70-412 Exam Question No 42

Question No 42:

Your network contains two servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2 named Server1 and Server2. Both servers have the File Server role service installed. On Server2, you create a share named Backups. From Windows Server Backup on Server1, you schedule a full backup to run every night. You set the backup destination to \\Server2 \Backups. After several weeks, you discover that \\Server2\Backups only contains the last backup that completed on Server1.
You need to ensure that multiple backups of Server1 are maintained. What should you do?

A. Modify the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) settings.
B. Modify the properties of the Windows Store Service (WSService) service.
C. Change the backup destination.
D. Configure the permission of the Backups share.

Answer: C

Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Reaches General Availability

Microsoft has recently announced its offer Azure Iot Axis reached general availability (GA). This is a statement tracking public preview from Microsoft in October last year. InfoQ previously covered the public announcement preview under the cover of Azure event.

Azure IO Hub is one of the basic services that make the IO Suite Azure. IO Hub Azure service provides two-way communication between devices and the cloud.

The devices are connected via a gateway local field when Internet connectivity is not available on the device or when a device communicates only unsupported such as ZigBee or Modbus protocols. The gateway on the ground, in turn, will contact the IO Hub Cloud Gateway.

On the other hand, if a device supports HTTP (S) 1.1, 3.1.1 or 1.0 MQTT AMQP can communicate natively with the IO Hub Cloud Gateway. SDK for the device are available for C / C #, Java and JavaScript / Node.js

As part of the General Assembly of the service, Microsoft increased the number of areas where the service is available by adding Southeast Asia, Western Europe and the western United States. Previously, preview, only East Asia, the eastern United States and northern Europe were available.

From the point of view of safety, Azure Hub supports IO device identity and can support customer scenarios involving millions of devices. Since the device is compatible with the identity, administrators can list blacklists and white devices.

Since communication is bidirectional between the device and the cloud, command and control messages can be sent from the cloud that allows operators to change the status of a remote device.

Once a device is connected to the IO Hub Azure messaging and other services that are part of the IO Suite Azure can be used in the treatment of these events.

This enables organizations to perform complex event processing and provide a predictive analysis. The other services that make up the suite of backend Azure IO include: 1 event Azure concentrators (upscale, publish-subscribe engine ingestion) 2 Azure Analytics (analysis and real-time engine flows of complex event processing) 3 Machine Learning Azure (predictive analysis) 4 Azure storage (cloud storage)

The following figure shows an example of how the devices can communicate with the following IO Azure through a gateway on the ground or in a local gateway services and cloud position when these back-end architecture.

Because of the variety and vintage devices involved in the modern architecture of the IO, which allows interoperability between devices and the cloud has been a priority for Microsoft.

Following the need to provide an open solution for IO, Microsoft has developed a certification program and partner in order to encourage adoption. Sam George, managing partner of the IO Azure, some of its recent success in incorporating couple are analyzed. "In the last three months or more, close to 30 industry leaders have joined the program

Today, even announced their participation, including Advantech, Dell, HPE, and Libelium. Each of these partners brings its own proposal in perspective and unique value for the landscape of the IO, and we are delighted to announce this extended industry participation in Azure Certificate IO. "in addition to the partners mentioned above, Microsoft already has agreements with Arduino, BeagleBoard, Freescale, Intel, Raspberry Pi, Samsung and Texas Instruments, among others.

70-412 Exam Question No 41

Question No 41:

You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server1 has a single volume that is encrypted by using BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker).
BitLocker is configured to save encryption keys to a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Server1 is configured to perform a daily system image backup. The motherboard on Server1 is upgraded.
After the upgrade, Windows Server 2012 R2 on Server1 fails to start. You need to start the operating system on Server1 as soon as possible. What should you do?

A. Start Server1 from the installation media. Run startrec.exe.
B. Move the disk to a server that has a model of the old motherboard. Start the server from the installation
media. Run bcdboot.exe.
C. Move the disk to a server that has a model of the old motherboard. Start the server. Run tpm.msc.
D. Start Server1 from the installation media. Perform a system image recovery.

Answer: D

Microsoft, GoPro Strike Licensing Deal

Microsoft said Friday it has signed a patent license agreement with GoPro covering technology file storage.
GoPro shares, which have been hit this week and in recent months, added 6.2 percent in after-hours trading to $ US10.58 per share. Microsoft shares ticked up 0.2 percent.

The patent licensing agreement comes just days after GoPro announced a lower profit in the fourth quarter, fueling concerns about the health of your business selling portable cameras heart.

The agreement with Microsoft will cover some of the technologies and storage of files.

Nick Psyhogeos, president of the patent business of Microsoft, said the company is experiencing strong demand for mobile technologies, which already has a license. Microsoft did not elaborate on the deal.
A GoPro representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

GoPro shares ended the week up to 13 percent after saying sales would decline this year and announced the departure of a senior executive. The stock fell 46 percent last month and 82 percent in the past year.

GoPro has been affected by fears that the market for portable cameras are dry, while also facing competition from overseas manufacturers and smartphone technology. The company is studying a number of new revenue streams, including unmanned aircraft that will be published later this year and shooting license content on their devices for media companies.

70-412 Exam Question No 40

Question No 40:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a file server named File1 that runs a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2.
File1 has a volume named D that contains home folders. File1 creates a shadow copy of volume D twice a day.
You discover that volume D is almost full. You add a new volume named H to File1. You need to ensure that the shadow copies of volume D are stored on volume H.
Which command should you run?

A. The Set-Volume cmdlet with the -driveletter parameter
B. The vssadmin.exe create shadow command
C. The Set-Volume cmdlet with the -path parameter
D. The vssadmin.exe add shadowstorage command

Answer: D

Microsoft on the Hot Seat in Iowa

Microsoft volunteered to provide the technology to help tally up the results of Iowa's caucus, free of charge. Now it will be put to the test Monday night.

The contests in both parties are expected to go down to the wire. And the spotlight will be on precinct officials who have been trained on a new Microsoft app, which is meant to cut down on human error and speed up the reporting process.

Both the Republican and Democratic parties in Iowa have expressed strong confidence in Microsoft, dismissing late suspicion of corporate influence from the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) early last week.

Party officials have said no errors have been spotted in caucus dry runs. But the Sanders campaign has created its own backup reporting system, as has the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

“It will be interesting to see what happens if and when there are discrepancies between the Microsoft system and either Democratic or Republican campaign tabulations,” Iowa State University professor Mack Shelley said.

Only four years ago, the Iowa Republican Party suffered an embarrassment with its caucus reporting when Mitt Romney appeared to be the winner for weeks, only for the final tally to show a narrow victory for Rick Santorum.

Microsoft is seeking to avoid such confusion by providing an app, backed up by its cloud technology, that will be used to help report the caucus results.

“Microsoft and their App partner, InterKnowlogy, are global leaders in the technology industry, and we completely trust the integrity of their staff and the app,” Iowa Democratic Party communications director Sam Lau said in a statement.

The Microsoft partnership began more than a year ago, when the company’s civic engagement team reached out to the Iowa state parties.

In June, both parties announced that Microsoft would be creating a pair of apps, one for Republicans one for Democrats, to help the nearly 1,700 precincts report their results to party headquarters on caucus night.

Microsoft’s free work in Iowa — technically an in-kind campaign contribution — gives the company a chance to show off its mobile and cloud technology in the glare of the national spotlight.

“We know they are using Twitter, we know they are using Facebook, right, we know they are using our Bing search or Google — they are using all the different technologies,” Microsoft Vice President Dan’l Lewin said. “So we are just organizing our best practices, and picking places where we can illustrate how our technology can be used effectively.”

Microsoft is sponsoring the press center in Iowa for the caucuses, ensuring that their brand will be front-and-center during one of the biggest political events of the year.

The Microsoft apps will be replacing a phone reporting system used in 2008 and 2012 that required precincts to report their results through a touchtone keypad — increasing the potential for human error.

The Microsoft app allows only credentialed users to report results and will require precincts to double check the results before they are sent off. It also has a way to flag anomalies and will give the public and press quicker access once the results are reported to headquarters.

Not everyone is happy about Microsoft’s involvement.

Pete D’Alessandro, who runs the Sanders operation in Iowa, last week questioned the tech giant’s motivations. However, the campaign declined to expand on its concerns after multiple requests for clarification.

Other aides to Sanders noted that Microsoft employees have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton campaign, according to MSNBC.

“You’d have to ask yourself why they’d want to give something like that away for free,” D’Alessandro said.

Microsoft has said it is focused solely on helping to conduct a neutral and accurate election by helping the officials who are manning the caucus sites.

Iowa GOP Party co-chairman Cody Hoefert chalked up the broadside at Microsoft to “political posturing, as maybe the senator is somewhat concerned about how caucus night may go for him."

Lewin, Microsoft’s vice president, would not speculate on the motivation of the Sanders campaign and said Microsoft has only interacted with the parties.

"I have personal opinions, but I'll keep them to myself," he said.

70-412 Exam Question No 39

Question No 39:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains three servers named Server1, Server2, and Server3 that run Windows Server 2012 R2. All three servers have the Hyper- V server role installed and the Failover Clustering feature installed.
Server1 and Server2 are nodes in a failover cluster named Cluster1. Several highly available virtual machines run on Cluster1. Cluster1 has the Hyper-V Replica Broker role installed. The Hyper-V Replica Broker currently runs on Server1. Server3 currently has no virtual machines.
You need to configure Cluster1 to be a replica server for Server3 and Server3 to be a replica server for Cluster1. Which two tools should you use? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. (Choose two.)

A. The Hyper-V Manager console connected to Server3
B. The Failover Cluster Manager console connected to Server3
C. The Hyper-V Manager console connected to Server1.
D. The Failover Cluster Manager console connected to Cluster1
E. The Hyper-V Manager console connected to Server2

Answer: A,D