According to the company requirements, the backup strategy should be designed for the BusinessData database. A strategy should be contained for backup redundancy. From the following four backup redundancy strategies, which one should be included?

• A. Different backup devices should be utilized for full backups and transaction log backups.
• B. The database should be backed up to a disk backup device, and then the database should be backed up to a tape device.
• C. Merely the filegroups that are not stored in a RAID disk array should backed up.
• D. A mirrored media set should be utilized to have the database backed up to multiple backup devices of the same type.

You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You work as a database administrator for your company. The users report the slow performance of a SQL Server 2005 application. You are required to identify the queries which perform slowly because of blocking. Which action should you perform?

• A. In a query execution plan, you should look for queries with a large number of table scans.
• B. In a SQL Trace log file, you should look for queries with low duration values and high read and write values.
• C. In a SQL Trace log file, you should look for queries with high duration values and low read and write values.
• D. In a query execution plan, you should look for queries with missing or out-of-date statistics.

You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You are a database administrator for your company. The company's manufacturing floor has three automated testing areas for finished items. Each testing area uses SQL Server 2005 to store test results. You need to develop a replication strategy to ensure that test results flow continuously from the testing areas to the central SQL Server as quickly as possible. The test results are used for reporting. What should you do?

• A. At each of the testing areas, a separate transactional publication should be created for the test results. On each of the testing areas, push subscriptions should be created to the central server.
• B. At each of the testing areas, a separate transactional publication should be created at each of the testing areas for the test results. On each distributor, a merge subscription should be created to the central server.
• C. At each of the testing areas, a separate snapshot publication should be created for the test results. On the central server, a pull subscription should be created to each of the testing area publications.
• D. At each of the testing areas, a separate snapshot publication should be created for the test results. On each distributor, a merge subscription should be created to the central server.

You are a professional level SQL Server 2005 database administrator in an international corporation named Wiikigo. You are experienced in implementing high-availability solutions, monitoring the database server, and design deployment. In the company, you major job is the deployment, maintenance and support of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.You work as a database administrator for your company. You find a problem that when the following query is executed, a SQL Server 2005 application will perform slowly.
SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE OrderStatus = 'InProgress'
This query is executed by the application as an ad hoc query. In most occasions, this query performs much more quickly. The company has the OrderStatus column indexed. The value InProgress is included by only a small number of the rows. Nevertheless, the OrderStatus column index which is the most ideal for this query is not being utilized. The performance of this query should be enhanced. However, the application that executes the query should not be changed. In addition, the effect on end users should be cut to the least.
Which action should be performed to finish the task?

• A. To finish the task, the index should be built by utilizing a FILLFACTOR of 10 percent.
• B. To finish the task, the statistics should be updated on the index.
• C. To finish the task, the index should be recreated to have all of the columns in the table included.
• D. To finish the task, an indexed view of the Orders table should be viewed.