Administering Windows Server 2012 Case Studies & Practical Application 3

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

Join workstations to the domain and log on with domain credentials

Answer

Enable Credential Manager on each PC

Answer

Configure Kerberos pre-authentication manually

Answer

Create local accounts matching domain usernames

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

Flush the DNS cache on the server using dnscmd /clearcache

Answer

Restart the DNS Client service on all workstations

Answer

Increase the zone TTL to force immediate propagation

Answer

Recreate the zone as an Active Directory-integrated zone

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

Configure a CPU Maximum on the VM via Hyper-V settings

Answer

Increase the number of virtual processors for the VM

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Set a Virtual Machine Reserve on the VM

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Enable NUMA spanning for the VM

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

Perform a bare-metal restore using Windows Recovery Environment

Answer

Use Windows Server Backup with the --norollforward option

Answer

Restore only the Active Directory database using ntdsutil

Answer

Use wbadmin with the -quiet switch to bypass hardware checks

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

Whether the printer is set to offline mode on the device itself

Answer

Whether the printer driver is installed on client machines

Answer

The spooler service status on the print server

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Whether the GPO deploying the printer is linked to the correct OU

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

Data Deduplication

Answer

NTFS compression

Answer

Storage Spaces tiering

Answer

Shadow Copies

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

Windows Deployment Services (WDS)

Answer

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) standalone

Answer

System Center Configuration Manager OSD

Answer

Remote Desktop Services per-user CAL deployment

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