Midterm Window Server 2016
1. The water resources group in your organization asked you to create a shared folder to hold research data. Ten people are in the group; two of them cannot access the file but the other eight can. What can you do to easily determine why two people cannot access it?
. Check the effective access for that folder
1. Your company writes software for voting machines and needs to ensure that the software and documentation is carefully protected on its servers. Last week one of the servers was stolen from its machine room, but fortunately that server did not contain sensitive voting machine files. What file security can your company use to protect its information in the future, so that even if a server is stolen its files cannot be accessed?
. Microsoft Encrypting File System
1. Your company needs to set up a new server that acts as a general file and print server and that has the smallest attack surface possible to reduce the risk of attackers obtaining company secrets. Which of the following installation options offers a reduced attack surface? (Choose all that apply.)
. Nano Server
1. Which of the following can you accomplish with Windows PowerShell? (Choose all that apply.)
. Run a script., b. Install software., c. View information about local user accounts., and d. View a listing of files in a folder.
Your IT director heard about a fast but inexpensive new computer and purchased it to be the new Windows Server 2016 server on the network. When you attempt to install Windows Server 2016, the operating system won't install because there seems to be a problem with the BIOS in the new computer. How might this dilemma have been avoided
. The IT director should have first checked to see if the computer hardware and BIOS are certified for Windows Server 2016.
13. One of the managers in your organization has seen older servers crash because of one malfunctioning program. What feature in Windows Server 2016 can help prevent this from happening?
. privileged mode for the kernel
1. The server you have just installed has 16 GB of RAM. What should the initial paging file size be set to when you manually configure it as a beginning tuning step before monitoring paging over time to fine tune it later?
24576 MB
_______can be used to automatically assign IP addressing when a DHCP server is not available on a small network.
: Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
1. The three elements you can configure when you manually set up a static IPv4 address are _________, __________, and __________.
: IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway
1. An IPv6 address consists of which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)
: b. Eight 16-bit fields and c. Hexadecimal numbers separated by colons
1. Which of the following are supported by Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition? (Choose all that apply.)
: b. Up to 25 users and c. Up to 50 Remote Desktop connections
Command- line tools in Windows PowerShell are called
: cmdlets
1. The physical address of a NIC is its __________ address
: media access control or MAC
1. Hyper-V enables Windows Server 2016 to operate as a _____ server.
: virtual
1. You work for a bank that has five branch offices and one to two servers are located at each branch office. For best security, what kind of domain controller should be used at each branch office?
A Read-Only Domain Controller
1. Which of the following must you do shortly after installing Windows Server 2016 to keep the server functions enabled?
Activate Windows Server 2016.
1. What tool can you use to manage fine-grained password policies?
Active Directory Administrative Center
1. The __________ server role is used to manage security tokens and security services for a web-based network.
Active Directory Federation Services
1. To reset a password, you use the _____ tool.
Active Directory Users and Computers
1. Which of the following are roles that can be implemented in Windows Server 2016? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer b. Active Directory Rights Management Services and d. Network Policy and Access Services
1. Your company plans to purchase and implement 21 new servers in the next few months and then add 10 more over the next year. You want to make a case for using Windows Deployment Services. Which of the following do you mention as you make the case? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: a. lowers installation costs, b. enables consistent deployment and configuration, and d. enables the servers to be administered together through the help of scripts
1. Which of the following are Registry elements? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: b. keys and c. values
1. The __________ enables you to change the boot order on a computer prior to installing Windows Server 2016.
BIOS setup
1. Your assistant is about to install the latest service pack for Windows Server 2016 on a production server. What is your advice before he starts? (Choose all that apply.)
Back up the server before starting
_________ enables you to determine if a server role is set up to follow best practices.
Best Practices Analyzer
1. You receive a message that Active Directory Domain Services has experienced an error and the Active Directory Domain Services service must be stopped and restarted. Which of the following tools can you use? (Choose all that apply.)
Component Services
1. You have noticed lately that your server is running very slowly, especially when switching between programs. You see that the C: partition is running low on space, limiting the size of your paging file. You have a second partition, D:, that has 100 GB of free space. How can you move the paging file from partition C: onto partition D:?
Configure it from the System window opened through Control Panel
1. You manage the servers for your city government. You've installed a new Windows Server 2016 server and one of your first tasks is to configure user accounts for the police patrol division. All of the police officers will have the same security configuration on their user accounts. Which of the following is a good practice for managing the security on these user accounts?
Create a global security group and make all of the user accounts members
1. Which of the following can you accomplish using the DFS Management tool? (Choose all that apply.)
Create a namespace root., b. Delegate management over a namespace root., c. Create a folder in a namespace root., and d. Tune a namespace root
1. Your company has four departments: Marketing and Sales, Manufacturing, Product Research, and Business. Which of the following Active Directory container design plans might you use to best manage the user accounts and network access needs of each department?
Create four OUs in one domain
1. A first step in configuring Distributed File System is to install which of the following File and Storage Services role services? (Choose all that apply.)
DFS Replication and d. DFS Namespaces
1. You've obtained a new driver from the Internet for your server's NIC. What tool enables you to install the driver?
Device Manager
1. Your server keyboard sometimes hesitates or seems like it is disconnecting from the computer. Which of the following tools enables you to run a quick check on whether the keyboard is working properly?
Device Manager
You have just taken over management of a server on which the previous server administrator has set up several server components, including the hard drives to be hot swappable. However, you notice that server performance is slow and disk reading and writing sometimes is delayed. What step can you take to improve the performance of the disk drives?
Ensure file caching and flushing are enabled for all disk drives
1. As the server administrator for a hospital, you have received several notices about malware targeted at software applications used in hospitals. What server configuration step can you take to help protect applications from malware?
Ensure that Data Execution Prevention is turned on.
1. The __________ server role enables the use of work folders for PCs and mobile devices such as tablet PCs.
File and Storage Services
1. Which of the following are Windows Server 2016 installation methods? (Choose all that apply.)
From DVD and d. Into a Hyper-V virtual machine
1. A folder's owner has __________ permissions.
Full Control
Your company has many telecommuters who work at home three or more days a week. What new virtual private network feature in Windows Sever 2016 enables you to provide secure access to the company's network for these telecommuters?
Generic Routing Encapsulation tunneling
1. You are just taking over administration of a server running Windows Server 2016 Server Core and there is no current documentation to show which roles and features are loaded. What Windows PowerShell command enables you to determine these?
Get-WindowsFeature
1. Your colleague has installed Active Directory Domain Services as a server role, but he has discovered that Active Directory cannot be used at this point. What next step must he take to get Active Directory ready for use?
He must perform initial configuration to promote the server housing the Active Directory Domain Services role to a domain controller
1. You attempt to set folder quotas on a shared folder you are configuring through Server Manager, but this feature is not enabled. What can you do to enable using folder quotas? (Choose all that apply.)
Install File Server Resource Manager as a role service.
1. Domains in a tree are in a _____ relationship.
Kerberos transitive trust relationship
1. What option can you use in Server Manager to configure server properties, such as the computer name and the Ethernet connection, as well as view events, such as errors and warnings?
Local Server in the left pane
_____enables a Windows Server 2016 system to run more than one program at the same time.
Multitasking
is the ability to translate a computer's logical or host name into a network address
Name resolution
1. One of the users on your network has called to report that a shared printer on your Windows Server 2016 print server is not printing. Which of the following can you use to check the status of the printer?
Queue Status column for printers in the Print Management tool
1. The Hyper-V role is installed using __________
Server Manager
1. The work day has just started and you receive reports that the inventory management server is not accessible on your company's network. You recall that the new network administration assistant was working on that server last night. Which tool can you use to determine if the network administration assistant left that server's NIC disabled?
Server Manager
1. Your organization has consolidated servers through virtualization and now needs to remove the Windows Deployment Services server role from one of its servers. Which of the following tools enable you to remove a server role? (Choose all that apply)
Server Manager
1. An Apple Macintosh running Sierra (macOS 10.12) can share files with Windows Server 2016 using the __________ protocol.
Server Message Block version 3.x
1. The Computer Advisory Committee in your company has been concerned that users store many files on the servers, but aren't good about deleting old files. This has resulted in less free space on the servers' disks. What solution do you propose?
Set up disk quotas for user accounts.
1. Another way to protect against malware is to ensure the system and other essential files have a signature. What tool enables you to verify files for a signature and what tool enables you to run this tool?
Sigverif which is started through Windows PowerShell
1. You are the administrative assistant for the Psychology Department in your college, and they have assigned you to set up a small server to provide basic file services to faculty, staff, and students in that department, which currently has 122 users. For example, faculty will use the server to post and receive class assignments. Which edition of Windows Server 2016 is most appropriate for this situation?
Standard Edition
The power supply in your server has just been replaced because of power problems. Your server boots, but now there is a message that a Windows directory file is corrupted. You can use _________ as a tool to check and then restore system files that have been corrupted
System File Checker
1. You are creating a special user profile for all members of the inventory control unit in your business. After you create the profile, what tool can you use to copy it to all of the user accounts in the inventory control unit?
System applet in Control Panel
1. When you move a file from the Spreadsheets folder to the Corp Documents folder on a Windows Server 2016 server, what happens to the permissions on the file?
The moved file takes with it the permission it had in the Spreadsheets folder.
1. Each time that you access files on a disk, the monitor blinks or goes blank for several seconds. What might be the source of the problem and possible solution?
There is an IRQ conflict and you need to use Device Manager to resolve the problem.
1. Which of the following is true about all trees in a forest? (Choose all that apply.)
They all use the same schema and c. They all use the same global catalog.
1. Several of your DFS clients complain that it can take some time to access a DFS shared folder, even though they just recently accessed it. They are expecting faster response. What can you do?
Tune the cache duration for the folder.
1. The latest service pack has some patches that you need for Windows Server 2016 security. Your assistant says the only way to get a service pack is to order a DVD from Microsoft. Is there a faster way to obtain the service pack? (Choose all that apply.)
Use Windows Update. and c. Check Microsoft's website for a download of the service pack
1. You have a series of older files that you don't access often, but you do need them occasionally. Some of these folders take up large quantities of disk space. What NTFS feature can you use to reduce the disk space they occupy?
Use the compress attribute.
1. Your company's management has decided that the accounts in all OUs should be set up and managed by the Information Technology department's security specialist. As the AD DS administrator, how can you best give this capability to the security specialist?
Use the delegate control feature to give her control of the OUs that contain user accounts
1. The small company where you work needs to implement a second server for its accounting systems, but does not have the funds to purchase another computer until next year. Which of the following is a solution?
Use virtualization
1. Which of the following server operating systems can be used when the domains in Windows Server 2016 Active Directory are set at the Windows Server 2012 domain functional level? (Choose all that apply.)
Windows Server 2012 R2 and d. Windows Server 2016
1. You need to create an answer file for unattended installations of Windows Server 2016. Which of the following tools do you use and in what tool set is it found?
Windows System Image Manager, which is found in the Assessment and Deployment Kit
1. Which of the following are types of containers that can be used in Windows Server 2016?
Windows server containers and d. Hyper-V containers
1. You are attempting to configure auditing for a folder, but you don't see the Auditing tab. Which of the following is likely to be the problem?
You haven't enabled auditing as a group policy.
1. You are going to perform a Windows Server 2016 installation early in the morning before a meeting and decide to make yourself a checklist of things to do immediately before you start. Which of the following are on your checklist? (Choose all that apply.)
a. Disconnect any flash drives. b. Have on hand drivers for new peripherals in the computer. c. Use the test software disc that came with the computer to verify key hardware elements, such as the CPU. and d. Ensure that all necessary hardware, such as the NIC, is preinstalled
1. You have installed Windows Deployment Services and configured it to be integrated with Active Directory, but the installation does not properly work. Which of the following might be the problem? (Choose all that apply.)
a. No DHCP server is present on the network. and b. Active Directory is not installed on a network server
1. Which of the following are ACL-based object security techniques available in Windows Server 2016? (Choose all that apply.)
a. Ownership, c. Attributes, and d Auditing
1. A fellow programmer has set up a shared folder of programs he is working on, but the problem is that several users have discovered the folder and have been trying out the programs. What steps can the programmer take to ensure that only he can view and access the folder? (Choose all that apply.)
a. Use permissions to secure the shared folder. and c. Place a dollar sign after the name of the shared folder to hide it
1. Your colleague is trying to upgrade from Windows Server 2016, Datacenter Edition to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition, but the Setup program won't allow the upgrade. Which of the following is the problem?
a. You must first install the most recent service pack in Windows Server 2016 and then upgrade to Windows Server 2012, Datacenter Edition.
1. Which of the following are required attributes for a user account? (Choose all that apply.)
a. domain, b. user's full name, c. password, and d. logon name
1. Which of the following can be installed using the Add a device option? (Choose all that apply.)
a. optical drive, b. keyboard, c. monitor, and d. disk drive
1. The list of security descriptors associated with a user account in Active Directory is called a(n) _________
access control list
1. Which of the following is required to configure DFS Replication? (Choose all that apply.)
c. Determine which server is the primary group member., and d. Define two or more folder targets.
Your IT manager wants you to set up three computers to appear to users as one powerful Windows Server 2016 server. What capability in Windows Server 2016 accomplishes this?
clustering
1. Your school has a parent object named straton.edu and the child object names stratonalum.org and studentarts.org. What kind of namespace is this?
disjointed
Using the example in Question 1, what Active Directory capability can you use to establish different account lockout policies for each of the four department
fine-grained password policies
1. The __________ cmdlet in Windows PowerShell is used to view which processes are running on a server
get-process
1. You are working in PowerShell and receive a call that users cannot use the print services through the server. What command can you run to quickly determine services that are running or are stopped?
get-service
1. A _____ is a unique number associated with each object in AD DS.
globally unique identifier (GUID)
1. The ability in NTFS to create one file and then set up links to that file in other folders is called a __________.
hard link
1. The Accounting Department in your company, particularly the head accountant, is concerned that if there is a power failure important accounting data may be lost on the department's new Windows Server 2016 server. Even though you regularly back up the server the concern is that it could go down when a backup has not been done. What feature(s) of NTFS in Windows Server 2016 can be used to help address this concern? (Choose all that apply.)
journaling
1. You work as the network administrator for an advertising company. While you are visiting on the top floor of the company's building, a server user sends you a text message that she cannot access the company's server. Since you are several floors away from the computer room, which of the following commands can you quickly use from a top-floor user's Windows 10 computer to test connectivity to the server?
pathping
Your company is working to save costs by conserving the power consumption of its servers. Which of the following default power plans should you select for Windows Server 2016 servers?
power saver
1. When you are at the Server Core command-prompt you want to run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet. The command you type to go into Windows PowerShell is __________ and after you type it the command line starts with the two characters __________ to show that you are in the Windows PowerShell mode.
powershell; PS
1. Which of the following are actions performed by the global catalog? (Choose all that apply.)
provides lookup and access to all resources in all domains and d. authenticates users when they sign on
1. If Sara Weng belongs to one group that has modify permissions to the Research folder and to another group that only has read permissions to the Research folder, what access does she have?
read
Your server has a virus with elements of the virus embedded in the Registry. The virus checker has located these elements, but cannot delete them. What tool can you use to delete these virus elements in the Registry?
regedit
1. A set of shared folders copied in DFS to one or more servers is called a _____.
replication group
1. You have installed Server Core and want to change the name of the server as your first task. The command-prompt command you can use is __________.
sconfig
1. A local security group is used on a ________ server.
stand-alone
1. What are the two DFS models?
stand-alone and domain-based
1. A site reflects interconnected _____ and is used for DC _____.
subnets, replication
1. A _____ variable is defined by the operating system and is applied to every user when signed in.
system environment
1. Before you can share a folder through Windows Server 2016, you must first _______
turn on file and printer sharing
1. Your company has salespeople who use Apple iPad tablet computers for travel. These salespeople need a way to use company files offline while traveling and then to synchronize the files on a server when they return. What Windows Server 2016 capability meets this need?
work folder
