Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam MCSA: Microsoft 70-410 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Windows Server 2012 storage feature allows you to create a logical pool of storage from multiple physical disks and provision virtual disks with resiliency?
- Dynamic Disks
- Storage Spaces (Correct answer)
- RAID-5 Volume
- Distributed File System (DFS)
Correct answer: Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces pools physical disks into storage pools and creates virtual disks with resiliency options like mirroring or parity.
Question 2: A Windows Server 2012 administrator needs to audit all failed logon attempts on a domain controller. Which Group Policy setting should be configured?
- Account Logon Events - Failure (Correct answer)
- Logon Events - Failure
- Account Management - Failure
- Directory Service Access - Failure
Correct answer: Account Logon Events - Failure
Auditing Account Logon Events tracks authentication attempts processed by domain controllers, capturing failed logon events.
Question 3: You want to configure a Windows Server 2012 server as an iSCSI target. Which feature must be installed?
- iSCSI Initiator
- File Server role with iSCSI Target Server role service (Correct answer)
- Network Policy Server
- Multipath I/O (MPIO)
Correct answer: File Server role with iSCSI Target Server role service
The iSCSI Target Server role service (part of the File and Storage Services role) enables a Windows Server 2012 machine to act as an iSCSI target.
Question 4: When installing Windows Server 2012 Core edition, which interface is available by default after installation completes?
- Server Manager GUI
- Command prompt (cmd.exe) (Correct answer)
- PowerShell ISE
- Windows Explorer
Correct answer: Command prompt (cmd.exe)
Server Core provides only a command prompt by default; administrators use cmd.exe and PowerShell for management.
Question 5: An administrator needs to configure a Windows Server 2012 DNS server to forward all unresolvable queries to an ISP's DNS server. Where should this be configured?
- Zone properties - Forwarders tab
- Server properties - Forwarders tab (Correct answer)
- Zone properties - General tab
- Server properties - Advanced tab
Correct answer: Server properties - Forwarders tab
Global forwarders are configured on the DNS server's properties (not individual zones) under the Forwarders tab.
Question 6: Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to deploy and manage updates to servers that cannot access the internet directly?
- Windows Update
- Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) (Correct answer)
- System Center Configuration Manager only
- Microsoft Update Catalog
Correct answer: Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
WSUS acts as a local update server, downloading updates from Microsoft and distributing them to internal servers without requiring internet access on each server.
Question 7: A Windows Server 2012 administrator runs Get-Disk in PowerShell and sees a disk with OperationalStatus 'Offline'. Which cmdlet brings the disk online?
- Enable-Disk -Number 1
- Set-Disk -Number 1 -IsOffline $false (Correct answer)
- Initialize-Disk -Number 1
- Mount-Disk -Number 1
Correct answer: Set-Disk -Number 1 -IsOffline $false
Set-Disk with -IsOffline $false brings an offline disk online without initializing or formatting it.
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam MCSA: Microsoft 70-410 3
Which Windows Server 2012 storage feature allows you to create a logical pool of storage from multiple physical disks and provision virtual disks with resiliency?