Administering Windows Server 2012 Quality Control & Assurance 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Windows Server 2012 R2 feature should a QA team enable to automatically detect and restart failed services without manual intervention?
- Service Recovery Actions in Service properties (Correct answer)
- Task Scheduler triggers
- System Configuration (msconfig)
- Registry Editor auto-start keys
Correct answer: Service Recovery Actions in Service properties
The Recovery tab in a service's Properties allows configuring automatic restart, run-a-program, or restart-computer on failure.
Question 2: During a quality audit, you need to verify disk health on a Windows Server 2012 volume. Which built-in command checks and repairs file system errors without requiring a reboot when possible?
- chkdsk /f /r (Correct answer)
- diskpart clean
- format /q
- defrag /u
Correct answer: chkdsk /f /r
chkdsk /f /r locates bad sectors and recovers readable data; on live volumes it schedules the check on next boot.
Question 3: A QA engineer wants to confirm that the Windows Server 2012 firewall is not blocking required application ports in production. Which command shows current active firewall rules?
- netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=all (Correct answer)
- ipconfig /displaydns
- arp -a
- route print
Correct answer: netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=all
netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=all lists all currently configured Windows Firewall rules.
Question 4: When validating a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster for production readiness, which tool runs comprehensive hardware and software validation tests?
- Cluster Validation Wizard in Failover Cluster Manager (Correct answer)
- Windows Memory Diagnostic
- System File Checker (sfc /scannow)
- Network Diagnostics (netdiag)
Correct answer: Cluster Validation Wizard in Failover Cluster Manager
The Cluster Validation Wizard tests storage, networking, and system configuration to confirm cluster readiness.
Question 5: A QA team uses Windows Server 2012 WSUS to control update deployment. Which WSUS report type shows which computers have NOT yet installed an approved update?
- Update Status Summary report
- Synchronization Results report
- Computer Detail Status report
- Update Compliance by Computer Group (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Update Compliance by Computer Group
The Update Compliance by Computer Group report shows approval and installation status per group, identifying non-compliant machines.
Question 6: During QA testing, system files on Windows Server 2012 appear corrupt after a failed update. Which command scans and repairs protected system files using the cached copy?
- sfc /scannow (Correct answer)
- dism /restorehealth
- chkdsk /r
- bcdedit /fixmbr
Correct answer: sfc /scannow
sfc /scannow scans all protected system files and replaces corrupted files with a cached version from %WinDir%\System32\dllcache.
Question 7: A QA process requires verifying that IIS on Windows Server 2012 is correctly logging all HTTP requests. Where is the default IIS log file location?
- %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles (Correct answer)
- C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\IIS
- C:\inetpub\wwwroot\logs
- C:\ProgramData\IIS\Logs
Correct answer: %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles
IIS stores log files in %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles by default, organized by site ID.
Administering Windows Server 2012 Quality Control & Assurance 3
Which Windows Server 2012 R2 feature should a QA team enable to automatically detect and restart failed services without manual intervention?