSQL2. These two servers participate in an Always On Availability Group named ContosoAG1 that is configured to use synchronous-commit with automatic failover. The secondary replica is not configured for read-only access.

The application performs both transactional processing and historical data retrieval in a database named ContosoDB. The application includes an inventory management module. The inventory management module and database have experienced performance issues.

Users report that a query named InventoryQuery1 takes a long time to complete. The query is shown as follows:

SELECT ProductNumber, Name, ProductLine

FROM Production.Product

WHERE ProductNumber = N''

The query plan used by SQL Server for this query is shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.) Various performance issues, including frequent long-term blocking episodes, prevent business users from completing their daily tasks. You suspect the tempdb database resources could be responsible. You must create Blocking reports for the ContosoDB database to identify issues.

Exhibit.

You plan to use Extended Events to review all Transact-SQL statements that are run against the ContosoSQL1 instance. The output from the Extended Events session must contain both start and stop events and must be written to a file. You must configure the Extended Events session to minimize possible data loss and reduce the effect on server performance.

You plan to deploy an additional secondary replica named ContosoSQL3 to ContosoAG1. Read-only traffic must be load-balanced between the two secondary replicas, regardless of which instance is the primary replica. Contoso plans to add an additional dedicated reporting system that will rely on real-time data from the transactional databases.

The company plans to improve their high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution. As part of the planned improvements, you will back up all databases from ContosoSQL1 directly to an off-site location.

End of repeated scenario

You need to configure the backup process for ContosoSQL1.

What should you do?

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You attempt to restore a database on a new SQL Server instance and receive the following error message:

You need to ensure that you can restore the database successfully.

Solution: You generate a new certificate on the new instance.

Does this meet the goal?