MCSA – Windows Server 2016 Questions With Answers

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification in Windows Server 2016 is a valuable credential for IT professionals seeking to demonstrate their expertise in managing Windows Server environments. To successfully achieve MCSA certification, candidates must pass a series of exams that test their knowledge and skills related to Windows Server 2016.

In this article, we will explore some common questions and answers to help aspiring candidates prepare for the MCSA exams.

1. Which of the following is a valid role for a Windows Server 2016 computer?

A. Standalone server
B. Member server
C. Domain controller
D. All of the above

2. You need to add a new Windows Server 2016 image to your WDS server. You want to use a command-line command to complete this task. What command would you use?

A. WDSUTIL /Add
B. WDSUTIL /image
C. WDSUTIL /prepareimage
D. WDSUTIL /addimage

3. You have been hired to help a small company set up its first Windows network. It has had the same 13 users for the entire two years it has been open, and the company has no plans to expand. What version of Windows Server 2016 would you recommend?

A. Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (Desktop Experience)
B. Windows Server 2016 Standard (Desktop Experience)
C. Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
D. Windows Server 2016 Essentials

4. You are using WDS to deploy Windows Server 2016 images across your organization, and you are using the WDSUTIL command-line utility to perform this task. You want to copy a previously created image from the image store using this utility. Which option of WDSUTIL should you use?

A. /move
B. /copy-image
C. /get
D. /enable

5. You want to install a group of 25 computers using disk images created in conjunction with the System Preparation Tool. Your plan is to create an image from a reference computer and then copy the image to all the machines. You do not want to create an SID on the destination computer when you use the image. Which Sysprep.exe command-line option should you use to set this up?

A. /specialize
B. /generalize
C. /oobe
D. /quiet

6. You have a Hyper-V host that runs Windows Server 2016. The host contains a virtual machine named Virtual1. Virtual1 has resource metering enabled. You need to use resource metering to track the amount of network traffic that Virtual1 sends to the 10.10.16.0/20 network. Which command would you run?

A. Add-VMNetworkAdapteiAd
B. Set-VMNetworkAdapter
C. New-VMResourcePool
D. Set-VMNetworkAdapterRoutingDomamMapping

7. You need to ensure that the company’s two Virtual Machines, VM1 and VM2, can communicate with each other only. The solution must prevent VM1 and VM2 from communicating with Server1. Which cmdlet should you use?

A. Set-NetNeighbor
B. Remove-VMSwitchTeamMember
C. Set-VMSwitch
D. Enable-VMSwitchExtension

8. You want to make sure the hard disk space for your virtual machines is occupied only when needed. What type of virtual hard disk would you recommend?

A. Dynamically expanding disk
B. Fixed-size disk
C. Differencing disk
D. Physical or pass-through disk

9. What is the command to install Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2016 machine that was installed in Server Core?

A. start /w ocsetup Hyper-V
B. start /w ocsetup microsoft-hyper-v
C. start /w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V
D. start /w ocsetup hyper-v

10. You are a network administrator for a small company that uses Hyper-V. You need to reboot your virtual machine. What PowerShell command can you use?

A. Restart-VM
B. Reboot-VM
C. Shutdown-VM
D. ShutStateOff

11. You are the administrator for a mid-size organization. You have been asked by the owner to set up an NLB cluster. You want to use PowerShell to set up the cluster. What command would you use?

A. New-NlbCluster
B. Create-NlbCluster
C. Setup-NlbCluster
D. Set-NlbCluster

12. Which of the following actions should be performed against an NLB cluster node if maintenance needs to be performed while not terminating current connections?

A. Evict
B. Drainstop
C. Pause
D. Stop

13. If you have a running cluster and need to run the Validate a Configuration Wizard again, which of the following tests may require cluster resources to be taken offline?

A. Network tests
B. Storage tests
C. System configuration tests
D. Inventory tests

14. What PowerShell command would you use to run a validation test on a cluster?

A. Test-Cluster
B. Validate-Cluster
C. Set-Cluster
D. Add-Cluster

15. You download the wrong image from Docker. What command allows you to delete an image?

A. docker del
B. docker rm
C. docker kill
D. docker dl

16. You have built a bunch of Containers. What PowerShell command allows you to view the Containers?

A. docker view
B. docker see
C. View-Container
D. Get-Container

17. What command allows you to see your container images?

A. docker images
B. docker info
C. docker view
D. docker see

18. You need to use an Active Directory application data partition. Which command can you use to create and manage application data partitions?

A. DCPromo.exe
B. NTDSUtil.exe
C. ADUtil.exe
D. ADSI.exe

19. What command-line command would you type to start Performance Monitor?

A. Netmon.exe
B. Perfmon.exe
C. Performon.exe
D. Resmon.exe

20. What command-line command would you type to start Resource Monitor?

A. Netmon.exe
B. Perfmon.exe
C. Performon.exe
D. Resmon.exe

21. Which of the following subnet masks is represented with the CIDR of /27?

A. 255.255.255.254
B. 255.255.255.248
C. 255.255.255.224
D. 255.255.255.240

22. You are the network administrator for a midsize organization that has installed Windows Server 2016 onto the network. You are thinking of moving all machines to Windows 10 and IPv6. You decide to set up a test environment with four subnets. What type of IPv6 addresses do you need set up?

A. Global addresses
B. Link-local addresses
C. Unique local addresses
D. Site-local addresses

23. You are the network administrator for ABC Company. You have an IPv6 prefix of 2001:DB8:BBCC:0000::/53, and you need to set up your network so that your IPv6 addressing scheme can handle 1,000 more subnets. Which network mask would you use?

A. /60
B. /61
C. /62
D. /63

24. You assign two DNS server addresses as part of the options for a scope. Later you find a client workstation that isn’t using those addresses. What’s the most likely cause?

A. The client didn’t get the option information as part of its lease.
B. The client has been manually configured with a different set of DNS servers.
C. The client has a reserved IP address in the address pool.
D. There’s a bug in the DHCP server service.

25. Your DHCP server crashed in the middle of the day. You rebooted the server, got it running within 5 minutes, and nobody but you seemed to notice that it had gone down at all. What additional steps must you take?

A. None. If there were no lease-renewal requests during the 5-minute period in which the DHCP server was down, none of the clients will ever know that it went down.
B. You need to renew all the leases manually.
C. None. The DHCP server automatically assigned new addresses to all the clients on the network transparently.
D. You must reboot all the client machines.

26. You are the administrator for a Windows Server 2016 network that uses DHCP. You notice that your DHCP database is getting too large and you want to reduce the size of the database. What should you do?

A. From the folder containing the DHCP database, run jetpack.exe dhcp.mdb temp.mdb.
B. From the folder containing the DHCP database, run shrinkpack.exe dhcp.mdb temp.mdb.
C. From the folder containing the DHCP database, run jetshrink.exe dhcp.mdb temp.mdb.
D. From the folder containing the DHCP database, run shrinkjet.exe dhcp.mdb temp.mdb.

27. You are the network admin for an Active Directory domain named Stormwind.com. You have a new security policy that states that whenever possible, you should install new Nano Servers. Which server role can be deployed on a Nano Server?

A. Active Directory Domain Services
B. DHCP Server
C. Network Policy and Access Services
D. Web Server (IIS)

28. You have been asked to explain how DHCP works. What abbreviation can you explain to show how DHCP operates?

A. DORA
B. RODA
C. DHRA
D. AORD

29. You are the network administrator for a large training company. You have been asked to set up the default gateway setting using DHCP. Which option would you configure?

A. 003 Router
B. 006 DNS
C. 015 DNS Domain Name
D. 028 Broadcast Address

30. You are the network administrator for your organization. You need to view the DNS server information from the IPAM database. What PowerShell command would you use?

A. View-IpamDnsServer
B. Get-IpamDnsServer
C. View-DnsServer
D. Get-DnsServer

31. You are the administrator for StormWind Studios online training company. You need to change the IPAM discovery configuration. What PowerShell command do you use?

A. Get-IpamDiscovery
B. Get-IpamDiscoveryDomain
C. Set-IpamDiscovery
D. Set-IpamDiscoveryDomain

32. You are the network administrator for your company. You need to use a PowerShell command to configure an IP address block in IPAM. What command do you use?

A. Set-IpamIP
B. Set-IpamBlock
C. Set-IPBlock
D. Set-IPAddressBlock

33. Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. Network Access Protection (NAP) is deployed to the domain. You need to create NAP event trace log files on a client computer. What should you run?

A. Register-ObjectEvent
B. Register-EngineEvent
C. tracert
D. logman

34. Your network contains an Active Directory domain named Stormwind.com. The domain contains a RADIUS server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016. You add a VPN server named Server2 to the network. On Server1, you create several network policies. You need to configure Server1 to accept authentication requests from Server2. Which tool should you use on Server1?

A. Set-RemoteAccessRadius
B. CMAK
C. NPS
D. Routing and Remote Access

35. You are the administrator for a large communications company. Your company uses Windows Server 2016, and your user’s files are encrypted using EFS. What command-line command would you use to change or modify the EFS files?

A. Convert
B. Cipher
C. Gopher
D. Encrypt

36. You want to publish a printer to Active Directory. Where would you click in order to accomplish this task?

A. The Sharing tab
B. The Advanced tab
C. The Device Settings tab
D. The Printing Preferences button

37. You have been hired by a small company to implement new Windows Server 2016 systems. The company wants you to set up a server for users’ home folder locations. What type of server would you be setting up?

A. PDC server
B. Web server
C. Exchange server
D. File server

38. In a three-node cluster set to a node majority quorum model, how many cluster nodes can be offline before the quorum is lost?

A. Zero
B. One
C. Two
D. Three

39. You are the administrator for a mid-size company who wants to set up and test a cluster. What PowerShell command would you use to run a validation test on a cluster?

A. Test-Cluster
B. Validate-Cluster
C. Set-Cluster
D. Add-Cluster

40. You are a network administrator for a small company that uses Hyper-V. You need to reboot your virtual machine. What PowerShell command can you use?

A. Restart-VM
B. Reboot-VM
C. Shutdown-VM
D. ShutStateOff

41. What is the maximum number of domains that a Windows Server 2016 computer configured as a domain controller may participate in at one time?

A. Zero
B. One
C. Two
D. Any number of domains

42. Which of the following file systems are required for Active Directory?

A. FAT
B. FAT32
C. HPFS
D. NTFS

43. Which of the following services and protocols are required for Active Directory? (Choose all that apply.)

A. NetBEUI
B. TCP/IP
C. DNS
D. DHCP

44. Which of the following PowerShell commands allows you to view Active Directory users?

A. Get-ADUser
B. Get-User
C. View-User
D. See-ADUser

45. Which of the following PowerShell commands allows you to enable an Active Directory account after it’s been locked out?

A. release-ADAccount
B. enable-ADAccount
C. Unlock-ADAccount
D. enable-Account

46. You need to create a new user account using the command prompt. Which command would you use?

A. dsmodify
B. dscreate
C. dsnew
D. dsadd

47. What kind of trust is set up between one domain and another domain in the same forest?

A. External trust
B. Forest trust
C. Shortcut trust
D. Domain trust

48. You need to deactivate the Global Catalog option on some of your domain controllers. At which level in Active Directory would you deactivate Global Catalogs?

A. Server
B. Site
C. Domain
D. Forest

49. You want to allow the new Sales Director to have permissions to reset passwords for all users within the sales OU. Which of the following is the best way to do this?

A. Create a special administration account within the OU and grant it full permissions for all objects within Active Directory.
B. Move the user’s login account into the OU that he or she is to administer.
C. Move the user’s login account to an OU that contains the OU (that is, the parent OU of the one that he or she is to administer).
D. Use the Delegation of Control Wizard to assign the necessary permissions on the OU that he or she is to administer.

50. You need to create OUs in Active Directory. In which MMCs can you accomplish this task? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Active Directory Administrative Center
B. Active Directory Sites and Services
C. Active Directory Users and Computers
D. Active Directory Domains and Trusts

51. You want a GPO to take effect immediately, and you need to use Windows PowerShell. Which PowerShell cmdlet command would you use?

A. Invoke-GPUpdate
B. Invoke-GPForce
C. Invoke-GPResult
D. Invoke-GPExecute

52. GPOs assigned at which of the following level(s) will override GPO settings at the domain level?

A. OU
B. Site
C. Domain
D. Both OU and site

53. A system administrator wants to ensure that only the GPOs set at the OU level affect the Group Policy settings for objects within the OU. Which option can they use to do this (assuming that all other GPO settings are the defaults)?

A. The Enforced option
B. The Block Policy Inheritance option
C. The Disable option
D. The Deny permission

54. To disable GPO settings for a specific security group, which of the following permissions should you apply?

A. Deny Write
B. Allow Write
C. Enable Apply Group Policy
D. Deny Apply Group Policy

55. You want to configure modifications of the Certification Authority role service to be logged. What should you enable? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Enable auditing of system events.
B. Enable logging.
C. Enable auditing of privilege use.
D. Enable auditing of object access.
E. You should consider enabling auditing of process tracking.

56. You need to add a certificate template to the Certificate Authority. What PowerShell command would you use?

A. Get-CSTemplate
B. Add-CSTemplate
C. Add-CATemplate
D. New-Template

57. You need to see all of the location sets for the CRL distribution point (CDP). What PowerShell command would you use?

A. View-CACrlDistributionPoint
B. See-CACrlDistributionPoint
C. Add-CACrlDistributionPoint
D. Get-CACrlDistributionPoint

58. You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016. You need to configure Server1 as a Web Application Proxy. Which server role or role service should you install on Server1?

A. Remote Access
B. Active Directory Federation Services
C. Web Server (IIS)
D. DirectAccess and VPN (RAS)

59. You have installed Active Directory Federation Services server and the Web Application Proxy. Which two inbound TCP ports should you open on the firewall? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. (Choose two.)

A. 443
B. 390
C. 8443
D. 49443

60. You need to modify configuration settings for a server application role of an application in AD FS. What PowerShell command do you use?

A. Add-AdfsServerApplication
B. Set-AdfsServerApplication
C. Get-AdfsServerApplication
D. Install-AdfsServerApplication

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Mastering this MCSA certification requires dedication, comprehensive study, and practical experience. By understanding the key exam objectives and regularly practicing with sample questions and hands-on scenarios, aspiring candidates can increase their chances of success.

The MCSA certification not only validates technical skills but also enhances career opportunities in the dynamic field of IT administration.

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