Exam 462: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases
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Skills measured
Install and configure (19%)
- Plan installation
- Evaluate installation requirements; design the installation of SQL Server and its components (drives, service accounts, etc.); plan scale-up vs. scale-out basics; plan for capacity, including if/when to shrink, grow, autogrow, and monitor growth; manage the technologies that influence SQL architecture (for example, service broker, full text, scale out, etc.); design the storage for new databases (drives, filegroups, partitioning); design database infrastructure; configure a SQL Server standby database for reporting purposes; Windows-level security and service level security; Core mode installation; benchmark a server before using it in a production environment (SQLIO, Tests on SQL Instance); choose the right hardware
- Install SQL Server and related services
- Test connectivity; enable and disable features; install SQL Server database engine and SSIS (not SSRS and SSAS); configure an OS disk
- Implement a migration strategy
- Restore vs detach/attach; migrate security; migrate from a previous version; migrate to new hardware; migrate systems and data from other sources
- Configure additional SQL Server components
- Set up and configure all SQL Server components (Engine, AS, RS and SharePoint integration) in a complex and highly secure environment; configure full-text indexing; SSIS security; filestream; filetable
- Manage SQL Server Agent
- Create, maintain, and monitor jobs; administer jobs and alerts; automate (setup, maintenance, monitoring) across multiple databases and multiple instances; send to "Manage SQL Server Agent jobs"
Preparation resources
- Understanding Surface Area Configuration
- Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2012
- Quick-Start Installation of SQL Server 2012
- File Locations for Default and Named Instances of SQL Server
- Storage Top 10 Best Practices
- Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012
- FILESTREAM (SQL Server)
- SQL Server Browser Service (Database Engine and SSAS)
- Automated Administration Across an Enterprise
- Manage and configure databases
- Design multiple file groups; database configuration and standardization: autoclose, autoshrink, recovery models; manage file space, including adding new filegroups and moving objects from one filegroup to another; implement and configure contained databases; data compression; configure TDE; partitioning; manage log file growth; DBCC
- Configure SQL Server instances
- Configure and standardize a database: autoclose, autoshrink, recovery models; install default and named instances; configure SQL to use only certain CPUs (affinity masks, etc.); configure server level settings; configure many databases/instance, many instances/server, virtualization; configure clustered instances including MSDTC; memory allocation; database mail; configure SQL Server engine: memory, filffactor, sp_configure, default options
- Implement a SQL Server clustered instance
- Install a cluster; manage multiple instances on a cluster; set up subnet clustering; recover from a failed cluster node
- Manage SQL Server instances
- Install an instance; manage interaction of instances; SQL patch management; install additional instances; manage resource utilization by using Resource Governor; cycle error logs
Preparation resources
- ALTER DATABASE File and Filegroup Options (Transact-SQL)
- Contained Databases
- Data Compression
- Database Engine Instances
- Database Mail
- Server Configuration Options (SQL Server)
- Create a New SQL Server Failover Cluster (Setup)
- Resource Governor
- Identify and resolve concurrency problems
- Examine deadlocking issues using the SQL server logs using trace flags; design reporting database infrastructure (replicated databases); monitor via DMV or other MS product; diagnose blocking, live locking and deadlocking; diagnose waits; performance detection with built in DMVs; know what affects performance; locate and if necessary kill processes that are blocking or claiming all resources
- Collect and analyze troubleshooting data
- Monitor using Profiler; collect performance data by using System Monitor; collect trace data by using SQL Server Profiler; identify transactional replication problems; identify and troubleshoot data access problems; gather performance metrics; identify potential problems before they cause service interruptions; identify performance problems;, use XEvents and DMVs; create alerts on critical server condition; monitor data and server access by creating audit and other controls; identify IO vs. memory vs. CPU bottlenecks; use the Data Collector tool
- Audit SQL Server instances
- Implement a security strategy for auditing and controlling the instance; configure an audit; configure server audits; track who modified an object; monitor elevated privileges as well as unsolicited attempts to connect; policy-based management
Preparation resources
- blocked process threshold Server Configuration Option
- Configure Login Auditing (SQL Server Management Studio)
- Data Collection
- Administer Servers by Using Policy-Based Management
- Configure and maintain a back-up strategy
- Manage different backup models, including point-in-time recovery; protect customer data even if backup media is lost; perform backup/restore based on proper strategies including backup redundancy; recover from a corrupted drive; manage a multi-TB database; implement and test a database implementation and a backup strategy (multiple files for user database and tempdb, spreading database files, backup/restore); back up a SQL Server environment; back up system databases
- Restore databases
- Restore a database secured with TDE; recover data from a damaged DB (several errors in DBCC checkdb); restore to a point in time; file group restore; page level restore
- Implement and maintain indexes
- Inspect physical characteristics of indexes and perform index maintenance; identify fragmented indexes; identify unused indexes; implement indexes; defrag/rebuild indexes; set up a maintenance strategy for indexes and statistics; optimize indexes (full, filter index); statistics (full, filter) force or fix queue; when to rebuild vs. reorg and index; full text indexes; column store indexes
- Import and export data
- Transfer data; bulk copy; bulk insert
Preparation resources
- Back Up and Restore of SQL Server Databases
- File Restores (Full Recovery Mode)
- DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (Transact-SQL)
- UPDATE STATISTICS (Transact-SQL)
- Bulk Import and Export of Data (SQL Server)
- Manage logins and server roles
- Configure server security; secure the SQL Server using Windows Account / SQL Server accounts, server roles; create log in accounts; manage access to the server, SQL Server instance, and databases; create and maintain user-defined server roles; manage certificate logins
- Manage database permissions
- Configure database security; database level, permissions; protect objects from being modified
- Manage users and database roles
- Create access to server / database with least privilege; manage security roles for users and administrators; create database user accounts; contained logins
- Troubleshoot security
- Manage certificates and keys; endpoints
Preparation resources
- Server-Level Roles
- Permissions (Database Engine)
- Database-Level Roles
- SQL Server Certificates and Asymmetric Keys
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