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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 Managed Metadata service application before the update.
Which two tools can you use to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose
two.)
A.
The Backup and Restore page in Central Administration
B.
SQL Server Management Studio
C.
The Backup-SPFarm Windows PowerShell cmdlet
D.
The Backup-SPSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet
E.
The Backup-SqlDatabase Windows PowerShell cmdlet
Explanation:
Scenario:
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.
The managed metadata, user profile, and BCS service applications are enabled in the farm.
A snapshot of the current state of the managed metadata service application must be taken before the
service application receives the planned major update.
C: Typically, Service Applications will be backed up as part of a full farm back-up, along with all other
components of the farm, If you want to backup individual service applications such as Managed Metadata
service, User Profile Service then you can use Windows PowerShell to back up the SharePoint service
application, below steps describes the procedure.
Step1 User has to added to the SharePoint_Shell_Access role for desired database. Use the AddSPShellAdmin cmdlet to add user to SharePoint_Shell_Access role as below
Step2 Click SharePoint 2013 Management Shell from Start >All Programs Type the below command in
PowerShell
Backup-SPFarm -Directory <BackupFolder> -BackupMethod {Full | Differential} -Item
<ServiceApplicationName> [-Verbose]————————————————————————————————————————————
shashuma (7.05.2015): Should be B and C. https://www.petri.com/backup-restore-service-applicationssharepoint-2013
A is wrong because it’s called Backup and Restore page in Central Administration.
Wayne Hendrix (6.07.2015): I still believe its A and C even though it maybe a typo on A. Straight from technet
mentions nothing of a SQL backup: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428318.aspx
When in doubt, go with Microsoft’s answer.
Ben (13.03.2016): To ponder: C and E
Stated in the case: All administrative activities must be performed by using Windows PowerShell. (eliminates A
and B) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn223322.aspx
Overview of PowerShell cmdlets for Backup and Restore
JosefTheGreat (30.03.2016): The following requirements must be met for ContentFarm and SearchFarm:
All administrative activities must be performed by using Windows PowerShell.
What has the Metadata Service App to do with the Content or Search Farm?
The answers are definitely: A & C
https://www.petri.com/backup-restore-service-applications-sharepoint-2013
Fighter/Bomishm Lean: Answer BC
Lavera,Ben,Willa,TestKing: Answer AC