Thursday 29 October 2015

Exam 70-695 Deploying Windows Desktops and Enterprise Applications

Exam 70-695 Deploying Windows Desktops and Enterprise Applications

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Implement the Operating System Deployment (OSD) infrastructure (21%)
Assess the computing environment
Configure and implement the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, assess Configuration Manager reports, integrate MAP with Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, determine network load capacity
Plan and implement user state migration
Design considerations, including determining which user data and settings to preserve, hard-link versus remote storage, mitigation plan for non-migrated applications, and wipe-and-load migration versus side-by-side migration; estimate migration store size; secure migrated data; create a User State Migration Tool (USMT) package
Configure the deployment infrastructure
Configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS), install and configure Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), identify network services that support deployments, select Configuration Manager distribution points, support BitLocker
Configure and manage activation
Configure KMS, MAK, and Active Directory–based activation; identify the appropriate activation tool

Implement a Lite Touch deployment (18%)
Install and configure WDS
Configure unicast/multicast, add images to WDS, configure scheduling, restrict who can receive images
Configure MDT
Configure deployment shares, manage the driver pool, configure task sequences, configure customsettings.ini
Create and manage answer files
Identify the appropriate location for answer files, identify the required number of answer files, identify the appropriate setup phase for answer files, configure answer file settings, create autounattend.xml answer files

Implement a Zero Touch deployment (20%)
Configure Configuration Manager for OSD
Configure deployment packages and applications, configure task sequences, manage the driver pool, manage boot and deployment images
Configure distribution points
Configure unicast/multicast, configure PXE, configure deployments to distribution points and distribution point groups
Configure MDT and Configuration Manager integration
Use MDT-specific task sequences; create MDT boot images; create custom task sequences, using MDT components

Create and maintain desktop images (21%)
Plan images
Design considerations, including thin, thick, and hybrid images, WDS image types, image format (VHD or WIM), number of images based on operating system or hardware platform, drivers, and operating features
Capture images
Prepare the operating system for capture, create capture images using WDS, capture an image to an existing or new WIM file, capture an operating system image using Configuration Manager
Maintain images
Update images using DISM; apply updates, drivers, settings, and files to online and offline images; apply service packs to images; manage embedded applications

Prepare and deploy the application environment (20%)
Plan for and implement application compatibility and remediation
Planning considerations, including RDS, VDI, Client Hyper-V, and 32 bit versus 64 bit; plan for application version co-existence; use the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT); deploy compatibility fixes
Deploy Office 2013 by using MSI
Customize deployment, manage Office 2013 activation, manage Office 2013 settings, integrate Lite Touch deployment, re-arm Office 2013, provide slipstream updates
Deploy Office 2013 by using click-to-run (C2R)
Configure licensing, customize deployment, configure updates, monitor usage by using the Telemetry Dashboard



Wednesday 21 October 2015

10 key moments in the history of Apple and Microsoft

Apple and Microsoft recently renewed their alliance with the goal of tackling the enterprise market, but the latest partnership is just the most recent turning point in the two companies' intertwined histories. Here are the defining moments that led up to the new pact.

Apple and Microsoft's history of highs and lows
Apple and Microsoft share a common history and bond in the evolution of personal computing. Relations between the two technology pioneers were generally cordial when they were founded in the 1970s, but that sense of mutual respect quickly turned to discord. The founders of both companies were at loggerheads often in the past. Today their new leaders appear determined to bury the hatchet and partner for greater opportunities in the enterprise.

Youthful innocence of the early '80s
Microsoft was a critical Apple ally during the first Macintosh's development. At an Apple event in 1983, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates told attendees Microsoft expected to earn half of its revenues selling Macintosh software the following year. He called the Macintosh, "something that's really new and really captures people's attention."

Jobs ousted from Apple, forms NeXT
In 1985, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was ousted from the company he cofounded nine years earlier. He immediately sold all but one share in Apple to fund the launch of NeXT, where he would spend the next 12 years building computer workstations for higher education and business.

Jobs says Microsoft has 'no taste'
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," Jobs said in the 1996 "Triumph of the Nerds" TV documentary. "They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."

Jobs returns to Apple, partners with Microsoft
When Apple acquired NeXT in 1997 and brought Steve Jobs back into the fold, the company was in disarray amid growing uncertainty about the future of Microsoft Office for Mac. During his keynote address at the Macworld Expo that year, Jobs extolled the virtues of partnering with industry leaders and spoke of the need to improve Apple's partner relations.

Gates addresses the Apple faithful in 1997
"Microsoft is going to be part of the game with us as we restore this company back to health," Jobs said at Macworld, before asking Gates to address the crowd via satellite.

"We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry," Gates said. "We think it's going to be a lot of fun helping out."

Gates and Jobs take the stage together in 2007
A seminal moment occurred between the leaders of both companies when Gates and Jobs jointly took the stage for an interview at the D5 conference. Both men praised each other in their own ways. Jobs commended Gates for building the first software company in the world, but Gates was more flattering. "What Steve's done is quite phenomenal," he said.

'Memories longer than the road ahead'
When Jobs was asked to describe the greatest misunderstanding of his relationship with Gates, he said: "I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or a Beatles song, but there's that one line in that one Beatles song — 'You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead' — and that's clearly very true here."

Apple invites Microsoft exec on stage for iPad demo
A new era of partnership buoyed by opportunities in the enterprise began to blossom in the early-2010s. At Apple's September 2015 new product event in San Francisco, the company invited Kirk Koenigsbauer, vice president of Microsoft Office, on stage to demonstrate Office 365 apps working in split-screen mode on an iPad Pro.

Microsoft CEO uses iPhone at Dreamforce
At Salesforce's 2015 Dreamforce conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demoed the company's iOS apps on an iPhone. When Nadella did the once unthinkable, using an iPhone on stage, he acknowledged it as such but also made clear that it wasn't his phone. "It is a pretty unique iPhone," he said. "I like to call it the iPhone Pro because it has all the Microsoft software and applications on it … It's pretty amazing."

Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn't hold a grudge
During a keynote at cloud-storage company Box's BoxWorks conference in September 2015, when asked about the company's renewed relationship with Microsoft, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he doesn't believe in holding grudges. "If you think back in time, Apple and IBM were foes. Apple and Microsoft were foes," Cook said. "Apple and Microsoft still compete today, but frankly Apple and Microsoft can partner on more things than we could compete on, and that's what the customer wants."


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Tuesday 13 October 2015


QUESTION 1
You need to prepare the environment for the implementation of phase 1.
What changes must be made to the environment before you can install Exchange Server 2013?

A. The operating system or service pack level of TexDC1 needs to be upgraded.
B. The Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers in Washington and Boston need to be upgraded.
C. A server running Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010 needs to be installed in Texas.
D. The PDC emulator role needs to be transferred to a domain controller in Washington or Boston.

Answer: A

Explanation:


QUESTION 2
You are evaluating whether the proposed Exchange solution will meet the current and future
capacity requirements.
You want to gather statistics about the current Exchange environment.
Which of the following tools would you use to determine the number of emails sent to and received
by the current users?

A. Remote Server Administration Tools.
B. Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer.
C. Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant.
D. ESEUtil.exe.
E. Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress.

Answer: B

Explanation:


QUESTION 3
You need to apply the required size restriction to the mailboxes in the new environment.
Which of the following commands should you run?

A. Get-MailboxDatabase | Set-MailboxDatabase –ProhibitSendReceiveQuota
B. Get-MailboxDatabase | Set-Mailbox –ProhibitSendReceiveQuota
C. Get-Mailbox | Set-Mailbox –ProhibitSendReceiveQuota
D. Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-Mailbox | Set-Mailbox –ProhibitSendReceiveQuota

Answer: A

Explanation:


QUESTION 4
You are evaluating whether the proposed Exchange solution will meet the current and future
capacity requirements.
You want to gather statistics about the current Exchange environment.
Which of the following tools would you use to determine the number of IOPS (Input/Output
Operations Per Second) required for the mailbox database storage?

A. ESEUtil.exe.
B. Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress.
C. Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant.
D. Exchange Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator.
E. SQL Server Analysis Services.

Answer: D

Explanation:


QUESTION 5
You need to install and configure anti-spam and antimalware filtering.
Which servers should you install the anti-spam agents and enable the anti-spam and antimalware
filtering? (Choose two).

A. You should install the anti-spam agents on the Client Access Servers only.
B. You should install the anti-spam agents on the Mailbox serversonly.
C. You should install the anti-spam agents on the Client Access Servers and the Mailbox Servers.
D. You should enable antimalware filtering on the Client Access Serversonly.
E. You should enable antimalware filtering on the Mailbox serversonly.
F. You enable antimalware filtering on the Client Access Servers and the Mailbox Servers.

Answer: B,E

Explanation:


Friday 9 October 2015

70-246 Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012

QUESTION 1
Your company has a datacenter in Los Angeles that contains a System Center 2012 Operations
Manager infrastructure. You create three unsealed management packs named Pack1, Pack2, and
Pack3. You create an override for Pack1. You create a group in Pack2. You need to apply the override
for Pack1 to the group in Pack2. What should you do before you apply the override?

A. Create a new class in Pack2.
B. Seal Pack2.
C. Seal Pack1.
D. Create a new class in Pack1.
E. Create a new class in Pack3.

Correct Answer: B


QUESTION 2
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 Operations
Manager infrastructure. The Operations Manager management server role is installed on a server
named Server1. You deploy a server named Server2, and then join Server2 to the domain. You log
on to Server2 and install the Operations Manager agent. You specify Server1 as the management
server. You notice that Server1 did not discover Server2. You need to add Server2 as an agentmanaged
device. What should you do from the Operations Manager console?

A. Run the Discovery Wizard - Computer and Device Management Wizard.
B. Import the Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack.
C. Modify the Global Management Server Settings - Security settings.
D. Create a new discovery rule.

Correct Answer: C


QUESTION 3
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 Operations
Manager infrastructure. You have a line-of-business web application named App1. App1 stores its
information in a dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. You need to create a central
diagram that contains the complete health information of App1. You import the SQL, IIS, and
Windows Server management packs. What should you create next?

A. a Service Level Dashboard
B. a diagram view
C. a dashboard view
D. a distributed application model

Correct Answer: D


QUESTION 4
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 Operations
Manager infrastructure. You plan to create a distributed application named DistributedApp1. You
need to ensure that a folder for DistributedApp1 is available from the Monitoring workspace in the
Operations Manager console. What should you do?

A. Save DistributedApp1 as a new management pack.
B. Save DistributedApp1 in the Default Management Pack.
C. Add the OperationsManagerAppMonitoring object to DistributedApp1.
D. Add the OperationsManagerMonitoringView object to DistributedApp1.

Correct Answer: A


QUESTION 5
Your company has a datacenter in Los Angeles that contains a private cloud. The private cloud is
managed by using a System Center 2012 Operations Manager infrastructure. You plan to create a
distributed application named App1. You need to ensure that a folder for App1 is available from
the Monitoring workspace in the Operation Manager console. What should you do?

A. Run the Protect-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet.
B. Save App1 in the Default Management Pack.
C. Run the Import-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet.
D. Save App1 as a new management pack.

Correct Answer: D


QUESTION 6
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network contains a Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) infrastructure and an Operation Manager
infrastructure. You create and deploy a three-tier service to VMM. You plan to view service
diagrams in Operations Manager. You need to identify which management packs must be imported
to Operations Manager for the planned diagrams. The solution must minimize the number of
imported management packs. Which management packs should you identify? (Each correct
answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)

A. the Windows Server Operating System management pack
B. the Internet Information Services 7 Monitoring management pack
C. the File Services management pack
D. the Microsoft SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack
E. the Monitoring Pack for Active Directory (AD)
F. the Windows Server DNS 2003/2008/2008 R2 Monitoring Management Pack

Correct Answer: ABD