Company Background
Corporate Information
Groveware, Inc.is a large manufacture company which provides medical equipment and distributes the
equipment internationally.

Physical Locations
Groveware has many branch offices all over the world. The branch office in Tokyo has 500 desktops, the
office in London has 450 desktops, the office in Ohio has 480 desktops and the office in Sydney has 300
desktops,

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
The Sydney office and the Tokyo office manage their licensing respectively. The managers in the Tokyo
office and the Sydney office mainly use OEM programs and Open License programs to purchase licenses.

Existing IT Environment
All employees use desktops with Windows operating systems and Office installed.

The servers in Sydney are shown in the following table:

The servers in Tokyo are shown in the following table:

Business Requirements

Planned Changes
Groveware attempts to make the following changes in the next two years:
* Open five new offices in India. Each new office in India will have 50 employees.
* Add 100 employees to the Tokyo office.
* Replace the hardware for all desktops
* Upgrade all e-mail services to Exchange Server 2007 and upgrade all servers to Windows Server 2003 R2.
* Provide all employees with access to Window SharePoint Services.
* Standardize the desktop operating system to Windows XP Professional.

Business Goals
Groveware has the following business goals:
* Allow flexibility to purchase new editions of server licenses, with or without Software Assurance
* Standardize desktop applications across all companies.
* Minimize the upfront cost of upgrading desktop applications.
* Minimize costs for server licenses.
* Provide employees with immediate access to the latest version of Office while minimizing costs
* Provide employees with access to Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007

Question
In the Volume Licensing agreements below, which one satisfies the company’s business requirements for desktop applications.

Company Background
Tipkey is a large corporation which has more than 5000 employees. The company provides managed services to large companies. Since the company gets prosperous, it decides to recruit 250 new employees every year.

Physical Locations
Since the Tipkey is a large international company, it has many branch offices respectively in the USA, Afric, and Asia. Its head office is in Huston. The head office is responsible for all purchases.

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
Tipkey makes the purchase of licenses through the Open Licenses program and the OEM program. But because the high costs of software licenses, it’s difficult for the company to implement new technologies.

Existing IT Environment
In the company, desktop computers run different versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, the manufacturer has made installation on some of the desktops.

Litware has an external facing Web portal that runs on a third-party application. The Web portal runs on a Windows Server 2008 server and has SQL Server installed. The company’s customers use the Web portal. There’s an external facing Web portal in the company. The company customers use the Web portal which has SQL Server installed. The Web portal runs on a third-party application and a Windows Server 2008 server.

Every two years, the IT department upgrades software and replaces one-third of the desktops every year.

Business Requirements

Problem Statements
According to the company requirement, an administrator and a developer have to manage and perform updates to the Web portal and the third-party application full time. However, the administrator is not skillful enough to move the existing Web portal to an equivalent Microsoft solution.

Planned Software Changes
The company intends to perform the installation of the following software in the following three years:
* Windows Server 2008
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
* Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
* Windows Vista Business
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007

Business Goals
The Tipkey company wants to achieve the following goals in the future:
* The company wants to improve compliance and prevent over-purchasing by implementing a software purchasing process;
* Move the Web portal to a Microsoft solution;
* minimize the administrative costs associated with managing and maintaining the Web portal;
* Reduce the costs of moving the Web portal and the costs of upgrading to the latest version of Office;
* keep perpetual use rights for all licenses;
* Standardize desktop operating systems;
* use an imaging technology to Standardize desktop applications;
* Maximize the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware purchases

Question
In the options below, which program excludes Forefront Security Suite?

Company Background
Tipkey is a large corporation which has more than 5000 employees. The company provides managed services to large companies. Since the company gets prosperous, it decides to recruit 250 new employees every year.

Physical Locations
Since the Tipkey is a large international company, it has many branch offices respectively in the USA, Afric, and Asia. Its head office is in Huston. The head office is responsible for all purchases.

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
Tipkey makes the purchase of licenses through the Open Licenses program and the OEM program. But because the high costs of software licenses, it’s difficult for the company to implement new technologies.

Existing IT Environment
In the company, desktop computers run different versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, the manufacturer has made installation on some of the desktops.

Litware has an external facing Web portal that runs on a third-party application. The Web portal runs on a Windows Server 2008 server and has SQL Server installed. The company’s customers use the Web portal. There’s an external facing Web portal in the company. The company customers use the Web portal which has SQL Server installed. The Web portal runs on a third-party application and a Windows Server 2008 server.

Every two years, the IT department upgrades software and replaces one-third of the desktops every year.

Business Requirements

Problem Statements
According to the company requirement, an administrator and a developer have to manage and perform updates to the Web portal and the third-party application full time. However, the administrator is not skillful enough to move the existing Web portal to an equivalent Microsoft solution.

Planned Software Changes
The company intends to perform the installation of the following software in the following three years:
* Windows Server 2008
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
* Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
* Windows Vista Business
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007

Business Goals
The Tipkey company wants to achieve the following goals in the future:
* The company wants to improve compliance and prevent over-purchasing by implementing a software purchasing process;
* Move the Web portal to a Microsoft solution;
* minimize the administrative costs associated with managing and maintaining the Web portal;
* Reduce the costs of moving the Web portal and the costs of upgrading to the latest version of Office;
* keep perpetual use rights for all licenses;
* Standardize desktop operating systems;
* use an imaging technology to Standardize desktop applications;
* Maximize the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware purchases

Question
Supposing that now the Tipkey company grows as it expected, which Enterprise Agreement level would Litware qualify for in three years?

Company Background
Corporate Information
Groveware, Inc.is a large manufacture company which provides medical equipment and distributes the
equipment internationally.

Physical Locations
Groveware has many branch offices all over the world. The branch office in Tokyo has 500 desktops, the
office in London has 450 desktops, the office in Ohio has 480 desktops and the office in Sydney has 300
desktops,

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
The Sydney office and the Tokyo office manage their licensing respectively. The managers in the Tokyo
office and the Sydney office mainly use OEM programs and Open License programs to purchase licenses.

Existing IT Environment
All employees use desktops with Windows operating systems and Office installed.

The servers in Sydney are shown in the following table:

The servers in Tokyo are shown in the following table:

Business Requirements

Planned Changes
Groveware attempts to make the following changes in the next two years:
* Open five new offices in India. Each new office in India will have 50 employees.
* Add 100 employees to the Tokyo office.
* Replace the hardware for all desktops
* Upgrade all e-mail services to Exchange Server 2007 and upgrade all servers to Windows Server 2003 R2.
* Provide all employees with access to Window SharePoint Services.
* Standardize the desktop operating system to Windows XP Professional.

Business Goals
Groveware has the following business goals:
* Allow flexibility to purchase new editions of server licenses, with or without Software Assurance
* Standardize desktop applications across all companies.
* Minimize the upfront cost of upgrading desktop applications.
* Minimize costs for server licenses.
* Provide employees with immediate access to the latest version of Office while minimizing costs
* Provide employees with access to Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007

Question
In the Licenses below, which one should you recommend to provide access to the company’s SharePoint services?

Company Background
Corporate Information
Everbrighting Bank is a large financial organization which invests its capital in many fields. This organization gets prosperous in recent years.

Physical Locations
Since the Everbrighting Bank is an international organization, its head office Locates in Chicago, and its branch offices are in Tokyo and London. Each office has an IT manager.
There’re many employees in the respective offices. In Chicago, there’re 3000 employees; In Tokyo and London, there’re respectively 300 and 224 employees.

Existing IT Environment
In the organization, Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 are installed on all desktop computers.
The Everbrighting Bank has the following licenses and the table below shows the number.

Business Requirements
Planned Changes
According to the rapid development of the Bank business, the organization managers votes to use the latest version of all Microsoft products. The Everbrighting Bank will implement unified messaging and e-forms.

Problems
The IT staff report that the rapid grow of the bank has hindered them from maintaining product fixes and updates on the desktops because of the rapid development of the Bank business.

Business Goals
Everbrighting Bank will reduce the licensing costs;
provide redundancy for SQL server databases;
provide multilingual desktops in Tokyo and London;
make all desktops use the latest operating system version;
allow the action of using a single product keys to install all desktop operating systems;

Question
Since the bank’s rapid growth has hindered its IT staff from maintaining product fixes and updates on the desktops, a Microsoft product should be used to allow the bank to manage software updates and patches
and support the banks planned changes. In the options below, which Microsoft product should be used?

Company Background
Tipkey is a large corporation which has more than 5000 employees. The company provides managed services to large companies. Since the company gets prosperous, it decides to recruit 250 new employees every year.

Physical Locations
Since the Tipkey is a large international company, it has many branch offices respectively in the USA, Afric, and Asia. Its head office is in Huston. The head office is responsible for all purchases.

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
Tipkey makes the purchase of licenses through the Open Licenses program and the OEM program. But because the high costs of software licenses, it’s difficult for the company to implement new technologies.

Existing IT Environment
In the company, desktop computers run different versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, the manufacturer has made installation on some of the desktops.

Litware has an external facing Web portal that runs on a third-party application. The Web portal runs on a Windows Server 2008 server and has SQL Server installed. The company’s customers use the Web portal. There’s an external facing Web portal in the company. The company customers use the Web portal which has SQL Server installed. The Web portal runs on a third-party application and a Windows Server 2008 server.

Every two years, the IT department upgrades software and replaces one-third of the desktops every year.

Business Requirements

Problem Statements
According to the company requirement, an administrator and a developer have to manage and perform updates to the Web portal and the third-party application full time. However, the administrator is not skillful enough to move the existing Web portal to an equivalent Microsoft solution.

Planned Software Changes
The company intends to perform the installation of the following software in the following three years:
* Windows Server 2008
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
* Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
* Windows Vista Business
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007

Business Goals
The Tipkey company wants to achieve the following goals in the future:
* The company wants to improve compliance and prevent over-purchasing by implementing a software purchasing process;
* Move the Web portal to a Microsoft solution;
* minimize the administrative costs associated with managing and maintaining the Web portal;
* Reduce the costs of moving the Web portal and the costs of upgrading to the latest version of Office;
* keep perpetual use rights for all licenses;
* Standardize desktop operating systems;
* use an imaging technology to Standardize desktop applications;
* Maximize the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware purchases

Question
When desktops are replaced, the company wants to reduce the costs for Office licenses to the least, which volume license rights can cut down the costs to the least? In the options below, which statement is true?

Company Background
Corporate Information
Groveware, Inc.is a large manufacture company which provides medical equipment and distributes the
equipment internationally.

Physical Locations
Groveware has many branch offices all over the world. The branch office in Tokyo has 500 desktops, the
office in London has 450 desktops, the office in Ohio has 480 desktops and the office in Sydney has 300
desktops,

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
The Sydney office and the Tokyo office manage their licensing respectively. The managers in the Tokyo
office and the Sydney office mainly use OEM programs and Open License programs to purchase licenses.

Existing IT Environment
All employees use desktops with Windows operating systems and Office installed.

The servers in Sydney are shown in the following table:

The servers in Tokyo are shown in the following table:

Business Requirements

Planned Changes
Groveware attempts to make the following changes in the next two years:
* Open five new offices in India. Each new office in India will have 50 employees.
* Add 100 employees to the Tokyo office.
* Replace the hardware for all desktops
* Upgrade all e-mail services to Exchange Server 2007 and upgrade all servers to Windows Server 2003 R2.
* Provide all employees with access to Window SharePoint Services.
* Standardize the desktop operating system to Windows XP Professional.

Business Goals
Groveware has the following business goals:
* Allow flexibility to purchase new editions of server licenses, with or without Software Assurance
* Standardize desktop applications across all companies.
* Minimize the upfront cost of upgrading desktop applications.
* Minimize costs for server licenses.
* Provide employees with immediate access to the latest version of Office while minimizing costs
* Provide employees with access to Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007

Question
In the Volume Licensing agreements below, which one satisfies the company’s business requirements for desktop applications.

Company Background
Corporate Information
GrooveShow Company is a large manufacturing company which produces and sells furnitures. There’re about 3000 salesman in the company.

Physical Locations
Since GrooveShow Company is a large international company, it has 80 offices in the American continent. It locates its head office in Ireland.

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
GrooveShow Company has an Open License agreement covering 800 Microsoft Office Professional licenses, 800 Microsoft Windows Upgrade licenses that include Software Assurance.

About 10 months ago, the company purchased the software licenses.

Existing IT Environment
There’re about 650 desktop computers in its head office. Each salesman has a laptop. All destops have the Windows and Office Professional installed. At present, the company has no intention to upgrade the
software on these desktops.

There’re 45 servers in the head office and 1 server in each branch offices. All the servers have Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition installed.

Business Requirements
According to the working requirement, the company decides to migrate all servers to the data center in the head office. And all servers will run the latest version of Windows Server. The company also decides to
install 20 new servers. These new servers will have Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition installed and will have two dual-core CPUs. Windows Server will run on both CPUs. SQL Server 2008
will run on only one of the dual-core CPUs. For each branch office, the company will create a virtual server.

Business Goals
* The GrooveShow company aims to get rid of the need to renew a license agreement;
* minimize the use of energy through server consolidation;
* keep the company data safe on the laptops in case of being theft.

Question
In the options below, which licensing solution can be used to minimize costs for the planned branch office servers?

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
The GrooveShow company wants to activate its Software Assurance benefits, in which Web site can the company perform this action?

Company Background
Tipkey is a large corporation which has more than 5000 employees. The company provides managed services to large companies. Since the company gets prosperous, it decides to recruit 250 new employees every year.

Physical Locations
Since the Tipkey is a large international company, it has many branch offices respectively in the USA, Afric, and Asia. Its head office is in Huston. The head office is responsible for all purchases.

Existing Environment

Existing Licensing Solution
Tipkey makes the purchase of licenses through the Open Licenses program and the OEM program. But because the high costs of software licenses, it’s difficult for the company to implement new technologies.

Existing IT Environment
In the company, desktop computers run different versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, the manufacturer has made installation on some of the desktops.

Litware has an external facing Web portal that runs on a third-party application. The Web portal runs on a Windows Server 2008 server and has SQL Server installed. The company’s customers use the Web portal. There’s an external facing Web portal in the company. The company customers use the Web portal which has SQL Server installed. The Web portal runs on a third-party application and a Windows Server 2008 server.

Every two years, the IT department upgrades software and replaces one-third of the desktops every year.

Business Requirements

Problem Statements
According to the company requirement, an administrator and a developer have to manage and perform updates to the Web portal and the third-party application full time. However, the administrator is not skillful enough to move the existing Web portal to an equivalent Microsoft solution.

Planned Software Changes
The company intends to perform the installation of the following software in the following three years:
* Windows Server 2008
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
* Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
* Windows Vista Business
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007
* Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007

Business Goals
The Tipkey company wants to achieve the following goals in the future:
* The company wants to improve compliance and prevent over-purchasing by implementing a software purchasing process;
* Move the Web portal to a Microsoft solution;
* minimize the administrative costs associated with managing and maintaining the Web portal;
* Reduce the costs of moving the Web portal and the costs of upgrading to the latest version of Office;
* keep perpetual use rights for all licenses;
* Standardize desktop operating systems;
* use an imaging technology to Standardize desktop applications;
* Maximize the return on investment (ROI) for software and hardware purchases

Question
Supposing that now the Tipkey company grows as it expected, which Enterprise Agreement level would Litware qualify for in three years?