1. 9/20/2018 1:37 AM
BRK3169
Cert Exam Prep: Exam : Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure
Neil McIsaac
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2. Agenda What do I need to know? How do I build my knowledge?
Review requirements to successfully pass exam
Relate practical knowledge to the exam objectives
How do I build my knowledge?
Exam preparation tips and resources
Key takeaway
Create an action plan to prepare for exam
Provide additional resources for exam preparation

3. The Exam

4. Microsoft Management Summit 2013
9/20/2018 1:37 AM
Exam Basics
40-60 questions
1-4 hours to complete the exam
All questions are worth “one point” unless told otherwise.
Cannot move between case studies
700 is passing but %
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5. DATA MANAGEMENT & ANALYTICS PATH
461: Querying Microsoft
SQL Server 2012/2014
462: Administering
Microsoft SQL Server
2012/2014 Databases
463: Implementing a
Data Warehouse with
Microsoft SQL Server
2012/2014
MCSA SQL Server
2012/2014
761: Querying Data
with Transact-SQL
762: Developing
SQL Databases
MCSA SQL 2016
Database Dev
MCSE
Data Management & Analytics Earned: 2017
DATA MANAGEMENT & ANALYTICS
Elective
764: Administering a SQL
Database Infrastructure
765: Provisioning
SQL Databases
MCSA SQL 2016
Database Admin
Elective Exam Pool (choose one*)
464: Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases
465: Designing Database Solutions for SQL Server
466: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server
467: Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server
473: Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
475: Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions
762: Developing SQL Databases
767: Implementing a SQL Data Warehouse
768: Developing SQL Data Models
773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R
774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning
775: Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight
767: Implementing a
SQL Data Warehouse
768: Developing
SQL Data Models
MCSA SQL 2016
BI Development
773: Analyzing Big Data
with Microsoft R
774: Perform Cloud Data Science
with Azure Machine Learning
MCSA Machine
Learning
778: Analyzing and
Visualizing Data with
Power BI
779: Analyzing Data with Excel
MCSA BI
Reporting
775: Perform Data
Engineering on Microsoft
HD Insight
776: Engineering Data with
Microsoft Cloud Services
MCSA Data
Engineering with
Azure
777: Implementing NoSQL
Solutions with Azure Cosmos DB (Planned)
762: Developing
SQL Databases
MCSA Azure Database
Development (Planned)
*Select one elective to complete your MCSE. Then choose a different elective next year or retake a previous cloud based exam to stay relevant and prove your expanded skills

6. About 70-764 Available October 2016 Audience
Database professionals who perform installation, maintenance, and configuration tasks.
Other responsibilities include setting up database systems, making sure those systems operate efficiently, and regularly storing, backing up, and securing data from unauthorized access.
Might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items
Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented

7. Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure
Covers 4 functional groups
Configure data access and auditing
Manage backup and restore of databases
Manage and monitor SQL Sever instances
Manage high availability and disaster recovery

8. Configure Data Access and Auditing (20%-25%)

9. Objectives Configure Encryption Implement cell-level encryption
Implement Always Encrypted
Implement backup encryption
Configure transparent data encryption
Configure encryption for connections
Troubleshoot encryption errors

10. Objectives (continued)
Configure Data Access and Permissions
Manage database object permissions
Create and maintain users
Create and maintain custom roles
Configure user options for Azure SQL Database
Configure row-level security
Configure dynamic data masking

11. Objectives (continued)
Configure auditing
Configure an audit on SQL Server
Query the SQL Server audit log
Manage a SQL Server audit
Configure an Azure SQL Database audit
Analyze audit logs and reports from Azure SQL Database

12. Always Encrypted GA July 2016/Public Preview Nov 2015 Prerequisites
SSMS version or later
.NET Framework 4.6
Visual Studio
Azure PowerShell (min version 1.0, required for Azure Key Vault)
Usage
Add Column Encryption Setting=Enabled to connection string
Azure Key Vault
Windows certificate store

13. Always Encrypted Deterministic vs Randomized Column master keys
Deterministic encryption must use a column collation with a binary2 sort order for character columns
Deterministic is weaker for small sets of possible values (ie. yes/no)
Column master keys
Column encryption keys

14. SQL Database Dynamic Data Masking
Configured by the Azure Database admin, server admin, or security officer roles
Masking Function
Default, Credit card, Social Security number, , Random, Custom text

15. Manage backup and restore of databases (20-25%)

16. Objectives Develop a backup strategy Back up very large databases
Configure alerting for failed backups
Back up databases to Azure
Manage transaction log backups
Configure database recovery models
Configure backup automation

17. Objectives (continued)
Restore databases
Perform piecemeal restores
Perform page recovery
Perform point-in-time recovery
Restore file groups
Develop a plan to automate and test restores

18. Objectives (continued)
Manage database integrity
Implement database consistency checks
Identify database corruption
Recover from database corruption

19. Manage and monitor SQL Server instances (35-40%)

20. Objectives Monitor database activity Monitor current sessions
Identify sessions that cause blocking activity
Identify sessions that consume tempdb resources
Configure the data collector
Create a utility control point (UCP)

21. Objectives (continued)
Monitor queries
Manage the Query Store
Configure Extended Events and trace events
Identify problematic execution plans
Troubleshoot server health using Extended Events

22. Objectives (continued)
Manage indexes
Identify and repair index fragmentation
Identify and create missing indexes
Identify and drop underutilized indexes
Manage existing columnstore indexes

23. Objectives (continued)
Manage statistics
Identify and correct outdated statistics
Implement Auto Update Statistics
Implement statistics for large tables

24. Objectives (continued)
Monitor SQL Server instances
Create and manage operators
Create and manage SQL Agent alerts
Define custom alert actions
Define failure actions
Configure database mail
Configure Policy-Based Management
Identify available space on data volumes
Identify performance degradation

25. SQL Database resource monitoring
master.sys.resource_stats
Based on 5 minute averages
Maintained for approximately 35 days
userdb.sys.dm_db_resource_stats
Based on 15 second averages
Maintained for one hour
Percentages relative to performance level
Accessible though Azure Portal
Enables configuration of alerts

26. SQL Database monitoring/troubleshooting
Query tuning
Query Performance Insight
Automatic Tuning
DMVs
sys.dm_exec_query_stats, sys.dm_exec_query_sql_text(), sys.dm_exec_query_plan, sys.dm_exec_requests, sys.dm_exec_sessions
Event auditing
Stored in Azure Storage as Tables with a SQLDBAuditLogs prefix (downloadable Excel spreadsheet)

27. SQL Database monitoring/troubleshooting
Extended events
Subset of SQL Server events
Differences
Use ON DATABASE instead of ON SERVER for CREATE/ALTER/DROP EVENT SESSION
Best practice to use STARTUP_STATE=ON for CREATE/ALTER EVENT SESSION (supports automatic restart!)
New catalog views (Hint! Replace server with database)
sys.server_event_sessions_events -> sys.database_event_session_events
New DMVs (Hint! Add database)
sys.dm_xe_sessions -> sys.dm_xe_database_sessions

28. Monitoring Pools GUI or PowerShell
$metrics = (Get-AzureRmMetric -ResourceId /subscriptions/<subscriptionId>/resourceGroups/FabrikamData01/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/fabrikamsqldb02/elasticPools/franchisepool -TimeGrain ([TimeSpan]::FromMinutes(5)) -StartTime "4/18/2015" -EndTime "4/21/2015")
1 minute granularity minimum – example is set to 5 minutes
Data retention for metrics = 30 days for free
Up to 5 Dbs can be added in Azure Portal

29. Manage high availability and disaster recovery (20-25%)

30. Objectives Implement log shipping Configure log shipping
Monitor log shipping

31. Objectives (continued)
Implement AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Configure Windows clustering
Create an availability group
Configure read-only routing
Manage failover
Create distributed availability groups

32. Objectives (continued)
Implement failover cluster instances
Manage shared disks
Configure cluster shared volumes

33. AlwaysOn New Features
SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition now supports Always On Basic Availability Groups (DB Mirroring no longer needed!)
Load-balancing of read-intent connection requests is now supported across a set of read-only replicas
The number of replicas that support automatic failover has been increased from two to three
Database Level Health Detection (Requires DB_FAILOVER = ON when creating AG)
Group Managed Service Accounts
DTC support (Requires DTC_SUPPORT = { PER_DB | NONE })
Encrypted database support
Always On Availability Groups

34. Disaster Recovery in Azure
Considerations
Geo-replication in Azure disks does not support the data file and log file of the same database to be stored on separate disks
GRS replicates changes on each disk independently and asynchronously
If the Availability Group spans multiple Azure subnets (such as a deployment that crosses Azure regions), the client connection string must include "MultisubnetFailover=True".
The DHCP service in Azure (non-RFC-compliant) can cause the creation of certain WSFC cluster configurations to fail -> assign an unused static IP address, such as a link-local IP address like to the cluster network name
Always On Availability Groups

35. Preparation Resources

36. Online Study Material
20764: Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure (five days)

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38. Here at Microsoft Ignite (continued)
SQL Server 2016 related sessions
~14 labs in the Hands On Lab area
HOL Azure Data Services – relational workloads
HOL Evolving SQL workloads from software to SaaS
>100 sessions between Breakout and Theater sessions

39. Ready Up!

40. Preparing for the Exam Review exam topic areas from guide
Schedule your study
Schedule your exam
Use what you don’t use
Know the GUI, know the code
Take a practice test, and learn the gaps
Sleep!!!!

41. During The Exam RELAX! You will not be beat with a stick!
Look for the differences between choices
Keep it simple
Case Studies – bottom up or top down?
When you don’t know the answer
Eliminate wrong answers
Mark items for review
Guessing is better than nothing
Time

42. Practice Questions 9/20/2018 1:37 AM
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43. An audit failure has caused the Database Engine to shut down
An audit failure has caused the Database Engine to shut down. What steps can you take to restart the Database Engine so that you can modify the server audit and resolve the issue? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Restart the SQL Server Agent service.
Start SQL Server by using the -f option.
Start SQL Server in single-user mode.
Restart the SQL Server Browser service.

44. An audit failure has caused the Database Engine to shut down
An audit failure has caused the Database Engine to shut down. What steps can you take to restart the Database Engine so that you can modify the server audit and resolve the issue? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Restart the SQL Server Agent service.
Start SQL Server by using the -f option.
Start SQL Server in single-user mode.
Restart the SQL Server Browser service.

45. Which of the following must you do before enabling Transparent Data Encryption for a database? (Each correct answer presents part of the complete solution. Choose three.)
Create a master encryption key.
Create a certificate.
Create a database encryption key.
Enable page-level compression.

46. Which of the following must you do before enabling Transparent Data Encryption for a database? (Each correct answer presents part of the complete solution. Choose three.)
Create a master encryption key.
Create a certificate.
Create a database encryption key.
Enable page-level compression.

47. Which permission must a security principal have at the instance level to be able to create SQL logins?
ALTER ANY LOGIN
ALTER ANY CREDENTIAL
ALTER ANY ENDPOINT
ALTER SETTINGS

48. Which permission must a security principal have at the instance level to be able to create SQL logins?
ALTER ANY LOGIN
ALTER ANY CREDENTIAL
ALTER ANY ENDPOINT
ALTER SETTINGS

49. You perform a full backup daily at 1 A. M
You perform a full backup daily at 1 A.M. and transaction log backups every half hour on a database. You want to perform a full backup of the database at 1 P.M. without affecting the existing restore sequence. Which of the following backup types should you perform to accomplish this goal?
Full backup
Transaction log backup
Differential backup
Copy backup

50. You perform a full backup daily at 1 A. M
You perform a full backup daily at 1 A.M. and transaction log backups every half hour on a database. You want to perform a full backup of the database at 1 P.M. without affecting the existing restore sequence. Which of the following backup types should you perform to accomplish this goal?
Full backup
Transaction log backup
Differential backup
Copy backup

51. Which counters would you use to determine whether CPU usage rates for SQL Server are within normal ranges? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Processor: % Privileged Time
Processor: % User Time
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Page reads/sec
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Page writes/se

52. Which counters would you use to determine whether CPU usage rates for SQL Server are within normal ranges? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Processor: % Privileged Time
Processor: % User Time
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Page reads/sec
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Page writes/se

53. Which of the following Windows PowerShell commands can you use to perform failover of a SQL Server failover cluster instance from one node to another?
Move-ClusterGroup
Move-ClusterResource
Move-ClusteredSharedVolume
Move-ClusterVirtualMachineRole

54. Which of the following Windows PowerShell commands can you use to perform failover of a SQL Server failover cluster instance from one node to another?
Move-ClusterGroup
Move-ClusterResource
Move-ClusteredSharedVolume
Move-ClusterVirtualMachineRole

55. You will configure an AlwaysOn Availability Group to support automatic failover from the primary replica to any available secondary replica. Which of the following availability modes should you configure for the replicas in this availability group? (Each correct answer forms part of a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Configure the primary replica to use the asynchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the primary replica to use the synchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the secondary replica to use the asynchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the secondary replica to use the synchronous-commit availability mode

56. You will configure an AlwaysOn Availability Group to support automatic failover from the primary replica to any available secondary replica. Which of the following availability modes should you configure for the replicas in this availability group? (Each correct answer forms part of a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)
Configure the primary replica to use the asynchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the primary replica to use the synchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the secondary replica to use the asynchronous-commit availability mode.
Configure the secondary replica to use the synchronous-commit availability mode

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