Administrative Tasks

Question 1

What’s a ‘task’ in SCCM?

Answer 1

Functional tasks that every SCCM admin will perform every day

Question 2

What are the 4 sub-tasks in SCCM?

Answer 2

1. Role-based Administration
2. Remote Management
3. In-console Updates
4. Monitoring

Question 3

What is Role-based administration in SCCM? How many of it are there in SCCM?

Answer 3

SCCM gives you 15 roles that you can assign to users depending on their qualification. Everybody will only be able to do what they are qualified or needed to do.

Question 4

What is Remote Management in SCCM?

Answer 4

It allows for the remote management of SCCM clients. Troubleshoot their devices both in terms of software and hardware.

Question 5

What are in-console updates in SCCM?

Answer 5

They are the automated method of finding and installing the recommended updates for your SCCM infrastructure

Question 6

When do we use Monitoring?

Answer 6

When we have to troubleshoot the SCCM infrastructure.
It’s the first place to go when we need troubleshooting.

Question 7

How many functions are there in Monitoring? Name a few of them!

Answer 7

In total, there are 22 functions in Monitoring

1. Client Health
2. Reporting
3. Queries
4. Alerts
5. Deployment

Question 8

What are Queries used for?

Answer 8

Queries are used to locate objects such as computers, group sites, collections applications, inventory data

Question 9

What do Alerts inform us about?

Answer 9

The health of our SCCM deployment. Malware.