Server Configuration and Management
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Course Introduction
Server Configuration and Management is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the foundational concepts and practical skills required to deploy, configure, secure, and maintain server environments. Covering both Windows and Linux platforms, this course guides learners through server installation, user and group management, network services, storage solutions, and remote access configurations. Emphasis is placed on system updates, backup strategies, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting common issues to ensure optimal server reliability and availability. By the end of the course, students will be able to implement best practices for server security, automate routine administrative tasks, and support enterprise-scale server infrastructures.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Windows Server 2008
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Q1) You can use ____ to deploy directory-enabled applications, without the dependencies that are required for AD DS.
A) Active Directory Federation Services
B) Active Directory Domain Services
C) Active Directory Certificate Services
D) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Answer: D
Q2) A ____ is a network of domains related to each other by relationships known as trusts.
A) Group Policy
B) DNS
C) forest
D) DHCP
Answer: C
Q3) Briefly discuss the purpose of the File Services role.
Answer: The File Services role allows you to share and manage file resources on a network. It includes technologies such as the distributed file system, EFS, and the core functionality of creating network file shares.
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Chapter 2: Installing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) ____ validates licensed software products by creating a unique installation ID based on a hashed hardware serial numbers and a product key.
A) SID
B) Generalization
C) Volume licensing
D) Product activation
Answer: D
Q2) The term ____ is used to describe instances of an operating system running in a software-based workspace provided by a virtualization application such as Hyper-V.
A) VM host
B) client access license
C) VM guests
D) multicast
Answer: C
Q3) You cannot upgrade from Windows Server 2003 (any edition) to Windows Server 2008 with Server Core.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Networking with Windows Server 2008
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Q1) Switches work at Layer 3 of the OSI model and forward frames between ports based on MAC addresses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) ____ should always be implemented with a client-based stateful firewall such as the Windows Firewall in Windows Server 2008.
A) 6to4
B) Teredo
C) NAT
D) ISATAP
Answer: B
Q3) ____ is the practice of designing, implementing, and managing a collection of computers and devices or a network.
A) Networking
B) Subnetting
C) Routing
D) Linking
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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Q1) In Active Directory ____________________, DHCP servers must be authorized before they can begin supplying IP addresses.
Q2) ____ provides automatic IP addressing for Windows clients.
A) DHCP
B) UDP
C) DNS
D) Ipconfig
Q3) DHCP is a Layer ____ protocol that uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP) datagrams for communication
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
Q4) The DHCP server provides its services by maintaining a database of client IP addresses.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the difference between server options and scope options in DHCP?
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Q6) The DHCP database is based on the ______________________________ storage engine.
Q7) What is the syntax for creating a DHCP exclusionary range with netsh?
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Chapter 5: Introduction to DNS in Windows Server 2008
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Q1) List the resource records contained in a stub zone for a zone.
Q2) FQDNs are created by appending the host name label of a computer to the DNS domain name, sometimes referred to as the DNS suffix, that contains the computer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Listed at the top of the zone file, the ____ record is the starting point for information related to a zone.
A) service locator
B) name server
C) reverse host
D) Start of Authority
Q4) List five fields contained on a service locator record.
Q5) ____ performs the opposite action of a forward lookup zone. It maps IP addresses to host names.
A) Forward lookup DNS zones
B) Forwarders
C) Domain
D) Reverse lookup DNS zones
Q6) What is the difference between a host name and a DNS zone?
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Chapter 6: Managing and Administering DNS in Windows
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Q1) ____________________ is a process within a DNS database that uses time stamps to determine when records can update themselves and whether a record has exceeded the length of time records can exist without an update.
Q2) What activities would you perform, at the DNS level, that is directly related to a specific record?
Q3) The DNS zone level is the level where all the DNS zones exist, such as bentech.local and _msdcs.bentech.local. From here, what activities can you perform that will affect a specific zone?
Q4) AD DS uses a database structure to maintain its objects.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Prior to the proliferation of DNS usage with Windows 2000, ____ was the naming convention of choice for Windows nodes.
A) NetBIOS
B) BOOTP
C) TCP
D) WINS
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Q6) What information is normally provided by the switch /test:DNS, when used with DCDiag?
Chapter 7: Configuring File Services in Windows Server
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Q1) Once deployed, ____ has a hierarchical namespace structure that allows users to locate information using a UNC path location.
A) net share
B) DFS
C) SID
D) ACL
Q2) ____ is a CLI utility provided with Windows that allows you to create and manage shared folder resources.
A) SID
B) ACL
C) Server Message Block
D) Net share
Q3) ____ allows you to add existing folder shares into a namespace.
A) DFS
B) NTFS
C) DFS.
D) SID
Q4) FSRM allows administrators to perform various tasks in managing files and disk volumes through the FSRM console. List three of these tasks.
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Chapter 8: Introduction to Printers in a Windows Server
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Q1) ____ supports the Print Server role service and the LPD service for UNIX role.
A) XPS
B) Server Core
C) Line Printer Remote port monitor
D) Administrative share
Q2) A(n) ____________________ is a document submitted by a client computer for processing through the logical printer.
Q3) ____ defines basic components and methods for deploying printers and print services on a Windows network.
A) BOOTP
B) Windows Printer Model
C) DFS
D) NTFS
Q4) A common device for connecting parallel port printers to a network is an HP Jet Direct ____.
A) domain
B) print server
C) security identifier
D) namespace
Q5) What is the difference between a print device and a printer driver?
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Chapter 9: Network Policy and Access Services in Windows
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Q1) The ____ is the central utility for managing RADIUS clients and remote RADIUS servers, network health and access policies, NAP settings for NAP scenarios, and logging settings.
A) NPS console
B) UDP
C) supplicant
D) VPN
Q2) What tasks does the Network Policy Server allow you to perform in Windows Server 2008?
Q3) ___________________________________ provide secure network access for remote clients over the Internet through the use of tunneling protocols.
Q4) A RADIUS client can be an NPS, which replaces the IAS from previous versions of Windows Server.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the purpose of the Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS)?
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Q6) What is the difference between a supplicant and authenticator?
Q7) Give three reasons why static routing is limited.
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Chapter 10: Securing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) The term ____ refers to a form of authentication that uses a string of characters that is provided to all IPSec peers participating in the communications.
A) digital certificate
B) header
C) Kerberos
D) preshared keys
Q2) Briefly discuss the two phases used by IPSec to perform transactions.
Q3) Using BitLocker with a TPM and a PIN or a USB flash drive is called ____.
A) RADIUS
B) VPN
C) Layer 2 Tunneling
D) enhanced security mode
Q4) All forms of NTLM use the ____.
A) challenge-response protocol
B) Internet Key Exchange
C) tunnel mode
D) public key encryption
Q5) Windows Firewall does not allow you to create exceptions for inbound traffic.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Managing and Monitoring a Windows Server
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Q1) ____ provides a command-line utility so that you can perform automated installations or removals of roles, role services, and features.
A) Servermanagercmd.exe
B) Windows update
C) WSB
D) Reliability Monitor
Q2) List four classifications used in Event Viewer.
Q3) ____ is a built-in utility for capturing and viewing network traffic as it arrives or leaves a server.
A) DHCP
B) Network Monitor
C) Data Collector Set
D) Disk-to-disk backup
Q4) _________________________ allows you to review and manage events for local and remote computers.
Q5) You have two options for running MBSA on remote computers: by domain name and by _________________________.
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Q6) _________________________ is a suite of tools and services provided by Microsoft for applying updates to systems.