Which of the following actions should you take to move the Active Directory database?

You work as a Network Administrator at AIOTestking.com. AIOTestking.com has an Active Directory
Domain Services (AD DS) domain named AIOTestking.com. The AIOTestking.com domain has a Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller named TESTKING-DC03.
You are required to relocate the Active Directory database on TESTKING-DC03 to a new volume.
Which of the following actions should you take to move the Active Directory database?

You work as a Network Administrator at AIOTestking.com. AIOTestking.com has an Active Directory
Domain Services (AD DS) domain named AIOTestking.com. The AIOTestking.com domain has a Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller named TESTKING-DC03.
You are required to relocate the Active Directory database on TESTKING-DC03 to a new volume.
Which of the following actions should you take to move the Active Directory database?

A.
You should stop the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) service, run Ntdsutil.exe at an
elevated command prompt and enter the partition management command.

B.
You should stop the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) service, run Ntdsutil.exe at an
elevated command prompt and enter the files command.

C.
You should stop the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) service, run Dsmgmt.exe at an
elevated command prompt and enter the pa m command.

D.
You should stop the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) service and open the command
prompt in elevated mode. Then run the ldifde –f command.

Explanation:
Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816120



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Pirulo

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816120

How to Move the Database:
When moving the db, he registry is updated so that Directory Service uses the new location when you restart the server.

1. Start, Run, type ntdsutil , press ENTER.
2. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type files, and then press ENTER.
3. At the file maintenance command prompt, type move DB to new location (where new location is an existing folder that you have created for this purpose), and press ENTER.
4. To quit Ntdsutil, typequit, and then press ENTER.