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Topic 1, Large Company
Background
You are the SharePoint administrator for a large company. You are responsible for installing and
configuring a multi-server SharePoint environment that will be used for information management and
collaboration.
The company has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. User-specific contact
information, including employee photos, is stored and managed in Active Directory. All employees are
located in the ActiveUsers organizational unit (OU).
The User Profile Synchronization service runs on a server named SERVER1.
Business Requirements
The SharePoint environment must meet the following business requirements:
Ensure that users can connect to the portal by using the same URL from
any location.
Ensure that users can access corporate information from outside the
network without using a VPN connection.
Allow users to configure notifications for content changes.
Allow users to follow content creators.
Limit the number of sites and people each user can follow to 100.
Allow content authors to upload documents, large image files, and large
video files for consumption by internal and external users.
Allow administrators to promote search query results across the entire
company.
Utilize My Sites to share content.
Provide opportunities for social interaction.
Technical Requirements
You must meet the following technical requirements for the SharePoint environment:
Do not exceed the minimum hardware specifications.
Install the minimum supported versions of all software on the servers.
Control the growth of storage utilization. Maximize existing content database usage before creating new content
databases.
Store large files on network attached storage (NAS).
Ensure that all web applications, site collections, files, databases, and
components stay within the supported limits.
Configure the User Profile Synchronization service to import user profile
data from Active Directory.
Grant the User Profile service account the least permissions necessary
to read data.
Ensure that current and future SharePoint environments include the
most recent software updates.
Use predefined database naming conventions.
Create individual user sites by using the
https://contoso.com/personal/path.
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HOTSPOT
You need to ensure that corporate search guidelines are followed.
What rule should you create? (To answer, select the appropriate option from each drop-down list in the
answer area.)
Answer: 
Explanation:
Note:* From scenario: Allow administrators to promote search query results across the entire company.
* Query rules are composed of three components:
Condition – When to apply the rule?
Action – What to do when the rule is matched?
Publishing – When should the rule be active?
* Actions
Once the condition has been configured the fun begins! The next step is to decide what to do when the
query rule applies. Essentially there are three options here:
Add Promoted Result
Add Result Block
Change ranked results by changing the query
* Add Promoted Result – A promoted result is a result that appears at the top of the search results, this
is particularly useful way to promote a particular search result. For example, you may want a query for
“human resources info” to promote a link to the human resources SharePoint Site. How To Customize SharePoint 2013 Search Results Using Query Rules and Result Sources