A server technician has been attempting to install an operating system on the company test server for several days. The technician has experienced error messages at several points of the installation and the system has frozen during various parts of the boot process. The technician has replaced the power supply, graphics card and installation disk with known good components. Which of the following could be causing these issues? (Select TWO).
A. Storage driver not loaded
B. Fragmented hard drive
C. Damaged or faulty NIC chipset
D. Damaged or faulty system board
E. Memory incompatible with the processor
F. Missing voltage regulator
While troubleshooting a video problem on an application server, the system administrator has determined that the video firmware should be updated. Which of the following sources should be used to locate an appropriate update for this hardware? (Select TWO).
A. Third-party manufacturer
B. Video chipset manufacturer
C. Server manufacturer
D. Operating system manufacturer
E. Shareware file sharing site
A KVM system may connect which of the following? (Select THREE).
A. PS/2 mouse
B. USB mouse
C. SVGA display
D. NIC
E. USB memory stick
F. HBA card
Which of the following describes the difference between SATA and PATA?
A. SATA operates on a single channel.
B. PATA devices have three channels.
C. PATA devices have their own channel whereas SATA does not.
D. SATA devices have their own channel whereas PATA does not.
An administrator needs to review the open ports on a host. Which of the following commands should they use?
A. traceroute -d
B. ping -t
C. netstat -ano
D. nbtstat -a
A high availability solution must be designed for a single file server. Data must be replicated between the disks to ensure a failure of one disk does not bring down the server. Which of the following meets these requirements?
A. RAID 1
B. RAID 0
C. Active/passive cluster
D. Disk-to-disk
A hypervisor has 4GB of RAM, 1TB of RAID 5 SATA storage, two Xeon 2.4GHz Quad Core Processors, and four gigabit NIC cards. The hypervisor is running twelve guest operating systems and users are reporting slow response times. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A. Processor
B. RAM
C. HDD
D. NIC
A technician is replacing memory in a server whose motherboard supports PC2100 memory. This type of memory is also known as which of the following?
A. DDR2
B. DDR
C. SDRAM
D. DDR3
A technician is replacing memory in a server whose motherboard supports PC3-8500 memory. This type of memory is also known as which of the following?
A. SDRAM
B. DDR
C. DDR3
D. DDR2
A technician would like to setup load balancing on a file server. Which of the following additional devices will need to be added to the server?
A. NIC
B. PBX
C. CPU
D. USB
