In the following Volume Licensing programs, which one should you choose to provide the best annual return on i
Company Background
Corporate Information
Amet Research is a highly secured electronic research institute which provides lots of electronic information.
Physical Locations
Amet Research has 4,500 employees located in offices all over the world. Employees work through three shifts to ensure the whole day service to customers. Employees share desktop computers.
Existing Environment
Existing IT Environment
All desktops have Windows XP Professional installed under OEM agreements. They have Microsoft Office Professional 2003 installed under Open License or select License agreements without Software
Assurance.
According to the work environment, a memory upgrade is required to be compatible with Windows Vista by all desktops.
Each branch office has a network server. All servers have a third-party operating system and third-party e-mail application installed.
Amet Research has a third-party accounting application.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Amet Research intends to make the following changes to its network during the next two years:
* Deploy 25 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Servers at the head office
* Deploy a four-node Microsoft SQL Server cluster on single-processor servers
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Windows Vista
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Office Professional 2007
* Deploy 12 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise servers.
* Deploy 6 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers
Problems
Amet Research attempts to solve the following problems.
The third-party accounting application is not compatible with Windows Vista.
The company is not able to purchase licenses upfront any more.
Business Goals
Amet Research aims to achieve the following business goals:
* Minimize the amount of IT staff without impacting technical support provided to employees.
* Reduce licensing costs
* Consolidate purchasing within a single licensing program
* Avoid paying financing costs for the purchase of licenses
* Have all software licenses
* Train all employees on new applications
* Be able to install the latest Microsoft products as they become available
Question
In the following Volume Licensing programs, which one should you choose to provide the best annual return on investment (ROI) for Amet Research?
In order to meet the business goals of the company, which software should the company install on its server?
Company Background
Corporate Information
Araba, Ltd. is a small company which only contains 15 employees and a single office.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Araba only purchases OEM licenses.
Existing IT Environment
There are 15 desktop computers in Araba, each company employee uses one. But only four desktops have access to the Internet. The company has installed Windows XP Professional and various versions and editions of Microsoft Office on these computers. Only when complete hardware failure occurs, the company purchases new desktops. Since Araba is a quite small company, it does not contain the IT department, a hardware supplier provide technical support services for the company.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
The manager intends to sell the company in two years, keep overall costs to a minimum, and does not hope any increase of the overall costs during this period. According to the requirement of three employees, the company plans to allow them to work from home periodically. The three employees will be provided with dedicated portable computers by the compnay.
Business Goals
Araba aims to achieve the following business goal:
Buy all licenses in a single payment.
Deploy an internal server to provide e-mail services.
Permit all desktops to access the Internet.
Enable three employees to use their laptops from home periodically.
Make sure that all employees have the most current version of Office.
Make sure that all employees have the same edition of Office.
Implement a database to store customer data securely.
Only employees should be able to access this information.
Question
In order to meet the business goals of the company, which software should the company install on its server?
In the following licensing solutions, which one allows Amet Research to purchase a desktop platform to support
Company Background
Corporate Information
Amet Research is a highly secured electronic research institute which provides lots of electronic information.
Physical Locations
Amet Research has 4,500 employees located in offices all over the world. Employees work through three shifts to ensure the whole day service to customers. Employees share desktop computers.
Existing Environment
Existing IT Environment
All desktops have Windows XP Professional installed under OEM agreements. They have Microsoft Office Professional 2003 installed under Open License or select License agreements without Software
Assurance.
According to the work environment, a memory upgrade is required to be compatible with Windows Vista by all desktops.
Each branch office has a network server. All servers have a third-party operating system and third-party e-mail application installed.
Amet Research has a third-party accounting application.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Amet Research intends to make the following changes to its network during the next two years:
* Deploy 25 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Servers at the head office
* Deploy a four-node Microsoft SQL Server cluster on single-processor servers
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Windows Vista
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Office Professional 2007
* Deploy 12 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise servers.
* Deploy 6 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers
Problems
Amet Research attempts to solve the following problems.
The third-party accounting application is not compatible with Windows Vista.
The company is not able to purchase licenses upfront any more.
Business Goals
Amet Research aims to achieve the following business goals:
* Minimize the amount of IT staff without impacting technical support provided to employees.
* Reduce licensing costs
* Consolidate purchasing within a single licensing program
* Avoid paying financing costs for the purchase of licenses
* Have all software licenses
* Train all employees on new applications
* Be able to install the latest Microsoft products as they become available
Question
In the following licensing solutions, which one allows Amet Research to purchase a desktop platform to support the planned changes?
Since the company plans to buy Office licenses, of the following Volume Licensing programs, which one should y
Company Background
Corporate Information
Araba, Ltd. is a small company which only contains 15 employees and a single office.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Araba only purchases OEM licenses.
Existing IT Environment
There are 15 desktop computers in Araba, each company employee uses one. But only four desktops have access to the Internet. The company has installed Windows XP Professional and various versions and editions of Microsoft Office on these computers. Only when complete hardware failure occurs, the company purchases new desktops. Since Araba is a quite small company, it does not contain the IT department, a hardware supplier provide technical support services for the company.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
The manager intends to sell the company in two years, keep overall costs to a minimum, and does not hope any increase of the overall costs during this period. According to the requirement of three employees, the company plans to allow them to work from home periodically. The three employees will be provided with dedicated portable computers by the compnay.
Business Goals
Araba aims to achieve the following business goal:
Buy all licenses in a single payment.
Deploy an internal server to provide e-mail services.
Permit all desktops to access the Internet.
Enable three employees to use their laptops from home periodically.
Make sure that all employees have the most current version of Office.
Make sure that all employees have the same edition of Office.
Implement a database to store customer data securely.
Only employees should be able to access this information.
Question
Since the company plans to buy Office licenses, of the following Volume Licensing programs, which one should you recommend?
In the methods below, which payment method satisfies the company’s business needs?
Company Background
Corporate Information
Amet Research is a highly secured electronic research institute which provides lots of electronic information.
Physical Locations
Amet Research has 4,500 employees located in offices all over the world. Employees work through three shifts to ensure the whole day service to customers. Employees share desktop computers.
Existing Environment
Existing IT Environment
All desktops have Windows XP Professional installed under OEM agreements. They have Microsoft Office Professional 2003 installed under Open License or select License agreements without Software
Assurance.
According to the work environment, a memory upgrade is required to be compatible with Windows Vista by all desktops.
Each branch office has a network server. All servers have a third-party operating system and third-party e-mail application installed.
Amet Research has a third-party accounting application.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Amet Research intends to make the following changes to its network during the next two years:
* Deploy 25 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Servers at the head office
* Deploy a four-node Microsoft SQL Server cluster on single-processor servers
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Windows Vista
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Office Professional 2007
* Deploy 12 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise servers.
* Deploy 6 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers
Problems
Amet Research attempts to solve the following problems.
The third-party accounting application is not compatible with Windows Vista.
The company is not able to purchase licenses upfront any more.
Business Goals
Amet Research aims to achieve the following business goals:
* Minimize the amount of IT staff without impacting technical support provided to employees.
* Reduce licensing costs
* Consolidate purchasing within a single licensing program
* Avoid paying financing costs for the purchase of licenses
* Have all software licenses
* Train all employees on new applications
* Be able to install the latest Microsoft products as they become available
Question
In the methods below, which payment method satisfies the company’s business needs?
So what is your explanation?
Company Background
Corporate Information
Araba, Ltd. is a small company which only contains 15 employees and a single office.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Araba only purchases OEM licenses.
Existing IT Environment
There are 15 desktop computers in Araba, each company employee uses one. But only four desktops have access to the Internet. The company has installed Windows XP Professional and various versions and editions of Microsoft Office on these computers. Only when complete hardware failure occurs, the company purchases new desktops. Since Araba is a quite small company, it does not contain the IT department, a hardware supplier provide technical support services for the company.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
The manager intends to sell the company in two years, keep overall costs to a minimum, and does not hope any increase of the overall costs during this period. According to the requirement of three employees, the company plans to allow them to work from home periodically. The three employees will be provided with dedicated portable computers by the compnay.
Business Goals
Araba aims to achieve the following business goal:
Buy all licenses in a single payment.
Deploy an internal server to provide e-mail services.
Permit all desktops to access the Internet.
Enable three employees to use their laptops from home periodically.
Make sure that all employees have the most current version of Office.
Make sure that all employees have the same edition of Office.
Implement a database to store customer data securely.
Only employees should be able to access this information.
Question
Since Araba plans to use volume licensing for Office, you have to give an explanation of the installation rights that the company receives for each volume license of Microsoft Office. So what is your explanation?
In the Software Assurance benefits below, which one satisfies the company’s business goals for training
Company Background
Corporate Information
Amet Research is a highly secured electronic research institute which provides lots of electronic information.
Physical Locations
Amet Research has 4,500 employees located in offices all over the world. Employees work through three shifts to ensure the whole day service to customers. Employees share desktop computers.
Existing Environment
Existing IT Environment
All desktops have Windows XP Professional installed under OEM agreements. They have Microsoft Office Professional 2003 installed under Open License or select License agreements without Software
Assurance.
According to the work environment, a memory upgrade is required to be compatible with Windows Vista by all desktops.
Each branch office has a network server. All servers have a third-party operating system and third-party e-mail application installed.
Amet Research has a third-party accounting application.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Amet Research intends to make the following changes to its network during the next two years:
* Deploy 25 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Servers at the head office
* Deploy a four-node Microsoft SQL Server cluster on single-processor servers
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Windows Vista
* Upgrade all existing desktops to Office Professional 2007
* Deploy 12 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise servers.
* Deploy 6 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers
Problems
Amet Research attempts to solve the following problems.
The third-party accounting application is not compatible with Windows Vista.
The company is not able to purchase licenses upfront any more.
Business Goals
Amet Research aims to achieve the following business goals:
* Minimize the amount of IT staff without impacting technical support provided to employees.
* Reduce licensing costs
* Consolidate purchasing within a single licensing program
* Avoid paying financing costs for the purchase of licenses
* Have all software licenses
* Train all employees on new applications
* Be able to install the latest Microsoft products as they become available
Question
In the Software Assurance benefits below, which one satisfies the company’s business goals for training all employees?
What should you recommend the company to access?
Company Background
Corporate Information
A. Datum owns the following interests in two affiliate companies:
51 percent of Contoso, Ltd.
100 percent of Fabrikam, Inc.
The number of employees for each comany is shown in the following table:
A. Datum 100 employes
Contoso 50 employes
Fabrikam 10 employes
All three companies have a flexible work environment that allows employees to work home. The employees in all three companies share customers and collaborate on projects.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
The two affiliate companies purchase their licenses separately from A. Datum and often pay a higher price for their software. A. Datum approves all purchasing decisions.
Existing IT Environment
Employees of all three companies have their own desktops. The desktops run Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business, and various versions of Microsoft Office.
The company has five servers that run Windows Server 2003
The IT department upgrades software every two years.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
Company growth is expected to increase both the amount of sales and the number of employees over the next three years.
A. Datum plans to implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) so that employees can collaborate on projects.
All sales staff will receive a PDA so that they can access Exchange while they are out of the office.
Business Problem
The IT department has a limited training budget. As a result, the IT staff finds in difficult maintain newly deployed software.
Business Goals
A. Datum has the following business goals:
Allow all employees to access the resources on all servers.
Upgrade the servers in all three companies to run the latest version of Windows Server.
Standardize the desktop operating systems in all three companies.
Standardize the desktop applications in all three companies.
Implement the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server in all three companies in the next six months.
Ensure that all employees can use the current version of Outlook and Outlook Web Access.
Provide remote access to Office applications by using Terminal Services.
Minimize initial licensing costs.
Minimize total licensing costs.
Minimize the costs of technical support.
Spend the entire software budger each fiscal year.
Question
A. Datum needs access to download Microsoft Office. You have to recommend the access for your company. Your recommendation must be in compliance with the company’s volume license agreement. What should you recommend the company to access?
In the options below, which Volume Licensing program meets the company’s business goals? In the options
Company Background
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. The company prospers in recent years and the number of its employees has reached to 2300.
Physical Locations
Since the Everbrighting Bank is an international organization, there’re about 70 stores and 3 factories in Europe. Its head office locates in Chicago.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
The GrooveShow Company buys all Windows Server licenses, Microsoft Office licenses, and Windows Server CALs through different Select License agreements.
All Windows operating system licenses are OEM. At present, Software Assurance covers no software.
Existing IT Environment
There’re about 750 desktop computers and 65 laptops in the company network. All these computers have Windows XP Professional and Office Professional installed.
About 60 desktops run a terminal-based point-of-sale application and 40 desktops run a line- of-business application. The two applications are used in manufacturing.
There’re 10 servers in the company and all of them have Windows Server 2003 installed. The servers are located in the head office and the three factories.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
According to the rapid development of the Bank business, the company intends to move to Windows Vista in a minimal time, deploy a Web Portal solution to allow for data collaboration, and enable all employees
to access e-mail remotely by give them Windows Mobile smartphones.
Problem Statements
The company has found some problems, such as the company has no Software Asset Management strategy, the current purchasing process is too complicated, and the existing IT infrastructure does not have
a high security level.
Business Goals
The company wants to reduce the costs of software licensing and server deployment, and the costs for training the Company’s IT staff, the initial costs of Windows Vista, Windows Moblile, and the Web portal.
The company wants to make users be able to run Office at work and at home, wants to access the latest Microsoft software. The company aims to strengthen control of the licensing purchase process and license compliance while reduce the administrative overhead associated with managing the company’s computers. Besides all these, the company wants to implement a solution for Software Asset Management.
Question
In the options below, which Volume Licensing program meets the company’s business goals? In the options below, which statement is true?
Of the following server solutions, which one should be used?
Company Background
Corporate Information
Angel Services is a charity aid hospital which provides free medical assistance. Its head office resides in Chicago. There are 50 employees and 100 volunteers in this hospital. Volunteers travel to local community centers to provide free medical checkup and treatment.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
All the existing software and hardware of this hospital come from donation of the public.
Existing IT Environment
There is a single IT administrator in Angel Services. Each employee is configured with a desktop computer. Different versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office are installed on their computers. It has a single IT administrator while there is no server in the network. The employees use public e-mail services. There is no computers provided for patient use.
Business Goals
Angel Services aims to achieve the following business goals:
Standardize all desktop applications Reduce licensing costs to the least.
Implement an internal e-mail solution
If server failure occurs, provide redundancy
Reduce the cost of troubleshooting desktops to the least. In order to protect the perimeter network from external attacks, provide a security solution. Permit all employees to access a third-party application that requires Microsoft SQL Server
Question
Angel Services plans to provide e-mail access to all volunteers in the next two years, therefore, a server solution is needed for providing Web-based e-mail access to the volunteers. Of the following server solutions, which one should be used?