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Case Study: 1
Humongous Insurance
Scenario:
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Humongous Insurance has a main office and 20 branch offices. The main office is located in
New York. The branch offices are located throughout North America. The main office has
8,000 users. Each branch office has 2 to 250 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Humongous Insurance plans to implement Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker)
on all servers.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
The network contains servers that run either Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or
Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run either Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows
Vista Enterprise.
Business Goals
Humongous Insurance wants to minimize costs whenever possible.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named humongousinsurance.com. The
forest contains two child domains named north.humongousinsurance.com and
south.humongousinsurance.com. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008
R2.
Existing Network Infrastructure
Each child domain contains a Web server that has Internet Information Services (IIS)
installed. The forest root domain contains three Web servers that have IIS installed. The Web
servers in the forest root domain are configured in a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster.
Currently, all of the Web servers use a single domain user account as a service account.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is used for company-wide patch management. The
WSUS servers do not store updates locally. The network contains Remote Desktop servers
that run Windows Server 2008 R2. Users in the sales department access a line-of-business
Application by using Remote Desktop. Managers in the sales department use the Application

to generate reports. Generating the reports is CPU intensive. The sales managers report that
when many users are connected to the servers, the reports take a long time to process.
Humongous Insurance has the following standard server builds:
• Class 1 – Dual x64 CPUs, 4-GB RAM, Windows Web Server 2008 R2
• Class 2 – Dual x64 CPUs, 4-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Class 3 – Quad x64 CPUs, 8-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Class 4 – Quad x64 CPUs, 8-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Current Administration Model
Humongous Insurance currently uses the following technologies to manage the network:
• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
• Microsoft Forefront EndPoint Protection
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Humongous Insurance must meet the following technical requirements:
• A certificate must be required to recover BitLocker-protected drives.
• Newly implemented technologies must minimize the impact on LAN traffic.
• Newly implemented technologies must minimize the storage requirements.
• The management of disk volumes and shared folders must be performed remotely
whenever possible.
• Newly implemented technologies must minimize the amount of bandwidth used on
Internet connections.
• All patches and updates must be tested in a non-production environment before they
are App1ied to production servers.
• Multiple versions of a Group Policy object (GPO) must be maintained in a central
archive to facilitate a rol required.
The management of passwords and service principal names (SPNs) for all service accounts
must be automated whenever possible.
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You need to recommend a data management solution that meets the company’s technical
requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.
DFS Management

B.
File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)

C.
Share and Storage Management

D.
Storage Explorer

Explanation:

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Share and Storage Management provides a centralized location for you to manage two important
server resources:
Folders and volumes that are shared on the network
Volumes in disks and storage subsystems
Shared resources management
You can share the content of folders and volumes on your server over the network using the
Provision a Shared Folder Wizard, which is available in Share and Storage Management. This wizard
guides you through the necessary steps to share a folder or volume and assign all applicable
properties to it. With the wizard, you can:
Specify the folder or volume that you want to share or create a new folder to share.
Specify the network sharing protocol used to access the shared resource.
Change the local NTFS permissions for the folder or volume you will be sharing.
Specify the share access permissions, user limits, and offline access to files in the shared resource.
Publish the shared resource to a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace.
If Services for Network File System (NFS) has been installed, specify NFS-based access permissions
for the shared resource.
If File Server Resource Manager is installed on your server, apply storage quotas to the new shared
resource, and create file screens to limit the type of files that can be stored in it.
Using Share and Storage Management, you can also monitor and modify important aspects of your
new and existing shared resources. You can:

Stop the sharing of a folder or volume.
Change the local NTFS permissions for a folder or volume.
Change the share access permissions, offline availability, and other properties of a shared resource.
See which users are currently accessing a folder or a file and disconnect a user if necessary.
If Services for Network File System (NFS) has been installed, change the NFS-based access
permissions for a shared resource.
For more information about using Share and Storage Management to manage shared resources, see
Provisioning Shared Resources.
Storage management With Share and Storage Management, you can provision storage on disks that
are available on your server, or on storage subsystems that support Virtual Disk Service (VDS). The
Provision Storage Wizard guides you through the process of creating a volume on an existing disk, or
on a storage subsystem attached to your server. If the volume is going to be created on a storage
subsystem, the wizard will also guide you through the process of creating a logical unit number
(LUN) to host that volume. You also have the option of only creating the LUN, and using Disk
Management to create the volume later.
Share and Storage Management also helps you monitor and manage the volumes that you have
created, as well as any other volumes that are available on your server. Using Share and Storage
Management you can:
Extend the size of a volume.
Format a volume.
Delete a volume.
Change volume properties like compression, security, offline availability and indexing.
Access disk tools for error checking, defragmentation, and backup.