CompTIA Server+ (SK0-005) — Full Question Bank
By Yoshi · Updated Jun 9, 2026
| Certification | Server+ (SK0-005) |
| Questions | 573 |
| Passing Score | 75% |
| Format | 95% Multiple Choice |
| Sessions Logged | 2,189 |
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Certification Summary
CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 targets system administrators and server technicians responsible for the physical and virtual maintenance of data center hardware. These professionals spend their time managing the lifecycle of server components, often dealing with the reality that a documented maintenance window serves more as a suggestion than a hard limit for the hardware team.
Server Administration, Troubleshooting, and Security and Disaster Recovery constitute the majority of the exam, focusing on how you handle degraded RAID arrays or unexpected permission shifts to keep services online. The rest of the content covers hardware installation and configuration, where you identify specific cabling standards and physical components required to populate a rack. You will spend significant time analyzing terminal outputs and log file snippets to diagnose hardware-level faults.
Topics covered
Security and Disaster Recovery121 questions
- Explain data security risks and mitigation strategies.8 q
- Explain important concepts pertaining to identity and access management for server administration.10 q
- Explain the importance of backups and restores.13 q
- Explain the importance of disaster recovery15 q
- Given a scenario, apply server hardening methods21 q
- Summarize data security concepts20 q
- Summarize physical security concepts.17 q
- Summarize proper server decommissioning concepts.17 q
Server Administration194 questions
- Explain licensing concepts.18 q
- Explain the importance of asset management and documentation.30 q
- Explain the key concepts of high availability for servers.62 q
- Given a scenario, install server operating systems.24 q
- Summarize scripting basics for server administration.39 q
- Summarize the purpose and operation of virtualization.21 q
Server Hardware Installation and Management113 questions
- Given a scenario, deploy and manage storage.48 q
- Given a scenario, install physical hardware.20 q
- Given a scenario, perform server hardware maintenance.45 q
Troubleshooting145 questions
- Explain the troubleshooting theory and methodology.20 q
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot common OS and software problems.23 q
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot common hardware failures.22 q
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot network connectivity issues.43 q
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot security problems.16 q
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot storage problems.21 q
Question catalog for this preview
Catalog listing of the 5 preview questions for this quiz.
Question 1
A company uses synchronous replication between its primary and disaster recovery datacenters.
Which risk is MOST likely introduced by this design?
Question 2
An organization compares two clustering models. In the first, hardware sits idle during normal operations. In the second, all hardware actively handles production traffic at all times.
Which statement correctly distinguishes the two?
Question 3
A RAID 5 array consists of five drives. The array management console generates a critical alert indicating degraded status. One drive is marked with a fault indicator.
Which condition does this alert most directly describe?
Question 4
Match each technology, protocol, or control with its primary purpose.
Question 5
During a security audit, an administrator runs a tool against the network and receives a report listing every open port on each discovered host, along with the services associated with those ports.
Which tool produced this output?