Server Configuration and Management Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of server configuration and management. Students will learn how to install, configure, and maintain various types of servers, including web, database, and file servers, across multiple operating systems. Emphasis is placed on security measures, user and resource management, automation techniques, performance optimization, and regular maintenance protocols. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, students will gain practical experience in troubleshooting, monitoring server health, implementing backup solutions, and ensuring system reliability in enterprise environments.
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MCTS Guide to Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory 1st Edition by Greg
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Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) You work for a large corporation with several branch offices that have varying requirements in regards to security.Your boss has informed you that a new branch office is in need of a domain controller,but has stressed that due to security reasons,he doesn't want the server to have the ability to make changes to any domain related information.What can you install to satisfy the needs of the branch office?
A)Active Directory Certificate Services
B)Host Credential Authorization Protocol
C)Windows Deployment Services
D)Read only domain controller (RODC)
Answer: D
Q2) Based on the following features,what Windows Server 2008 edition is being described?
Maximum RAM (32-bit): 64 GB
Failover clustering: 16 nodes
X86 sockets: 8
X64 sockets: 8
Virtual licenses: 4
Answer: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
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Chapter 2: Installing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) A snapshot is a collection of files,usually consisting of a configuration file and one or more files representing hard disks
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Pick the service below that is required by Active Directory:
A)DHCP
B)DNS
C)WINS
D)NetBIOS
Answer: B
Q3) What command can you type to view a list of installed updates on Windows Server Core?
Answer: wmic qfe list
Q4) The ____________________ command allows you to join a Windows Server 2008 server to a domain as a member server.
Answer: netdom
Q5) What command can you type to force a check for updates? Answer: wuauclt /detectnow
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Chapter 3: Introducing Active Directory
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Q1) The core structural unit of Active Directory;contains OUs and represents administrative,security,and policy boundaries
A)Group Policy Object (GPO)
B)Organizational Unit
C)domain
D)built-in user accounts
E)dsadd
F)Contact
G)dcpromo.exe
H)User Configuration
I)Schema
Answer: C
Q2) What acronym describes the order in which GPOs are applied?
Answer: LSDOU
Q3) The dsadd command can only create new user objects in Active Directory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) "John Doe" is an example of which of the following?
Answer: attribute value
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Chapter 4: Active Directory Design and Security Concepts
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Q1) Inherited permissions can't be changed or removed without ____.
A)using the "Inherited Permissions Modify" tool
B)having to recreate the object entirely
C)knowing the object's password
D)disabling permission inheritance first
Q2) What service most commonly makes use of an application directory partition for it's database?
Q3) What term best fits this description:
Specialized domain controller tasks that handle operations that can affect the entire domain or forest.
Q4) The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is based on which of the following technologies?
A)X.509
B)X.500
C)X.405
D)X.900
Q5) What term best fits this description:
A trust in which both domains in the relationship trust each other,so users from both domains can access resources in the other domain.
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Chapter 5: Account Management
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Q1) What term best matches this description?
A user profile that can be changed during a user's logon session,but the next time the user logs on,the changes aren't saved,and the profile reverts to its original state
Q2) Which statement is false?
A)Domain local groups can have universal groups from any domain in the forest as members
B)Universal groups can have universal groups from any domain in the forest as members
C)Global groups can be members of any global group in the forest
D)Domain local groups can be members of local groups on domain member computers
Q3) Members of the Backup Operators group can log on locally to and shut down domain controllers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Where are user profiles stored by default in Windows Server 2008?
A)%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users
B)%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings
C)%SYSTEMDRIVE%\LocalUsers
D)%SYSTEMPARTITION%\LocalUsers
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Chapter 6: Windows File and Print Services
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Q1) The FAT file system has built-in support for file compression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) This file system supports partitions up to 2GB in size (Windows NT allows up to 4 GB)and supports a maximum file size of 2GB.
Q3) In a Windows environment,he physical printer containing paper and ink or toner to which print jobs are sent is called...
A)a printer
B)a print server
C)a print device
D)print queue
Q4) This role service allows grouping shared folders from one or more file servers into a single hierarchical folder structure,so users don't have to know on which server a share is located.
A)Services for Network File System
B)File Server
C)Windows Search Service
D)Distributed File System
Q5) ____________________ is the native file-sharing protocol in UNIX and Linux.
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Chapter 7: Configuring Group Policy
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Q1) There are two types of GPO filtering: security filtering and ___________________________________ filtering.
Q2) Which of these is something group policy templates and group policy containers have in common?
A)Their folder location
B)File names
C)folder structure
D)Active Directory location
Q3) The account lockout threshold contains a value between 0 and 1,000 that determines how many times a user's password can be entered incorrectly before the user's password must be reset by an administrator.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What Security Settings subnode allows you to control IPSec policies on target computers?
Q5) A published application is installed automatically.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the default setting for "Minimum password age" under Password Policies?
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Chapter 8: Introduction to Windows Networking
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Q1) Why is the address 172.31.255.255 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 invalid as a host ID?
A)Because the subnet is incorrect for the IP address class
B)Because the 172.x.x.x range is reserved for loopback purposes
C)The host ID bits are all binary 1's,making the address a broadcast address and therefore invalid as a host ID.
D)Because the network ID has a 255 in it,making this an invalid network ID
Q2) This command is used to test connectivity between two computers.
Q3) If you subnet a class B IP address to 255.255.255.0,how many bits are left for hosts,and how many host IDs does that equal per subnet?
A)8,256
B)8,255
C)7,254
D)8,254
Q4) This protocol is used by the ping program to test whether a computer can communicate with another computer.
Q5) How many bits make up an IPv4 address?
Q6) IPv6 addresses are written as eight 16-bit ____________________ numbers separated by colons.
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Chapter 9: Configuring DNS for Active Directory
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Q1) A ____________________ is an operation that copies all or part of a zone from one DNS server to another and occurs as a result of a secondary server requesting the transfer from another server.
Q2) If all zones are hosted on Windows domain controllers and are Active Directory integrated,there's no need to configure zone transfers because Active Directory replication handles this process.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A ____________________ is a primary,secondary,or stub zone that isn't Active Directory integrated.
Q4) What option can be added to the ipconfig command to delete the local DNS cache?
Q5) Which one of the following options,when added to dnscmd.exe,will allow you to create a new zone?
A)/ZoneCreate
B)/Zone -a
C)/ZoneAdd
D)/Zone Add
Q6) What term best matches the following description? A DNS zone containing a read-only copy of all resource records for the zone.
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Chapter 10: Configuring and Maintaining the Active
Directory Infrastructure
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Q1) You can deploy Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers (RODC)in a Windows Server 2003 forest.
A)True
B)False
Q2) This is enabled by default,making site links transitive.
Q3) You can't simply delete an account in one domain and re-create it in another without losing the original account's ____________________.
Q4) Which of the following is not one of Active Directory Migration Tool's three main types of migration?
A)Innerforest migration
B)Interforest migration
C)Intraforest migration
D)Migration of an NT 4.0 domain to an Active Directory domain
Q5) An ____________________ is created between domains in different forests or between domains in a Windows Server 2003/2008 forest and a Windows 2000 Server forest or Windows NT domain.
Q6) In the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level,this feature enables administrators to assign different password and account lockout policies for users and groups.
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Chapter 11: Active Directory Certificate Services
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Q1) By setting up autoenrollment for EFS certificates,a user's EFS certificate is created...
A)When the user encrypts a file
B)After the user restarts his or her computer
C)The first time he or she logs on to the domain after autoenrollment is configured
D)After requesting the certificate within the Certificate snap-in
Q2) If setting up a standalone certificate authority,Active Directory is required.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If a certificate has a validity period of 1 year and a renewal period of 1 month,when must a certificate that was issued on December 12th,2009 be renewed?
A)Once every month throughout the validity period
B)Between November 12,2010 and December 12,2010
C)Between December 12,2010 and January 12,2011
D)Between December 12,2010 and January 11
Q4) Enter the term that best matches the description below: A numeric string created by a cryptographic algorithm,called a hash,that's used to validate a message or document's authenticity.
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Chapter 12: Additional Active Directory Server Roles
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Q1) What is the default web server port?
Q2) Your HR department currently makes use of directory-enabled software,but because it is the only area of your company that makes use of the software,you have placed an AD LDS server in the HR department.Because the software is critical to the functionality of the department,you want to provide fault tolerance and load balancing with an additional server.Ideally,the server should share common configuration and schema partitions,as well as common application partitions. What should you do?
A)Create a unique AD LDS instance on the original server
B)Create a copy of the application partition and move it to a new folder on the new server.
C)Add a new instance of AD LDS on the new server and create a configuration set
D)Install AD DS on the new server and have it perform the load balancing and fault tolerance functions
Q3) What is the standard SSL LDAP port?
Q4) This AD FS design involves a network with two Active Directory forests.One forest,located in the perimeter network,is considered the resource partner.The second forest,located in the internal network is the account partner.
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Chapter 13: Server Management and Monitoring
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Q1) What command can you use to display detailed information about connection objects?
Q2) A method of restoring Active Directory data from a backup that restores the database,or portions of it,and allows data to be updated through replication by other domain controllers
A)authoritative restore
B)data collector set
C)nonauthoritative restore
D)offline defragmentation
E)online defagmentation
F)tombstone lifetime
G)Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
H)Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
I)winrs
Q3) What is the command to bring up the Task Manager window?
Q4) Specific partitions can be backed up and restored by the Windows Server Backup utility.
A)True
B)False
Q5) These events in Event Viewer are indicated by a black ! inside a yellow triangle
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