Exam 70-412 topic 4 question 8 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's 70-412

Question #: 8
Topic #: 4

You are employed as a senior network administrator at ABC.com.
ABC.com has an Active Directory domain named ABC.com.
All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
ABC.com has two servers, named SERVER1 and SERVER2 which are configured in a two-node failover cluster. Server1 includes a folder, named ABCAppData, which is configured as a Distributed File System (DFS) name space folder target. After configuring another two nodes in the failover cluster, you are instructed to make sure that access to ABC AppData is highly available.
You also have to make sure that application data is replicated to ABCAppData via DFS replication.
Which following actions should you take?

A. You should consider configuring a scale-out File Server
B. You should consider configuring the replication settings for the cluster
C. You should consider configuring a file server for general use
D. You should consider configuring the Quorum settings

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Suggested Answer: FeatureC 🗳️
The General Use File Server Cluster supports DFS replication, whereas Scale-Out File Server does not.

General Use File Server -

Technology Area -

Cluster -

Scale-Out File Server -

SMB -

SMB Continuous Availability -

Yes -

Yes -

SMB -

SMB Multichannel -

Yes -

Yes -

SMB -

SMB Direct -

Yes -

Yes -

SMB -

SMB Encryption -

Yes -

Yes -

SMB -

SMB Transparent failover -

Yes (if continuous availability -

Yes -
is enabled)

File System -

NTFS -

Yes -

NA -

File System -
Resilient File System (

ReFS -
)

Recommended with Storage -
Recommended with Storage Spaces Direct

Spaces Direct -

File System -
Cluster Shared Volume File System

NA -

Yes -
(CSV)

File Management -

BranchCache -

Yes -

No -

File Management -
Data Deduplication (Windows Server

Yes -

No -
2012)

File Management -
Data Deduplication (Windows Server

Yes -
Yes (VDI only)
2012 R2)

File Management -
DFS Namespace (DFSN) root server root Yes

No -

File Management -
DFS Namespace (DFSN) folder target

Yes -

Yes -
server

General Use File Server -

Technology Area -

Feature -

Cluster -

Scale-Out File Server -

File Management -
DFS Replication (DFSR)

Yes -

No -

File Management -
File Server Resource Manager (Screens

Yes -

No -
and Quotas)

File Management -
File Classification Infrastructure

Yes -

No -

File Management -
Dynamic Access Control (claim-based

Yes -

No -
access, CAP)

File Management -

Folder Redirection -

Yes -
Not recommended*

File Management -
Offline Files (client side caching)

Yes -
Not recommended*

File Management -

Roaming User Profiles -

Yes -
Not recommended*

File Management -

Home Directories -

Yes -
Not recommended*

File Management -

Work Folders -

Yes -

No -

NFS -

NFS Server -

Yes -

No -

Applications -

Hyper-V -

Not recommended -

Yes -

Applications -

Microsoft SQL Server -

Not recommended -

Yes -
References:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831349.aspx

by JanvL at Aug. 5, 2020, 9:35 a.m.

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JanvL

4 years, 10 months ago

C. You should consider configuring a file server for general use

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