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A company migrates from a workgroup to a domain environment. Users report they must enter credentials every time they access network shares. Which setting resolves this for domain-joined machines?
Answer: Join workstations to the domain and log on with domain credentials
Joining workstations to the domain allows Kerberos SSO so users authenticate once at logon and access resources without re-entering credentials.
An administrator configured a Windows Server 2012 DNS server with a new forward lookup zone but clients still resolve to the old IP. Which action should the administrator take first?
Answer: Flush the DNS cache on the server using dnscmd /clearcache
Clearing the server's DNS resolver cache forces it to serve fresh records rather than cached stale responses.
A Hyper-V host is running at 95% CPU. Investigation shows one VM is consuming most of the CPU. You need to limit that VM's CPU impact without shutting it down. What should you configure?
Answer: Configure a CPU Maximum on the VM via Hyper-V settings
Setting a CPU Maximum in Hyper-V limits the percentage of host CPU cycles a virtual machine can use, preventing it from starving other VMs.
During a DR test, an administrator tries to restore a Server 2012 system state backup to a different server. The restore fails with a hardware mismatch error. What is the best resolution?
Answer: Perform a bare-metal restore using Windows Recovery Environment
A bare-metal restore via Windows RE handles driver and hardware abstraction, making recovery to dissimilar hardware more reliable.
Users report that a shared network printer is available in Active Directory but jobs sent to it never print. The print server shows jobs completing successfully. What should you check first?
Answer: Whether the printer is set to offline mode on the device itself
If the device itself is set to offline or powered off, jobs appear to complete in the spooler but are never sent to the printer.
A Windows Server 2012 file server hosts home folders for 500 users. Storage is growing rapidly. Which built-in feature can reclaim space by eliminating duplicate data without affecting user access?
Answer: Data Deduplication
Data Deduplication identifies and removes redundant data chunks on NTFS volumes transparently, with no change to how users access files.
An administrator needs to deploy a Windows Server 2012 R2 image to 200 bare-metal servers simultaneously over the network. Which service is designed for this scenario?
Answer: Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
WDS is a Windows Server role that enables PXE-based network booting and multicast image deployment to multiple machines simultaneously.
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