Microsoft 70-246
Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System
Center 2012
Version: Demo 30.0
QUESTION NO: 1
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor all network devices.
The network has a leased line connection to your ISP. A router managed by the ISP connects the leased line to the LAN.
The router is configured to allow only the ISP to access the configuration of the router to comply with the security policy of the ISP.
You want to use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the router and alert you if the router goes offline.
You need to configure SCOM to discover the router while adhering to the ISP security policy.
Which access mode should you use?
A. SNMPv2 only.
B. ICMP only.
C. ICMP and SNMPv2.
D. SNMPv2 and SNMPv3.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 2
You work as a Network Administrator at ABC.com. The network includes a System Center 2012 infrastructure. A private cloud is hosted in a datacenter and managed by System Center 2012.
The company hosts services and applications for customers in the cloud.
The company offers various Service Level Agreements (SLAs) ranging from 95 percent uptime to 99.99 percent uptime depending on the package requested by the customer.
You use System Center 2012 – Service Manager to manage the Service Level Agreements.
In Service Manager, a Service Level Object is defined by which three components?
A. Calendar, Subscription, Queue.
B. Connector, Metric, Channel.
C. Metric, Calendar, Queue.
D. Channel, Metric, Queue.
E. Calendar, Metric, Subscription.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 3
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
A Windows Server 2008 VM running Internet Information Services (IIS) hosts a .NET web based application. The application stores data in a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database.
You use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the availability of the web application from an SCOM Watcher Node. You now want to configure SCOM to monitor the SQL Server database used by the web application. You want to monitor the following:
Success of the database connection or query.
Time to connect to database.
Time to complete the query.
Time to fetch results of query.
How should you configure the required monitoring?
A. By configuring a Process monitor in SCOM.
B. By configuring a Windows Service monitor.
C. By configuring a OLE DB Data Source monitor in SCOM.
D. By configuring a TCP Port monitor.
Answer: C
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor the servers in the private cloud.
An SCOM monitor targets all the servers in the private cloud. You want to create an override for the monitor to target only the servers that have a specific application installed.
A registry value is used to identify the servers with the application installed.
Which two of the following should you create to use with the override? (Choose two).
A. A Dynamic Group.
B. A Static Group.
C. A Workflow.
D. A Task.
E. An Attribute.
Answer: A,E
QUESTION NO: 5
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network infrastructure and private cloud is monitored by System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM).
Messaging Administrators deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 throughout the company.
You want to use SCOM to monitor the Exchange servers. You will import the Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack into SCOM.
You want to configure SCOM to send SMS notifications related to the Exchange Servers to the Messaging Administrators.
What should you do first?
A. You should configure an Exchange Routing Connector.
B. You should create a monitor.
C. You should configure Exchange Send and Receive Connectors.
D. You should create an attribute.
E. You should create a channel.
Answer: E
QUESTION NO: 6
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and are managed by servers running System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
You are configuring a hardware profile in VMM. The hardware profile will be used to create virtual machines configured for Windows Network Load Balancing.
In the Network Adapter Properties, you configure the network adapter to be connected to a logical network and to use a Static IP address from the Static IP Pool.
You now need to configure the MAC address options.
Which two of the following options should you configure? (Choose two).
A. You should select the option for a Dynamic MAC Address.
B. You should select the option for a Static MAC Address.
C. You should tick the Enable Spoofing of MAC Addresses checkbox.
D. You should clear the Enable Spoofing of MAC Addresses checkbox.
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 7
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You have a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM running Internet Information Services (IIS) that hosts a web based application. The VM is hosted at your ISP and is not part of your private cloud.
You want to monitor the web application from your System Center 2012 infrastructure. You want incidents to be generated by System Center 2012 – Service Manager when the web application is offline.
How should you configure the System Center 2012 infrastructure?
A. You should create a service level objective (SLO).
B. You should create a synthetic transaction.
C. You should create a process monitor.
D. You should create a port monitor.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 8
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You are hosting a line-of-business web application in the cloud. You have configured a distributed application for the web application.
An SLA for the web application specifies 99.9% uptime.
You are configuring a Service Level Objective (SLO) to monitor the uptime of the distributed application.
Which options should you select when creating the SLO?
A. You should select a Monitor State SLO with the Performance option.
B. You should select a Monitor State SLO with the Configuration option.
C. You should select a Monitor State SLO with the Availability option.
D. You should select a Collection Rule SLO.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 9
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s private cloud. The company has a System Center 2012 infrastructure that includes System Center 2012 - Service Manager (SCSM).
You use Service Manager for Service Level Management. You need to create a service level objective (SLO) in Service Manager for incidents that meet the following criteria:
Priority = 1
Incident Category = Email Problem.
Assigned User = Empty.
What should be your first step?
A. You should first create a Service Template.
B. You should first create a Connector.
C. You should first create a Queue.
D. You should first create a Query.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 10
You work as a Network Administrator at ABC.com. The network includes a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Service Manager is used by the help desk department to track any problems reported with network devices, servers or computers.
You want to be notified every time a new incident that pertains to a server problem is opened.
You open the System Center 2012 Service Manager Console.
What should you do next?
A. You should configure an announcement.
D. You should configure a connector.
Answer: B
