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Topic 3, Contoso Ltd,
Overview General Overview Contoso. Ltd. is an international company that has 3,000 employees.
The company has sales, marketing, research, and human resource departments.
Physical Locations
Contoso has two main offices. The offices are located in New York and Chicago. Each moffice has a data center.
The New York office uses a network subnet of 10.1.0.0/16. The Chicago office uses a mnetwork subnet of
10.128.0.0/16.
The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link. Each office connects directly to the Internet.
Existing Environment
Active Directory The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest mcontains a
single domain. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 R2. The forest mfunctional level is Windows
Server 2012 R2.
The forest contains six domain controllers configured as shown in the following table.
The forest is configured as a single Active Directory site.
Active Directory administrators manage the Active Directory schema. Exchange Server madministrators do not
have access to modify the schema.
Contoso has deployed Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).
Current Business Model
Contoso partners with a company names Fabrikam. Inc. on manufacturing initiatives. The partnership between
Contoso and Fabrikam requires that both companies share confidentialm information frequently.
Requirements
Business Goals
Contoso plans to install Exchange Server 2016 to provide messaging services for its users.
It must be as easy as possible for the users at Contoso to share free/busy information with mthe users at
Fabrikam.
As much as possible Contoso plans to minimize the costs associated with purchasing hardware and software.
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to implement the following changes before installing Exchange Server 2016:
Install hardware Network Load Balancing (NLB) in the New York and Chicago offices.
Implement Microsoft Office Online Servers in the New York and Chicago offices.
Provide Contoso users with company-approved tablets.
Planned Messaging Infrastructure
You plan to create an Exchange Server 2016 organization named Contoso. You plan to deploy seven servers
that will have Exchange Server 2016 installed. The servers will be configured as mshown in the following table.
All of the servers will be members of a database availability group (DAG) named DAG01.
Client Access Requirements
Contoso identifies the following client access requirements for the planned deployment:
Users must be able to configure their tablet to synchronize email by using Autodiscover.
Users must be able to access the Exchange Server organization by using the following names:
Mail.contoso.com
Autodiscover.contoso.com
Users must be able to access Outlook on the web internally and externally from their tablet.
Users must be able to access Office Online Server by using the URL of office-online.contoso.com.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements for the planned deployment:
Exchange Server mailbox databases must be encrypted while at rest.
Users must be prevented from using Outlook on the web while they are offline.
Contoso users must be able to share Calendar details with approved external domains only.
Email messages sent to the users in the fabrikam.com SMTP domain must be encrypted automatically.
Whenever possible, client computers must be directed to the same Exchange server for log collection.
Users must be able to access their mailbox by using Exchange ActiveSync on the company approved tablets
only.
Email messages sent from the users in the human resources department of Contoso must be protected by
using AD RMS. regardless of the mail client.
Availability Requirements
Contoso identifies the following high-availability requirements for the planned deployment:
Servers must be able to complete a restart without administrative intervention.
The network load balancer must be able to probe the health of each workload.
If a data center fails, the databases in the other data center must be activated automatically.
Redundant copies of all email messages must exist in the transport pipeline before and after mdelivery.
Email messages must be made highly available by the Exchange Server organization before and after delivery.
If you manually mount the databases following the data center failure, the databases in the failed site must be
prevented from mounting automatically.
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You are planning an Exchange Server 2016 organization. The organization will contain a
Mailbox server named EX01.
Users will have primary SMTP email addresses in the following domains:
Contoso.com
Fabrikam.com
Cohowinery.com
Wingtiptoys.com
You need to add a DNS record to provide Autodiscover for each domain. Which type of record should you
create in each zone?

A.
CERT
B.
A
C.
MINFO
D.
PTR
Very strange answer. You can create an A record in each dns domain and point it to the mailserver.
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Agreed. Very strange.
This article (http://markgossa.blogspot.com/2015/11/exchange-2013-2016-autodiscover-with-multiple-domains-and-single-name-certificate.html) would seem to suggest SRV records are the way to go, and the article mentions removing the A records.
So given that info, I would also go with A records, as CERT is a certificate record and the question mentions nothing about them.
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Technet is clear about the answer – A record:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt473798(v=exchg.150).aspx
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On the actual exam the only multiple choice options are TXT, MINFO, PTR and SRV. I went with SRV.
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I think they mean CNAME instead of CERT. It’s possible define autodiscover using CNAME records, but of course, you should have an A record where you can refer using CNAME.
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I have doubt with the one selected the answer as well as the one wrote the question 🙂
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Autodiscover service
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251(v=exchg.150).aspx
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Configure DNS records
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt473798(v=exchg.150).aspx
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CNAME isn´t in the options, should be an A record.
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Could either be A record, CNAME or SRV (all would work)
Preference being A as its most commonly used, if thats not there choose SRV as this works where A is not possible (certificate only has 1 SAN) and if thats not there choose CNAME (can be used but can cause compatibility issues and cert issues).
Thats my opinion anyway.
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