70-981 Exam - Recertification for MCSE: Private Cloud

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Q1. - (Topic 14) 

You have a deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). 

You plan to use the Create Clustered File Server Wizard to create a cluster on two physical servers named Server1 and Server2. The new cluster will be named Cluster1 and will have a virtual IP (VIP) of 10.20.30.13. 

When you attempt to deploy the new cluster, you receive the following error message in the job window: "Error (26568) The IP address 10.20.30.13 could not be allocated from any IP address pool." 

You need to ensure that you can deploy the cluster. 

What should you do? 

A. Create a new logical network IP pool and add the IP address to the new pool. 

B. Create a new VIP template profile. 

C. Add the IP address to the VIP section of the logical network IP pool. 

D. Create a DHCP reservation for the IP address. 

Answer:

Q2. - (Topic 11) 

You need to recommend a design for the Operations Manager 2012 infrastructure. 

What should you include in the recommendation? (More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.) 

A. 

. In the Dublin data center, one local management group that contains two management servers 

. In each of the data centers in Dublin, Bangalore, Dallas, and Sydney, one remote management group that contains two management servers 

B. 

. One management group that contains all of the management servers 

. One resource pool that contains all of the management servers 

C. 

. In the Dublin data center, one connected management group that contains two management servers 

. In each of the data centers in Bangalore, Dallas, and Sydney, one local management group that contains two management servers 

D. 

. In the Dublin data center, one local management group that contains two management servers 

. In each of the data centers in Bangalore, Dallas, and Sydney, one connected management group that contains two management servers 

Answer:

Topic 12, Fabrikam, Inc (B)

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is an IT services and hosting provider.

Fabrikam has two main data centers. The data centers are located in New York and Montreal. The data centers connect to each other by using high-bandwidth, low latency WAN links. Each data center connects directly to the Internet.

Existing Environment

The network contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com that is dedicated to hosting services. All of the servers in the forest run Windows Server 2012 R2.

The network contains a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that includes the following components:

Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

Service Provider Foundation

Operations Manager

Orchestrator

Fabrikam has implemented Hyper-V Network Virtualization in the hosting environment.

All storage is either SAN-based or direct-attached storage (DAS). All VMM library servers use DAS storage. None of the VMM library servers are managed as VMM Hyper-V hosts.

Each Hyper-V host has four 10-GbE network adapters.

Requirements

Business Goals

Fabrikam plans to provide hosting services to two customers named Customer1 and Customer2. Customer1 is based in New York and Customer2 is based in Montreal. IT services will include assistance managing the services in the following table.

The internal network of Customer1 contains a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that includes the following components:

Operations Manager

App Controller

VMM

Customer1 plans to deploy multi-tier VMM services that run Internet Information Services (IIS), .NET applications, and Microsoft SQL Server. Customer1 plans to deploy nonclustered virtual machines only.

Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes to the network:

Deploy a Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) virtual machine.

Replace the SAN by using iSCSI targets on servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2.

General Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for the planned deployment:

Hyper-V hosts must remain available if a single network adapter fails. You must be able to control the amount of bandwidth allocated to iSCSI traffic and Failover Clustering redirected traffic.

Virtual machines that run in the Fabrikam data centers must remain available if a single data center fails. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be 30 seconds.

The IT staff at Fabrikam must be able to mount iSCSI target logical units on Hyper-V hosts directly from the Virtual Machine Manager console.

Hyper-V management and storage traffic must be separated from the network traffic generated by virtual machine guests.

Virtual machines must be deployed by using a SAN copy.

If a site fails, a failover must be invoked manually.

Customer1 Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for Customer1:

Customer1 will use Hyper-V Network Virtualization in its hosted environment.

Customer1 will require the ability to manage all of its cloud services from a single interface.

Each deployment of a virtual machine for Customer1 must trigger the execution of a runbook by using the Orchestrator web service. The runbook must execute before any user account logs on to the virtual machine.

Customer2 Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for Customer2:

Customer2 must be able to connect to the console of the hosted virtual machines.

All of the metadata for any of the virtual machines of Customer1 must not be stored in Windows Azure.

123. DRAG DROP - (Topic 12) 

You obtain a Client Authentication certificate. 

You need to recommend a solution that meets the manageability requirements of Customer2. 

From where should you recommend performing the required tasks? To answer, drag the appropriate locations to the correct tasks. Each location may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. 

Q3. - (Topic 6) 

You need to ensure that the self-service users and the administrators can deploy virtual machines. The solution must meet the technical requirements. 

What should you create? 

A. Two VMM library shares 

B. One host profile 

C. Two application profiles 

D. One virtual machine template 

Answer:

Topic 7, Contoso, Ltd (B)

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company.

Contoso has a main office and six branch offices. The main office is located in Toronto.

The branch offices are located in New York, Seattle, Miami, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

Existing Environment

Active Directory Environment

The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest contains a child domain for each office.

Active Directory currently contains 7,500 user accounts and 15,000 computer accounts.

Network Infrastructure

All servers are located in a data center in Toronto. The data center contains multiple subnets that are separated by firewalls.

The Toronto data center contains a cluster that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Four servers are unused and are being considered as potential Hyper-V hosts. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.

All of the servers being considered as potential Hyper-V hosts have both locally attached storage and access to a SAN.

Help Desk Environment

Contoso uses a help desk ticketing system that was developed in-house. Fifty help desk agents have access to the ticketing system.

The ticketing system currently tracks:

An average of two new incidents per month, per client computer

An average of 2,000 change requests per month

Disaster Recovery Environment

Contoso uses a third-party backup solution. Backups are scheduled for the servers in the Seattle office as follows:

The daily incremental backups total 10 GB.

The total size of data to back up is 100 GB.

Backed up data is retained for 10 business days.

Problem Statements

The original developers of the help desk ticketing system are no longer employed by Contoso and maintenance of the system is becoming an issue.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Contoso plans to move the IT infrastructure to a private cloud.

Whenever possible, hardware and software costs must be minimized.

Contoso plans to open a small office in Beijing. System Center 2012 App Controller will be used to manage applications. The display names of the applications will be in Simplified Chinese Pinyin IME.

New physical servers will be deployed by using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager from a server named Server5. Server5 will also be a PXE service point.

The current backup solution will be replaced with System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM).

A public key infrastructure (PKI) will be deployed to issue and manage certificates. The PKI deployment must be made as secure as possible.

Hardware load balancers will be deployed for use in the deployment of private cloud services.

Cloud Requirements

Contoso plans to implement a cloud solution that meets the following requirements:

Stores all virtual machines on the SAN only.

Uses SAN copy to provision the virtual machines.

Provides the ability to manage the resolution of incidents.

Contains managed virtual machines across both private and public clouds.

Provides the ability to customize the settings of management packs provided by Microsoft.

Collects security events from all of the servers running in the private cloud and provides centralized reporting on the events.

App1 Requirements

A new application named App1 will be deployed to the private cloud. App1 is a three-tier application that contains the following components:

A front-end tier that runs a web server. The tier must be highly available and capable of being quickly scaled out if required.

A middle tier that runs an application server.

A back-end tier that runs a database.

App2 Requirements

An application named App2 will be deployed to the public cloud. Users will be authenticated by using the on-premises Active Directory. The users must be able to access App2 without being prompted for authentication again.

64. - (Topic 7) 

You need to identify which UDP port or ports must be opened on any of the firewalls between Server5 and all of the subnets in the data center. The solution must minimize the number of ports opened on the firewall. 

Which port or ports should you identify? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.) 

A. 67 

B. 69 

C. 389 

D. 3389 

E. 4010 

F. 4011 

Q4. - (Topic 7) 

You need to recommend a solution to meet the technical requirements for the web tier of Appl. 

What should you include in the recommendation? (More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.) 

A. Network Load Balancing (NLB) 

B. Failover Clustering 

C. Multipath I/O (MPIO) 

D. DNS round robin 

Answer:

Explanation: Network Load Balancing (NLB) provides scalability and at the same time helps increase availability of Web-based services http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725946.aspx 

Q5. DRAG DROP - (Topic 7) 

You need to configure the storage fabric to support the deployment of the virtual machines. The solution must meet the cloud requirements. 

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate three actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.) 

Answer:  

Q6. - (Topic 13) 

Your company deploys System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). 

You plan to perform a new server deployment. The new server deployment will include a custom application named App1. 

You use Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) to virtualize App1. You create an application profile. You create a service deployment to deploy the App1 by using a Windows Server 2012 R2 template. 

After deploying the service, you discover that App1 was not installed. You view the application profile as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.) 

You need to ensure that App1 is installed when you deploy the service. 

What should you add to the application profile? 

A. A Script Application that adds the Server App-V Agent 

B. A Script Application that adds the WebDeploy Agent 

C. A Script to Application that installs the Server App-V Agent 

D. A Script to Application that installs the WebDeploy Agent 

Answer:

Q7. - (Topic 13) 

Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 Operations Manager infrastructure. 

You have a distributed application named App1. App1 has the following service level objectives (SLOs): 

. At least 99.9 percent uptime 

. No more than 85 percent average CPU utilization 

You need to add the SLOs that monitor the required information to Service Level Tracking. 

Which SLO or SLOs should you add? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.) 

A. Monitor state SLO - Availability 

B. Monitor state SLO - Security 

C. Collection rule SLO 

D. Monitor state SLO - Performance 

E. Monitor state SLO - Configuration 

Answer: A,C 

Explanation: 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230719.aspx 

To define a service level objective for an application 

Open the Operations console with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager 

Administrators user role. 

Click Authoring. 

In the navigation pane, expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Service Level 

Tracking. 

In the Tasks pane, click Create. 

In the Service Level Tracking dialog box, type a name for the service level that you are 

defining. For example, type LOB Application 1. Optionally, you can provide a description. 

Click Next. 

On the Objects to Track page, under Targeted class, click Select. 

In the Select a Target Class dialog box, select a class for the service level, such as 

Distributed Application, from the list in the text box. You can search for a class by typing its 

name into the Look For text box. Click OK to close the Select a Target dialog box. 

You can use the Scope option to specify the scope for the service level. The default 

selection is to use all objects of the targeted class. 

Select the management pack that this service level will be saved in. You can use an 

existing management pack or create a new one. 

Click Next. 

On the Service Level Objectives page, click Add, and then click Monitor state SLO to 

create a new monitor. 

This monitor will track the availability of the application. 

Define the state monitor as follows: 

In the Service level objective name text box, type a name for the service level objective. 

For this scenario, type Availability. 

From the Monitor drop-down list, choose the specific monitor that you want to use to 

measure the objective. For this scenario, choose Availability. 

Using the Service level objective goal (%) spin box, provide the numerical measure for your 

objective. For example, select 99.990 to indicate that your goal is 99.99% availability. 

You can refine what the monitor tracks to determine availability by selecting or clearing any 

of the following state criteria: 

Unplanned maintenance 

Unmonitored 

Monitoring unavailable 

Monitor disabled 

Planned maintenance 

Warning 

Click OK. 

On the Service Level Objectives page, click Add, and then click Collection rule SLO to 

create a new collection rule. This rule will track the performance of the application Define 

the performance collection rule as follows: 

In the Service level objective name: text box, type a name for the service level objective. 

For this scenario, type Performance. 

Under Targeted class, click Select to open the Select a Target Class dialog box. Specify 

the target class for the rule from the list of targets in the text box. Note that this class must 

be contained in the distributed application. 

For this scenario, select the specific class the rule is targeted to, such as Windows Server 

2008 Operating System. 

Under Performance collection rule, click Select to open the Select a Rule dialog box. 

Specify the performance collection rule to use. For this scenario, choose Collect Processor\ 

% Processor Time performance counter, and then click OK. 

Using one of the Aggregation method options, choose one of the following: 

Average 

Min 

Max 

Use the Service level objective goal drop-down list to specify either Less than or More than, 

and enter a value in the adjacent text box. For this scenario, choose Less Than and 80. 

This indicates that the performance goal is to never exceed 80% processor time. 

Click OK. 

On the Service Level Objectives page, click Next. 

On the Summary page, review the settings, and then click Finish. 

When the Completion page appears, click Close. 

Q8. - (Topic 13) 

You have a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure. 

You plan to implement the Audit Collection Service (ACS). ACS reports will not be available 

from the Operations Manager console. 

You need to recommend a solution to view the ACS reports. 

What should you include in the recommendation? 

A. A Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) instance 

B. A reporting services point in Configuration Manager 

C. A Reporting data warehouse for Service Manager 

D. A Microsoft SharePoint Server report library 

Answer:

Q9. DRAG DROP - (Topic 8) 

You create a service template for the order management application. 

You need to configure the compatibility settings for the application profiles used in the virtual machine templates. 

Which compatibility setting should you use for each application profile? To answer, drag the appropriate compatibility settings to the correct application profiles. Each compatibility setting may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. 

Answer:  

Topic 9, Litware, Inc (B)

Overview

Litware, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company.

Litware has an office in Montreal. Litware has a marketing department and a research department.

Existing Environment

Network Infrastructure

The network contains a single Active Directory domain named litwareinc.com. The domain contains 1,000 physical servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2.

All of the servers are located in a leased data center that has a high-bandwidth, low-latency network. The data center contains third-party iSCSI SAN storage devices that support an SMI-S provider.

Application Infrastructure

Users in the research department use multiple instances of a three-tier application named Appl. App1 consists of the components shown in the following table.

The Web Server (IIS) server role, WMI providers, Windows services, Windows drivers, and web applications will be installed on the servers that host Tier 2.

Problem Statements

Litware identifies the following issues:

The cost of leasing data center space is increasing steadily.

The research department users report that it takes too long to provision new instances of Appl.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Litware plans to deploy 400 additional servers that will run Windows Server 2008 R2. The servers will be configured asshown in the following table.

Litware also plans to deploy the following System Center 2012 components:

Orchestrator

App Controller

Service Manager

Operations Manager

Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Virtualization Machine Manager (VMM)

Litware plans to provide the research department users with the ability to deploy instances of App1.

Private Cloud Infrastructure Requirements

Litware identifies the following requirements for the planned private cloud infrastructure:

VMM must be available if a server or a service fails.

Virtual machines must be provisioned by using SAN copy cloning.

The implementation of App Controller must support single sign-on.

The implementation of Service Manager must support French and English.

The implementation of VMM must support the provisioning of virtual machines by using SAN copy.

Virtual machines hosted on Hyper-V failover clusters must remain available during the installation of Windows updates.

Physical servers that have workloads that are suitable for a virtualized environment must be virtualized. Performance data must be taken into account when identifying which servers must be virtualized.

Private Cloud Integration Requirements

Litware identifies the following requirements for integrating the System Center 2012 components:

Incidents in Service Manager must be resolved automatically, whenever possible.

Alerts generated by Operations Manager must trigger incidents in Service Manager.

Operations Manager alerts triggered by VMM events must be remediated automatically, whenever possible.

All of the Orchestrator components responsible for executing the activities of Service Manager workflows must be highly available.

Private Cloud Services Requirements

Litware identifies the following requirements for managing services in the private cloud:

App1 must be deployed by using a VMM service template.

The Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as a highly available virtual machine.

The research department users must use App Controller to deploy virtual machines and services.

The virtual machines deployed by the research department users must be hosted on servers in the research department.

The virtual machines in Tier 1 of App1 must be configured as cluster nodes by using the Network Load Balancing (NLB) feature.

A web application named WA1 in Tier 2 of App1 must use a connection string that points to a Microsoft SQL Server database in Tier 3 of Appl.

The software components included in Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) packages, whenever possible.

86. - (Topic 9) 

You need to recommend a patching solution for the VMM infrastructure. The solution must meet the requirements for the planned private cloud infrastructure. 

What should you recommend? (More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.) 

A. Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) 

B. A Service Manager workflow 

C. An Orchestrator runbook 

D. VMM update remediation 

Q10. HOTSPOT - (Topic 14) 

You have a System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) infrastructure. 

You create a SQL Server Profile. 

You plan to deploy new virtual machines based on a virtual machine template named VT1. 

You need to ensure that the SQL Server Profile is applied to the new virtual machines. 

Which object should you create from the VMM Administrator Console? 

To answer, select the appropriate object type in the answer area. 

Answer: