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Topic 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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HOTSPOT
You need to ensure that user-selected subscription content automatically appear on users’ My Sites.
Which configuration option should you choose? (To answer, select the appropriate option in the answer
area.)

Answer:

Explanation:
Note:* A user’s individual site collection hosts the document library of the user’s individual My Site. An
individual site collection is created the first time that a user accesses the My Site.