Microsoft-PRO Designing, Optimizing, and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Set 1

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. A database is included by the instance, and a table named EmployeeData is contained by the database. There is a column named Profile in the EmployeeData table. Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents are stored in the column. The space utilized by the Profile column should be cut to the least. In addition, a reasonable performance should be maintained to retrieve the content of the column. Which action will you perform?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. It is reported by the customers that the server performance degraded due to a newly implemented process. Dynamic Management Views is utilized to confirm that no long running queries exist. The operating system performance data should be correlated with the actual query execution trace, and the least administrative effort should be utilized. Which action will you perform to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. There is a database in the instance, and the day-to-day business of your company requires the database. When reports are executed, slow response time is experienced by Users. A performance monitoring strategy will be implemented by you so as to have three aspects of data captured and stored: Blocking and deadlock information Executed Transact-SQL statements Query activity and Counters for disk, CPU,and memory. You are required to utilize the least amount of administrative effort to implement the monitoring process. Which action will you perform to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. The computer on which the instance run has the following three features: 64-GB RAM, four quad-core processors, and several independent physical raid volumes A transactional database will be implemented on the instance. In addition, the database should have a high volume of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE activities, creation of new tables is contained by the activities. You need to maximize disk bandwidth and decrease the contention in the storage allocation structures so as to have the performance of the database optimized. Which action will you perform to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. Log shipping should be implemented for several databases on three SQL Server instances. The logs are migrated to a fourth SQL Server instance. A manual failover will be implemented. You need to ensure that the database applications utilize the secondary server after failover. Since you are the technical support, you are required to confirm that the latest data should be available to users. Which actions should you perform to achieve the goal? (Choose more than one)

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. After a regular test, you find that performance degradation is experienced by an instance for the three reasons: Excessive CPU usage, Server processes paging and Deadlocks A monitoring solution should be implemented to provide data, monitor and troubleshoot performance issues and detailed deadlock information should be contained in the provided data. You should utilize the least amount of administrative effort to finish the task. Which tool will you utilize to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. There are 30 branch offices in DoubleSecurity Insurance, and in the branch offices, customer data are stored in SQL Server 2008 databases. Customer data should be security compliant if it is stored through multiple database instances. You intend to utilize the Policy-Based Management feature to design a strategy for custom policies. And the format of custom policies is XML format. The requirements listed below should be satisfied. The company distributes custom policies to all instances. In addition, the company enforces the policies on all instances. A strategy should be thought out and the minimum amount of administrative effort should be utilized. Which action should you perform to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. All data changes are implemented through stored procedures, and only the INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements are utilized by the procedures. A backup strategy should be implemented. The business requirements listed below should be satisfied: Point-in-time recovery for failure is supported by the backup strategy at any time of day. The least amount of disk space should be utilized by the transaction log. Which action should you perform to finish the task?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database Administrator. You are experienced in managing databases in an enterprise-level organization,optimizing and sustaining the database life cycle. In the company, your job is to implement solutions on security, troubleshooting, deployment and optimization. A SQL Server 2008 infrastructure is managed by you. A database is utilized by the instance, and the database is utilized by a Web-based application. 15,000 transactions are processed by the application every minute. A column is contained by a table in the database, and the column is utilized only by the application. Sensitive data is stored in this column. The sensitive data should be stored with the highest security level. In addition, the least amount of memory space and processor time should be utilized. From the following four encryption types, which one should you utilize?

You are a professional level SQL Sever 2008 Database. A new database application is hosted by the instance. The security requirements should be designed for the application. A unique login to the SQL Server 2008 server is assigned to each application user. Stored procedures are included by the application database to execute stored procedures in the MSDB database. SQLAgent jobs are scheduled by the stored procedures in the MSDB database. Since you are the technical support, you are required to confirm that the stored procedures in the MSDB database should be executed by utilizing the security context of the application user. Which action should you perform?