Chapter 2 - Implement Storage Solutions Flashcards
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a Windows Server 2016 server named Server1. The server contains a storage pool named Pool1. Pool1 contains five physical disks named Disk1, Disk2, Disk3, Disk4, and Disk5. A virtual disk named VD1 is stored in Pool1. VD1 uses the parity storage layout. Which two commands should you run if you need to remove Disk3 after it fails from Pool1? (Choose two.)
A. Remove-PhysicalDisk-FriendlyName Disk3
B. Update-StoragePool-FriendlyName Pool1
C. Reset-PhysicalDisk-FriendlyName Disk3
D. Set-PhysicalDisk-FriendlyName Disk3-Usage Retired
E. Set-ResiliencySetting-StoragePool Pool1-PhysicalDiskRedundancyDefault 4
A, E. The Remove-PhysicalDisk cmdlet removes a physical disk from a specified storage pool. The Set-ResiliencySetting cmdlet modifies the properties of the specified resil- iency setting name.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have been asked to configure the company’s Windows Server 2016 domain controller. Company policy requires that all new computer accounts be placed in the General OU whenever computers join the domain. What command should you use to accomplish this? A. Dsmove B. Netdom C. Redircmp D. None of these
C. The Redircmp command is used to redirect the default OU of a newly created object such as a user to another OU.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have two Windows Server 2016 servers named Server1 and Server2. Server1 contains a volume named Volume1. You decide to implement a Storage Replica that replicates the contents of Volume1 from Server1 and Server2. One day, Server1 fails. You need to ensure that you can access the contents of Volume1. What command/cmdlet should you run from Server2?
A. Set-SRPartnership
B. Update-StoragePool
C. vssadmin revert shadow D. Clear-FileStorageTier
A. The Set-SRPartnership command modifies a replication partnership between two rep- lication groups. You can use this cmdlet to add replicated volumes, and you can also change the direction of replication that makes a source volume into a destination volume
You are the administrator for your company network. You and a colleague are discuss- ing Windows Server 2016 platforms. The Windows Server 2016 platform can support two main filesystems. What are they? (Choose two.)
A. File Allocation Table (FAT)
B. File Allocation Table 32 (FAT32) C. Windows NT File System (NTFS) D. Resilient File System (ReFS)
C and D. The Windows Server 2016 platform supports two main filesystems: Windows NT File System (NTFS) and Resilient File System (ReFS). Although ReFS was new to Windows Server 2012, NTFS has been around for many years, and NTFS in Windows Server 2016 has been improved for better performance.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a Windows Server 2016 server named Server1. Server1 has four SCSI disks and a storage pool named Pool1 that contains three disks. You create a virtual disk named VDisk1 that uses a mirrored layout.
You create a partition named Partition1 that uses all of the available space on VDisk1. You
want to extend Partition1. What should you do first?
A. Run the Expand-IscsiVirtualDisk cmdlet from Windows PowerShell. B. Run the Resize-VirtualDisk cmdlet from Windows PowerShell.
C. Extend the volume from Disk Management.
D. Modify the properties of Partition1 from Disk Management.
B. The Resize-VirtualDisk cmdlet resizes an existing virtual disk to be larger or smaller. If there is a partition on the virtual disk, then the partition must also be resized in order for the client to have additional space on the disk
You are the administrator for your company network. You have two Windows Server 2016 servers named Server1 and Server2. You plan to implement Storage Replica to rep- licate the contents of volumes on Server1 to Server2. What cmdlet should you run if you need to ensure that the replication traffic between the servers is limited to a maximum of 100 Mbps?
A. Set-NetUDPSetting
B. New-StorageQosPolicy C. Set-SmbBandwidthLimit D. Set-NetTCPSetting
C. The Set-SmbBandwidthLimit cmdlet adds a Server Message Block (SMB) bandwidth cap for the traffic categories that you specify. SMB bandwidth caps limit the amount of data that the server can send for each traffic category
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a server and you want to provision a new volume that will be used to create large, fixed-size VHDX files. You want to minimize the amount of time required to create the VHDX files. What type of filesystem should you use on the new volume?
A. ReFS B. NTFS C. CVFS D. exFAT
A. ReFS has the fastest creation times for large, fixed-size VHDX files.
You are the administrator for your company network. The network contains an Active Directory domain. The domain contains a new file server named Server1 that runs a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2016. Server1 has an ReFS-formatted volume D: and NTFS-formatted volume E:. The volumes do not contain any data. You install the Data Deduplication role service on Server1. You want to implement Data Deduplication for vol- umes on D: and E:. What should you do?
A. From Windows PowerShell, run Format-Volume D: -FileSystem EXFat and Enable-DeDupVolume -Volume D:,E:
B. From Windows PowerShell, run Format-Volume E: -FileSystem ReFS and Enable-DeDupVolume -Volume D:,E:
C. From Windows PowerShell, run Enable-DeDupVolume-Volume D:,E:
D. From Windows PowerShell, run Enable-DeDupVolume-Volume E: D:
B. The Format-Volume cmdlet formats one or more existing volumes, or a new volume on an existing partition. This cmdlet returns the object representing the volume that was just formatted, with all properties updated to reflect the format operation. The Enable-DeDupVolume cmdlet enables data deduplication on one or more volumes.
You are the administrator for your company network. You are planning to install Active
Directory. What filesystem must you use in order to install Active Directory? A. ReFS
B. exFAT
C. FAT
D. NTFS
D. Although the features of the other filesystems will compel most system administrators to use NTFS, additional reasons make using it mandatory. The most important reason is that the Active Directory data store must reside on an NTFS partition.
You are the administrator for your company network. The network contains an Active Directory domain. The domain contains two servers named Server1 and Server2. Both serv- ers have the same hardware configuration. What should you do if you need to asynchro- nously replicate volume F: from Server1 to Server2?
A. Run New-SRPartnership and specify the –ReplicationMode parameter.
B. Install the Failover Clustering feature and create a new cluster resource group. C. Install the Failover Clustering feature and use Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). D. Run Set-DfsrServiceConfiguration and specify the –RPCPort parameter.
A. The New-SRPartnership cmdlet creates a replication partnership between two new
or existing replication groups. This cmdlet can create the complete replication topology. It can also tie together separately created replication groups. The -ReplicationMode switch specifies the desired mode of replication for this source and destination pair. The acceptable values for this parameter are:
■■ Synchronous or 1: The synchronous mode requires all writes to commit on the destina- tion server and on the source server, which guarantees data integrity between computers. This is the default value.
■■ Asynchronous or 2: The asynchronous mode writes to the source server without wait- ing for the destination server, which allows for replication over high-latency, geographic networks.
You are the administrator for your company network. You and a colleague are discussing the Master Boot Record (MBR). On the disk drive, a MBR has a partition table that indi- cates where the partitions are located. How big are volumes that are supported by a MBR?
A. 1 TB (1,024 GB) B. 2 TB (2,048 GB) C. 3 TB (3,072 GB) D. 4 TB (4,096 GB)
B. A MBR has a partition table that indicates where the partitions are located on the disk drive, and with this particular partition style, only volumes up to 2 TB (2,048 GB) are sup- ported. A MBR drive can have up to four primary partitions, or it can have three primary partitions and one extended partition that can be divided into unlimited logical drives.
You are the administrator for your company network and you have a Windows Server 2016 server. You install three additional physical disks named Disk1, Disk2, and Disk3. You want to use these physical disks to store data. You plan to create a volume to store data. What actions should you perform if you need to prevent data loss in the event of a single disk failure? (Choose three.)
A. Create a virtual disk.
B. Create a storage pool.
C. Create a new storage tier.
D. Create a volume.
E. Assign a single tier to a virtual disk.
F. Create a virtual disk clone.
A, B, and D.
Step 1: First you will want to create a storage pool. Specify which disks should be included
in the storage pool.
Step 2: After creating the storage pool, start creating a virtual disk for the pool you created. When the Storage Pool Wizard finishes, mark the Create A Virtual Disk option to create a virtual disk after this wizard. Select the storage pool to create a virtual disk. When shown in the New Virtual Disk Wizard, select the Storage Layout. Select Parity.
Step 3: After creating the virtual disk, create a volume with the New Volume Wizard. Use the volume you created earlier.
You are the administrator for the company network. You have client computers that run Windows Server 2016. Each computer has two hard drives. Which kind of dynamic volume should you create if you need to create a dynamic volume on each computer that will maxi- mize write performance and provide data fault tolerance? A. Striped volume B. RAID-5 volume C. Spanned volume D. Mirrored volume
D. A mirrored volume duplicates data across two disks. This type of volume is fault toler- ant because if one drive fails, the data on the other disk is unaffected.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a Windows Server 2016 server named Server1. The disks on Server1 are configured as shown in the following table:
Volume Type Filesystem Capability
C: Attached Locally NTFS 150 GB
D: Attached Locally exFAT 100 GB
E: Attached Locally NTFS 20 GB
F: Attached Locally ReFS 1 TB
G: iSCSI LUN NTFS 2 TB
Windows Server 2016 is installed in C:\Windows. You want to enable data deduplication. Which two volumes can you use for data deduplication? (Choose two.) A. C: B. D: C. E: D. F: E. G:
C, E. Data deduplication on volumes must meet the following requirements: The volume must not be a system or boot volume. Deduplication is not supported on operating system volumes. It can be partitioned as a master boot record (MBR) or a GUID Partition Table (GPT), and it must be formatted using the NTFS filesystem. It can reside on shared storage. It can’t be smaller than 2 GB or larger than 64 TB in size. It must be exposed to the operat- ing system as nonremovable drives. Remotely mapped drives are not supported. So, that leaves options C and E as acceptable drives to use for deduplication.
You are the administrator for your company network. You and a colleague are discussing using the convert command. What does the command convert d: /fs:ntfs do?
A. Formats drive D to FAT.
B. Converts drive D from NTFS to FAT. C. Converts drive D from FAT to NTFS. D. Scans drive D for errors.
C. If you want to convert an existing partition from FAT or FAT32 to NTFS, you must to use the convert command-line utility and insert the drive letter where d is in the com- mand.
You are the administrator for your company network. You want to remove the host from the iSNS server. What command should you use?
A. iscsicli addisnsserver
B. iscsicli removeisnsserver C. iscsicli refreshisnsserver D. iscsicli listisnsservers
B. The iscsicli removeisnsserver command removes the host from the iSNS server. The iscsicli addisnsserver command manually registers the host server to an iSNS server. Refreshisnsserver refreshes the list of available servers. Listisnsservers lists the available iSNS servers
You are the administrator for your company network. You want to register the iSCSI initia- tor manually to an iSNS server. What command should you use?
A. iscsicli addisnsserver
B. iscsicli removeisnsserver C. iscsicli refreshisnsserver D. iscsicli listisnsservers
A. The iscsicli addisnsserver command manually registers the host server to an
iSNS server. Refreshisnsserver refreshes the list of available servers. Removeisnsserver removes the host from the iSNS server. Listisnsservers lists the available iSNS servers.
You are the administrator for your company network. You are looking at using shared folder permissions. Which of the following are true regarding shared folder permissions? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Apply to files
B. Apply to folders
C. Apply locally to the data D. Apply remotely to the data
B and D. Shared folder permissions apply only across the network (remotely) and can only be placed on folders. NTFS permissions can apply locally and remotely, and NTFS can be placed on files or folders
You are the administrator for your company network. You are trying to determine what the default TCP port for iSCSI is. Which one is it?
A. 21
B. 1433 C. 3260 D. 3389
C. The iSCSI default port is TCP 3260. Port 21 is used for FTP. Port 1433 is used for Microsoft SQL, and port 3389 is used for RDP.
You are the administrator for your company network. Matt is a member of both the Human Resources and Marketing departments. There is a shared folder called Apps that everyone uses. Here are the current permissions on the Apps shared folder:
Group/User NTFS Shared
Sales Read Deny
Marketing Modify Full Control
R&D Read Read
HR Full Control Deny
Admin Full Control Change
What will Matt’s local and remote permissions be when he logs into the Apps folder? A. Local = Full Control and Remote = Deny
B. Local = Deny and Remote = Deny
C. Local = Full Control and Remote = Change
D. Local = Change and Remote = Read
A. Permissions are additive among themselves. This means you get the highest level of per- missions. But when the two permissions meet, the most restrictive set of permission applies. In this question, the NTFS side would be Full Control (this would be the local permission) and the shared permission would be Deny. But when the two permissions meet, the most restrictive, Deny, would apply
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a Windows Server 2016 computer that has a shared folder named C:\Sales. The shared folder is on an NTFS volume. The current NTFS and share permissions are configured as follows: User1 is a member of both the Everyone group and the Sales group. User1 must access C:\Sales from across the network. What permission should you set if you need to identify the effective permissions of User1 to the C:\Sales folder? A. Full Control B. Read and Execute C. Read D. Modify
D. User1 is a member of both the Everyone group and the Marketing group and must access C:\Sales from across the network. When accessing a file locally, you combine the NTFS permissions granted to your account either directly or by way of group membership. The “least” restrictive permission is then the permission that applies. In this question, the NTFS permission is the least restrictive of Read/Execute and Modify—so Modify is the effective permission.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016. You add a 1 TB hard drive and create a new volume that has the drive letter D. You format the drive by using NTFS. You need to limit the amount of space that each user can consume on D: to 200 GB. Members of the Administrators group should have no limit. What actions should you perform? (Choose three.)
A. Set a default quota limit.
B. Run convert D: /FS:NTFS.
C. Run fsutil quota violations D:.
D. Enable the Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit setting.
E. Add a quota entry.
A, C, and D. Fsutil quota manages disk quotas on NTFS volumes to provide more pre- cise control of network-based storage. The violations switch searches the system and application logs and displays a message to indicate that quota violations have been detected or that a user has reached a quota threshold or quota limit.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer that runs Windows Server 2016. You add three new 3 TB disks and you want to create a new 9 TB volume. What two actions should you perform? (Choose two.)
A. Create a new spanned volume using Disk Management.
B. Convert all of the 3 TB disks to GPT using Disk Management.
C. Run the New-VirtualDisk cmdlet using PowerShell.
D. Bring all the disks offline using Disk Management.
E. Run the convert MBR command using Diskpart.
F. Run the Add-PhysicalDisk cmdlet using PowerShell
A and B. A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on more than one physical disk. If a simple volume is not a system volume or boot volume, you can extend it across additional disks to create a spanned volume, or you can create a spanned volume in unallocated space on a dynamic disk. A GPT disk uses the GUID partition table (GPT) disk partitioning system.
You are the administrator of your company network. Your network contains a single
Active Directory domain. The domain contains two computers named Server1 and Server2. A user named User1 is a member of the local Administrators group on Server1 and Server2. User1 fails to remotely manage the devices on Server2 by using Device Manager on Server1. User1 can connect to Server2 remotely by using Computer Management. What do you need to do to ensure that User1 can disable a device on Server2 remotely?
A. On Server2, modify the Windows Firewall settings.
B. Enable Remote Desktop on Server2 and instruct User1 to use Remote Desktop.
C. On Server2, start the Plug and Play and Remote Registry services.
D. On Server2, enable the Allow remote access to the Plug and Play interface Group Policy setting.
A. You must enable the Remote Event Log Management exception in the Windows Firewall settings on the remote computer that you want to connect to.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer that runs Win- dows Server 2016. You install a second hard disk drive on the computer and create a new volume named E. What tool can you use to set up the new hard drive and volume? A. The wbadmin command B. The Settings app C. Computer Management D. The Set-Volume cmdlet
C. The Disk Management utility allows you to set up and create new hard drive volumes. Disk Management can be accessed directly or through Computer Management
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer named Com- puter1 that has a 1 TB volume named E. What tool should you use if you want to receive a notification when volume F has less than 100 GB of free space? A. Performance Monitor B. Disk Cleanup C. System Configuration D. Resource Monitor E. Event Viewer
A. The Microsoft Windows Performance Monitor is a tool that administrators can use to examine how programs running on their computers affect the computer’s performance. The tool can be used in real time and also be used to collect information in a log to analyze the data at a later time. With Performance Monitor, you can set up counter logs and alerts
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a Computer1 that runs Windows Server 2016. Computer1 has two volumes named C and D. Vol- ume C is formatted NTFS and volume D is formatted exFAT. What should you use if you need to ensure that you can recover files stored in D:\Data? A. System Restore points B. File History C. wbadmin.exe D. Backup and Restore
B. File History allows for easy automated backups of data and works with a number of devices on which data can be stored. File History continuously protects your personal files stored in libraries, desktop, favorites, and contacts folders. It periodically (every hour by default) scans the filesystem for changes and copies changed files to another location
You are the administrator for your company network. You have two computers named Computer1 and Computer2 that run Windows Server 2016. You create a provisioning pack- age named Package1 on Computer1. What file must be applied to Computer2 if you plan to apply the provisioning package to Computer2?
A. Package1.icdproj.xml B. Customizations.xml C. Package1.ppkg
D. Package1.cat
C. A provisioning package (.ppkg) is a container for a collection of configuration settings. An administrator can create provisioning packages that let them quickly and efficiently con- figure a device without having to install a new image.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer named Computer1 that has a virtual hard disk (VHD) named Disk1.vhdx. You plan to configure Computer1 for dual boot from Disk1.vhdx. You need to install Windows on Disk1.vhdx by using dism.exe. What should you run before you install Windows Server 2016? A. Add-Windows Image B. bcdboot.exe C. bcdedit.exe D. bootcfg.exe E. bootim.exe F. bootsect.exe G. diskpart.exe H. Expand-Windows Image
G. Diskpart is a command-line utility that configures and manages disks, volumes, and partitions on the host computer. It can also be used to script many of the storage manage- ment commands.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer named Computer1. Computer1 has a virtual hard disk (VHD) named Disk1.vhdx. Windows is installed on Disk1.vhdx. In File Explorer, Disk1.vhdx is visible as drive E. You need to configure Computer1 to start from VHDX. Hardware virtualization must not be available when Computer1 starts from VHDX. What should you run? A. Add-Windows Image B. bcdboot.exe C. bcdedit.exe D. bootcfg.exe E. bootim.exe F. bootsect.exe G. diskpart.exe H. Expand-Windows Image
B. BCDBoot is a command-line tool used to configure the boot files on a PC or device to run the Windows operating system. It enables you to quickly set up a system partition or repair the boot environment located on the system partition. The system partition is set up by copying a simple set of Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files to an existing empty partition.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a computer that runs Win- dows Server 2012 R2. You create a system image backup on the computer and then you upgrade to Windows Server 2016. You need to access a file from the backup. The solution must use the least amount of administrative effort. What should you do?
A. Add a drive from the Backup section of the Settings app.
B. Add a drive from the File History section of the Settings app.
C. Attach a VHD from the Computer Management console.
D. Restore the personal files from the File History Control Panel item.
C. A Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format that represents a virtual disk drive. A VHD can be used to store virtual disk data in files that can be easily transferred from one com- puter to another. It contains what is found on physical HDDs, such as the disk partition and filesystem. Once they are attached, you can treat them like physical disks and use them to store data. To attach the VHD, you use the Computer Management console.
You are the administrator for your company network. You are looking at the NTFS filesys- tem. What are some of the advantages to using NTFS? A. Compression B. Encryption C. Quotas D. Security E. All of the above
E. There are many advantages to using NTFS. Compression, encryption, quotas, and secu- rity are just a few of them
You are the administrator for your company network. You want to turn your FAT32 partition into an NTFS partition. What command-line utility should you use
A. upgrade
B. convert
C. change part D. Ntfsutil
B. The convert command is the command-line utility that allows a FAT or FAT32 parti- tion to be upgraded to NTFS. You can also use Disk Management to convert the disk.
You are the administrator for your company network. You have a virtual machine named VM1. VM1 uses a fixed size virtual hard disk (VHD) named Disk1.vhd. Disk1.vhd is 200 GB. You shut down VM1. What action should you use from the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard if you need to reduce the size of Disk1.vhd?
A. Merge
B. Compact C. Shrink D. Convert
D. In this question we have a fixed disk, so you would need to “convert” that first to Dynamic to be able to “compact” it later.