| Exam Code/Number: | 70-764Join the discussion |
| Exam Name: | Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure |
| Certification: | Microsoft |
| Question Number: | 452 |
| Publish Date: | Oct 20, 2026 |
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You attempt to restore a database on a new SQL Server instance and receive the following error message:
You need to ensure that you can restore the database successfully.
Solution: You generate a new certificate on the new instance.
Does this meet the goal?
Overview
General Overview
ADatum Corporation has offices in Miami and Montreal.
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named adatum.com. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link that has 5-ms latency.
A: Datum standardizes its database platform by using SQL Server
2014 Enterprise edition.
Databases
Each office contains databases named Sales, Inventory, Customers, Products, Personnel, and Dev.
Servers and databases are managed by a team of database administrators. Currently, all of the database administrators have the same level of permissions on all of the servers and all of the databases.
The Customers database contains two tables named Customers and Classifications.
The following graphic shows the relevant portions of the tables:
The following table shows the current data in the Classifications table:
The Inventory database is updated frequently.
The database is often used for reporting.
A full backup of the database currently takes three hours to complete.
Stored Procedures
A stored procedure named USP_1 generates millions of rows of data for multiple reports. USP_1 combines data from five different tables from the Sales and Customers databases in a table named Table1.
After Table1 is created, the reporting process reads data from Table1 sequentially several times. After the process is complete, Table1 is deleted.
A stored procedure named USP_2 is used to generate a product list. The product list contains the names of products grouped by category.
USP_2 takes several minutes to run due to locks on the tables the procedure accesses. The locks are caused by USP_1 and USP_3.
A stored procedure named USP_3 is used to update prices. USP_3 is composed of several UPDATE statements called in sequence from within a transaction.
Currently, if one of the UPDATE statements fails, the stored procedure fails. A stored procedure named USP_4 calls stored procedures in the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases.
The nested stored procedures read tables from the Sales, Customers, and Inventory databases. USP_4 uses an EXECUTE AS clause.
All nested stored procedures handle errors by using structured exception handling. A stored procedure named USP_5 calls several stored procedures in the same database. Security checks are performed each time USP_5 calls a stored procedure.
You suspect that the security checks are slowing down the performance of USP_5. All stored procedures accessed by user applications call nested stored procedures.
The nested stored procedures are never called directly.
Design Requirements
Data Recovery
You must be able to recover data from the Inventory database if a storage failure occurs. You have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 5 minutes.
You must be able to recover data from the Dev database if data is lost accidentally. You have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of one day.
Classification Changes
You plan to change the way customers are classified. The new classifications will have four levels based on the number of orders. Classifications may be removed or added in the future. Management requests that historical data be maintained for the previous classifications. Security A group of junior database administrators must be able to manage security for the Sales database. The junior database administrators will not have any other administrative rights.
A: Datum wants to track which users run each stored procedure.
Storage
ADatum has limited storage. Whenever possible, all storage space should be minimized for all databases and all backups.
Error Handling
There is currently no error handling code in any stored procedure.
You plan to log errors in called stored procedures and nested stored procedures. Nested stored procedures are never called directly.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that USP_4 adheres to the security requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
You have a server named SQL1 that has SQL Server 2012 installed. SQL1 hosts a database named Database1.
Database1 contains a table named Table1. Table1 is partitioned across five filegroups based on the Date field.
The schema of Table1 is configured as shown in the following table.
Table1 contains the indexes shown in the following table.
You need to recommend an index strategy to maximize performance for the queries that consume the indexes available to Table1.
Which type of index storage should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate index storage type to the correct index in the answer area.
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You have a Microsoft Azure SQL database that has Blob Auditing configured.
You need to review the audit logs.
Solution: From Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, you connect to the database, and then you execute the following statement.
Does this meet the goal?
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You administer a SQL Server Instance at Contoso Ltd.
A new employee named Kim Ralls must be able to read data only from the dbo.Order table in the SalesDB database.
You create a SQL login named KimRalls. You then create a SQL user account named KimRalls in SalesDB.
The user account is associated with the SQL login.
You need to grant KimRalls the necessary permission or permissions. Your solution must follow the principle of least privilege.
Solution: You perform the following actions:
* Create a custom database role named OrderReader in SalesDB.
* Grant the View Definition permission on dbo.Order to the OrderReader role.
* Add KimRalls to the OrderReader role.
Does the solution meet the goal?
