Administering Windows Server 2012 Storage, Hyper-V & Server Configuration

Question 1

Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to pool physical disks and create virtual disks with resiliency options such as mirroring and parity?

Accepted Answer

Storage Spaces

Answer

Dynamic Disk volumes

Answer

RAID via Disk Management

Answer

iSCSI Target Server

Question 2

In Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, what is the maximum amount of RAM supported per virtual machine?

Accepted Answer

512 GB

Answer

64 GB

Answer

256 GB

Answer

1 TB

Question 3

Which Hyper-V virtual switch type in Windows Server 2012 allows VMs to communicate only with each other and not with the host or external network?

Accepted Answer

Private virtual switch

Answer

External virtual switch

Answer

Internal virtual switch

Answer

NAT virtual switch

Question 4

What is the purpose of the Windows Server 2012 iSCSI Target Server role service?

Accepted Answer

Provide block-level storage to iSCSI initiators over the network

Answer

Provide NFS file sharing

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Manage Fibre Channel HBAs

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Create distributed file system namespaces

Question 5

In Windows Server 2012, what does the Resilient File System (ReFS) provide over NTFS?

Accepted Answer

Improved data integrity with automatic error correction and better scalability for large volumes

Answer

Faster small-file access and better encryption

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Support for FAT32 compatibility mode

Answer

Built-in deduplication only

Question 6

Which Windows Server 2012 feature reduces storage consumption by eliminating duplicate copies of data on a volume?

Accepted Answer

Data Deduplication

Answer

Thin provisioning

Answer

Storage tiering

Answer

Compression via NTFS