DES-4121 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What can a technician do to ensure that no malicious code can be introduced into any of the servers through physical access?

A. Set USB 3.0 to disabled

B. Set Secure Boot Policy to enabled

C. Set User Accessible Ports to disabled

D. Set UEFI Variable Acces to disabled

A system administrator needs to install OpenManage Server Administrator on 200 servers. What is the quickest way to meet this requirement?

A. Use the Lifecycle Controller to install OpenManage Server Administrator on each server.

B. Install OME and push OpenManage Server Administrator to all 200 servers.

C. Use Microsoft utilities to automate the deployment of OpenManage Server Administrator.

D. Download OpenManage Server Administrator from Dell.com and install on each server.

A user has a server with only one processor installed with 6x 32 GB RDIMMs. A technician was asked to install a second processor. After installing the second processor, the technician finds that the second processor is not operational.

What should be done to make the second processor operational?

A. The second CPU socket needs to be enabled

B. Logical processing must be enabled in the BIOS

C. The iDRAC license needs to be at either Express or Enterprise levels

D. The RDIMMs need to be moved so that there are three RDIMMs on each CPU

A server is being up as a VMware ESXi host. A technician needs to install the OS on an internal SD card. They install the SD card. However, during OS installation, the SD card is not visible.

What should the technician do to fix the issue?

A. Enable the SD card in the BIOS Settings

B. Format the SD card with an EXT3 partition before installation

C. Move the SD card from slot 2 to slot 1

D. Use Lifecycle Controller to install the SD card

A technician is sent-on-site to troubleshoot a server that reports errors during POST when rebooted. The following error message is displayed: "Correctable memory error rate exceeded for DIMM B4". The LCD is amber. The server has a limited maintenance window so the technician needs to troubleshoot efficiently.

What should the technician do?

A. Swap DIMM with A4 to narrow down the issue

B. Replace DIMM B4 as time is limited

C. Swap DIMM B4 with B2

D. Reseat all memory

A PowerEdge R640 server has a failure on one of its onboard NICs and sends an alert to technician support. The assigned technician needs to order a FRU to resolve the issue.

What action should the technician take?

A. Replace the system board after first backing up the server profile

B. Order a new NDC and replace the failing NDC

C. Use the iDRAC to reset the NDC to default values then reconfigure. If that fails replace the NDC

D. Order a new NIC port then replace the failing NIC port on the NDC

Refer to the exhibit.

A technician tries to apply a BIOS update on a server through the iDRAC web interface using the Linux Dell Update Package file BIOS_2H4CC_LN_2.0.2.BIN. This results in the error shown in the exhibit.

What should the technician do to address this issue?

A. Reset the iDRAC and reapply the update

B. Extract the Linux Dell Update Package and apply payload file

C. Re-download the file to replace the corrupted version and reinstall

D. Download and apply the Windows Dell Update Package file

A technician is using the iDRAC web GUI to upload a firmware that requires a reboot. They select the update and choose `Apply Update and Reboot Now'. How could the technician determine the status of the firmware update?

A. Access the System Setup Utility > iDRAC Settings and check the completion status in the Job Queue.

B. Log in to the iDRAC web GUI and check the completion status in the Job Queue.

C. Monitor the iDRAC web interface for an "Updates Completed" message in the iDRAC.

D. Access the Lifecycle Controller > Firmware Updates menu and check the completion status in the Job Queue.

A technician is remotely installing ESXi 6.0 on a PowerEdge R640 in BIOS boot mode. The system has dual internal SD cards. After the OS is installed, the system reboots and shows an error screen with the following message: "No boot device found".

What should the technician do to resolve this issue?

A. Enable vFlash in iDRAC web GUI

B. Set the boot made from BIOS to UEFI

C. Reseat the SD cards and try to boot to them again

D. Change the Hard Disk Drive Sequence

A technician needs to use the iDRAC GUI to roll back a diagnostics firmware revision on a server that was updated four weeks previously. However, the replaced version cannot be found in the Firmware Rollback section on the iDRAC GUI.

What could be the issue?

A. Diagnostics firmware revision is part of the Lifecycle Controller firmware so the Lifecycle Controller must be updated first

B. Rollback feature was not enabled in iDRAC Settings

C. Firmware can only be rolled back within a week of being replaced.

D. Diagnostics firmware is not supported in the Rollback feature.