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Topic 1: Contoso, Ltd Case A
No. of Questions: 12
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., is a recruiting and staffing company that has offices throughout North America.
The company has a main office and six branch offices.
The main office is located in Miami.
The branch offices are located in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Existing Environment
Network Infrastructure:
The network contains one Active Directory domain named contoso.com.
The main office has the following servers:
One file server that maintains multiples shares
Two domain controllers configured as DNS servers
One Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server
Two DHCP servers that each have a scope for all of the subnets
Two servers that have Failover Clustering configured and are used as virtualization hosts
One server that has Microsoft SQL Server 2012 installed and maintains a customer relationship management (CRM) database
Each branch office has the following servers:
One domain controller configured as a DNS server
One DHCP server that has a single scope for its respective office
Each office has a single subnet.
The network speed of the local area network (LAN) is 1 gigabit per second.
All of the offices have a high-speed connection to the Internet.
The offices connect to each other by using VPN appliances.
Current Issues:
Users report that it can take a long time to download files from network shares in the main office.
A root cause analysis identifies that network traffic peaks when the users experience this issue.
Requirments
Planned Changes:
The company plans to implement the following changes:
Replace all of the domain controllers with new servers that run Windows Server 2012.
Upgrade the CRM application to use a web-based application that connects to the current CRM database.
The web application will store session data in the memory of each web server.
Initially, deploy two front-end web servers to two virtual machines.
Additional virtual web servers will be deployed in the future.
Monitor the availability of the CRM application and create alerts when the overall availability is less than 99 percent.
Implement Microsoft System Center 2012 to manage the new environment.
Business Requirements:
The company identifies the following business requirements:
Minimize hardware costs and software costs whenever possible.
Minimize the amount of network traffic over the VPN whenever possible.
Ensure that the users in the branch offices can access files currently on the main office file server if an Internet link fails.
Technical Requirements:
The company identifies the following technical requirements:
Provide a highly available DHCP solution.
Maintain a central database that contains the security events from all of the servers. The database must be encrypted.
Ensure that an administrator in the main office can manage the approval of Windows updates and updates to third-party applications for all of the users.
Ensure that all of the domain controllers have the ReliableTimeSource registry value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services
\\W32Time\\Parameters set to 1, even if an administrator changes that value manually.
Virtualization Requirements:
The company identifies the following virtualization requirements:
Minimize the number of permissions and privileges assigned to users.
Ensure that the members of a group named Group2 can add a WSUS server to the fabric.
Ensure that a diagram view of the virtualization environment can be generated dynamically.
Minimize the amount of administrative effort required to manage the virtualization environment.
Prevent the failure of a front-end web server from affecting the availability of the CRM application.
Ensure that the members of a group named Group1 can create new virtual machines in the Los Angeles office only.
Only create virtual machine templates by using objects that already exist in the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) library.
On the failover cluster in the main office, apply limited distribution release (LDR) updates to the virtualization hosts without disrupting the virtual machines hosted
on the virtualization hosts.
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You need to recommend a solution for managing updates.
The solution must meet the technical requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A.
A System Center 2012 Configuration Manager management point in the main office and a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager distribution point in each
office.
B.
A System Center 2012 Configuration Manager management point in the main office and a WSUS downstream server in each office.
C.
A System Center 2012 Configuration Manager software update point in the main office and a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager distribution point in
each office.
D.
A WSUS upstream server in and a WSUS downstream server in each office.
Explanation:
notes:
The section Technical Requirements states:
An administrator of the main office has Windows updates and updates for third-party applications can be approved for all users.
The free Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) enables the distribution of Microsoft Updates. The distribution of updates for third-party software provider is also
limited only right on the WSUS API is possible.
With the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, a solution is available that meets all Anfordeurngen justice. In Configuration Manager site system roles are
used to manage operations to support at the individual sites.
When you install a Configuration Manager site some site system roles are automatically installed and assigned to the server on which Configuration Manager Setup
has completed successfully.
One of these site system roles, the location server that can not be transferred or removed to another server without uninstalling the location. You can use other
servers to perform additional site system roles or assign some site system roles from the site server by installing Configuration Manager site system server and
configure. From each site system role certain administrative functions are supported.
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager management point
About this site system role, information on policies and duty stations for clients provided, and go with her configuration data of clients a.
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Distribution Point
This is a site system role with source files that can be downloaded from clients, including application content, software packages, software updates, operating
system images and boot images.
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Software Update Point
This site system role is integrated into Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to provide Configuration Manager client software updates.
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D could be one possible solution.
However, the planned changes is “Implement Microsoft System Center 2012 to manage the new environment.”. Therefore, C is a better solution where SCCM is integrated with WSUS as a WSUS’s downstream server.