Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam Case Studies & Practical Application 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A company needs to deploy Windows Server 2012 to 50 branch offices with minimal bandwidth usage. Each office has identical hardware. Which deployment method is MOST efficient?
- Perform a clean installation at each site using DVD media
- Use Windows Deployment Services with multicast transmission (Correct answer)
- Deploy via Remote Desktop and manual configuration
- Ship pre-configured hard drives to each location
Correct answer: Use Windows Deployment Services with multicast transmission
WDS multicast transmission sends the image once to all clients simultaneously, drastically reducing bandwidth consumption across branch offices.
Question 2: A server running Windows Server 2012 must host both a web application and a file server role. After adding the File Services role, web performance degrades. What is the MOST likely cause?
- The Web Server role was uninstalled automatically
- SMB traffic is competing with HTTP traffic on the same NIC (Correct answer)
- File Services requires exclusive use of port 80
- IIS cannot run alongside File Services on the same server
Correct answer: SMB traffic is competing with HTTP traffic on the same NIC
SMB and HTTP traffic sharing a single network adapter causes resource contention, degrading web performance; NIC teaming or separate NICs resolves this.
Question 3: You need to ensure a Windows Server 2012 Core installation can be managed remotely via Server Manager from another server. Which command enables this?
- netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable
- Configure-SMRemoting.exe -Enable
- Enable-PSRemoting -Force
- sconfig and select option 4 (Correct answer)
Correct answer: sconfig and select option 4
In Server Core, running sconfig and selecting option 4 (Configure Remote Management) enables remote management through Server Manager.
Question 4: A Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2012 needs to allow a VM to access the physical network at the same level as the host. Which virtual switch type should be configured?
- Internal
- Private
- External (Correct answer)
- Isolated
Correct answer: External
An External virtual switch binds to a physical network adapter, allowing VMs to communicate with the physical network and external hosts.
Question 5: A company's Windows Server 2012 DHCP server is handing out incorrect IP addresses after a network redesign. Administrators want to prevent rogue DHCP servers on the network. What should they do?
- Enable DHCP snooping on the server
- Authorize the DHCP server in Active Directory (Correct answer)
- Set static IP addresses on all clients
- Configure a DHCP relay agent on each subnet
Correct answer: Authorize the DHCP server in Active Directory
Authorizing the DHCP server in Active Directory prevents unauthorized DHCP servers from responding to client requests on the domain network.
Question 6: An administrator needs to migrate a Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS server configuration to a new Windows Server 2012 DNS server with no downtime. What is the BEST approach?
- Manually recreate all DNS records on the new server
- Use dnscmd /zoneexport and import the zone files
- Configure the new server as a secondary zone and promote it
- Enable Active Directory-integrated zones and replicate via AD (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Enable Active Directory-integrated zones and replicate via AD
Converting DNS zones to AD-integrated zones enables automatic replication to new DNS servers through Active Directory with no manual record migration.
Question 7: A server's system volume is running low on space. An administrator wants to use Disk Management to extend the C: volume. The Extend Volume option is greyed out. What is the MOST likely reason?
- The disk must be converted to dynamic before extending
- There is no unallocated space immediately following the partition (Correct answer)
- The C: drive cannot be extended while Windows is running
- Disk quotas are preventing the volume extension
Correct answer: There is no unallocated space immediately following the partition
The Extend Volume option requires contiguous unallocated space immediately following the partition on the same disk; without it, the option is unavailable.
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam Case Studies & Practical Application 2
A company needs to deploy Windows Server 2012 to 50 branch offices with minimal bandwidth usage.
Each office has identical hardware.
Which deployment method is MOST efficient?