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Topic 3, Baldwin Museum of Science
Background
Baldwin Museum of Science has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named
BaldwinMuseumOfScience.com.
The domain has a SharePoint environment that contains two farms named ContentFarm and SearchFarm.
ContentFarm includes content and collaboration tools. A custom app named Time Entry is deployed to the App
Store on ContentFarm. ContentFarm includes a site collection named HR.
You are planning for a major content and configuration update to the term store in the managed metadata
service application that is located on ContentFarm.
SearchFarm is reserved for crawling content and responding to search queries.
ContentFarm Topology
The topology of ContentFarm is shown in the following table.
ContentFarm has the following characteristics:
Primary content for the farm is available at the URL SharePoint.BaldwinMuseumOfScience.com.
Requests for content from the farm are load-balanced between SPC-WEB01 and SPC-WEB02.
The servers that run Microsoft SQL Server are members of an active/passive cluster that run a failover
cluster named SP-SQL01.
MySites sites for each user are hosted on a separate web application available at the URL
my.baldwinmuseumofscience.com.
Requests for MySites pages are load-balanced between SPC-WEB01 and SPC-WEB02.
A full backup of the farm is performed once a week.
An incremental backup of the farm is performed once a day. The Site Owner of the HR site collection
requires that the HR Site Collection be backed up in full on a daily basis.
The managed metadata, user profile, and BCS service applications are enabled in the farm.
All members of the SharePoint developer team belong to an AD DS security group named
SharePoint_App_Dev.
SearchFarm Topology
The topology of SearchFarm is shown in the following table.
SearchFarm has the following characteristics:
The farm currently uses SPS-DB01 as its primary database instance.
SPS-DB01 has experienced multiple hard drive failures in the last month.
The identity of the search service application is not documented.
Technical Requirements
The following requirements must be met for ContentFarm and SearchFarm:
All administrative activities must be performed by using Windows PowerShell.
Custom applications created by using the SharePoint app model must be deployed to, and hosted in, an
internal App Store.
Site owners must not be able to directly purchase third-party apps from the public SharePoint Store.
Members of the SharePoint_App AD DS security group must have the ability to submit new apps and app
updates to the App Store of ContentFarm.
Members of the SharePoint_App_Dev AD DS security group must not be granted farm administrator rights
in ContentFarm.
The Time Entry app must remain available to users at all times.
The contents of ContentFarm must be indexed by the Search service application of SearchFarm.
All responses to queries submitted by users in ContentFarm must be served by the Search service
application of SearchFarm.
The database resources for SearchFarm must be configured to be highly available by using SQL Server
database mirroring with automatic failover.
MySite content databases must be moved to a separate clustered database instance. The new clustered
database instance must be created by using existing database servers in ContentFarm.
All storage resources for both farms must be redundant and provide high performance for both read and
write operations and support disk mirroring.
A snapshot of the current state of the managed metadata service application must be taken before the
service application receives the planned major update.
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You need to back up the HR site collection.
What should you do? (To answer, select the appropriate option from each drop-down list in the answer area.)
Hot Area:
Answer: 
Explanation:
SharePoint Backup ServiceScenario:
The farm currently uses SPS-DB01 as its primary database instance.
The Site Owner of the HR site collection requires that the HR Site Collection be backed up in full on a daily
basis.
* SQL Server: The content database is stored in SQL Server.
* Windows Scheduled task to set a reoccurring task.
* Backup-SPSite Performs a backup of a site collection.
* Daily
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Alex (19.07.2015): I have just checked that nobody but user who runs Backup-SPSite command needs to have
permissions on destination folder. Why it should be SQL Server. I think it is SharePoint Server account.
Sjoerd Stefma (24.09.2015): The Windows SharePoint Services Timer V4 (SPTimerV4) and the SQL Server
service account in SharePoint Foundation 2010 perform backup and restore operations on behalf of the user.
These service accounts require Full Control permissions on any backup folders.
