01. Drive firmware for the members of a production RAID 5 logical drive is included in a firmware update planned for a rack-mounted server.
How should that part of the update be handled?
a) Apply it during business hours, because the redundancy of a RAID 5 set covers any member that drops out mid-update.
b) Skip it altogether, since drive firmware has no bearing on how the storage controller presents a logical drive.
c) Apply it to a single member and leave the others as they are, so that any difference in behavior can be observed first.
d) Schedule it inside a maintenance window with the workload quiesced, and take a backup before the members are written.
02. After a system board is replaced on a rack-mounted server, the server no longer starts its installed operating system and the firmware reports that no bootable device is present. The storage controller shows the logical drive as optimal, its member drives report no faults, and the firmware is set to the same boot mode as before the replacement.
What is the most likely cause?
a) The boot entries created by the installation are held by the firmware on the board, so the replacement board arrived without them.
b) The installation was written to the member drives individually, and the new board reads them as separate disks.
c) The controller's cache had not been written out before the replacement, so the boot files are incomplete.
d) The data on the logical drive was tied to the previous board, so the volume has to be built and populated again.
03. Which two statements describe the way redundant fan and power supply modules are serviced on a rack-mounted server?
(Choose two.)
a) The management controller records the failure as a hardware event, so a technician knows which module position to pull.
b) A failed power supply module can be replaced while the server keeps running, provided the remaining module carries the load.
c) Redundant modules are always paired across subsystems, and a fan failure and a power failure are therefore logged as one event.
d) Replacing either module requires the chassis to be slid out of the rack and opened on a bench first.
04. A server has been running on the firmware it shipped with for four years. The engineer downloads the current bundle and reads its release notes, which state that this update requires the component to be at a later version than the one installed.
What should the engineer do?
a) Apply the intermediate version named in the notes first, then apply the current bundle on top of it.
b) Force the update past the prerequisite check, since such checks only slow unattended upgrades.
c) Apply the current bundle regardless, since a firmware image always replaces whatever version is present on the component.
d) Skip the component that fails the prerequisite, apply the rest of the bundle, and leave that component where it is.
05. Twenty new rack-mounted servers have been racked, cabled and powered on. The team plans to apply a firmware baseline to all of them from the central management platform that already serves the existing fleet, but the platform's batch operation offers none of the new machines as targets.
What should the team do first?
a) Wait for the next scheduled inventory report, since batch operations target only previously reported servers.
b) Install the platform's agent inside each server's operating system so the machines register themselves.
c) Discover the new servers on the management network and add them with management credentials.
d) Apply the baseline to one existing server first and let the platform propagate the result to the rest.
06. An operating system installer can read a prepared answer file, such as a kickstart file for a Linux installation or an unattended setup file for a Windows installation.
What does supplying such a file achieve?
a) It answers the installer's prompts in advance, so servers built from that file are provisioned consistently without an operator at the console.
b) It takes the place of the operating system image, so the installation source no longer has to be reachable during setup.
c) It records the choices an operator made while installing, so that the settings can be reviewed once the server has gone into service.
d) It loads the storage controller's driver into the operating system after the installation has finished.
07. From the management interface an engineer issues a graceful shutdown to a rack-mounted server whose operating system has stopped responding at the console. Several minutes later the host is still powered on and the interface reports the power state unchanged. Sensor readings refresh normally and the management session itself stays responsive.
What best explains this outcome?
a) A graceful shutdown is held until the next restart, so the host powers off only after the operating system has come back up on its own.
b) A graceful shutdown asks the operating system to close itself down; an unresponsive operating system never acts on that request.
c) The controller has lost its connection to the host power circuitry, which is why sensor readings continue while power actions do not.
d) The management session is authenticated at a privilege that excludes power actions, and the command was discarded without any effect.
08. Halfway through an operating-system installation on a new rack-mounted server, the installer stops and reports that a file on the installation source could not be read. A second attempt stops at a different file.
Which two steps should the engineer take before starting the installation again?
(Choose two.)
a) Write the installation media again from a verified copy of the image, and use it in place of the current media.
b) Set the firmware to legacy boot mode, since a read failure during installation indicates an unsupported boot mode.
c) Compare the image's checksum with the value published beside it at the source it was obtained from.
d) Clear the logical drive's configuration so that the installer is offered an empty target on the next attempt.
09. A UniServer G3 rack-mounted server holds an eight-drive array on a redundant RAID level. One bay's drive indicator is showing the rebuild pattern rather than a steady fault pattern, the storage controller reports the logical drive as degraded but online, and the application team has reported no loss of access to the volume.
What is the most accurate reading of the indicator and the controller state taken together?
a) The controller has marked these drives as a foreign configuration, and the indication will clear as soon as that configuration has been imported.
b) A member drive has left the array and a replacement or hot spare is being rebuilt into it, and the logical drive keeps serving data while that work runs.
c) The logical drive has already been lost, and the rebuild indication is the controller trying to recover it from parity that is no longer complete.
d) The volume is fully protected and the indicator is showing ordinary background activity, with no drive having left the array.
10. Server vendors publish a validated firmware bundle for a server family.
What does such a bundle provide?
a) A set of component firmware versions that the vendor has tested together as one combination.
b) The operating-system drivers a server needs once its installation has finished.
c) The newest available firmware version for every component in the server, collected as each one is released.
d) A license that entitles the customer to apply firmware updates to the server.