Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor all network devices.
You need to provide a user named Clive with the ability to enumerate monitors, enumerate
monitoring objects and review application monitoring alerts in the SCOM console.

Company security policy states that all users should have the minimum permissions necessary to
perform their required functions.
Which SCOM user role should you assign Clive to?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor all network devices.
You need to provide a user named Mia with the ability to create, edit, and delete monitoring
configurations (tasks, rules, monitors, and views) in the SCOM console. Mia also needs to be able
to create and delete management packs.
Company security policy states that all users should have the minimum permissions necessary to
perform their required functions.
Which SCOM user role should you assign Mia to?

You work as a Network Administrator at ABC.com. The network consists of a single Active
Directory Domain Services domain.
The network includes two Windows Server 2008 domain controllers named ABC-DC1 and ABCDC2.
You deploy System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor network servers. The
SCOM agent is installed automatically on ABC-DC1 and ABC-DC2 using a push install from
SCOM.
You install a third Windows Server 2008 domain controller named ABC-DC3 and manually install
the SCOM agent on the new domain controller.
The SCOM console displays an alert with the following error for ABC-DC3:
“The script ‘AD Database and Log’ failed to create object ‘McActiveDir.ActiveDirectory’.
The error returned was: ‘ActiveX component can’t create object’ (0x1AD)”
There are no errors for ABC-DC1 and ABC-DC2.
How can you resolve the error?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
A Windows Server 2008 VM running Internet Information Services (IIS) hosts a .NET web based
application. You want to use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the
availability of the web application. You also want to check a logon process in the web application
by performing a test logon with a test user account every few minutes.

You install an SCOM Watcher Node on a server. You now need to configure the monitoring in
SCOM.
How should you configure the required monitoring?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
A Windows Server 2008 VM running Internet Information Services (IIS) hosts a .NET web based
application. The application stores data in a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database.
You use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the availability of the web
application from an SCOM Watcher Node. You now want to configure SCOM to monitor the SQL
Server database used by the web application. You want to monitor the following:
Success of the database connection or query.
Time to connect to database.
Time to complete the query.
Time to fetch results of query.
How should you configure the required monitoring?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network includes two subnets named Subnet1 and Subnet2. The switches on Subnet1 all run
SNMPv1 and have the community string “Subnet1”. The switches on Subnet2 all run SNMPv2c
and have the community string “Subnet2”.
You want to use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to manage all the network
switches.
How can you ensure that the SCOM device discovery process can discover all the switches in
both subnets?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You use System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) to manage all network devices.
The SCOM management server has the IP address 192.168.1.52.
You add a second subnet to the network. The network address of the second subnet is
192.168.2.0/24. Network communications are controlled by a firewall separating the two subnets.
The network ports used by SNMP are blocked on the firewall.
You install a new switch on the second subnet. The IP address of the switch is 192.168.2.7.
You need to discover the new switch from the SCOM management server. You open the

Computer and Device Management Wizard in SCOM.
Which options should you configure in the Add a Device window?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor all network devices.
You need to provide network technicians with the ability to view critical alerts generated by
network servers and to determine whether an alert was generated by a monitor in SCOM or a rule.
You create a group named Technicians in Active Directory and configure a dashboard in SCOM.
How can you configure the dashboard to provide the required information?

Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company’s
private cloud. The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.

System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (SCOM) is used to monitor all network devices.
You create an unsealed management pack named NewMP and an override for NewMP.
Another unsealed management pack named OldMP contains a group.
You need to apply the NewMP override to the OldMP group.
Which two of the following options would enable you to achieve this? (Choose two possible
answers).

You work as a Network Administrator at ABC.com. The network includes a System Center 2012
infrastructure.
System Center 2012 – Service Manager is used by the help desk department to track any
problems reported with network devices, servers or computers.
You want to be notified every time a new incident that pertains to a server problem is opened.
You open the System Center 2012 Service Manager Console.
What should you do next?