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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By : Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic
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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By: Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

Overview of this book

MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals, which includes working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. This book is aimed at the 70-740 certification and is part of Packt's three-book series on MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification, which covers Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, and Exam 70-742. This book will cover exam objectives for the 70-740 exam, and starting from installing and configuring Windows Server 2016, Windows Server imaging and deployment to configuring and managing disks and volumes, implementing and configuring server storage and implementing Hyper-V. At the end of each chapter you will be provided test questions to revise your learnings which will boost your confidence in preparing for the actual certifications. By the end of this book, you will learn everything needed to pass the, MCSA Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, certification.

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Installing Windows Server 2016
Installing Windows Server 2016
Technical requirements
Installing Windows Server 2016
Installing and configuring Nano Server
Upgrading and migrating servers and workloads
Summary
Questions
Further reading
2
Windows Server Imaging and Deployment
Windows Server Imaging and Deployment
Technical requirements
Assessment and planning
Working with images
Updating images
Summary
Questions
Further reading
3
Configuring and Implementing Storage
Configuring and Implementing Storage
Technical requirements
Configuring and managing disks and volumes
Implementing and configuring server storage
Implementing data deduplication
Summary
Questions
Further reading
4
Getting to Know Hyper-V
Getting to Know Hyper-V
Technical requirements
Installing and configuring Hyper-V
Configuring virtual machine settings
Configuring Hyper-V storage
Configuring Hyper-V networking
Summary
Questions
Further reading
5
Understanding Windows Containers
Understanding Windows Containers
An introduction to containers
Deploying Windows Containers
Managing Windows Containers
Summary
Questions
Further reading
6
High Availability
High Availability
Disaster recovery and high availability in Hyper-V
Implementing Storage Spaces Direct
Implementing Network Load Balancing
Summary
Questions
Further reading
7
Implementing Clustering
Implementing Clustering
Planning and implementing failover clustering
Managing a failover cluster
Hyper-V failover clusters
Summary
Questions
Further reading
8
Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments
Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments
Implementing Windows Server Update Services
Configuring Windows Server Backup
Monitoring Windows Server
Summary
Questions
Further reading
9
Assessments
Assessments
Chapter 1: Installing Windows Server 2016
Chapter 2: Windows Server Imaging and Deployment
Chapter 3: Configuring and Implementing Storage
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Hyper-V
Chapter 5: Understanding Windows Containers
Chapter 6: High Availability
Chapter 7: Implementing Clustering
Chapter 8: Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments

Questions

  1. What's the shortest interval for Hyper-V Replica synchronization?
    1. 5 seconds
    2. 60 minutes
    3. 5 minutes
    4. 30 seconds
  2. Is live migration available on standalone Hyper-V servers?
    1. Yes
    2. No
  3. In which state do drives need to be for Storage Spaces Direct?
    1. Formatted in NTFS
    2. With two partitions minimum
    3. Unformatted
    4. Converted to Dynamic disk
  4. What's the maximum number of NLB cluster nodes?
    1. 16
    2. 1
    3. 64
    4. 32
  5. What's the Storage Spaces Direct deployment that supports computing and storage at the same time?
    1. Converged
    2. Super Storage Spaces Direct
    3. Hyper-converged
    4. Advanced software-defined storage
  6. The affinity settings None, Single, and Network are NOT supported in which port rule?
    1. Multiple hosts
    2. Single hosts
  1. What's the maximum number of servers in a Storage Spaces Direct cluster?
    1. 2
    2. 4
    3. 16
    4. 32
  2. Can storage migration move all virtual machine data to another location...
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