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Microsoft 070-764 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Manage high availability and disaster recovery | 20–25% | - Implement AlwaysOn availability groups - Implement failover cluster instances - Manage database mirroring and log shipping - Plan disaster recovery |
| Manage backup and restore of databases | 20–25% | - Perform restores - Perform backups - Manage backup strategies - Configure recovery models |
| Configure data access and auditing | 20–25% | - Implement encryption - Configure data access - Configure and manage auditing - Configure security permissions |
| Manage and monitor SQL Server instances | 35–40% | - Configure database instances - Monitor instance health and performance - Configure automation and alerts - Troubleshoot performance issues - Manage indexes and statistics |
070-764 Exam FAQ: Before You Book Your Seat
Microsoft Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure is an official Microsoft exam, listed under exam code 070-764. A passing result earns you the MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration certification at the Associate level. It also ties into MCSA: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations, MCSE: Data Management and Analytics, extending its value across your certification roadmap. Employers read this credential as verified competence, which is why it keeps appearing in job requirements.
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No mandatory prerequisites; recommended experience with SQL Server installation, configuration, and maintenance
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The Microsoft Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure syllabus spans 4 domains, led by Manage backup and restore of databases (20–25%), Manage high availability and disaster recovery (20–25%), and Manage and monitor SQL Server instances (35–40%). The complete topic list is published above; candidates who study the map first rarely get lost later.
Microsoft Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure Sample Questions:
You manage database servers in a high security environment. Your company has the following auditing requirements:
* SQL Server auditing must be enabled on all server instances.
* Auditing results must be logged in the Windows Security even log.
A routine review shows that a SQL Server is writing auditing entries to Windows Application event log. You change the SQL Server audit target to Windows Security event long. SQL Server auditing stops working on the server.
You need to ensure that the server meets the auditing requirements.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
- A. Grant the generate security audits permission on the SQL Server service account.
- B. Update Windows security policy to audit object access.
- C. Grant the manage auditing and security log permission to the SQL Server service account.
- D. Restart the SQL Server Agent service.
Correct Answer: A,B 🗳️
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You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 instance.
You need to ensure that data can be replicated from a production server to two reporting servers in real time.
You also need to ensure that data on the reporting server is always accessible.
Which solution should you use?
- A. Availability Groups
- B. Policy Based Management
- C. Extended Events
- D. Snapshot Replication
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
You need to move a database in between servers.
You need to guarantee database users will be able to login in the database with a minimum of management effort.
- A. Database user
- B. Server login
- C. Server role
- D. Application role
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
General Overview
You are the Senior Database Administrator (DBA) for a software development company named Leafield Solutions. The company develops software applications custom designed to meet customer requirements.
Requirements Leafield Solutions has been asked by a customer to develop a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning and Management application. The new application will eventually replace a desktop application that the customer is currently using. The current application will remain in use while the users are trained to use the new webbased application.
You need to design the SQL Server and database infrastructure for the web-based application.
Databases
You plan to implement databases named Customers, Sales, Products, Current_Inventory, and TempReporting.
The Sales database contains a table named OrderTotals and a table named SalesInfo.
A stored procedure named SPUpdateSalesInfo reads data in the OrderTotals table and modifies data in the SalesInfo table.
The stored procedure then reads data in the OrderTotals table a second time and makes further changes to the information in the SalesInfo table.
The Current_Inventory database contains a large table named Inv_Current. The Inv_Current table has a clustered index for the primary key and a nonclustered index. The primary key column uses the identity property.
The data in the Inv_Current table is over 120GB in size. The tables in the Current_Inventory database are accessed by multiple queries in the Sales database.
Another table in the Current_Inventory database contains a self-join with an unlimited number of hierarchies.
This table is modified by a stored procedure named SPUpdate2.
An external application named ExternalApp1 will periodically query the Current_Inventory database to generate statistical information. The TempReporting database contains a single table named GenInfo.
A stored procedure named SPUPdateGenInfo combines data from multiple databases and generates millions of rows of data in the GenInfo table.
The GenInfo table is used for reports.
When the information in GenInfo is generated, a reporting process reads data from the Inv_Current table and queries information in the GenInfo table based on that data.
The GenInfo table is deleted after the reporting process completes. The Products database contains tables named ProductNames and ProductTypes.
Current System
The current desktop application uses data stored in a SQL Server 2005 database named DesABCopAppDB.
This database will remain online and data from the Current_Inventory database will be copied to it as soon as data is changed in the Current_Inventory database.
SQL Servers
A new SQL Server 2012 instance will be deployed to host the databases for the new system. The databases will be hosted on a Storage Area Network (SAN) that provides highly available storage.
Design Requirements
Your SQL Server infrastructure and database design must meet the following requirements:
* Confidential information in the Current_ Inventory database that is accessed by ExternalApp1 must be securely stored.
* Direct access to database tables by developers or applications must be denied.
* The account used to generate reports must have restrictions on the hours when it is allowed to make a connection.
* Deadlocks must be analyzed with the use of Deadlock Graphs.
* In the event of a SQL Server failure, the databases must remain available.
* Software licensing and database storage costs must be minimized.
* Development effort must be minimized.
* The Tempdb databases must be monitored for insufficient free space.
* Failed authentication requests must be logged.
* Every time a new row is added to the ProductTypes table in the Products database, a user defined function that validates the row must be called before the row is added to the table.
* When SPUpdateSalesInfo queries data in the OrderTotals table the first time, the same rows must be returned along with any newly added rows when SPUpdateSalesInfo queries data in the OrderTotals
* table the second time.
You need to ensure that the account used to generate reports can only connect during certain hours.
What should you configure?
- A. Windows Server Resource Manager (WSRM).
- B. Logon Triggers.
- C. Login Auditing.
- D. A CHECK constraint.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database named Contoso that contains a single user-defined database role namedBillingUsers.
All objects in Contoso are in the dbo schema.
You need to grant EXECUTE permissions for all stored procedures in Contoso to BillingUsers.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?
- A. CREATE ROLE proc_caller GRANT EXECUTE ON ALL PROCEDURES TO proc_caller ALTER MEMBER BillingUsers ADD TO ROLE proc_caller
- B. GRANT EXECUTE ON Contoso::dbo TOBillingUsers
- C. GRANT EXECUTE ON Schema::dbo TO BillingUsers
- D. EXEC sp_addrolemember'db_procexecutor', 'BillingUsers'
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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