Knowledge Check 10A & B - Manage Storage Service
How many storage devices are needed to implement a simple storage space?
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For security reasons, you want to know if anyone uses the domain Guest account to save any files on the CorpFiles server D: drive of the CorpFiles server. Disk quotas have already been enabled. In this lab, your task is to: · Create a new quota entry for the Guest account. o Set the quota limit to 500 MB. o Set the warning level to 1 KB.
1. Connect to the CorpFiles virtual server. a. From Hyper-V Manager, select CORPSERVER. b. Maximize the window to view all virtual machines. c. Double-click CorpFiles to connect to the server. d. Maximize the window for better viewing. 2. Configure Quota for the Guest account. a. From the taskbar, select File Explorer. b. From the left pane, select This PC. c. From the right pane, right-click Data (D:) and then select Properties. d. Select the Quota tab. e. From the Quota tab, select Quotas Entries. f. Select Quotas > New Quotas Entry. g. Under Enter the object names to select, enter Guest and then select OK. h. Select Limit disk space to and then in it's field, enter 500 MB. i. Select OK. j. Close the Quota Entries window. k. From the Data (D:) Properties window, select OK.
You work as the IT administrator for a small business and are responsible for the corporate network. Recently, you installed Windows Server 2022 on a new server called CorpFiles. This server will host the home directories for users. Management is concerned that some users will use a large amount of disk space. To prevent this from happening, you need to enable quota management on the shared drive. In this lab, your task is to: · Enable quota management on the D: drive using the following specif
1. Connect to the CorpFiles virtual server. a. From Hyper-V Manager, select CORPSERVER. b. Maximize the window to view all virtual machines. c. Double-click CorpFiles to connect to the server. d. Maximize the window for better viewing. 2. Enable quota management. a. From the taskbar, select File Explorer. b. From the left pane, select This PC. c. From the right pane, right-click Data (D:) and then select Properties. d. Select the Quota tab. e. From the Quota tab, select Enable quota management. f. Select Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit to deny additional space exceeding the quota limit. g. Select Limit disk space to. h. In the Limit disk space to field, use 500 MB and then use its drop-down to select MB. i. In the Set warning level to field, use 450 MB and then use its drop-down to select MB. j. Select Log event when a user exceeds their warning level. k. Click OK to enable the quota system.
While the CorpFiles server was configured, a 5 MB disk quota warning for the D: drive was applied to the Administrators account. As a result, the server logs many warning messages. In this lab, your task is to remove all quota limits for the Administrators account.
1. Connect to the CorpFiles virtual server. a. From Hyper-V Manager, select CORPSERVER. b. Maximize the window to view all virtual machines. c. Double-click CorpFiles to connect to the virtual server. d. Maximize the window for better viewing. 2. Remove all quota limits for the Administrators account a. On the taskbar, select File Explorer. b. From the left pane, select This PC. c. From the right pane, right-click Data (D:) and then select Properties. d. Select the Quota tab. e. At the bottom, select Quotas Entries. f. Right-click the existing Administrator quota entry and then select Properties. g. Select Do not limit disk usage. h. Select OK to save the change. i. Close the Quotas Entries window. j. Select OK to close the Properties window.
Confidential personnel data is stored on the CorpFiles16 file server in a shared directory named Personnel. You need to configure NTFS permissions for this folder so that only managers are authorized to access the folder. In this lab, your task is to: Grant the group named Managers the Full Control permission to the H:\Personnel folder. Remove all inherited permissions that are flowing to the H:\Personnel folder.
1. Connect to the CorpFiles16 virtual server. a. From Hyper-V Manager, select CORPSERVER. b. Maximize the window to view all virtual machines. c. Double-click CorpFiles16 to connect to the virtual server. d. Maximize the window for better viewing. 2. Configure NTFS permissions. a. From the taskbar, select File Explorer. b. From the left pane, select This PC. c. From the right pane, double-click Projects (H:). d. Right-click Personnel and select Properties. e. Select the Security tab. f. Select Edit. g. Select Add. h. In the Enter the object names to select field, type Managers and then select OK. i. With the Managers group selected, under Allow, select Full control. j. Select OK. 3. Prevent inherited permissions from parent objects. a. From the Security tab, select Advanced. b. Select Disable inheritance. c. Select Remove all inherited permissions from this object. d. Select OK to close the Advanced Security Settings for Personnel dialog. e. Select OK to close the Properties dialog.
You are the network administrator for a small company. The sales department has grown recently, and they would like additional disk storage space on the CorpiSCSI server. You have decided to provide this storage using storage spaces. In this lab, your task is to complete the following: · Using Server Manager, create a new storage space pool. o Type: Physical disks o Name: CorpiSCSI Pool o Use all available disks · Create a new virtual disk for the pool just created. o Name: CorpiSCSI Virtual D
1. Create a new storage space pool. a. From the left pane of Server Manager, select File and Storage Services. b. Maximize the window for better viewing. c. From the left navigation pane, select Storage Pools. d. Under PHYSICAL DISKS, use the TASKS drop-down list to select New Storage Pool. e. From the Before you begin page, select Next to start the wizard. f. From the Specify a storage pool name and subsystem page, enter CorpiSCSI Pool in the name field. g. Select Next. h. Select all available disks and then select Next. i. Select Create. j. Select Close. 2. Create a new virtual disk. a. Under STORAGE POOLS, select the CorpiSCSI Pool. b. Under VIRTUAL DISKS, use the TASKS drop-down list to select New Virtual Disk. c. Select OK to use the CorpiSCSI Pool. d. Select Next to begin the New Virtual Disk Wizard. e. In the Name field, enter CorpiSCSI Virtual Disk and then select Next. f. Select Next to use the default Enclosure Awareness options. g. Select Parity for the Storage Layout and th
You work as the IT administrator for a small business and are responsible for the corporate network. Until now, the network has consisted only of workstations accessing the internet through a consumer-grade switch. You have convinced management that adding a server would ease your administrative burden. As a result, you are testing various configurations of the Windows Server operating system. You have installed Windows Server on a new computer and named the new server CorpServer2. During instal
1. Extend the System (C:) volume. a. Right-click Start and select Disk Management. b. Select OK to initialize all of the new disks. c. From the top pane, right-click on the System (C:) volume and select Extend Volume. d. Select Next to start the wizard. e. Make sure Disk 0 614050 MB is highlighted and select Next to use the remaining space on Disk 0. f. Select Finish. 2. Convert disk 1 and 2 to a dynamic disk. a. From Disk Management, right-click Disk 1 and select Convert to Dynamic Disk. b. Make sure Disk 1 is marked and select Disk 2. c. Select OK to convert both disks to dynamic disks. 3. Create a spanned volume. a. From Disk Management, right-click the unallocated space on Disk 1 and select New Spanned Volume. b. Select Next. c. Under Available, select Disk 2 and then select Add. d. Under Selected, select Disk 2. e. In the Select the amount of space in MB field, enter 614400 MB to adjust the amount of space used in the new volume. f. Select Next. g. Using the drive letter drop-down
You work as the IT administrator for a small business and are responsible for the corporate network. You are creating a share for the H:\Components folder on the CorpFiles16 server. The Research and Development department employees need to store programming components in this shared folder. Data in a shared folder on an NTFS partition has two sets of permissions (share permissions and NTFS permissions). Each user's data access is determined by the most restrictive of these two permissions. You n
1. Share the H:\Components folder using the default share name. a. From the taskbar, select File Explorer. b. From the left pane, select This PC. c. From the right pane, double-click Projects (H:). d. Right-click the Components folder and select Properties. e. Select the Sharing tab. f. Select Advanced Sharing. g. Select Share this folder. h. Use the default name of Components for the Share name field, . i. Select Apply. 2. Configure the shared folder's permissions. a. Select Permissions to configure shared folder permissions. b. With the group named Everyone highlighted, select Full Control and then select OK. c. Select OK to save the changes and close the Advanced Sharing dialog. 3. Configure NTFS permissions. a. Select the Security tab. b. Select Edit. c. Select Add. d. In the Enter the object names to select box, enter Research Resources and then select OK. e. Under Allow, select Full Control. f. Select OK. g. Select OK to save the changes.
You have six 500 GB disks. You are using parity. How much usable disk space do you have?
2500
How many storage devices are needed to implement parity for data resiliency?
3
Srv7 has a single 500 GB hard disk installed. A single volume named System uses all 100 GB on the disk and holds the operating system and system files. Configure disk storage as follows: Create a second volume named Data that is 1 TB in size. Add fault tolerance to both the System and the Data volumes. Provide increased performance to both volumes, if possible. You will add additional 1 TB hard disks to the system as necessary to meet these goals. You want to add the minimum number of hard disks
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Which of the following BEST describes a pool?
A logical concept composed of the free space available on the specified storage devices.
Which of the following best describes asynchronous replication?
A type of replication that sends data over network links that have higher latency than on-site storage or networks that are in close proximity.
Which of the following is a list of security protections that applies to an object?
ACL
Which of the following is true regarding asynchronous replication?
Acknowledgement of the write operation is sent to the application without waiting for an acknowledgement from the replication partner.
Srv7 currently has a single hard disk. The System volume takes up the entire hard disk. You need to create a new volume named Data for storing files used by applications running on the server. You want the new volume to optimize performance. Fault tolerance is not necessary for this volume. What should you do?
Add two hard disks. Convert both disks to dynamic. Create a new striped volume using both disks.
What are the two types of storage QoS policies? (Select two.)
Aggregated policies & Dedicated policies
The C:\Shares\WidgetProject folder on your Windows server has been shared with network users. The server is a member of the westsim.com Active Directory domain. The westsim.com\Users group has been granted the following allow NTFS permissions: Write Read & execute List folder contents Read In addition, the Everyone principal has been assigned the allow read share permission. The smarsden user is a member of the westsim.com\Users group. She accesses data in the folder through the network share fr
Allow read
The C:\Shares\WidgetProject folder on your Windows server has been shared with network users. The server is a member of the westsim.com Active Directory domain. The westsim.com\Users group has been granted the following allow NTFS permissions: Read & execute List folder contents Read In addition, the Everyone principal has been assigned the following allow share permissions: Full control Change Read The ksanders user is a member of the westsim.com\Users group. She accesses data in the folder thr
Allow read & execute, list folder contents, and read
Which of the following is true regarding thin provisioning?
Allows allocation of larger storage spaces than the disk space available.
You need to control access to the D:\Reports folder as follows: Members of the Accounting group should be able to open and view all files, but not modify them. Mary needs to be able to modify existing files in the folder and add new files to the folder, but should not be able to delete or rename files. Mary is a member if the Accounting group. You want to assign NTFS permissions taking the least amount of actions possible. What should you do?
Assign Allow read & execute, List folder contents, and Read to the Accounting group. Assign Allow write to Mary.
You are the network administrator for your company. A Windows server named Srv1 has a shared folder called SalesResearch that shares the F:\Sales\Research folder. This folder has three subfolders, Projects, Analysis, and Reports. Permission inheritance is enabled on F:\Sales\Research and all subfolders and files. Only the Administrators group and one designated employee have permission to each subfolder. Permissions are configured as follows: Resource Type of Permission Effective Permissions Sal
Assign Stan the allow read NTFS permission to F:\Sales\Research.
You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network contains two servers named FS11 and FS12. Both servers are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. You have implemented Storage Replica as a disaster recovery solution with FS11 and FS12 as replication partners. The FS11 server is located in your main office. The FS12 server is located in a branch office in another city. Your offices are connected by a WAN link where l
Asynchronous
Which drive letters were historically reserved for floppy drives and can confuse older software? (Select two.)
B & A
Srv8 has the disk configuration shown in the image. You would like to add fault tolerance and improve performance for the Data volume. What should you do?
Back up the Data volume. Delete the existing Data volume. Convert all disks to dynamic disks. Create a RAID 5 volume using the three hard disks. Restore the Data volume to the new volume.
Which of the following is true regarding system requirements for implementing Storage Replica?
Both storage devices must be exactly the same size.
You are the network administrator for your company. You recently replaced the previous network administrator. The sales manager, Jim, calls you and reports that he cannot update a file in the \\ACCTSRV1\Reports share, which the previous network administrator created for him last Wednesday. Jim is a member of the Managers group, which should have full control of all files in the share. You examine the Reports share and the D:\Data\Reports folder on the server. Following is a summary of the curren
Change the Reports share permissions for the Everyone group to allow full control.
Which of the following is a permissions best practice?
Create a group for multiple users with similar needs.
Srv12 has the disk configuration shown in the image. The System volume is running out of space. You have already tried moving everything non-essential from the System volume to the Data volume, but several applications must be installed on the System volume and cannot be moved. You need to add space to the System volume. What should you do?
Create a new volume on Disk 1 and mount the volume to an empty folder on the System volume.
Data deduplication finds and removes duplicate information across files without compromising data integrity. The data deduplication optimization process uses a four-step process. Use the left/right arrow buttons to move the steps that are part of the data deduplication optimization process from the list on the left to the list on the right. Use the up/down arrows to put the steps into the correct order on the right.
Data deduplication finds and removes duplicate information across files without compromising data integrity. The data deduplication optimization process uses a four-step process. Use the left/right arrow buttons to move the steps that are part of the data deduplication optimization process from the list on the left to the list on the right. Use the up/down arrows to put the steps into the correct order on the right.
Which of the following are the hard disks or other types of storage from which storage pools are created?
Devices
The D:\ drive in your Windows server is formatted with NTFS. The Sales group on your computer has been given Allow modify permissions to the D:\Sales folder. The Mary user account is a member of the Sales group. You want to accomplish the following outcomes: Mary should not be allowed access to the D:\Sales\2013sales.doc file. Mary should be able to read, write, and create new files in the D:\Sales folder. Your solution should not affect the abilities of other Sales group members to access files
Edit the properties for the file; assign Mary the Deny full control permission.
If you copy a file to a different folder on the same partition, which of the following are true?
Explicit assignments are removed and permissions will be inherited from the new parent folder.
You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. You have a file server named File1 that runs Windows Server. File1 is running low on disk space. You need to determine whether this volume should have deduplication enabled. Which of the following conditions would make File1 a good candidate for deduplication? (Select two)
File1 contains shared folders with user documents that are modified infrequently. & File1 contains virtual hard disk file storage for provisioning to hypervisors.
For which of the following scenarios would you recommend data deduplication? (Select two)
General use file servers & VDI deployments
Which PowerShell cmdlet lets you check for a SMB Multichannel connection?
Get-SmbConnection
On a Windows server, you share a folder named Public using the default share name and share permissions. Later you receive a phone call from Sally, a member of the Sales group, claiming that she cannot save a file to the Public shared folder. You examine the NTFS permissions for the folder and see share and NTFS permissions shown in the exhibits. No other permissions are granted or denied. Sally is not a member of any other groups. You want to make sure Sally and other members of the Sales group
Grant Everyone the change share permission. Grant the Sales group the allow modify NTFS permission.
The company's CIO has asked you to consolidate services and servers to span four member servers. The two additional member servers, CORP05 and CORP06, will be reconfigured and shipped to a remote office. Each of the six member servers contains two disks configured as dynamic. You need to relocate the second disk from CORP05 and CORP06 to CORP03 and CORP04 to retain the stored user data. You have removed the second disk from CORP05 and CORP06 using Device Manager. You added the disks to CORP03 an
Import the disks.
Which of the following provides a unique identifier for a virtual machine?
InitiatorID
You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. You have a file server named File1 that runs Windows Server. File1 is running low on disk space. You determine that a significant percentage of the data on File1 consists of duplicate files. You would like to remove duplicate data to free up space on File1. You do not want the solution to impact the users' ability to access duplicate data. What should you do?
Install and configure the Data Deduplication Role service.
You are getting ready to install a new Windows server as a domain controller. You would like to implement a storage solution for the new server so that the system volume remains available in the event of a single disk or disk controller failure. If possible, you would also like to improve disk access performance. What should you do?
Install two hard disks, each on a different disk controller. Create a RAID 1 volume for the system volume.
Which of the following does a dynamic disk use to store information about partitions on the disk?
LDM
When configuring synchronous replication, how much latency on the network link is allowed?
Less than 5 ms
The GUID partition table, or GPT, was created as a replacement for which partitioning scheme?
MBR
Which of the following is sometimes referred to as the reservation?
MaximumIOPS
Which of the following files consume dramatically more storage space today than the same types of files created and stored ten years ago?
Media files Video files Music files
Which of the following is sometimes referred to as a limit?
MinimumIOPS
Srv8 has the disk configuration shown in the image. You convert all disks to dynamic disks. If possible, you would like to add fault tolerance and improve performance for the Data volume. What should you do?
Mirror the existing volume using Disk 1.
You have a folder on your Windows server that you would like to share with members of your development team. Users should be able to view and edit any file in the shared folder. You share the folder and give everyone full control permission to the shared folder. Users connect to the shared folder and report that they can open the files, but they cannot modify any of the files. What should you do?
Modify the NTFS permissions on the folder.
Which of the following BEST defines Storage Quality of Service?
Monitors and manages the storage performance of virtual machines.
You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network contains two servers named FS1 and FS2. You want to implement Storage Replica as a disaster recovery solution. FS1 and FS2 will be replication partners with FS1 as the source server and FS2 as the destination server. These servers are configured as follows: Specifications FS1 FS2 OS Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 Edition Datacenter Datacenter RAM 16.00 GB 32.00 GB Dis
No. The Disk 1 (Data D:) disks are not exactly the same size.
If you move a file to a different NTFS partition on the same system, which of the following are true?
Original inherited permissions would be lost and explicit permissions would be lost.
You have moved a sensitive file from an NTFS file system to a FAT32 formatted flash drive. Which of the following are true?
Permissions that had been assigned in the NTFS file system would be lost.
You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network has two sites. One site is located in your main office, and the other site is located in a branch office in another city. A WAN link with occasional latency issues is used for the network connection between the two locations. All servers in your network are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. The main office and branch office sites each have three servers. There ar
Plan 1 Configure two SANs, one at each location, for the servers to use as shared storage. Implement Failover Clustering and create one cluster for the main office site and one for the branch office site. Set up Storage Replica in a stand-alone configuration to replicate the data between clusters. & Plan 3 Configure two SANs, one at each location, for the servers to use as shared storage. Implement Failover Clustering and place all the servers from both sites in the same cluster (a stretch cluster). Set up Storage Replica in a stretch cluster configuration to replicate the data between sites.
Which of the following improvements were made with SMB version 3.1.1? (Select two.)
Preauthentication integrity. & SMB Encryption improvements.
What is a requirement for using SMB Direct?
RDMA-compatible NICs
In the data duplication process what does the filter driver component do?
Redirects read requests to the correct chunks.
SRV02 holds a shared folder named Forecast for the Managers group. Maria is a member of the Managers group. You would like to grant the Managers group full control to the folder named Forecast, but limit Maria's access to Read only. You have added the Managers group to the access list for the Forecast folder and granted full control access. You now need to limit Maria's access to the folder. What should you do? (Select two. Each choice is a complete solution.)
Remove Maria's account from the Managers group and grant Read access. & Add Maria to the NTFS permissions for the folder. Grant Read access.
You share a folder named Public and configure the following permissions. Share Permissions NTFS Permissions Everyone = Full Control Administrators = Full ControlSales = ModifyAssistants = Deny Modify You receive a phone call from Sally, a member of the Sales group and Assistants group, claiming that she cannot save a file to the Public shared folder. You want to make sure that members of the Sales group (who are not members of the Assistants group) can save new files to the Public shared folder
Remove Sally from the Assistants group.
Which of the following statements is true?
SMB Multichannel increases throughput.
Data deduplication has three schedules configured by default. The optimization process runs every hour by default. Which of the following deduplication processes run once per week by default? (Select two)
Scrubbing & Garbage collection
A user with Read and Execute permissions can do which of the following? (Select two.)
See the contents of the folder and subfolder. & Run executable files within that folder.
Sally is an employee in the sales department. Important documents are stored in the D:\SalesDocs folder on a Windows server. Sally is a member of the Domain Users and Sales groups. The SalesDocs folder has been shared, and the following permissions are currently assigned to the SalesDocs folder: NTFS Permissions Share Permissions Domain Users = Allow-ReadSales = Allow-Modify Domain Users = Allow-ReadSales = Allow-Change Sally needs to read and modify all files in the SalesDocs folder except Styl
Set Sally's NTFS permission for StyleGuide.doc to deny write.
Which of the following commands can be used to enable RDMA on a NIC?
Set-NetAdapterRdma
You need to enable data deduplication on your server's data volume. You add the Data Deduplication role service and then use the DDPEval.exe utility to analyze server volumes for data deduplication. Now you need to use Server Manager to configure data deduplication on the data volume. Which of the following steps are part of the configuration process? (Select three)
Specify the extensions of any file types that should not be deduplicated. & Specify the number of days that should elapse from the date of file creation until files are deduplicated. & Enable data deduplication.
Which of the following BEST describes data deduplication?
Stores data in less physical space using sub-file variable-size chunking and compression.
Which of the following volume types seeks to optimize performance by writing data across all disks in the volume simultaneously?
Striped volume
You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network contains two servers named FS11 and FS12. Both servers are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. You have implemented Storage Replica as a disaster recovery solution with FS11 and FS12 as replication partners. When a user makes changes to a file that is stored in a shared folder on FS11 and then saves those changes, the following process takes place: FS11 writes the
Synchronous
You want to provide direct replication between two Windows servers. Both servers are located within the same building and share a fast network connection. Which configuration would be ideal?
Synchronous replication using a server-to-server implementation.
An employee has quit under difficult circumstances. Unfortunately, the user had several files that are needed, and before the employee left, they assigned Deny full control permission to domain users to all the files and folders. All users, including you, are now blocked from accessing these important files. You need to make these files available as quickly as possible. What should you do?
Take ownership of the files and change the permissions.
You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network contains two servers named FS1 and FS2. Both servers are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. You want to implement Storage Replica as a disaster recovery solution. FS1 and FS2 will be replica partners with FS1 as the source server and FS2 as the destination server. Which of the following must be completed before you can configure this replica partnership? (Select t
The Storage Replica feature must be installed on FS1 and FS2. & The File Server role must be installed on FS1 and FS2.
Which of the following best describes effective permissions?
The sum of all permissions from explicit assignment, group membership, and inheritance.
Which of the following provides redundancy for the data if two storage devices fail at one time?
Three-way mirror
Which of the following protects you from a single storage device failure?
Two-way mirror
Which data deduplication component could be useful for troubleshooting or data migration?
Unoptimization
Your Windows Server has two volumes, C: and D:. For the D:\Reports\Finances.xls file, you explicitly grant the Mary user account the Allow modify NTFS permission. You need to move the file from the existing folder to the C:\Reports2 folder. You want to keep the existing NTFS permissions on the file. You want to accomplish this with the least amount of effort possible. What should you do?
Use the robocopy command to copy the file to the C:\Reports2 folder.
Which of the following file types are supported by data deduplication? (Select two)
Virtual hard disk files & Text files
