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Server Management Mastery Quiz

Test your knowledge on server management with this comprehensive quiz designed for IT professionals and server administrators. This quiz consists of 20 carefully crafted questions that cover essential aspects of server operations, performance enhancement, security measures, and troubleshooting.

Evaluate your understanding of server setup and maintenance.
Identify best practices for server configurations and security.
Challenge yourself with real-world scenarios faced by server administrators.

20 Questions5 MinutesCreated by AdministerSecure12

You have just taken over management of a server on which the previous server administrator has set up several server components including the hard drives to be hot swappable. However, you notice that server performance is slow and disk reading and writing sometimes is delayed. What step can you take to improve the performance of the disk drives?

Check the disk controllers for a switch you can set for faster disk rotation.

Use the Control Panel Disk applet to double the disk transfer speed.

Allocate more RAM for disk transfers.

Ensure file caching and flushing are enabled for all disk drives.

Each time that you access files on a disk, the monitor blinks or goes blank for several seconds. What might be the source of the problem and possible solution?

The disk and monitor are connected to the same controller, and you should use Control Panel to configure a hardware link bridge.

This is called a “RAM pause” and you need to use Control Panel to allocate more RAM specifically for the data bus inside the computer.

The disk controller should be replaced because it is an older generation controller that operates at the same frequency as the monitor

There is an IRQ conflict, and you need to use Device Manager to resolve the problem.

As the server administrator for a hospital, you have received several notices about malware targeted at software applications used in hospitals. What server configuration step can you take to help protect applications from malware?

Install the Malware role on the server.

Ensure that Data Execution Prevention is turned on.

Run the malware-protect cmdlet in Windows PowerShell.

Install the Malware Block feature through Server Manager.

Another way to protect against malware is to ensure the system and other essential files have a signature. What tool enables you to verify files for a signature and what tool enables you to run this tool?

Sigverif that is started through Windows PowerShell

Signature Monitor that is started through Administrative Tools

Fileverify that is started through the Command Prompt window

Filesig that is started using Control Panel

Which of the following can be installed using the Add a device option? (Choose all that apply.)

Optical drive

Keyboard

Monitor

Disk drive

You’ve obtained a new driver from the Internet for your server’s NIC. What tool enables you to install the driver?

Driver icon in Control Panel

Driver Updater

Device Manager

App Installer

You have noticed lately that your server is running very slowly, especially when switching between programs. You see that the C: partition is running low on space, limiting the size of your paging file. You have a second partition, D: that has 100 GB of free space. How can you move the paging file from partition C: onto partition D:?

Use Device Manager to drag the paging file from partition C: to partition D:.

Configure it from the System window opened through Control Panel.

Move the Paging directory to partition D: via Device Manager.

Use the Paging file option in Control Panel and access the Size link in the Paging window.

A _________ variable is defined by the operating system and is applied to every user when signed in.

System environment

Undefined

Static

Default

Your organization has consolidated servers through virtualization and now needs to remove the Windows Deployment Services server role from one of its servers. Which of the following tools enable you to remove a server role? (Choose all that apply.)

Control Panel>System

Control Panel>Server Roles

Role-delete command in the Command Prompt window

Server Manager

The power supply in your server has just been replaced because of power problems. Your server boots, but now there is a message that a Windows directory file is corrupted. You can use _________ as a tool to check and then restore system files that have been corrupted.

System File Checker

Ipconfig

NFTS

_________ enables you to determine if a server role is set up to follow best practices.

Best Practice Analyzer

Windows Explorer

Firefox

Chrome

Your server keyboard sometimes hesitates or seems like it is disconnecting from the computer. Which of the following tools enables you to run a quick check on whether the keyboard is working properly?

Device Manager

Sysconfig command

Control Panel Check Components window

PnP

Your server has a virus with elements of the virus embedded in the Registry. The virus checker has located these elements but cannot delete them. What tool can you use to delete these virus elements in the Registry?

Regedit

Cd registry

Sigverif

Openedit

You are working in PowerShell and receive a call that users cannot use the print services through the server. What command can you run to quickly determine services that are running or are stopped?

Core_services

Services

Get-service

Dir services

What option can you use in Server Manager to configure server properties, such as the computer name and the Ethernet connection, as well as view events, such as errors and warnings?

Local Server in the left pane

Server information menu

WDS box in the default Server Manager window

Analyze option on the Tools menu

The server you have just installed has 16 GB of RAM. What should the initial paging file size be set to when you manually configure it as a beginning tuning step before monitoring paging over time to fine tune it later?

1024 MB

2048 MB

8192 MB

24567 MB

Your company is working to save costs by conserving the power consumption of its servers. Which of the following default power plans should you select for Windows Server 2016 servers?

High performance

Miser

Power saver

Controlled consumption

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