Microsoft Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server 2012, Part 2 Sample Questions:

1. You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment.
You want to deploy a new application that will scale out the workload to at least five different SQL Server instances.
You need to ensure that for each copy of the database, users are able to read and write data that will then be synchronized between all of the database instances.
Which feature should you use?

A) peer-to-peer replication
B) snapshot replication
C) database audits
D) failover clustering

2. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same set of answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series.
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.
The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table: One of the hard disk drives chat stores the transactional database fails at 23:32 hours. Attempts to create a tail log backup are unsuccessful.

You need to ensure that the transactional database is restored. You also need to ensure that data loss is minimal,
What should you do?

A) Perform a page restore.
B) Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore the latest differential backup.
C) Perform a point-in-time restore.
D) Restore the latest full backup, and restore the latest differential backup. Then, restore the latest log backup.
E) Restore the latest full backup. Then, restore each differential backup taken before the time of failure from the most recent full backup.
F) Perform a partial restore.
G) Restore the latest full backup, and restore the latest differential backup. Then, restore each log backup taken before the time of failure from the most recent differential backup.
H) Restore the latest full backup.

3. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
- A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
- A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
- Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
- Drive E has S GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
You implement log shipping of the financial database to another SQL Server 2012 instance. You decide to failoverto this secondary database.
You need to ensure that all transactions will be replicated to the secondary database.
Which backup option should you use?

A) BULK_LOGGED
B) NO_CHECKSUM
C) STANDBY
D) COPY_ONLY
E) CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR
F) FULL
G) SIMPLE
H) RESTART
I) Transaction log
J) NORECOVERY
K) SKIP
L) DBO_ONLY
M) CHECKSUM
N) Differential

4. You are designing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) data flow to load sales transactions from a source system into a data warehouse hosted on Windows Azure SQL Database. One of the columns in the data source is named ProductCode.
Some of the data to be loaded will reference products that need special processing logic in the data flow.
You need to enable separate processing streams for a subset of rows based on the source product code.
Which Data Flow transformation should you use?

A) Source Assistant
B) Script Task
C) Conditional Split
D) Multicast

5. DRAG DROP
You are building a fact table In a data warehouse.
The table must have a columnstore index. The table cannot be partitioned.
You need to design the fact table and load it with data.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate
actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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