Administering Windows Server 2012 Storage, Hyper-V & Server Configuration 1 — Questions and Answers
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?
- Dynamic Disk volumes
- Storage Spaces (Correct answer)
- RAID via Disk Management
- iSCSI Target Server
Correct answer: Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces, introduced in Windows Server 2012, allows administrators to group physical disks into storage pools and create virtual disks with mirroring, parity, or simple layouts.
Question 2: In Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, what is the maximum amount of RAM supported per virtual machine?
- 64 GB
- 256 GB
- 512 GB (Correct answer)
- 1 TB
Correct answer: 512 GB
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V supports up to 512 GB of RAM per virtual machine (later increased to 1 TB in Windows Server 2012 R2).
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?
- External virtual switch
- Internal virtual switch
- Private virtual switch (Correct answer)
- NAT virtual switch
Correct answer: Private virtual switch
A Private virtual switch isolates VMs from the host and all external networks, allowing only VM-to-VM communication on the same private switch.
Question 4: What is the purpose of the Windows Server 2012 iSCSI Target Server role service?
- Provide NFS file sharing
- Provide block-level storage to iSCSI initiators over the network (Correct answer)
- Manage Fibre Channel HBAs
- Create distributed file system namespaces
Correct answer: Provide block-level storage to iSCSI initiators over the network
iSCSI Target Server allows Windows Server 2012 to present virtual disks as iSCSI LUNs over a TCP/IP network, enabling iSCSI initiators to mount them as local storage.
Question 5: In Windows Server 2012, what does the Resilient File System (ReFS) provide over NTFS?
- Faster small-file access and better encryption
- Improved data integrity with automatic error correction and better scalability for large volumes (Correct answer)
- Support for FAT32 compatibility mode
- Built-in deduplication only
Correct answer: Improved data integrity with automatic error correction and better scalability for large volumes
ReFS provides stronger data integrity through checksumming metadata and (with Storage Spaces) data, automatic corruption repair, and support for very large volumes and files.
Question 6: Which Windows Server 2012 feature reduces storage consumption by eliminating duplicate copies of data on a volume?
- Thin provisioning
- Data Deduplication (Correct answer)
- Storage tiering
- Compression via NTFS
Correct answer: Data Deduplication
Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 identifies and removes redundant data chunks, storing a single copy while maintaining pointers, significantly reducing storage usage for file servers and VDI.
Administering Windows Server 2012 Storage, Hyper-V & Server Configuration 1
Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to pool physical disks and create virtual disks with resiliency options such as mirroring and parity?