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Course Introduction
Windows Server Administration is a comprehensive course designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server environment. The course covers fundamental concepts such as installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Windows Server operating systems, as well as user and group management, storage solutions, network services, and security protocols. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, students learn how to implement and manage Active Directory, manage server roles and features, ensure data integrity, and automate administrative tasks. By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to efficiently support and administer Windows Server infrastructures in a modern business environment.
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Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) Which of the following server roles is not available within a Windows Server 2008 Core installation?
A)File Services
B)Terminal Services
C)Hyper-V
D)Web Server (IIS)
Answer: B
Q2) Enter the term that corresponds to the following description: A group of Windows computers that share common management and are subject to rules and policies that an administrator defines. Answer: Windows domain
Q3) You have a copy of Windows Server 2008 64-bit Standard edition,and are in the process of purchasing server equipment.What is the maximum amount of RAM you can install on the server?
A)32 GB
B)64 GB
C)128 GB
D)2 TB
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Installing Windows Server 2008
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Q1) Assuming default settings,what time does Windows Update download and install new updates?
A)Every Saturday,2 AM
B)Every day at 5 AM
C)Every day at 3 AM
D)Every day at 3 PM
Answer: C
Q2) Your intern would like to know which of the following situations would be ideal for a Server Core installation:
A)You're installing the first server in a network
B)You're upgrading from Windows Server 2003
C)You want to run Windows Web Server 2008
D)You want to install an RODC in a branch office
Answer: D
Q3) Type the exact command you would use to perform an immediate restart of a Windows Server 2008 machine.
Answer: shutdown /r /t 0
Q4) What command can you type to force a check for updates?
Answer: wuauclt /detectnow
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Chapter 3: Introducing Active Directory
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Q1) The ____________________ folder is a shared folder that stores information from Active Directory that's replicated to other domain controllers.
Answer: Sysvol
Q2) Which folder under the User Configuration node contains settings relating to configuring Folder Redirection?
Answer: Windows Settings
Q3) What are the two default GPOs that are created when Active Directory is installed?
A)Default Directory Policy and Default Domain Policy
B)Default Domain Controllers Policy and Default Directory Policy
C)Default Domain-Wide Policy and Default Active Directory Policy
D)Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controllers Policy
Answer: D
Q4) "John Doe" is an example of which of the following?
Answer: attribute value
Q5) The dsadd command can only create new user objects in Active Directory. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Active Directory Design and Security Concepts
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Q1) What term best fits this description:
A trust in which both domains in the relationship trust each other,so users from both domains can access resources in the other domain.
Q2) Each entry in the Discretionary access control list is referred to as an ACE.What does ACE stand for?
A)Acceptable Control Extension
B)Access Control Extension
C)Access Control Entry
D)Applied Control Entry
Q3) The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is based on which of the following technologies?
A)X.509
B)X.500
C)X.405
D)X.900
Q4) What does ISTG stand for?
Q5) _________________________ defines how permissions are transmitted from a parent object to a child object.
Q6) What MMC is used to create sites?
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Chapter 5: Account Management
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Q1) How do you change a profile into a mandatory profile?
A)Delete Ntuser.dat from the profile
B)Rename Ntuser.dat to Ntuser.manual
C)Rename Ntuser.dat to Ntuser.man
D)Delete the AppData folder inside the profile
Q2) Type the command to add the user account TestUserA to the TestOU,in the example.com domain.
Q3) A user profile that follows the user no matter which computer he or she logs on to A)contact
B)roaming profile
C)security groups
D)user template
E)group scope
F)piping
G)distribution list
H)super mandatory profile
I)distribution group
Q4) The ____________________ command displays an object's properties onscreen by default,but the output can be redirected to a file.
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Chapter 6: Windows File and Print Services
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Q1) What is the size limit for FAT32 partitions at creation time within Windows operating systems?
A)4 GB
B)2 GB
C)2 TB
D)32 GB
Q2) Which of the following is not a reason to use volume mount points?
A)To extend the apparent amount of free space on an existing FAT32 volume
B)Consolidate frequently accessed volumes
C)Consolidate several shared volumes
D)To avoid using a drive letter for a volume
Q3) In a Windows environment,he physical printer containing paper and ink or toner to which print jobs are sent is called...
A)a printer
B)a print server
C)a print device
D)print queue
Q4) ____________________ enable administrators to limit the amount of disk space that users' files can occupy on a disk volume.
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Chapter 7: Configuring Group Policy
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Q1) What nodes or folders does a Starter GPO contain?
A)Only Administrative Templates folder in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration
B)Contains all the nodes that a normal GPO would,except for Windows Settings in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration
C)Contains all the nodes that a normal GPO would,except for Software settings in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration
D)Only the Windows Settings folder in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration
Q2) Settings in local GPOs that are inherited from domain GPOs can't be changed on the local computer;only settings that are undefined or not configured by domain GPOs can be edited locally.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What can you use to restrict GPO inheritance to specific objects in an OU?
A)GPO Filtering
B)Enforcing inheritance
C)Loopback policy processing
D)Blocking inheritance
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Chapter 8: Introduction to Windows Networking
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Q1) You are troubleshooting a network issue a user is having.After having changed his network adapter to static addressing,he can no longer reach the internet.However,the machine resolves Internet names to IP addresses.Observe the adapter's configuration below,and determine the problem.
IP Address: 172.31.20.103
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
DNS Server: 172.31.20.251
Gateway address: 172.31.19.254
A)Gateway is outside of the user's subnet
B)Change subnet mask to 255.255.255.128
C)The gateway no longer has a route to your ISP,so it does not deliver packets
D)DNS is providing incorrect or old resolution information,and the IP addresses given are no longer accurate
Q2) Disabling network discovery in the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center does not prevent you from accessing by UNC paths or being accessed by a UNC path.
A)True
B)False
Q3) This command,when typed,will display the routing table on a computer.
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Chapter 9: Configuring DNS for Active Directory
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Q1) What is the default no-refresh interval set to on DNS record timestamps?
A)7 hours
B)7 days
C)7 weeks
D)7 years
Q2) You will want to use a forward lookup zone when you need a zone that...
A)contains records to translate names to IP addresses
B)contains PTR records that map IP addresses to names
C)will be autoconfigured by DHCP
D)can be updated automatically
Q3) What command can be used to check for resource records on a server,verify delegations,verify resource records needed for Active Directory replication,and perform e-mail connectivity tests?
Q4) By default,stale resource scavenging is enabled.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What term best matches the following description:
A DNS name-registering process whereby computers in the domain can register or update their own DNS records.
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Q6) What switch,when added to the dnscmd.exe command,displays server information?
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Chapter 10: Configuring and Maintaining the Active
Directory Infrastructure
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Q1) A property of a forest trust in which all users in a trusted forest can be authenticated to the trusting forest
A)Alternate UPN name suffixes
B)connection object
C)forest-wide authentication
D)interforest migration
E)intraforest migration
F)selective authentication
G)SID filtering
H)site link bridging
I)universal group membership caching
Q2) What operations master role is needed when a domain or domain controller is added or removed from the forest?
A)Domain naming master
B)RID master
C)Infrastructure master
D)PDC emulator
Q3) Operations master roles are seized using what command?
Q4) This is enabled by default,making site links transitive.
Q5) What does the SMTP acronym stand for?
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Chapter 11: Active Directory Certificate Services
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Q1) The first CA installed in a network.
A)issuing CAs
B)root CA
C)intermediate CAs
D)hash algorithm
E)registration authority
F)public key infrastructure
G)key archival
H)Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES)
I)Certificate Practice Statement (CPS)
Q2) If a certificate has a validity period of 1 year and a renewal period of 1 month,when must a certificate that was issued on December 12th,2009 be renewed?
A)Once every month throughout the validity period
B)Between November 12,2010 and December 12,2010
C)Between December 12,2010 and January 12,2011
D)Between December 12,2010 and January 11
Q3) A _________________________ is an entity that issues and manages digital certificates and associated public keys and is an integral part of PKI.
Q4) This is the name for the first CA installed in a network.
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Chapter 12: Additional Active Directory Server Roles
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Q1) If the forest functional level is not set at Windows Server 2008,you must run this command before installing the RODC.
Q2) Where must custom LDIF files be placed to be available for import?
A)%systemroot%\ldif
B)%systemroot%\Adam
C)%systemroot%\ldifadam
D)%systemroot%\ldsadam
Q3) When using the Web SSO design,a user first attempts to access an application on an AD FS-enabled web server.He or she is then redirected to the AD LDS logon page.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With AD RMS,you can restrict actions such as copying,saving,and even forwarding of protected documents.However,the printing of documents cannot be restricted. A)True
B)False
Q5) What type of DNS record is used to access the AD RMS service?
Q6) ____________________,included in AD LDS,synchronizes Active Directory information with an AD LDS instance.
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Chapter 13: Server Management and Monitoring
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Q1) A period of time in which deleted Active Directory objects are marked for deletion but left in the database.
A)authoritative restore
B)data collector set
C)nonauthoritative restore
D)offline defragmentation
E)online defagmentation
F)tombstone lifetime
G)Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
H)Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
I)winrs
Q2) What is the command to bring up the Task Manager window?
Q3) This command performs database maintenance on AD DS and AD LDS data stores.
Q4) A nonauthoritative restore of Active Directory is usually done when the Active Directory database is corrupt or when you're doing a full server recovery.
A)True
B)False
Q5) These events in Event Viewer are indicated by a black ! inside a yellow triangle
Q6) Only members of the ____________________ group can set up scheduled backups.
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