IT Challenge Practice Quiz

Imagine Cup 2012 - IT Challenge! IT Challenge Round 1 Practice Questions.

The questions below will give you a taste of the questions that will appear on the IT Challenge Quiz. To see the answer for each, click on the "Answer" link below each question.

Question 1: When configuring a SQL 2005 Server in preparation for connectivity to a SharePoint Server 2007 farm, Microsoft recommends that Local and Remote Connections use both TCP/IP and named pipes. Where is this setting found? A. In the SQL Server Management Studio B. In the SQL Server Configuration Manager C. In the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration tool D. In the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio Answer C Question 2: To which group should you add a user to allow them to authorize DHCP servers? A. Domain Admins B. Schema Admins C. Local Admins D. Enterprise Admins Answer D Question 3: Active Directory topology is calculated based on what? A. Site link cost B. Bandwidth C. Latency D. Distance Answer A

Question 4: Which component allows an administrator to enforce organizational standards to newly created GPOs? A. ADMX/ADML templates B. Starter GPOs C. WMI filtering D. GPO precedence rules Answer B Question 5: What tool can be used to take remote control of another users RDP session? A. Remote Desktop Server Manager B. RDP Client C. Remote Desktop Session Broker D. Powershell Answer A Question 6: What are the requirements for Hyper-V R2? A. 32 bit Operating system B. A CPU with Hardware Assisted Virtualization C. 16 GB of RAM D. A CPU with Hardware Assisted Virtualization, 32 bit Operating system, and 16 GB of RAM Answer B Question 7: Which command-line editor should be used in Windows 7 to modify settings such as the boot sequence, display order and time out values for multiple operating systems, or Emergency Management Services and boot debugging settings? A. Bcdedit.exe B. Winconfig.exe C. Bootiniconfig.exe D. Regedit.exe Answer A Question 8:

What setting, if enabled, will immediately push the SCCM client out to any discovered machines? A. Enabling Computer Client Agent B. Enabling Client Push Installation to assigned Resources C. Enabling the Software Update Point client Installation D. Enabling Advertised Programs Agent Answer B Question 9: Why are the ASP.NET Ajax extensions 1.0 needed for a successful Operations Manager 2007 R2 installation? A. To enable Operations Manager 2007 R2 to monitor Unix and Linux systems B. To enable the use of the WebConsole Reporting module C. To enable the use of the WebConsole Authoring module D. To enable the use of the WebConsole Health explorer Answer D Question 10: How many database replicas are supported in Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups? A. Only 1 per Storage Group B. Up to 5 C. Unlimited D. Up to 16 Answer D Question 11: Which server in a SCOM architecture holds the Data Warehouse? A. Operations database server B. Standby operations database server C. Reporting server D. Root management server Answer C Question 12: Which utility uses SQL queries to review and analyze IIS logs for failures and unusual behavior?

A. Tracelog 3.1 B. Logparser 2.2 C. EventcombMT D. nlparse Answer B Question 13: You are the administrator for the company network. You are bringing a new remote office online. The office has a domain controller that also runs DNS and WINS. It also has a file server that runs DHCP. DHCP enabled workstations are not getting DHCP addresses as expected. What should you do? A. Move the DHCP service to the domain controller B. Disable WINS since it interferes with DHCP on the same network C. Authorize the DHCP server in Active Directory D. Enable DHCP forwarding on the workstations Answer C Question 14: You are a database administrator for your company. You review the error log for a SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition computer. You notice torn page errors for one index in a 2-terabyte (TB) database. You need to resolve the torn index page problem as quickly as possible. What should you do? A. Run DBCC CHECKDB with the REPAIR_REBUILD option. B. Use the latest database tape backup to restore only the torn page. Then restore any transaction logs that have been made since the full backup. C. Restore the latest full tape database backup. Then restore any transaction logs that have been made since the full backup. D. Restore the database from the most recent database snapshot. Answer A Question 15: You are the support engineer for your company. A user is complaining about connectivity problems with the Outlook 2007. Their mailbox is hosted on an Exchange 2007 server. You want to check their Outlook connection status. What should you do? A. Right-click on the Outlook icon in the system tray. B. Select Help, Office Diagnostics. C. Ctrl-right-click on the Outlook icon in the system tray.

D. Select Tools, Rules and Alerts Answer A Question 16: In WSS 3.0 when a site administrator wishes to create a new subweb using the Team Site template, which of the following links does she select from the Create page? A. Basic Page B. Web Part Page C. Sites and Workspaces D. Collaboration Portal Answer B Question 17: In Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups, the quorum model is handled as follows: A. Only Node Majority is supported, therefore DAGs must be configured only in odd number of member servers. B. Only Fileshare Majority is supported, therefore DAGs must be configured only in even number of member servers. C. The quorum model automatically changes between Node Majority, and Node and File Share Majority dependent on the number of member servers in the DAG. D. Quorum is handled only by clustered shared volumes (CSVs) and therefore can only be created in odd number of member servers in the DAG. Answer C Question 18: You are a consumer support technician. A users computer has a 100-GB hard disk and contains 80% free space. The hard disk contains a collection of pictures, videos, and music files that uses 3.5 GB of space. The user plans to send a backup copy of the file collection to a friend who resides in another state. You need to provide the user the most efficient backup method for sending the media files. You also need to minimize the size of the backup media set. What should you do? A. Use the Back up files option to back up the media files to a set of CDs. B. Use the Back up computer option to back up the computer to a set of DVDs. C. Use the Back up computer option to back up the computer to an external hard disk. D. Use the Back up files option to back up the media files to a DVD. Answer D

Question 19: You are the network administrator for your company. All servers run Windows 2003. You need to access your servers in the DMZ using SSL. What port would you ask the firewall administrator to open to give you access? A. 443 B. 21 C. 3389 D. 1443 Answer A Question 20: I click on the Start button and enter System in the Search field, select System Configuration and hit enter to open the tool. Which of the following options on the Boot tab allow me to boot the system without the statup splash screen showing? A. Boot log B. No GUI boot C. Base video D. OS boot information Answer B Question 21: You need to select the architecture for Exchange 2007 that will give you automatic redundancy in the case of a server or storage failure. Which option is best: A. Implement Clustered Continuous Replication on the Exchange 2007 mailbox server. B. Implement Exchange 2007 in a virtual server and copy the virtual server to another host each night. C. Implement Continuous Local Backup on the Exchange 2007 mailbox server. D. Implement a Single Copy Cluster on the Exchange 2007 mailbox server. Answer A Question 22: You are the administrator for the company network. The amount of data stored on Windows file servers has been growing steadily. You company does not and cannot implement storage quotas at this time. Analysis of the files on the file servers shows that users are storing MP3 files, which violates company storage policies. How can you prevent users from storing MP3 files on the company file servers?

A. Implement an Encrypted File System policy B. Configure it in Group Policy C. Upgrade the file servers to Windows file servers to Windows Server 2003 R2 and utilize File Server Resource Manager D. Block MP3 files using the Windows Firewall Answer C Question 23: Which of the following is a valid PowerShell command in Windows 7 (assuming the directories and files referenced do in fact exist on the computer)? A. compare-object -referenceobject $(get-content C:\test\test.txt) -differenceobject $(get-content C:\testtwo\test.txt) B. compare-object -referenceobject $(get-content C:\test one\test.txt) -differenceobject $(getcontent C:\testtwo\test.txt) C. compare-object -referenceobject (get-content C:\test\test.txt) -differenceobject (get-content C:\testtwo\test.txt) D. compare-object -referenceobject {get-content C:\test one\test.txt} -differenceobject {getcontent C:\testtwo\test.txt} Answer A Question 24: You have a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment. You need to ensure that remote client computers that connect to the virtual private network (VPN) are able to receive software updates. What should you do? A. Create a new site system, and configure it with the SMS Provider role. B. Add the IP subnets that the VPN uses to the network discovery. C. Create a new site boundary, and add the IP subnets that the VPN uses to the site boundary. D. Create a new site system, and configure it with the Software Update Point role. Answer C Question 25: You are the backup administrator for your company. The company uses Data Protection Manager 2007 to backup all its servers. For security, you want to encrypt the data that is backed up by DPM. What should you do? A. Select encryption in the short-term protection options in the protection group. B. Select encryption in the long-term protection options in the protection group. C. Select encryption in both short-term and long-term protection options in the protection group.

D. Select encryption in the agent options. Answer B Question 26: You are the mail administrator for your company. The company uses Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. A user complains that her calendar keeps reminding her about a past appointment even though she has dismissed it. How can you correct this problem? A. Delete the users Free/Busy information B. Run Outlook with the /ClearReminders switch C. Reboot the Exchange mailbox server D. Run Outlook with the /CleanReminders switch Answer D Question 27: Which one or more of the following file types will be indexed by SharePoint Server 2007 when uploaded to a document library in an out-of-the-box configuration? A. .ppt B. .doc and .ppt C. .pdf D. .doc Answer B Question 28: If I am a farm administrator and am accessing the Central Administrator console for SharePoint Server 2007, what tab(s) appear by default from the home page? A. Application Management, Home and Operations B. Home C. Operations D. Application Management Answer A Question 29: You are a messaging professional. Your company uses a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 messaging system. The company adds a new Mailbox server and moves half of the user mailboxes to the new server. You set the retention period for deleted mailboxes to 21 days. The backup report shows that the Exchange Server 2007 backups store 800 GB of data. The mailboxes of the users contain 200 GB of data. There are no public folder databases. All

Exchange Server 2007 databases are stored on a Storage Area Network (SAN), which has available disk space. You need to reduce the time taken to back up the Exchange Server 2007 databases. You must achieve this goal by minimizing the disruption of user access to mailboxes. Which action should you perform? A. Set the retention period for deleted mailboxes to five days. B. Increase the window for scheduled online maintenance for each mailbox database. C. Create a new database on the same Mailbox server for each existing database. Move users to the new databases and delete the old databases. D. Dismount and defragment each mailbox database. Answer C Question 30: You are a Windows Mobile 6.0 device user. You are concerned that your email might not be synchronizing to your Exchange server. You want to check the status. Where should you check status? A. Start, Settings, Device Information B. Start, Programs, ActiveSync C. Start, Settings, Error Reporting D. Messaging, Menu, Options Answer B