Configuration Manager Assessment 2

Question 1

Question: What functionality does System Center Configuration Manager provide?

Answer 1

Answer: System Center Configuration Manager provides asset and compliance management, automated deployment, and protection for managed clients. It also provides integrated reporting and monitoring.

Question 2

Question: What factors affect your hierarchy’s design? If your hierarchy has been planned already, what factors did you use to determine the plan?

Answer 2

Answer: The number of locations, the number of client systems that you plan to manage, and the reliability and availability of bandwidth between locations.

Question 3

Question: How many central administration sites can you have in your hierarchy?

Answer 3

Answer: A hierarchy can have only one central administration site.

Question 4

Question: How many secondary sites can you place beneath a single primary site?

Answer 4

Answer: You can place more than one secondary site under a primary site, up to a maximum of 250 secondary sites per primary.

Question 5

Question: Where would you find the node for managing collections?

Answer 5

Answer: Collections are contained in the Assets and Compliance workspace.

Question 6

Question: When would you use a local search?

Answer 6

Answer: To find a single or related group of devices inside a collection for example

Question 7

Question: What is the benefit of saving a search?

Answer 7

Answer: When you conduct a complex search, you might want to save the results if you intend to refer to them frequently. In such cases, you do not have to recreate the search each time.

Question 8

Question: Where is the first place that you would look for help with resolution if you experience an issue with Configuration Manager?

Answer 8

Answer: Status messages can provide a great deal of information for troubleshooting problems.

Question 9

Question: Can you use the Configuration Manager Trace Log Tool to view log files from other products?

Answer 9

Answer: Yes. The Configuration Manager Trace Log Tool will open any text-based log files, and it enables you to examine them.

Question 10

Question: What is the difference between Site Status messages and Component Status messages?

Answer 10

Answer: Site Status messages include all the status messages related to a particular role, which would include the status messages from all the components that are involved. Component Status messages contain only the status messages for that component.

Question 11

Question: Why were some of the components in a stopped state?

Answer 11

Answer: Some components, such as the site backup, run only when they have work to perform.

Question 12

Question: Why were there so many more entries between the milestones in the log file and the same milestones in the status messages?

Answer 12

Answer: Status messages generate only for significant events, such as milestones and errors, while the log files record every event that occurs, including milestones and errors.

Question 13

Question: When would you use a secondary site?

Answer 13

Answer: One possible answer is that you would use a secondary site for a remote location with low bandwidth.

Question 14

Question: In which workspace can you find the controls for adding a site system role to a site server?

Answer 14

Answer: You can find the controls for adding a site system role to a site server in the Administration workspace in the Site Configuration folder, under the Servers and Site Systems node.

Question 15

Question: Which tool would you use to determine whether a deployment completed successfully to all targets?

Answer 15

Answer: One possible answer is that you would use status message queries.

Question 16

Question: What is the difference between status messages and log files?

Answer 16

Answer: Status messages are milestones that record significant events during a particular process, whereas log files record detailed events continuously throughout the time that a process runs.

Question 17

Question: Why should you not disable Heartbeat Discovery?

Answer 17

Answer: Heartbeat Discovery ensures that resource records do not age out of the Configuration Manager database accidentally.

Question 18

Question: How is Heartbeat Discovery different from all other discovery methods?

Answer 18

Answer: Heartbeat Discovery is enabled by default, and it does not create new client records. You use it to ensure that resources are not deleted accidently from the site database.

Question 19

Question: You notice that the All User Groups built-in collection lists no members, even though you want this collection to be populated. What should you do?

Answer 19

Answer: Verify that you have enabled and run the Active Directory Group Discovery method.

Question 20

Question: Which discovery method will create IP subnet boundaries automatically when it discovers them?

Answer 20

Answer: Active Directory Forest Discovery will create IP subnet boundaries automatically when it discovers them.

Question 21

Question: You have created a boundary group and have added several boundaries. However, you notice that clients within the boundaries are not being installed. What should you do?

Answer 21

Answer: You have to configure the boundary group to provide site assignment by selecting the Use this boundary group for site assignment check box.

Question 22

Question: You need to create a collection that includes a static list of members. Which rule type should you use?

Answer 22

Answer: You should use the Direct rule to create a static list of members in a collection.

Question 23

Question: You need to create a collection with workstations that do not have Microsoft Office installed. How can you accomplish this?

Answer 23

Answer: You can create a collection that includes all workstations that have Microsoft Office installed. Then, create a second collection that is based upon All Desktop and Server clients, but that excludes the collection that contains the workstations with Microsoft Office installed.

Question 24

Question: What is the purpose of the Heartbeat Discovery method?

Answer 24

Answer: The Heartbeat Discovery method is a client-side process that you can use to refresh the discovery data for a Configuration Manager client.

Question 25

Question: You change an attribute on an Active Directory user object. You expect that delta discovery should identify the change within five minutes. However, delta discovery does not discover the change. What might be the problem?

Answer 25

Answer: The attribute that you changed is not a replicated attribute. Delta discovery will discover only replicated Active Directory attribute changes. However, when the full discovery cycle takes place, delta discovery will discover this change.

Question 26

Question: Active Directory System Discovery does not discover several computer resources. You verify that the computer accounts are in AD DS. What else should you check?

Answer 26

Answer: You should verify that the computer accounts are not disabled, and that each computer account has a corresponding DNS record that is registered and resolvable on the DNS server.

Question 27

Question: Which two critical services do boundary groups provide?

Answer 27

Answer: You can use boundary groups for site assignment and content-location services.

Question 28

Question: Which executable determines the location of the source files, and downloads them to begin the installation process for the Configuration Manager client agent?

Answer 28

Answer: CCMSetup.exe determines the location of the source files, and downloads them for use when installing the Configuration Manager client agent.

Question 29

Question: What are the differences between the site configuration for client push installation and the Client Push Installation Wizard?

Answer 29

Answer: The site configuration for client push installation installs the Configuration Manager client agent automatically on systems when they are assigned to the site. Conversely, you can use the Client Push Installation wizard to push the client onto systems on your schedule.

Question 30

Question: What are some of the benefits of using the software update-point installation method?

Answer 30

Answer: Answers will vary, but may include: * Allows you to install the Configuration Manager client agent when the logged-on user does not have administrator rights. * Allows you to install the Configuration Manager client agent when there is a firewall in place and you do not want to create exemptions through the firewall. * Uses your existing WSUS infrastructure.

Question 31

Question: What rights does the client push-installation account require?

Answer 31

Answer: It requires administrative rights on the machine on which the installation is running.

Question 32

Question: What would happen if you did not install a fallback status point?

Answer 32

Answer: You may not receive important state messages from clients that are having difficulties, and installation reports would not have any useful information.

Question 33

Question: When would you need to block a device?

Answer 33

Answer: If someone steals a laptop or mobile device, or the user loses them for example

Question 34

Question: Why would you want to assign multiple client device settings to a collection?

Answer 34

Answer: You would assign multiple client device settings to a collection because you can create different client device-settings objects for separate Configuration Manager feature sets. For instance, you may have a client device-settings object for software deployment and another client device-settings object for hardware inventory.

Question 35

Question: When deploying a stand-alone Configuration Manager site in a large organization, how can you support remote offices? ( ) Option 1: Deploy secondary sites in the larger remote locations. ( )Option 2: Deploy additional primary sites in the larger remote locations. ( ) Option 3: Deploy management points and distribution points in the smaller remote locations. ( )Option 4: Deploy a central administration site in the headquarters location and a single site for all the remote locations. ( )Option 5: Deploy a Service Connection point in each location to provide the local users with services.

Answer 35

( ) Option 3: Deploy management points and distribution points in the smaller remote locations. ( ) Option 1: Deploy secondary sites in the larger remote locations.

Question 36

Question: What is the difference between a WQL query and an SQL query?

Answer 36

Answer: WMI Query Language (WQL) is based on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)—Microsoft’s implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)—which is a standard technology for accessing management information. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a special purpose programming language used to manage databases. While WQL has some similarities to SQL, WQL cannot be used to query a database directly.

Question 37

Question: How else could you have built the query to return both the Sales users and the Research users?

Answer 37

Answer: You could use multiple single group fields like you did for marketing and join them together with an OR. If you use the AND operator, it would return only users who are in both groups. To find the users in either group, you use the OR operator.

Question 38

Question: Why would you import an existing query to create a new query?

Answer 38

Answer: It is easier to modify an existing query than to build a new query.

Question 39

Question: You can assign client devices either to a secondary site or to a central administration site. ( )True ( )False

Answer 39

( )False

Question 40

Question: What is the simplest way of verifying that the Configuration Manager client is installed?

Answer 40

Answer: Open Control Panel and verify if the Configuration Manager client displays as an item.

Question 41

Question : How can you quickly verify that a custom setting has been applied to a client?

Answer 41

Answer: You can review clients in client settings to determine if the setting has been applied.

Question 42

Question: How can you determine the order in which client device settings apply when a device is subject to multiple conflicting device settings?

Answer 42

Answer: You can use the Resultant Client Settings functionality in the Configuration Manager console to determine the resultant client settings when multiple client settings are applied.