System Center Configuration Manager Assessement 1 Flashcards
- List out the various types of sites available in SCCM?
- Primary site
- Central Administration site
- Secondary site
- Define Central Administration Site (CAS)?
The central administration site is at the top tier of the hierarchy. You can deploy a central administration site to expand a stand-alone primary site into a multisite hierarchy. The central administration site enables centralized reporting and management of certain hierarchy-wide roles, but does not directly support any clients
- Difference between Primary site and Secondary site?
Primary Site Secondary Site
Primary sites can be used to manage clients in well-connected networks. Secondary sites control content distribution for clients in remote locations across links that have limited network bandwidth
Primary site can Managed directly through Configuration Manager console installed on site server You manage a
secondary site from a central administration site or the secondary site’s direct parent primary site
A primary site can be a stand-alone primary site or a child primary site in a larger hierarchy Secondary sites must be attached to a primary site
Primary sites are responsible for processing all client data from their assigned clients Clients cannot assign the site directly.
- Define Child site in SCCM?
A child site can be a primary site of a CAS or a secondary site of a primary site.
Central administration site with one or more child primary sites
Use this topology when you require more than one primary site to support management of all your devices and users
Primary site with one or more child primary sites
Use secondary sites to manage the transfer of deployment content and client data across low-bandwidth networks.
- Mention various client deployments methods?
Client push installation
Group Policy installation
Manual installation
Software update point based installation
OS deployment
Image deployment
Upgrade installation
Logon script installation
- Mention some of the important site system roles in SCCM?
Distribution point
Fallback status point
Management point
PXE service point
Reporting point
Server locator point
Software update point
State migration point
- Define the SCCM console?
SCCM console is a tool used to perform several tasks such as device management, network, and application deployment.
- Mention the types of Discovery methods that are available in SCCM?
Active Directory System Discovery
Active Directory Security Group Discovery
Active Directory User Discovery
Network Discovery
Forest Discovery
Heartbeat Discovery
- What is Boundaries in the SCCM console, and what are the types of boundaries in SCCM?
A site boundary is a network location that contains one or more devices you want to manage or resources you want to provide to clients.
The different types of boundaries in SCCM are:
IP Subnet
IP Ranges
IPv6 Prefix
Active Directory Site
- Define Active Directory forest discovery?
The Active Directory Forest Discovery method is a way that Configuration Manager automatically discovers IP subnets and Active Directory sites based on information in AD DS.
- Define limiting collection?
When you create a new collection, you specify a base collection called a limiting collection. The limiting collection becomes the foundation for resources that can be added to the new collection. You can use limiting collections along with role-based access control to help ensure that delegated administrators can see only the objects that are relevant for their administrative tasks
- Define inventory in SCCM?
Its a feature that maintain a record of your organization’s hardware and software
- Define client policy?
A client policy contains settings that the configuration manager clients download A client policy contains settings such as: Software and hardware inventory settings, remote control settings, power managment settings etc….
- What is the Secondary site?
A secondary site enables you to manage the traffic between the primary site and the
secondary site
- Define DDR?
When Configuration Manager discovers resources, it creates discovery data records (DDRs) that it submits to the Configuration Manager database. Each generated file has a .ddr extension, and the specific information that each record contains varies depending on the resource that Configuration Manager discovered and the discovery method it used. Records can include data such as:
The NetBIOS name of a computer.
The IP address and IP subnet of a computer or device.
The operating system name and version.
The media access control (MAC) address