MCSA: Microsoft 70-410 Flashcards
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Which Windows Server 2012 storage feature allows you to create a logical pool of storage from multiple physical disks and provision virtual disks with resiliency?
Answer: Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces pools physical disks into storage pools and creates virtual disks with resiliency options like mirroring or parity.
A Windows Server 2012 administrator needs to audit all failed logon attempts on a domain controller. Which Group Policy setting should be configured?
Answer: Account Logon Events - Failure
Auditing Account Logon Events tracks authentication attempts processed by domain controllers, capturing failed logon events.
You want to configure a Windows Server 2012 server as an iSCSI target. Which feature must be installed?
Answer: File Server role with iSCSI Target Server role service
The iSCSI Target Server role service (part of the File and Storage Services role) enables a Windows Server 2012 machine to act as an iSCSI target.
When installing Windows Server 2012 Core edition, which interface is available by default after installation completes?
Answer: Command prompt (cmd.exe)
Server Core provides only a command prompt by default; administrators use cmd.exe and PowerShell for management.
An administrator needs to configure a Windows Server 2012 DNS server to forward all unresolvable queries to an ISP's DNS server. Where should this be configured?
Answer: Server properties - Forwarders tab
Global forwarders are configured on the DNS server's properties (not individual zones) under the Forwarders tab.
Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows administrators to deploy and manage updates to servers that cannot access the internet directly?
Answer: Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
WSUS acts as a local update server, downloading updates from Microsoft and distributing them to internal servers without requiring internet access on each server.
A Windows Server 2012 administrator runs Get-Disk in PowerShell and sees a disk with OperationalStatus 'Offline'. Which cmdlet brings the disk online?
Answer: Set-Disk -Number 1 -IsOffline $false
Set-Disk with -IsOffline $false brings an offline disk online without initializing or formatting it.