Online Access Free 70-646 Practice Test
| Exam Code: | 70-646 |
| Exam Name: | Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator |
| Certification Provider: | Microsoft |
| Free Question Number: | 266 |
| Posted: | Aug 23, 2026 |
Testlet: A, Datum
You need to recommend a solution for Group Policy that meets the company's technical requirements. What should you recommend?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
A, Datum Corporation is a manufacturing company that has a main office and two branch offices. The main office is located in Denver. The branch offices are located in New York and Montreal. The main office has 10,000 users. Each branch office has approximately 200 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
A, Datum plans to deploy a new intranet site named Site1 in the main office. Two servers that run a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 are requisitioned for the deployment of Site1.
You plan to deploy a domain controller in each office.
You have a new server named Backup1. All servers will be backed up remotely by using Windows Server Backup on Backup1.
BUSINESS GOALS
A Datum has the following business goals:
Changes to the environment must minimize costs.
Changes to the environment must optimize the use of new hardware.
The costs to manage the network infrastructure and the servers must be minimized.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run Windows 7 Enterprise.
The network contains a Web server named Web1. Web1 is located in the perimeter network and is accessible from the internal network and the Internet. Web1 runs a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named adatum.com.
The main office has two domain controllers.
Existing Network Infrastructure
Each office has a file server.
The main office connects to each branch office by using a WAN link. Users in the branch offices frequently access the file server in the main office.
Current Administration Model
All domain administrators work in the main office and remotely manage the servers by using their Windows 7 computers.
A group named BranchAdmins has the rights to manage all of the client computers in the branch offices.
You have several ADMX files that contain custom application settings.
REQUIREMENTS Security Requirements
The BranchAdmins group members must be able to install updates and drivers on the domain
controllers in the branch offices.
Passwords must not be stored by using reversible encryption.
All authentication traffic on the network must be encrypted.
Application Requirements
A new application named WebApp2 must be deployed on Web1. The WebApp2 deployment must meet the following requirements:
Users must be authenticated to access WebApp2.
WebApp2 must support Web browsers from various vendors.
WebApp2 must be accessible to internal users and Internet users.
A failure of WebApp2 must not cause other Web applications to fail.
Internet users must be required to configure the minimum number of changes on their client computers
to access WebApp2. Site1 must be configured to meet the following requirements:
Site1 must support the most user connections possible.
Site1 must be backed up every day by a remote server,
If a single Web server fails, users must be able to access Site1.
If a single Web server fails, users must not receive an error message when they access Site1.
Technical Requirements
You must ensure that domain administrators can access the ADMX files from any client computer that they use to manage Group Policies.
You must ensure that the domain administrators are notified by e-mail each time a user copies video files to the file servers.
Your network consists of a single Active Directory domain. Users access and share documents by using a DFS namespace. You need to recommend a solution to manage user access to documents.
The solution must meet the following requirements:
Allow for document versioning.
Allow for online collaboration.
What should you recommend?
Testlet: Fabrikam Inc
You need to recommend an operating system for Node1 and Node2. The recommendation must meet the company's technical requirements.
Which operating system image should you install?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
Fabrikam Inc. is a manufacturing company that has a main office and a branch office.
PLANNED CHANGES
You plan to deploy a failover cluster named Cluster1 in the branch office. Cluster1 will be configured to meet the following requirements:
The cluster will host eight virtual machines (VMs).
The cluster will consist of two nodes named Node1 and Node2.
The quorum mode for the cluster will be set to Node and Disk Majority.
A user named Admin1 will configure the virtual switch configuration of the VMs.
The cluster nodes will use shared storage on an iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN).
You plan to configure a VM named File2 as a file server. Users will store confidential files on File2.
You plan to deploy a Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) server in each site. The Forefront TMG server will be configured as a Web proxy.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
The research department is located in the branch office. Research users frequently travel to the main office.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single-domain Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008.
The relevant organizational units (OUs) for the domain are configured as shown in the following table.
The relevant sites for the network are configured shown in the following table. The relevant group policy objects (GPOs) are configured as shown in the following table.
Existing Network Infrastructure
All users run windows server 2008 R2. The relevant servers are configured as shown in following table.
WSUS2 is configured as a downstream replica server.
File1 contains a share named Templates. Users access the Templates share by using the path \ \fabrikam.com\dfs\templates.
File1 has the Distributed File System (DFS) Replication role service and the DFS Namespaces role service installed.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Fabrikam must meet the following requirements:
Minimize the cost of IT purchases.
Minimize the potential attack surface on the servers.
Minimize the number of rights assigned to administrators.
Minimize the number of updates that must be installed on the servers.
Ensure that Internet Explorer uses the local ForeFront TMG server to connect to the Internet.
Ensure that all client computers continue to receive updates from WSUS if a WSUS server fails.
Prevent unauthorized users from accessing the data stored on the VMs by making offline copies of the
VM files. Fabrikam must meet the following requirements for the Templates share:
Ensure that users access the files in the Templates share from a server in their local site.
Ensure that users always use the same UNC path to access the Templates share, regardless of the site in which the users are located.
Testlet: City Power & Light
You need to recommend a solution for managing the GPOs that supports the company's planned changes.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW Overview
City Power & Light is an international utilities company. The company has a sales department, a finance department, and a production department.
Physical Location
The company has a main office and a branch office.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT Network Infrastructure
The network contains the following servers:
A server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and has the Hyper-V role installed. Server1 hosts three virtual machines (VMs) that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The VMs always run.
A Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server in the main office. The WSUS server manages updates for the client computers in the main office only.
Several file servers that store data on an iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN). The file servers have multiple network cards.
An enterprise root certification authority (CA) named CA1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2.
The branch office connects to the main office by using a WAN link. The WAN link is highly saturated. All
client computers on the network connect to the Internet by using a single Internet connection at the main office.
Problem Statements
All client computers run Microsoft Office 2003. The client computers for the users in the sales department run a 64-bit version of Windows 7. Sales users must be able to run a 64-bit version of Office 2010 and Office 2003 concurrently when they work offline. Office 2010 must be deployed by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
REQUIREMENTS Business Goal
City Power & Light has the following business goals:
Software and hardware costs must be minimized, whenever possible.
Due to power restrictions at the data center in the main office, all new servers must be deployed on VMs, whenever possible.
Planned Changes
City Power & Light plans to implement the following changes in their network:
A WSUS server in the branch office.
A robotic-based tape library for the file servers.
A document management system that supports the following requirements: Retains multiple versions of a document; Automatically applies access policies to documents
A solution for managing Group Policy objects (GPOs) that supports the following: Version tracking; Offline modification; Role-based access control
Nine VMs that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Only five VMs will run concurrently.
Two Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise servers in a failover cluster. The cluster will be attached to a hardware RAID-5 array that has five 2-terabyte drives.
Five additional physical servers for the finance department. The new servers will use native-boot virtual hard disks (VHDs). The VHD images will contain a single partition.
Technical Requirements
City Power & Light must meet the following technical requirements:
The file servers must maintain their connection to the SAN if a network card fails.
The bandwidth utilization between the main office and the branch office must be minimized.
Administrators in the main office must approve or reject updates for all of the client computers in all of the offices.
Security Requirements
City Power & Light must meet the following security requirements:
All help desk technicians must be able to approve certificate requests and revoke certificates. The help desk technicians must be prevented from modifying the properties of the CA.
All telecommunications technicians must be able to manage the virtual networks of Server1. The telecommunications technicians must be prevented from performing all other Hyper-V management task.
All of the documents created by users in the finance department must be shared with all of the managers in the company. After 30 days, only those who created the documents must be able to access the documents.
Testlet: Proseware, Inc
You need to recommend a VHD configuration for the virtual desktop pool VMs.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
Proseware, Inc. is a publishing company that has a main office and a branch office.
The main office is located in New York. The branch office is located in Sydney. The main office has 5,000 users. The branch office has 1,000 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Proseware plans to deploy a new 64-bit application named App2 to 10 users in the branch office. Only members of the local Administrators group can run App2.
Proseware is evaluating whether to deploy virtual desktop pools. The virtual desktop pools must meet the following requirements:
Apply the settings in GPO1 to the virtual machines (VMs).
Prevent the VMs from receiving the Automatic Updates settings from GPO2.
Ensure that only the host VM is affected if a virtual hard disk (VHD) file becomes corrupt.
Minimize the amount of storage used to support the VMs.
Minimize the amount of memory and CPU resources used by the VMs.
Minimize administrative effort.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. All of the client computers in the main office run Windows 7. All of the client computers in the branch office run Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 (SP3).
All of the client computers in the main office are configured as Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Visualization (MED-V) and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) clients.
A two-node Hyper-V cluster is deployed in the main office. The cluster uses Clustered Shared Volumes.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named proseware.com. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008.
The relevant organizational units (OUs) for the domain are configured as shown in the following table.
A custom Group Policy object (GPO) named GPO1 is linked to the domain, GPO1 contains corporate computer security settings.
A custom GPO named GPO2 is linked to both office OUs. GPO2 contains Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) settings.
Existing Network Infrastructure
Each office has servers that have the following server roles or role services installed:
WSUS
Hyper-V
File Services
Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access)
Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host)
Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host)
Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker) REQUIREMENTS Technical Requirements When users interactively logs on to any of the client computers in the branch office, they must automatically receive the local administrator rights to that computer. When users logs off, they must lose the administrator rights.
The disk space on all file servers must be monitored. If any file server has less than 20% free disk space on a volume, a script must run that deletes temporary files.
Problem Statements
The main office has a shared folder named Legal. The Legal share is only accessed by users in the legal department. Legal department users report that it takes a long time to locate files in the Legal share by using keyword searches.