Company Background
Corporate Information
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. There’re about 3000 salesman in the company.
Physical Locations
Since GrooveShow Company is a large international company, it has 80 offices in the American continent. It locates its head office in Ireland.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
GrooveShow Company has an Open License agreement covering 800 Microsoft Office Professional licenses, 800 Microsoft Windows Upgrade licenses that include Software Assurance.
About 10 months ago, the company purchased the software licenses.
Existing IT Environment
There’re about 650 desktop computers in its head office. Each salesman has a laptop. All destops have the Windows and Office Professional installed. At present, the company has no intention to upgrade the
software on these desktops.
There’re 45 servers in the head office and 1 server in each branch offices. All the servers have Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition installed.
Business Requirements
According to the working requirement, the company decides to migrate all servers to the data center in the head office. And all servers will run the latest version of Windows Server. The company also decides to
install 20 new servers. These new servers will have Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition installed and will have two dual-core CPUs. Windows Server will run on both CPUs. SQL Server 2008
will run on only one of the dual-core CPUs. For each branch office, the company will create a virtual server.
Business Goals
* The GrooveShow company aims to get rid of the need to renew a license agreement;
* minimize the use of energy through server consolidation;
* keep the company data safe on the laptops in case of being theft.
Question
By using virtualization, which of the following business goals can be achieved?
A.
Keep the company data safe on the laptops in case of theft
B.
All software license can be purchased under a single customer ID
C.
The company doesn’t have to renew a license agreement any longer.
D.
The company’s goal of minimizing the use of energy through server consolidation