Assignment -1
Answer all the questions below. Keep your answers short and to the point. Type (do not handwrite) your answers. You need to get at least 10 of the questions correct to be judged competent in the task
1. Give two examples of technologies that implement biometric authentication
2. What is the name of the network service that provides authentication, authorisation and accounting services, and is commonly used to authenticate remote users connecting via a VPN?
3. List two protocols that can be used to implement a site-to-site VPN.
4. List two protocols that can be used to implement a remote access VPN.
5. What are the two main function of the Key Distribution Center (KDC) within the Kerberos protocol?
6. What are the two types of tickets issued to a Kerberos client once the client has been authenticated?
7. What is the main advantage of the CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) over PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)?
8. When I install Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), what are the two types of Certificate Authority (CA) that are supported (hint: one requires Active Directory to be installed, whereas the other does not) ?
9. What is the name of the list maintained by AD CS which has details of revoked certificates, and what information is stored in that list?
10. List three types of Windows logs that you can see in Windows 2012
11. What is the minimum amount of RAM you need on a server to install Windows 2012 Server R2?
12. List two advantages of using the Server Core installation option (as opposed to the GUI option) in Windows 2012 Server
13. What is the option in the sconfig utility in Windows 2012 that I would use to restore the GUI to a Windows 2012 Server that was running a Server Core installation?
14. What is the name of the disk virtualization technology in Windows 2012 Server that allows you to combine storage from multiple physical drives into a pool of storage?
15. What are three pieces of information I might want to document about an installed server?
16. I want to set up a Windows 2012 Server as a domain controller. What type of IP address do I need to allocate to the server so it can function as a domain controller?
17. What is the PowerShell command I use to install the Active Directory Domain Services role on a Windows 212 Server running Server Core?
18. On a Windows 2012 Server, where are the local user accounts stored?
Part -2:
Assignment
Answer all the questions below. Keep your answers short and to the point. Type (do not handwrite) your answers. You need to get at least 10 of the questions correct to be judged competent in the task
1. What is the main role of DNS (Domain Name System) in a network?
2. List the FTP commands that I would use to (i) list files available in an FTP directory and (ii) copy a file from an FTP server to my computer running the FTP client.
3. What is the main purpose of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) in a network?
4. List two file systems that can be used by the Windows 2012 operating system
5. What is the command I would enter from the Windows command line to (i) start the Windows service called "Workstation" ; (ii) stop the Windows service called "Workstation"
6. Give one advantage of journaling in file systems.
7. Briefly explain how Task Scheduler be used to help administer server backups.
8. Give two examples of counters that can be used on Performance Monitor to monitor disk performance on a server.
9. What do the PowerShell commaciil. s Get-Process and Stop-Process do? How can they assist in troubleshooting server problems?
10. List three types of Windows logs that you can see in Windows 2012
11. What is the minimum amount of RAM you need on a server to install Windows 2012 Server R2?