Company Background
Tipkey is a large corporation which has more than 5000 employees. The company provides managed services to large companies. Since the company gets prosperous, it decides to recruit 250 new employees every year.
Physical Locations
Since the Tipkey is a large international company, it has many branch offices respectively in the USA, Afric, and Asia. Its head office is in Huston. The head office is responsible for all purchases.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Tipkey makes the purchase of licenses through the Open Licenses program and the OEM program. But because the high costs of software licenses, it’s difficult for the company to implement new technologies.
Existing IT Environment
In the company, desktop computers run different versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, the manufacturer has made installation on some of the desktops.
Litware has an external facing Web portal that runs on a third-party application. The Web portal runs on a Windows Server 2008 server and has SQL Server installed. The company’s customers use the Web portal. There’s an external facing Web portal in the company. The company customers use the Web portal which has SQL Server installed. The Web portal runs on a third-party application and a Windows Server 2008 server.
Every two years, the IT department upgrades software and replaces one-third of the desktops every year.
Business Requirements
Problem Statements
According to the company requirement, an administrator and a developer have to manage and perform updates to the Web portal and the third-party application full time. However, the administrator is not skillful enough to move the existing Web portal to an equivalent Microsoft solution.
Planned Software Changes
The company intends to perform the installation of the following software in the following three years:
* Windows Server 2008
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
* Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
* Windows Vista Business
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
Business Goals
The Tipkey company wants to achieve the following goals in the future:
* The company wants to improve compliance and prevent over-purchasing by implementing a software purchasing process;
* Move the Web portal to a Microsoft solution;
* minimize the administrative costs associated with managing and maintaining the Web portal;
* Reduce the costs of moving the Web portal and the costs of upgrading to the latest version of Office;
* keep perpetual use rights for all licenses;
* Standardize desktop operating systems;
* use an imaging technology to Standardize desktop applications;
* Maximize the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware purchases
Question
The company wants to change its existing Web portal. Which licenses should be used?
A.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Internet sites and Windows Server External Connector (EC)
B.
Microsoft Search Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server CAL, Enterprise Edition
C.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server CAL, Standard Edition
D.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server External Connector (EC)