Microsoft 70-447 Exam : UPGRADE:MCDBA Skills to MCITP DB Admin by Using MS SQL 2005

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 named SQL1. The company has backups of all system databases performed every Saturday night, and have backups of all user databases performed every Sunday night. And the company has all backups stored in an off-site facility. Because of the power outage, SQL1 accidentally turns off. And after bringing SQL1 back online, the users cannot start the SQL Server service. You can see the SQL Server error log from the exhibit below. SQL1 should be returned to working order in the shortest time. Which action should be performed first?

• A. All of the user databases should be restored from backup.
• B. The SQL Server 2005 installation CD should be inserted and the setup utility should be run to have the default instance reinstalled.
• C. Setup.exe should be run from a command line and a rebuild of the master database should be specified.
• D. All of the system databases should be restored.

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. A SQL Server 2005 application is utilized by the company. A query is executed by the application to return three columns of the nvarchar data type and one column of the XML data type. A WHERE clause is utilized by the query, and all three of the nvarchar columns are contained by the WHERE clause. 5 million rows are included by the table, and 50,000 rows are returned by the query. The performance of the query should be enhanced. Which action should be performed to achieve the goal?

• A. A composite index should be created on the three nvarchar columns, and INCLUDE should be specified for the XML column.
• B. A view should be created, and only the four columns that the query utilizes are contained by a view.
• C. Statistics should be created on the nvarchar columns.
• D. A primary XML index should be created on the XML column.

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 find a problem that there are three reports which are running slowly. And through detailed analysis, you conclude that no error messages are generated from these reports. Not only the indexing strategy but also the status of the current indexes is tested by you. You confirm that the slow performance of the financial reports is not caused by it. Since you are the technical support, you are required to find out which statement is causing the slow performance. Which action should be performed first?

• A. The Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) should be run with the default options.
• B. SQL Server Profiler should be run with the TSQL_Duration template.
• C. SQL Server Profiler should be run with the Lock:Deadlock event class.
• D. The Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) f should be run or at least one hour.

After check, you find that because of a careless deletion at 11:45, all inserts and updates in the internet_rentals database from the last two days were lost. Now it is 11:58.
In order to recover the data that are lost, you have to perform a point-in-point restore. After you complete the restore, you intend to limit the amount of data loss. Your database, transaction log, and all backups can be accessed. After you take the database offline, what action should you perform?
(Choose the appropriate actions and put them in the correct order.)
1.Perform the back up of the active portion of the transaction log.
2.Restore the latest full backup, and the WITH NORECOVER option should be used.
3.Restore the latest differential backup, and the WITH NORECOVER option should be used.
4.Restore the final transaction log backup, and the WITH RECOVERY and STOPAT options should be used.
5.Restore all but the final transaction log backups that have occurred since the latest full backup, and the WITH NORECOVER option should be used.
6.Restore all but the final transaction log backups that have occurred since the latest different backup, and the WITH NORECOVER option should be used.

• A. 2, 5, 1. 6
• B. 6, 3, 5, 4
• C. 4, 2, 6, 3
• D. 5, 1, 6, 4
• E. 5, 4, 3, 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. Backups of all user databases are performed on Sunday nights. Backups of all system databases are performed on Saturday nights. All backups are stored in an off-site facility. SQL01 shuts down unexpectedly because of a power failure. The SQL Server service fails to start when SQL01 is brought back online. The SQL Server error log is shown in the exhibit below. Since you are the technical support, you have to return SQL01 to working order in a minimum possible time. What action should you perform first?

• A. After the SQL Server 2005 installation CD is inserted, you should reinstall the default instance by running the setup utility.
• B. Setup.exe should be run from a command line and a rebuild of the master database
  should be specified.
• C. All of the user databases should be restored from backup.
• D. All of the system databases should be restored.