Exam MD-101 topic 2 question 3 discussion

I spent quite a lot of time researching the 3 possible solutions and decided to place my bets on this being the CORRECT answer. 1) Automatic Maintenance Random Delay has NOTHING to do with us achieving our goal of automatically installing updates during a maintenance window 2) Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary made me take a deeper dive into these specific GPOs. From my understanding, configuring Activation Boundary will install updates on devices that are not in use. If a user is currently signed in, the updates will not install. 3) "Auto download and schedule the install" does what our question asks. We can decide NOT to check the option for "Automatic Maintenance", which includes Activation Boundary and Random Delay. This question is once again quite non-specific. Activation Boundary seems to do more than what the question is asking. If we just need to auto install updates during a maintenance window, I believe this answer achieves that goal.

I think this should be A. See below: - 4 - Auto download and schedule the install You can specify the schedule by using the options in this Group Policy setting. If no schedule is specified, the default schedule for all installations will be every day at 3:00 A.M. If any updates require a restart to complete the installation, Windows will restart the computer automatically. (if a user is signed in to the computer when Windows is ready to restart, the user will be notified and given the option to delay the restart.) Note: starting Windows 8, you can set updates to install during automatic maintenance instead of using a specific schedule tied to Windows Update. Automatic maintenance will install updates when the computer is not in use, and avoid installing updates when the computer is running on battery power. If automatic maintenance is unable to install updates within days, Windows Update will install updates right away. Users will then be notified about a pending restart. A pending restart will only take place if there is no potential for accidental data loss.

ChatGPT said the answer is yes, so I'm going with that.

A, Yes, configuring the Windows Update settings in Group Policy as described in the solution would meet the goal of ensuring that feature and quality updates install automatically on a Windows 10 computer during a maintenance window. By enabling the "Configure Automatic Updates" policy and selecting the "Auto download and schedule the install" option, you will instruct the computer to automatically download and install updates at the specified time. This will ensure that feature and quality updates are installed automatically on the computer during the maintenance window, as required. It is important to note that you will need to ensure that the computer is turned on and connected to the internet during the maintenance window in order for the updates to be installed successfully.

B) The solution asks to specify a "time", which is not the same as my "maintenance window". The correct one is "checkbox" Install during automatic maintenance.

I guess the point is to "ensure" install during a maintenance window you can't enter a time. Because if the maintenance window changes, our time is still fixed and it could be out of the new maintenance window. So, I change my vote to B. No.

Answer is A, it DOES meet the goal, see this video to show how its done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUn4KGGV2kI

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart In Group Policy, within Configure Automatic Updates, you can configure a forced restart after a specified installation time. To set the time, you need to go to Configure Automatic Updates, select option 4 - Auto download and schedule the install, and then enter a time in the Scheduled install time dropdown. Alternatively, you can specify that installation will occur during the automatic maintenance time (configured using Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Maintenance Scheduler).

I agree with everything MikeMatt2020 said

Hola, can someone explains why the answer is B? Thank you

From my understanding, if you want to configure automatic updates, you must select the option, 4-Auto download and schedule the install in the Configure Automatic Updates GPO. When enabled, and this option chosen, you can set the schedule, and this will install all updates available. The other options simply appear to relate to scheduling behaviour. Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary is a schedule for when automatic maintenance starts, if not configured, the option 4-Auto download and schedule the install schedule you set will simply run. The Automatic Maintenance Random Delay simply tells automatic maintenance to start after X-Minutes or X-Seconds after the Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary is reached.

No : nothing about "maintenance" inside this GPO.

The answer is no, you can set it to be within the maintenance windows, but if you then change the mainenance windows in the future this setting may fall outside of that window. It will not auto change this setting. I agree with NO