(Ex:350-001):

1. You are a database administrator for your company. You run SQL Server Profiler by using the SP:Recompile event class. You notice a large number of recompiles occurring.
You need to identify the possible cause of the large number of recompiles.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?
A. Ad hoc batches are not being retrieved from the procedure cache.
B. The sp_executesql batches are not being retrieved from the procedure cache.
C. A database administrator executed UPDATE STATISTICS statements on all tables that are referenced by the most common stored procedures.
D. A database administrator created one new stored procedure.
Answer: C


2.You are the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL1. SQL1 has recently been upgraded from two to eight processors. The SQL1 configuration is summarized in the following table.
You need to optimize SQL1 so that longer running queries can run parallel plans.
What should you do?
A. Change the max degree of parallelism to 1.
B. Change the cost threshold for parallelism to 0.
C. Change the affinity mask to 0.
D. Change the AWE enabled setting to 0.
Answer: C

3. You are the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL All databases on SQL1 have been created with the default auto file growth properties on one RAID 10 volume. All transaction logs on SQL1 have been created without file growth enabled on a second RAID 10 volume.
You need to ensure that you are notified when the databases are approaching disk capacity.
You also need to prevent errors caused when any transaction log runs out of space.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution.Choose two.)
A. Create a performance alert on the SQLServer:SQL Errors:Errors/sec counter.
Have the alert notify you of the problem.
B. Create a performance alert on the SQLServer:Databases:Data File(s) Size (KB) counter.
Have the alert notify you of the problem.
C. Create a performance alert on the LogicalDisk:% Free Space counter.
Have the alert notify you of the problem.
D. Create a SQL Server performance condition alert on the SQLServer:Databases:PercentLogUsed counter on each transaction log.
Define a response to automatically backup the transaction log and notify you about the problem.
E. Create SQL Server performance condition alerts on the SQLServer:Databases:Data File(s) Size (KB) counter for each database.
Define a response to add 100 MB to the existing data file size and notify you about the problem.
F. Create SQL Server performance condition alerts on the SQLServer:Databases:Log Growths counter for each database.Define a response to automatically backup the transaction log and notify you about the problem.
Answer: D AND C

4. You are the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer named SQL1. Users regularly report that they receive error messages stating that the transaction log is full. When they get this message, their data changes fail. You notice that disk space on SQL1 is limited.
You need to configure SQL1 to automatically prevent users' data changes from failing due to full transaction logs.
What should you do?
A. Configure event notification at the server level for the LOG_FILE_AUTO_GROW event. Configure the Service Broker to automatically notify database administrators of the event.
B. Configure event notification at the database level for the LOG_FILE_AUTO_GROW event.
Configure the Service Broker to automatically notify database administrators of the event.
C. Double the maximum size of all of the transaction logs. Set the transaction logs to automatically grow by 30 percent.
D. Create SQL Server performance condition alerts to run a job that backs up the transaction log and sends an e-mail message to database administrators by using Database Mail when the transaction log exceeds the counter.
Answer: D

5. You are the database administrator for your company. You have a single processor in your SQL Server 2005 computer. You run System Monitor and discover that your total processor utilization is averaging 95 percent.
You need to use System Monitor to find out which application or service is causing the problem.
What should you do?
A. Add the _total instance for Processor: % Processor Time.
B. Add the _total instance for Processor: % Privileged Time.
C. Add each instance for Processor: % Privileged Time.
D. Add the _total instance for Process: % Processor Time.
E. Add each instance for Process: % Processor Time.
Answer: E

6. You are the database administrator for your company. You manage a SQL Server 2005 database named Sales. You are given a SQL Server Profiler sample workload with queries to the Sales database on a typical day.
You need to evaluate the effectiveness of current indexing and identify changes that would be appropriate.
What should you do first?
A. Use the Index Tuning Wizard with the sample workload.
B. Use SQL Server Profiler to run the sample workload.
C. Create a query with the five stored procedures that are used the most frequently. Then click the Analyze Query in Database Engine Tuning Advisor button.
D. Use the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) with the sample workload.
Answer: D

7. You are a database administrator for your company. You notice that the following Transact-SQL query is performing very slowly.
SELECT VideoTitle, UpcNum, RetailPrice, ReleaseDate
FROM Srvideo.VideoTitle WITH (INDEX(0))
WHERE ReleaseDate BETWEEN '20050401' AND '20050510'??
There is a clustered index on the VideoTitle column. There is a nonclustered index on the ReleaseDate column that includes the UpcNum and RetailPrice columns. When you query the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats dynamic management function (DMF) or the VideoTitle table, the avg_fragmentation_in_percent is 10 percent.
The graphical execution plan for the slow query is shown in the exhibit.
You need to ensure that the query performs quickly.
What should you do?
A. Re-create the index on only the ReleaseDate column.
B. Remove the query hint from the query.
C. Change the query hint to force the optimizer to force a clustered index seek or a scan.
D. Rebuild all indexes on the VideoTitle table.
Answer: B

8. You are the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 computer. The performance of the server has degraded to a great extent over time. You are troubleshooting the indexing environment.
You rebuild the clustered indexes that are used the most frequently. You want to optimize the most frequently accessed nonclustered index. You access the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats dynamic management view (DMV). The results are shown in the following table.
Max degree of parallelism 0
Cost threshold for parallelism 20
Affinity mask 1
AWE enabled 1
You need to identify which nonclustered index is being used the most frequently when the entire index is not read.
Which object_id and index_id combination should you use?
A. Use the object_id 869578136 and the index_id 1.
B. Use the object_id 309576141 and the index_id 1.
C. Use the object_id 2066106401 and the index_id 1.
D. Use the object_id 2066106401 and the index_id 2.
E. Use the object_id 869578136 and the index_id 5.
Answer: E