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Your network contains a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager environment.
Your company develops a custom hardware device and installs the device on all of the client computers in the research department.
You discover that information about the device fails to appear in any inventory queries or reports.
Information about other hardware devices appears in the inventory queries and reports.
You need to ensure that Configuration Manager data include information about the custom hardware device.
What should you do?

Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
How to Extend Hardware Inventory in Configuration Manager
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager hardware inventory reads information about devices by using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). WMI is the Microsoft implementation of web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM), which is an industry standard foraccessing management information in an enterprise environment.
In previous versions of Configuration Manager, you could extend hardware inventory by modifying the file sms_def.mof on the site server.
In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you no longer edit the sms_def.mof file as you did in Configuration Manager 2007. Instead, you can enable and disable WMI classes, and add new classes to collect by hardware inventory by using client settings. Configuration Manager provides the following methods to extend hardware inventory:
Enable or disable existing inventory classes - You can enable or disable the default inventory classes used by Configuration Manager or you can create custom client settings that allow you to collect different hardware inventory classes from specified collections of clients.
Add a new inventory class - You can add a new inventory class from the WMI namespace of another device.

References: Reference: How to Extend Hardware Inventory in Configuration Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712290.aspx