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 are in charge of 20 SQL Server 2005 computers. Other administrators are responsible for monitoring these computers. These administrators need to guarantee that query response times meet company service level agreements (SLAs). Since you are the technical support, you are asked to provide these administrators with a consistent way of monitoring query response times on the servers. What action should you perform to achieve this goal?

• A. You should write a query. This query queries the sys.dm_db_partition_stats dynamic management view (DMV). This query should be distributed to the administrators.
• B. The administrators should be asked to monitor cache hit ratio statistics by using System Monitor.
• C. SQL Server Profiler templates should be created. Query start times and end times should be include in the templates. Distribute these templates to the database administrators.
• D. You should create an XML document that contains the event and column names of the query response times that must be captured in SQL Server Profiler. The XML file should be distributed to the database administrators.

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. A SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package is created by you. Confidential information is contained in this package. Only two company employees will use this package. The package is stored in the msdb database. You have to make sure that the package can only be executed by the appropriate employees. The company requires that you should use as little administrative effort as possible when you try to achieve this. So what action should you perform?

• A. After the package is saved to a file. You should use the Encrypting File System (EFS) to encrypt the file.
• B. The package should be configured to use the Encrypt all with user key package protection level.
• C. The package should be configured to use the Encrypt all with password package protection level.
• D. The package should be saved to a SQL Server 2005 computer that has an IPSec Secure Server policy applied.

According to the company requirements, the interim disk availability solution should be designed for SQL1. Windows RAID functionality will be utilized. A most proper RAID configuration should be identified to meet the availability requirements. From the following four RAID configurations, which one should be utilized?

• A. A mirrored volume should be created for the system files and database logs, and a stripe set without parity should be created for the data files.
• B. A mirrored volume should be created for the system files and database logs, and a stripe set with parity should be created for the data files.
• C. A mirrored volume should be created for the system files, database logs, and data files.
• D. A stripe set with parity should be created for the system files, database logs, and data files.

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. 5, 1, 6, 4
• C. 5, 4, 3, 1
• D. 4, 2, 6, 3
• E. 6, 3, 5, 4

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 mission-critical customer relationship management (CRM) database is hosted by a new SQL Server 2005 computer, and the new SQL Server 2005 computer is called SQL2. The CRM database is available to all of the company's 500 employees in the sales and marketing departments. The purchase of new hardware and software should not exceed the annual budget for your department. A monitoring strategy should be devised, and the strategy enables you to make decisions about the history of server performance. In addition, how to arrange the most efficient method to allocate funds for hardware upgrades should be suggested by the monitoring strategy. Which action should be performed?

• A. SQL Server Profiler should be utilized to capture information to a SQL Server database table. And then, this task should be performed at regular intervals during periods of peak server activity.
• B. System Monitor in graph mode should be utilized to display information about %Processor Time, Average Disk Queue Length, Pages/sec, and Bytes Total/sec. And then, this task should be performed at regular intervals during periods of peak server activity.
• C. A counter log should be set to capture information about %Processor Time, Average Disk Queue Length, Pages/sec, and Bytes Total/sec. And then, the log should be scheduled to execute at regular intervals, and the information should be stored in a comma-delimited text file.
• D. A series of performance alerts should be created to notify you when the acceptable thresholds are exceeded by %Processor Time, Average Disk Queue Length, Pages/sec, and Bytes Total/sec.