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How do you open the charms panel using the touch screen UI?
Swipe from the Right edge of the screen.
How do you show open apps using the touch screen UI?
Swipe from the Left edge of the screen.
How do you show commands for the active element in the touch screen UI?
Swipe from the top or bottom edge of the screen.
How do you do a right click simulation in the touch screen UI?
Press an element and hold your finger there a few seconds.
How do you do a left click simulation in the touch screen UI?
Tap an item.
What is the Windows Server 2012 Kernel called
NT 6.2 kernel
Are there performance impacts for doing an incremental roll out of Windows Server 2012, for instance adding Windows Server 2012 File and Service Storage but not uprading the existing servers?
Not really. There is little or no impact to the network.
Can you get a Windows Server 2012 installation in 32 bit form?
No. 64 bit only.
What does DLL stand for
Dynamic Link Libraries
What does COM stand for?
Component Object Model
Can 32 bit processes load 64 bit DLLs and vice versa
No.
What does WOW64 stand for
Windows on Windows 64. It is a subsystem called the X86 emulation layer which creates an evironment which allows 32 bit applications to run on 64 bit hardware and it segregates the 64 bit and 32 bit processes for pruposes of registry and file system integrity while allowing communication between 64 and 32 bit apps for things like copy and paste.
What are the four main product editions?
Windows Server 2012 Foundation
Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Windows Server 2012 Standard
Windows Server 2012 Data Center
What does OEM stand for?
Original Equipment Manufacturers
What are the characteristics of Windows Server 2012 Foundation?
1 Physical Processer 1 Physical Environment No Virtual Environments Up to 15 Users No CAL needed for users.
What does CAL stand for?
Client Access License. In larger implementations, one CAL is required for every user or device accessing the server.
What are the characteristics of Windows Server 2012 Essentials?
Up to 2 Physical processors Up to 25 users 1 Physical environment No Virtual Environments. No CAL needed for users.
What are the characteristics of Windows Server 2012 Standard?
Up to 64 Physical processors although you must have 1 Standard license for every 2 processors
1 Physical environment
Up to 2 Virtual Environments although you can add more virtual environments by adding more Standard edition licenses.
CAL needed for all users.
What are the characteristics of Windows Server 2012 Datacenter?
Up to 64 Physical processors although you must have 1 Standard license for every 2 processors
1 Physical environment
Unlimited Virtual environments
CAL needed for all users
What technology do you use to implement VMs?
Hyper-V
Can you run different operating systems on the same server?
Yes when you put the different OS’s on different VMs.
How many logical processors do you get without Hyper-V enabled?
640
How many logical processors do you get with Hyper-V enabled?
320
How many VMs can you run on a server?
Depends on hardware config an workload.
Can memory allocated to a specific VM be used by other VMs on the server?
No
What is TCO?
Total Cost of Ownership
What operating systems support Remote Server Administration tools?
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8 Enterprise
Is Automatic Updates configured by default?
It’s installed by default but not enabled. Enable it from Windows Update utility in the Control Panel.
What does TPM stand for?
Trusted Platform Module
What is Bitlocker Drive Encryption?
It protects hard disks from attackers who have physical access to the server.
How do you configure BitLocker Drive Encryption?
You add the feature using the Add Roles and Features Wizard. You manage it using the BitLocker Drive Encryption utility in the Control Panel.
What is the Remote Assistance feature?
It allows one admin to remotely view and contol the desktop of another admin on request for solving problems.
How do you configure Remote Assistance?
You add the feature using the Add Roles and Features Wizard. You manage it using the Remote tab of the System Properties dialog box
What is the Remote Desktop feature?
It allows you to log into a sever from a different computer.
Is Remote Desktop configured by default?
It’s installed by default but not enabled. You can configure options in the Remote tab of the System Properties dialog box.
What is the Task Scheduler?
Allows you to schedule one time or recurring tasks.
Where do you go to work with the Task Scheduler?
Computer Management
What is Desktop Experience functionaliy?
Installs Windows 8 Desktop functionality on a server. For example: Windows Media Player, Disk Cleanup, and Sound Recorder. This can harm server performance though.
What two firewall options are available?
Windows Firewall
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
Is Windows Firewall configured by default?
It’s installed but not enabled.
What is Windows Time?
Sychronizes system time with world time.
How do you ensure all servers on a network are sychronized?
If you’re on a domain, sync your server to the domain controller using a Group Policy
In a workgroup, use Internet Timeservers and manage the feature through the Date and Time utility.
How do you enable Wireless LAN Service?
Using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.
If you’re struggling to upgrade to Microsoft Server 2012, where might you go for help?
The operating system deployment kit often has project worksheets that might help.
What is a “site” in the context of Active Directory replication?
A segment of the network with good connectivity consisting of one or more IP subnets.
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
What does RAM stand for?
Random access memory
What tools does Microsoft have for hardware inventory assessment?
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM
What geography based consideration may cause and upgrade to Windows Server 2012 to fail?
Servers with different localization settings.
What does DFS stand for?
Distributed File Systems
What does BIOS stand for?
Network Basic Input/Output
What does WINS stand for?
Windows Internet Naming Service
What does PKI stand for?
Public Key Infrastructure
What does NTLM stand for?
NT Lan Manager. It’s a Microsoft Authentication technology that has since been replaced by Kerberos but is sometimes still used when a server isn’t part of a network.
What is Kerberos
It’s a technology that allows clients and servers to authenticate to eachother. It has largely replaced NTLM
What is the default authentication level on Windows Server 2012
Kerberos–This because Windows Server 2003 is the minimum forest and domain functional level supported and it defaults to Kerberos. If upgrading from a server older than that, make sure your apps aren’t dependant on NTLM or make sure you configure NTLM. It’s supported but not the default authentication mechanism.
What does WAN stand for?
Wide area network. It extends across regions, states, or even nations.
What does RO DNS stand for?
Read Only DNS zones
What does LAN stand for?
Local area network. This kind of network connects computers in an office, or home, or building.
What does RODC stand for?
Read Only Domain Controller
What does LLMNR stand for?
Link Local Multicast Name Resolution. It allows IPV4 and IPV6 hosts to perform name resolution for hosts on the same local link.
Why might some services not work after an upgrade to Windows Server 2012
Security is tighter on 2012 so some services that used to be started by default are now first disabled when installed.
What does WSUS stand for?
Windows Server Update Services. This will allow an admin to automatically scan and download updates to a centralized server. Group policy can then be configured to make client computers get automatic updates from WSUS for existing servers and admins doing installs can point to this server to get the most recent install files. WSUS is available as a service and as an installable role
Is ZIP incorporated into the Windows Server 2012 OS?
Yes when you put the different OS’s on different VMs.
What does DHCP stand for?
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
What are the different kinds of roles that servers can play?
Domain Controller DNS Server DHCP Server WINS Server Network Policy and Access Services Hyper-V Server Application Server File and Storage Services Server Print and Document Services Server Remote Desktop Services Server Web Server
What is a Domain Controller
A server that responds to authentication requests for a domain (ex. User logins, checking permissions, etc.)
How does a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) differ from a Secondary Domain Controller (SDC)?
The secondary can process authentication requests, but only the Primary can process changes to authentication keys (ex. Password changes). A Secondary can be promoted to Primary if the Primary is permanently offline.
What is another name for Secondary Domain Controller?
RODC (Read Only Domain Controller)
What does DNSSEC stand for?
Secure DNS
What is a namespace?
It’s the root of the url. So in www.example.com, example.com would be the namespace.
What does a DHCP server do?
It accepts requests from clients and assigns IP addresses to the client from a range of available IP addresses allocated by an administrator. The IP will expire in a given time period and the client is responsible for renewing their IP before the expiration. DHCP servers can also give out default route instructions and other configuration information to clients upon request.
What are the three ways that DNS information can be stored on a DNS Server?
Traditional Zone Files
Active Directory-integrated Zones
Aplication Partitions
What does a WINS Server do?
Translates NetBIOS Names to IP addresses much like a DNS Server translates host names to IP addresses.
What do Network Policy and Access Services do?
Provide protection, routing, and remote-access services for remote users to the network.
What would you use a Hyper-V server for?
To allow many phyical servers to be relpaced with a few very powerful physical servers that host many virtual servers.
What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What changes in Windows Server 2012 in relation to Printers?
Printers can be published in Active Directory and controlled further through Group Policy.
What would you do with a remote destop services server?
You’d use it to host remote desktop sessions by combining the service with Hyper-V.
Can one server have multiple server roles?
Yes absolutely. A webserver and an app server could be the same box.
What must you do before you can start installing Active Directory?
Configure your DNS domain structure. AD domains are based on DNS domains.
What is another name for location services?
Name Resolution Services
What is an Active Directory forrest root?
It’s the first domain installed in an active directory forrest.
What does OU stand for?
Organizational Unit. These are container inside of AD Domains. They can contain related users, groups, computers, or other OUs.
What are domain trusts?
They allow automatic authentication and access to resources across domains and automatically configure each domain to trust all other domains in their tree and forrest.
What can make authentication requests on a domain go faster?
Having an “explicit trust relationship” This allows authentication queries to got directly to the domain in question rather than having to search the domain tree or forrest to locate the domain in which to authenticate a user.
If an AD domain is running in Windows Server 2003 mode, will it support a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller?
Yes. It will support any domain controller that is Windows Server 2003 and later, however only features available in Windows Server 2003 will be supported. The same is true for each of the different modes (ex. 2008, 2008R2, 2012)
Can you reverse upgrades to the AD domain functional level?
No. Changes are one way.
What are the Active Directory Server roles?
Operations Masters Forest-Level Operations Masters Domain-Level Operations Masters Global Catalogs Bridgehead Servers
What does an Active Directory Operations Master server do?
Stores the instructions of a specific type of operation and ensures that the rest of the organization has a single point to pull these instructions from.
What does a schema master server do?
Stores the Schema Master and enforces schema consistency throughout the organization. Changes to the schema can only be made on that server and if that server is down, no changes can be made.
What does the domain naming master control?
It controlls domain creation and deletion guaranteeing that each domain is unique within the forrest. This is an example of a forrest level operation master.
What does RID stand for?
Relative Identifier. It is a numeric string used to construct SIDs for security principals.
What does the RID master do?
Manages the pool of RIDs.
What does an infrastructure master do?
Handles user-to-group mappings, changes in group membership, and repication of those changes to other domain controllers. This is an example of a domain level operations master.
What does the PDC emulator do?
Processes password changes and replicates the changes to other domain controllers. It resets and verifies external trusts.
What is a global catalog?
An index of AD objects used by network clients to locate the objects. It also provides membership information for universal groups.
What is an alternative to having one Global Catalog per site (which is typically necessary due to the need for the Global Catalog to be highly available for logins)?
Having a Windows Server 2003 or later domain controller with universal group caching enabled.
What does a Bridgehead server do?
Manages intersite replication over low-bandwidth WAN links.
How many Bridgehead servers are usually needed for each domain?
At least one (sometimes more) per Site on the Domain.
