Administering Windows Server 2012 Quality Control & Assurance 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to verify the health of deployed server roles before going live?
- Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) (Correct answer)
- Windows Error Reporting
- Resource Monitor
- Event Viewer
Correct answer: Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
Best Practices Analyzer scans server roles against Microsoft best-practice rules and reports warnings before issues reach production.
Question 2: A QA engineer needs to ensure a Windows Server 2012 R2 deployment meets baseline security standards. Which tool produces a structured security configuration report?
- Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) (Correct answer)
- Task Scheduler
- Disk Management
- Device Manager
Correct answer: Security Configuration Wizard (SCW)
Security Configuration Wizard analyzes server roles and generates a policy to reduce the attack surface, producing a baseline report.
Question 3: During QA testing of a Hyper-V cluster, administrators notice VM checkpoints accumulating on hosts. What is the primary risk if checkpoints are left unchecked for extended periods?
- Disk space exhaustion on the host volume (Correct answer)
- Increased RAM allocation to the VM
- Loss of network connectivity
- Automatic VM shutdown by Hyper-V
Correct answer: Disk space exhaustion on the host volume
Each checkpoint stores differencing disks that grow over time, and unchecked accumulation can exhaust host storage.
Question 4: Which Windows Server 2012 logging mechanism is BEST suited for correlating events across multiple servers during a QA audit?
- Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) (Correct answer)
- Local Security Policy
- Performance Monitor counters only
- Task Manager
Correct answer: Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)
WEF centralizes event logs from multiple remote machines to a collector, enabling unified analysis during audits.
Question 5: An administrator uses Data Collector Sets in Performance Monitor to gather baseline metrics. After QA testing, where are the collected logs stored by default?
- %SystemDrive%\PerfLogs (Correct answer)
- C:\Windows\Logs
- C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Logs
Correct answer: %SystemDrive%\PerfLogs
Performance Monitor stores Data Collector Set results in %SystemDrive%\PerfLogs by default.
Question 6: During QA validation, you want to confirm that Windows Server 2012 updates were successfully applied and no updates are missing. Which command-line tool provides this information?
- wmic qfe list (Correct answer)
- netsh advfirewall show
- ipconfig /all
- gpresult /r
Correct answer: wmic qfe list
The wmic qfe list command lists all installed Quick Fix Engineering (hotfix/patch) entries on the system.
Question 7: A QA process requires verifying that all servers in a domain apply the same Group Policy settings. Which tool generates a report showing the effective policies on a target machine?
- gpresult /h report.html (Correct answer)
- netstat -an
- msinfo32
- dxdiag
Correct answer: gpresult /h report.html
gpresult /h generates an HTML report of the resultant set of policy applied to a user and computer.
Administering Windows Server 2012 Quality Control & Assurance 2
Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to verify the health of deployed server roles before going live?