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Which Windows Server 2012 feature allows you to deploy virtual hard disks (VHDs) as the operating system volume on physical computers?
Answer: Boot from VHD
Boot from VHD allows Windows Server 2012 to boot natively from a .vhd or .vhdx file stored on a physical disk.
An administrator needs to monitor real-time CPU, memory, and network utilization across multiple servers from a single console. Which tool is best suited for this in Windows Server 2012?
Answer: Server Manager Dashboard
Server Manager Dashboard in Windows Server 2012 provides centralized monitoring of multiple servers including their event logs, services, and performance data.
What is the purpose of the Windows Server 2012 feature called 'NIC Teaming'?
Answer: To combine multiple network adapters for bandwidth aggregation and failover
NIC Teaming (LBFO) combines multiple physical NICs into a single logical interface for increased throughput and fault tolerance.
Which cmdlet would you use in Windows PowerShell to install the DNS Server role on Windows Server 2012?
Answer: Install-WindowsFeature -Name DNS
The Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet with the -Name parameter is the correct PowerShell command to install server roles in Windows Server 2012.
A company wants to use Windows Server 2012 to provide centralized storage that appears as local disks to multiple servers over a network. Which technology should they implement?
Answer: iSCSI Target Server
iSCSI Target Server in Windows Server 2012 presents storage over TCP/IP networks as block-level devices that clients mount as local disks.
What does the 'Desired State Configuration' (DSC) feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 PowerShell primarily enable?
Answer: Declaratively defining and enforcing server configuration state
DSC allows administrators to define the desired configuration of a system declaratively and PowerShell enforces that state automatically.
Which Windows Server 2012 licensing model ties each license to the number of processor cores rather than processor sockets?
Answer: Per-core licensing
Windows Server 2012 introduced per-core licensing, requiring a minimum of 8 core licenses per processor and 16 per server.