Deck 8: Designing High Availability and Business Continuity

Question 1

____ is when one node in a failover cluster fails, another instance will take over for the failed node.

A) Failsafe
C) Failback
B) Activation
D) Failover

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In an NLB Cluster, ____ is the most common mode used, and is recommended in Microsoft documentation.

A) unicast
C) multicast
B) broadcast
D) Internet group multicast

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Servers within a failover cluster are referred to as ____.

A) units
C) components
B) nodes
D) hosts

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The choice of quorum model largely depends on ____.

A) the number of nodes in the cluster
C) the resources of the cluster
B) the services being balanced
D) the network performance

Question 5

If the user account is located in an OU, the OU is not included in the DN.

Question 6

With ____, server load is balanced across each of the servers and progressively more clients can be added without degrading the service.

A) scale up
B) scale out
C) vertical scaling
D) linear scaling

Question 7

The Windows Server Backup feature isn't installed by default.

Question 8

The ____ feature of Windows Server 2008 can increase stability and provide scalability for applications and services.

A) System Load Balancing
C) Operations Load Balancing
B) Service Load Balancing
D) Network Load Balancing

Question 9

Failover clusters can be used to provide fault tolerance at the disk level.

Question 10

When using NLB, you should obtain a certificate using the ____ of the cluster as the common name in the certificate.

A) IP Address
C) fully qualified domain name
B) distinguished name
D) domain name

Question 11

The ____ is traditional disk storage format for Windows, but it has a 2 Terabyte (TB) maximum size, which can sometimes be a concern for failover clusters.

A) partition boot record
C) master boot record
B) master file table
D) file allocation table

Question 12

The primary tool you'll use to create and configure NLB clusters is the ____.

A) Computer Manager
C) Network Load Balancing Manager
B) Server Manager
D) Networking Center

Question 13

____ means that a service is available when it's needed.

A) High availability
B) Load availability
C) Load balancing
D) Continuity availability

Question 14

____ is when a failed node comes back online, services that moved to another node in the cluster can be returned to the original node.

A) Failover
C) Regression
B) Failback
D) Restoration

Question 15

In the ____ model nodes and the disk are allowed to vote in the quorum.

A) node majority
C) disk and service majority
B) service majority
D) node and disk majority

Question 16

____ is the standard or traditional method used to connect to disk storage solutions.

A) Ethernet
C) Serial Attach SCSI
B) Token ring
D) Fibre Channel

Question 17

____ includes all the methods and technologies used to ensure that a business can continue to operate even after a failure occurs.

A) Disaster recovery
B) Business recovery
C) Business continuity
D) Operations continuity

Question 18

There's no difference between fault tolerance at the disk level and at the server level.

Question 19

An authoritative restore can mark a single object (such as the CEO's account), an entire OU, or the entire Active Directory database as authoritative.

Question 20

One percent downtime equates to more than ____ of downtime in a year.

A) 5 minutes 15 seconds
B) 52 minutes 34 seconds
C) 8 hours 46 minutes
D) 87 hours 36 minutes

Question 21

During normal operation, any changes, modifications, and deletions that occur on one domain controller are replicated to all other domain controllers in the same site in approximately ____.

A) one minute
C) 12 hours
B) one hour
D) 24 hours

Question 22

The ___________________ tools feature in Windows Server Backup includes support for doing backups with Windows PowerShell commands and scripts.

Question 23

If you want to back up only system state data using the Wbadmin command-line tool, you can use the following command:

A) Wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backuptarget:x:
B) Wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:x:
C) Wbadmin start sysrecovery -backuptarget:x:
D) Wbadmin start systemstaterecovery -backuptarget:x:

Question 24

A(n) ___________________ is a group of independent servers configured together to provide high availability of a service or application.

Question 25

The ________________________ feature adds the services used for backup and restore, and includes support for both the Windows Server Backup console and the Wbadmin command-line tool.

Question 26

Discuss the hardware and shared storage requirements of a failover cluster.

Question 27

Describe how an authoritative restore of a single record will be properly replicated to the remainder of the directory.

Question 28

How can load balancing and fault tolerance be achieved?

Question 29

Explain the results of pausing, stopping and evicting a node.

Question 30

Active Directory uses ____ to identify the most current version of all objects.

A) Target Sequence Numbers
C) Update Sequence Numbers
B) Activity Sequence Numbers
D) Version Sequence Numbers

Question 31

Describe how to add hosts to an NLB cluster.

Question 32

___________________ rules are used to identify the traffic that will be balanced by the NLB cluster.

Question 33

Identify a limitation of using the native backup tools for Active Directory.

Question 34

Explain how and why a failover clusters should be removed.

Question 35

The ____ can be used to validate the hardware used in the failover cluster and the configuration of a cluster.

A) Configuration wizard
C) Operational Validation wizard
B) System Configuration Validation wizard
D) Validate a Configuration wizard

Question 36

Explain how the network address is assigned in a NLB cluster.

Question 37

When performing an authoritative restore with NTDSUtil, you use the ____ of the object.

A) common name
C) fully qualified domain name
B) distinguished name
D) short host name

Question 38

The ____ console is used to validate the hardware configuration of nodes and to create and manage clusters.

A) Failover Cluster Management
C) Network Load Balancing Manager
B) Computer Manager
D) Server Manager

Question 39

___________________ are commonly used to achieve high availability.

Question 40

Explain how to perform an authoritative restore.

Question 41

List and describe the steps to perform a non-authoritative restore.