Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam Technology & Digital Applications 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the purpose of the 'Read-Only Domain Controller' (RODC) role in Windows Server 2012?
- To provide DNS services without caching
- To host a non-writable copy of AD DS for branch offices with poor physical security (Correct answer)
- To replicate AD changes in one direction from the hub site only
- To serve as a backup domain controller that activates during primary DC failure
Correct answer: To host a non-writable copy of AD DS for branch offices with poor physical security
An RODC hosts a read-only partition of the AD DS database, suitable for branch offices where physical security cannot be guaranteed.
Question 2: Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to group multiple physical disks into a resilient storage pool and create virtual disks with mirroring or parity?
- Dynamic Disks with RAID
- Storage Spaces (Correct answer)
- iSCSI Initiator
- Disk Management Spanned Volumes
Correct answer: Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces aggregates physical disks into pools and creates virtual disks with configurable resiliency (mirror, parity, or simple).
Question 3: An administrator configures a Windows Server 2012 DHCP server with a superscope. What is the primary use case for a superscope?
- To serve DHCP leases across multiple VLANs using a single scope
- To combine multiple subnets into one logical scope for multinetting on a single network segment (Correct answer)
- To provide failover redundancy between two DHCP servers
- To assign static IP addresses to specific MAC addresses across all scopes
Correct answer: To combine multiple subnets into one logical scope for multinetting on a single network segment
A superscope groups multiple DHCP scopes together to support multinetting, where multiple logical subnets coexist on the same physical network segment.
Question 4: Which Windows Server 2012 security feature prevents users from running unauthorized applications by allowing only approved executables, scripts, and installers?
- User Account Control
- AppLocker (Correct answer)
- Windows Defender
- Software Restriction Policies
Correct answer: AppLocker
AppLocker in Windows Server 2012 provides rule-based application control using publisher, path, or file hash conditions to whitelist allowed software.
Question 5: In Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess, what does the 'Manage Out' configuration enable?
- IT administrators to remotely manage DirectAccess clients even when users are not logged in (Correct answer)
- Remote users to access only approved internal web applications
- Outbound traffic from the DA server to the internet
- Automatic fallback to VPN when DirectAccess is unavailable
Correct answer: IT administrators to remotely manage DirectAccess clients even when users are not logged in
Manage Out in DirectAccess allows administrators to initiate connections to DA clients from the corporate network for management tasks, even before user login.
Question 6: Which Hyper-V feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 allows administrators to capture and restore the state of a running virtual machine at a specific point in time?
- Hyper-V Replica
- Differencing Disks
- Checkpoints (Snapshots) (Correct answer)
- Live Migration
Correct answer: Checkpoints (Snapshots)
Hyper-V Checkpoints capture the complete state of a running VM (memory, disk, and configuration) to allow rollback to that point in time.
Question 7: A Windows Server 2012 administrator needs to delegate the ability to reset passwords for users in a specific OU to a help desk team without granting them full admin rights. What is the correct approach?
- Add the help desk users to the Domain Admins group with limited scope
- Use the Delegation of Control Wizard on the target OU in ADUC (Correct answer)
- Create a GPO that grants password reset permissions to the OU
- Modify the Default Domain Policy to include the help desk users
Correct answer: Use the Delegation of Control Wizard on the target OU in ADUC
The Delegation of Control Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers lets you grant granular permissions such as password reset to specific users or groups on a targeted OU.
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Exam Technology & Digital Applications 5
What is the purpose of the 'Read-Only Domain Controller' (RODC) role in Windows Server 2012?