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Question #11
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.
You manage a Microsoft SQL Server environment. You implement Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).
A user will assist in managing TDE.
You need to ensure that the user can view the TDE metadata while following the principle of lease privilege.
Which permission should you grant?
  1. A
    DDLAdmin
  2. B
    db_datawriter
  3. C
    dbcreator
  4. D
    dbo
  5. E
    View Database State
  6. F
    View Server State
  7. G
    View Definition
  8. H
    sysadmin

Correct Answer:
G
Viewing the metadata involved with TDE requires the VIEW DEFINITION permissionon the certificate.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/encryption/transparent-data-encryption-tde

Question #12
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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.
You have a user database named HRDB that contains sensitive human resources data. The HRDB backup files must be encrypted.
You need to grant the correct permission to the service account that backs up the HRDB database.
Which permission should you grant?
  1. A
    DDLAdmin
  2. B
    db_datawriter
  3. C
    dbcreator
  4. D
    dbo
  5. E
    View Database State
  6. F
    View Server State
  7. G
    View Definition
  8. H
    sysadmin

Correct Answer:
G
Restoring the encrypted backup: SQL Server restore does not require any encryption parameters to be specified during restores. It does require that the certificate or the asymmetric key used to encrypt the backup file be available on the instance that you are restoring to. The user account performing the restore must have
VIEW DEFINITION permissions on the certificate or key.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/backup-encryption

Question #13
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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.
You plan to delegate encryption operations to a user.
You need to grant the user permission to implement cell-level encryption while following the principle of least privilege.
Which permission should you grant?
  1. A
    DDLAdmin
  2. B
    db_datawriter
  3. C
    dbcreator
  4. D
    dbo
  5. E
    View Database State
  6. F
    View ServerState
  7. G
    View Definition
  8. H
    sysadmin

Correct Answer:
G
The following permissions are necessary to perform column-level encryption, or cell-level encryption.
CONTROL permission on the database.

✑ CREATE CERTIFICATE permission on the database. Only Windows logins, SQL Server logins, and application roles can own certificates. Groups and roles cannot own certificates.
✑ ALTER permission on the table.
✑ Some permission on the key and must not have been denied VIEW DEFINITION permission.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/encryption/encrypt-a-column-of-data

Question #14
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A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server environment and Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances. The environment hosts a customer database named DB1.
Customers connect to hosted database instances by using line-of-business applications. Developers connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
You need to grant the developers permission to alter views for DB1 while following the principle of least privilege.
Which permission should you grant?
  1. A
    DDLAdmin
  2. B
    db_datawriter
  3. C
    dbcreator
  4. D
    dbo
  5. E
    View Database State
  6. F
    View Server State
  7. G
    View Definition
  8. H
    sysadmin

Correct Answer:
A
To execute ALTER VIEW, at a minimum, ALTER permission on OBJECT is required.
Members of the db_ddladmin fixed database role can run any Data Definition Language (DDL) command in a database.
References: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190667(v=sql.90).aspx

Question #15
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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.
Clients connect to databases by using line-of-business applications. Developers connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
You need to provide permissions to a service account that will be used to provision a new database for a client.
Which permission should you grant?
  1. A
    DDLAdmin
  2. B
    db_datawriter
  3. C
    dbcreator
  4. D
    dbo
  5. E
    View Database State
  6. F
    View Server State
  7. G
    View Definition
  8. H
    sysadmin

Correct Answer:
C
Members of the dbcreator fixed server role can create, alter, drop, and restore any database.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/authentication-access/server-level-roles

Question #16
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You are examining information about users, sessions, and processed in an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine instance.
You need to return information about processes that are not idle, that belong to a specific user, or that belong to a specific session.
What should you use?
  1. A
    Activity Monitor
  2. B
    sp_who3
  3. C
    SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Object Explorer
  4. D
    SQL Server Data Collector
  5. E
    SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  6. F
    SQL Server Configuration Manager

Correct Answer:
B
Use sp_who3 to first view the current system load and to identify a session of interest. You should execute the query several times to identify which session id is most consuming teh system resources.

Parameters -
sp_who3 null - who is active;
sp_who3 1 or 'memory' - who is consuming the memory;
sp_who3 2 or 'cpu' - who has cached plans that consumed the most cumulative CPU (top 10); sp_who3 3 or 'count' - who is connected and how many sessions it has; sp_who3 4 or 'idle' - who is idle that has open transactions; sp_who3 5 or 'tempdb' - who is running tasks that use tempdb (top 5); and, sp_who3 6 or 'block' - who is blocking.

Question #17
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You observe that several indexes are fragmented.
You need to rebuild the indexes.
What should you use?
  1. A
    Activity Monitor
  2. B
    Sp_who3
  3. C
    Object Explorer in the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
  4. D
    SQL Server Data Collector
  5. E
    SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  6. F
    SQL Server Configuration Manager

Correct Answer:
C
How to: Rebuild an Index (SQL Server Management Studio)

To rebuild an index -
✑ In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine and then expand that instance.
✑ Expand Databases, expand the database that contains the table with the specified index, and then expand Tables.
✑ Expand the table in which the index belongs and then expand Indexes.
✑ Right-click the index to rebuild and then click Rebuild.
✑ To start the rebuild operation, click OK.
References: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187874(v=sql.105).aspx

Question #18
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You need to examine information about logins, CPU times, and Disk I/O on a particular database in Microsoft Azure.
What should you use?
  1. A
    Activity Monitor
  2. B
    Sp_who3
  3. C
    SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Object Explorer
  4. D
    SQL Server Data Collector
  5. E
    SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  6. F
    SQL Server Configuration Manager

Correct Answer:
A
Activity Monitor displays information about SQL Server processes and how these processes affect the current instance of SQL Server.
Activity Monitor is a tabbed document window with the following expandable and collapsible panes: Overview, Active User Tasks, Resource Waits, Data File I/O, and Recent Expensive Queries.
The Activity User Tasks Pane shows information for active user connections to the instance, including the following column:
* Login: The SQL Server login name under which the session is currently executing.
The Recent Expensive Queries Pane shows information about the most expensive queries that have been run on the instance over the last 30 seconds, including the following column:
* CPU (ms/sec): The rate of CPU use by the query
References: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879320(v=sql.105).aspx

Question #19
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You collect performance metrics on multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances and store the data in a single repository.
You need to examine disk usage, query statistics, and server activity without building custom counters.
What should you use?
  1. A
    Activity Monitor
  2. B
    Sp_who3 stored procedure
  3. C
    Object Explorer in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
  4. D
    SQL Server Data Collector
  5. E
    SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  6. F
    SQL Server Configuration Manager

Correct Answer:
D
The data collector is a core component of the data collection platform for SQL Server 2017 and the tools that are provided by SQL Server. The data collector provides one central point for data collection across your database servers and applications. This collection point can obtain data from a variety of sources and is not limited to performance data

Question #20
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You are examining information about users, sessions, and processes in an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition server.
You need to identify waits for resources and return only the following information:
✑ a list of all databases on the SQL Server instance, along with information about the database files, their paths, and names
✑ a list of the queries recently executed that use most of memory, disk, and network resources
What should you use?
  1. A
    Activity Monitor
  2. B
    Sp_who3
  3. C
    SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Object Explorer
  4. D
    SQL Server Data Collector
  5. E
    SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  6. F
    SQL Server Configuration Manager

Correct Answer:
E
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a Microsoft Visual Studio environment for creating business intelligence solutions. SSDT features the Report Designer authoring environment, where you can open, modify, preview, save, and deploy Reporting Services paginated report definitions, shared data sources, shared datasets, and report parts.
References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272686(v=vs.103).aspx

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