Your network contains an Active Directory domain named adatum.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. The domain contains a virtual machine named DC2.
On DC2, you run Get-ADDCCloningExcludcdApplicationList and receive the output shown in the
following table.

You need to ensure that you can clone DC2.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose
two.)

A.
Option A

B.
Option B

C.
Option C

D.
Option D

E.
Option E

Explanation:
Because domain controllers provide a distributed environment, you could not safely clone an Active
Directory domain controller in the past.
Before, if you cloned any server, the server would end up with the same domain or forest, which is
unsupported with the same domain or forest. You would then have to run sysprep, which would remove
the unique security information before cloning and then promote a domain controller manually. When
you clone a domain controller, you perform safe cloning, which a cloned domain controller
automatically runs a subset of the sysprep process and promotes the server to a domain controller
automatically.The four primary steps to deploy a cloned virtualized domain controller are as follows:
1. Grant the source virtualized domain controller the permission to be cloned by adding the source
virtualized domain controller to the Cloneable Domain Controllers group.
2. Run Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet in Windows PowerShell to determine which
services and applications on the domain controller are not compatible with the cloning.
3. Run New-ADDCCloneConfigFile to create the clone configuration file, which is stored in the
C:\\Windows\\NTDS.
4. In Hyper-V, export and then import the virtual machine of the source domain controller.
Run Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet In this procedure, run the GetADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet on the source virtualized domain controller to identify any
programs or services that are not evaluated for cloning. You need to run the GetADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet before the New- ADDCCloneConfigFilecmdlet because if the
New-ADDCCloneConfigFilecmdlet detects an excluded application, it will not create a DCCloneConfig.xml
file. To identify applications or services that run on a source domain controller which have not been
evaluated for cloning
Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationList
Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationList -GenerateXml
The clone domain controller will be located in the same site as the source domain controller unless a
different site is specified in the DCCloneConfig.xml file.
Note:
The Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet searches the local domain controller for programs
and services in the installed programs database, the services control manager that are not specified in
the default and user defined inclusion list. The applications in the resulting list can be added to the
user defined exclusion list if they are determined to support cloning. If the applications are not
cloneable, they should be removed from the source domain controller before the clone media is
created. Any application that appears in cmdlet output and is not included in the user defined
inclusion list will force cloning to fail.
The Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationListcmdlet needs to be run before the NewADDCCloneConfigFilecmdlet is used because if the New-ADDCCloneConfigFilecmdlet detects an
excluded application, it will not create a DCCloneConfig.xml file.
DCCloneConfig.xml is an XML configuration file that contains all of the settings the cloned DC will take
when it boots. This includes network settings, DNS, WINS, AD site name, new DC name and more.
This file can be generated in a few different ways.
The New-ADDCCloneConfigcmdlet in PowerShell
By hand with an XML editor
By editing an existing config file, again with an XML editor (Notepad is not an XML editor.)

You can populate the XML file. . . . . doesn’t need to be empty. . . . .

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