Free Microsoft 070-458 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

  • Exam Code/Number: 070-458
  • Exam Name/Title: Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server 2012, Part 2
  • Certification Provider: Microsoft
  • Corresponding Certification: MCSA
  • Exam Questions: 90
  • Updated On: Aug 12, 2026
DRAG DROP
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database.
You want to import data from a text file to the database.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
- Data import is performed from a Windows batch file.
- Data is loaded as a unit and is minimally logged.
Which data import command and recovery model should you choose? (To answer, drag the appropriate data import command or recovery model to the appropriate location or locations in the answer area. Answer choices may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Answer targets may be used once or not at all. Additionally, you may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.)
Correct Answer:
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You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).
The financial database has the following characteristics:
A data file of 2 terabytes is located on a dedicated LUN (drive D).
A transaction log of 10 GB is located on a dedicated LUN (drive E).
Drive D has 1 terabyte of free disk space.
Drive E has S GB of free disk space.
The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.
The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.
These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.
A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.
You need to ensure that the backup size is as small as possible.
Which backup should you perform every two hours?
Correct Answer: J Vote an answer
You are a database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named AdventureWorks2012.
You create an Availability Group defined by the following schema. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)

You need to implement an AlwaysOnAvailablity Group that will meet the following conditions:
Production transactions should be minimally affected.
The secondary server should allow reporting queries to be performed.
If the primary server goes offline, the secondary server should not automatically
take over.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you insert at line 06?
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Correct Answer: E Vote an answer
You are creating a Data Quality Services (DQS) solution. You must provide statistics on the accuracy of the data.
You need to use DQS profiling to obtain the required statistics.
Which DQS activity should you use?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
HOTSPOT
You are developing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. The data source for the data flow task is a table that has been configured as a change data capture (CDC) table. You are using a CDC Source component to obtain the CDC data.
The data source will be polled once per hour. The data is updated with multiple important status changes per minute.
For each captured data change, the before and after values must be included.You need to configure the CDC Source component.
Which CDC processing mode should you select? (To answer, configure the appropriate option in the dialog box in the answer area.)
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You are the senior database administrator for a Microsoft SQL Server environment that uses Windows Azure SQL Database.
You need to grant a junior database administrator only the permissions required to create new logins.
Which Windows Azure SQL Database role should you assign the junior database administrator?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
DRAG DROP
You are developing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that loads data into a data warehouse hosted on Windows Azure SQL Database.
You must combine two data sources together by using the ProductID column to provide complete details for each record. The data retrieved from each data source is sorted in ascending order by the ProductID column.
You need to develop a data flow that imports the data while meeting the requirements.
How should you develop the data flow? (To answer, drag the appropriate transformation from the list of transformations to the correct location in the answer area.)
Correct Answer:
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same set of answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series.
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server that hosts a transactional database and a reporting database. The transactional database is updated through a web application and is operational throughout the day. The reporting database is only updated from the transactional database.
The recovery model and backup schedule are configured as shown in the following table:

One of the hard disk drives that stores the reporting database fails at 16:40 hours.
You need to ensure that the reporting database is restored. You also need to ensure that
data loss is minimal.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: F Vote an answer
You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database instance.
You plan to migrate the database to Windows Azure SQL Database. You verify that all objects contained in the database are compatible with Windows Azure SQL Database. You need to ensure that database users and required server logins are migrated to
Windows Azure SQL Database. What should you do?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer