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Case Study: 1
Large Company
Background
You are the SharePoint administrator for a large company. You are responsible for installing and
configuring a multi-server SharePoint environment that will be used for information management
and collaboration.
The company has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. User-specific contact
information, including employee photos, is stored and managed in Active Directory. All employees
are located in the ActiveUsers organizational unit (OU).
The User Profile Synchronization service runs on a server named SERVER1.
Business Requirements
The SharePoint environment must meet the following business requirements:
• Ensure that users can connect to the portal by using the same URL
from any location.
• Ensure that users can access corporate information from outside the
network without using a VPN connection.
• Allow users to configure notifications for content changes.
• Allow users to follow content creators.
• Limit the number of sites and people each user can follow to 100.
• Allow content authors to upload documents, large image files, and
large video files for consumption by internal and external users.
• Allow administrators to promote search query results across the
entire company.
• Utilize My Sites to share content.
• Provide opportunities for social interaction.
Technical Requirements
You must meet the following technical requirements for the SharePoint environment:
• Do not exceed the minimum hardware specifications.
• Install the minimum supported versions of all software on the
servers.
• Control the growth of storage utilization.
• Maximize existing content database usage before creating new
content databases.
• Store large files on network attached storage (NAS).
• Ensure that all web applications, site collections, files, databases,
and components stay within the supported limits.
• Configure the User Profile Synchronization service to import user
profile data from Active Directory.
• Grant the User Profile service account the least permissions
necessary to read data.
• Ensure that current and future SharePoint environments include the
most recent software updates.
• Use predefined database naming conventions.
• Create individual user sites by using the
https://contoso.com/personal/path.
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You need to implement corporate sizing and performance guidelines for general usage scenarios.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose
three.)

A.
For the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on network attached storage (NAS), limit
the maximum time-to-first-byte (TTFB) of any response from the NAS to 100 milliseconds.

B.
Limit the maximum size of each content database to 4 TB.

C.
For the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on network attached storage (NAS), limit
the maximum time-to-first-byte (TTFB) of any response from the NAS to 20 milliseconds.

D.
Limit the number of documents in each document library to 20 million.

E.
Limit the number of documents in each content database to 10 million.

F.
Limit the maximum size of each content database to 200 GB.

Explanation:
C: Network Attached Storage (NAS) is only supported by SharePoint 2013 with iSCSI and if TTFB is
less than 20ms.
E: The largest number of items per content database that has been tested on SharePoint Server 2013
is 60 million items, including documents and list items. If you plan to store more than 60 million
items in SharePoint Server 2013, you must deploy multiple content databases.
F: We strongly recommended limiting the size of content databases to 200 GB, except when the
circumstances in the following rows in this table apply.
If you are using Remote BLOB Storage (RBS), the total volume of remote BLOB storage and metadata
in the content database must not exceed this limit.
Note: The use of RBS-enabled content databases larger than 4TB with collaboration sites is not
supported.
Plan for RBS in SharePoint 2013
Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2013