15 Multiple Choice
6 Short Answer
3 Best Answer
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31 questions
Multiple Choice
1. Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a software platform and technology that allows
you to perform which function?
a. automated staging setup for bootable images
b. automated network-based installations based on network-based boot and installation
media
c. downloadable installations based on staged image files
d. automated configuration and installation via ISO images and an FTP service
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Using Windows Deployment Services
Explanation: This is the definition of Windows Deployment Services: a software platform
and technology that allows you to perform automated network-based installations based on
network-based boot and installation media.
2. Which two role services does the WDS Role include?
a. Active Directory and Systems Management Server
b. Deployment Server and Active Directory
c. Transport Server and Systems Management Server
d. Transport Server and Deployment Server
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Installing the Windows Deployment Services Role
Explanation: Transport Server and Deployment Server are the defined role components of
WDS.
3. What role does preboot execution environment (PXE) play in WDS?
a. It’s used to boot to a WDS Server to install a preinstallation environment.
b. It’s used to install WDS services onto a domain controller.
,c. PXE is enabled only in an interdomain trust environment.
d. It’s a prerequisite for installing WDS services onto a deployment server system.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
Section Ref: Using Windows Deployment Services
Explanation: To communicate with a WDS server without an operating system, the client
computer must support preboot execution environment (PXE). The PXE technology boots
computers using the network interface without a data storage device, such as a hard drive
or an installed operating system. When PXE is used with WDS, the client computer
downloads a boot image that loads Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).
4. What is the name of the Windows Server 2012 installation DVD boot image file?
a. boot.img
b. boot.exe
c. boot.iso
d. boot.wim
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Adding Boot Images
Explanation: The generic boot image file, located in the \sources folder of the Windows
Server 2012 installation DVD, is boot.wim.
5. What function does the System Preparation Utility (Sysprep.exe) perform on a system?
a. It removes a system from the Active Directory domain.
b. It removes a system’s name and SID.
c. It reboots the system and places it into capture mode.
d. It starts the Snapshot Wizard in Windows Server 2012 Enterprise.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Creating an Image File with WDS
The Microsoft System Preparation Utility (Sysprep.exe) prepares a Windows computer for
cloning by removing specific computer information such as the computer name and
Security Identifier (SID).
6. What type of XML file do you need to create and add information to when performing an
unattended operating system installation via WDS?
a. answer files
b. question files
c. Sysprep files
d. install files
,Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Performing an Unattended Installation
Explanation: To streamline the installation process, you need to automate the Windows
installation by using answer files, which provide responses to the prompts that would
normally appear during the Windows installation.
7. How do you mount a Windows image using Dism.exe so that you can update it?
a. read-only
b. staged
c. offline
d. MountDir
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Updating Images with Patches, Hotfixes, and Drivers
Explanation: You can use the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (Dism.exe)
command-line tool to add, remove, update, or list a Windows image’s features, packages,
drivers, or international settings. With Dism.exe, you can mount an image offline and then
add, remove, update, or list the features, packages, drivers, or international settings stored
on that image.
8. Which feature of Windows Server allows you to add driver packages to WDS and then
deploy them?
a. dynamic image provisioning
b. dynamic driver provisioning
c. dynamic service provisioning
d. dynamic package provisioning
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
Section Ref: Deploying Driver Packages with an Image
Explanation: Dynamic driver provisioning is the Server feature that allows you to add driver
packages to WDS and then deploy them when you deploy an image.
9. Windows PE 4.0 is based on which operating system?
a. Windows XP
b. Windows 7
c. Windows 8
d. Windows Mobile
Answer: c
, Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Using Windows Deployment Services
Explanation: Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 4.0 is based on the
Windows 8 operating system.
10. Where in a system do you configure PXE?
a. Sysprep
b. Windows PE
c. Dism
d. BIOS
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Using Windows Deployment Services
Explanation: PXE is configured in the in the Boot Order section of a system’s BIOS.
11. The initial configuration of WDS includes setup of what other server?
a. DHCP
b. Dism
c. World Wide Web
d. Image store
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Performing the Initial Configuration of WDS
Explanation: The DHCP server must be configured as part of the WDS services to allow
clients to acquire an IP address on boot.
12. When using sysprep on the master computer, why do you include the /oobe
parameter?
a. It prevents out-of-band Ethernet parameters from being sent from a DHCP server.
b. It reboots the computer twice to enable a full sysprep.
c. It disables PXE boot in favor of a local DVD image boot.
d. It presents the Windows Welcome Wizard on the next boot.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Creating an Image File with WDS
Explanation: The /oobe parameter configures Windows to present the Windows Welcome
Wizard the next time the computer starts. The Windows Welcome Wizard allows you to
name the computer and generate a SID and any other required unique information.
13. Where do you place a discover image to ensure proper deployment?