SharePoint Assessment Test

Hi Guys Quiz time now to test our SharePoint knowledge so far :)  This Quiz is based on first chapter of book MCT Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configuration Study Guide. This quiz covers question about what's new in SharePoint 2010, Hardware and Software Requirments for SharePoint 2010 Server. Please try and check your answers in the end.

1.       You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the viability of upgrading your production system to SharePoint Server 2010. Which of the following options are true?(Choose all that apply.)

A. SharePoint Server 2010 is a 64-bit only application.

B. SharePoint Server 2010 can run only on 64-bit Windows Server 2003, 64-bit Windows Server 2008, and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.

C. SharePoint Server 2010 can only use 64-bit SQL Server 2008 for database services.

D. SharePoint Server 2010 deployed as a single server can use SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 as an integrated database.

2. You are the CIO for an enterprise-level company. You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64-bit hardware and software by the CEO. As part of the task of preparing a report, you list the advantages of 64-bit hardware. Which of the following options do you include as advantages? (Choose all that apply.)

A. 64-bit bus architecture supports more and wider registers, improving overall application performance speeds by reducing the need to write persistent data to memory.

B. 32-bit systems can support only 8 GB of RAM, while 64-bit systems can support up to 512 GB of RAM.

C. 32-bit systems support 32 processors in a hardware server, while 64-bit systems support

up to 64 processors.

D. The minimum amount of RAM required to install and work with SharePoint Server 2010 in a testing environment is 4 GB.

3. You are the CIO for an enterprise-level company. You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64-bit hardware and software by the CEO. As part of the task of preparing a report, you describe how much virtual memory a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can access. Which of the following is true?

A. A 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 8 terabytes of virtual memory.
B. A 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory.
C. A 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 32 terabytes of virtual memory.
D. A 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can address up to 64 terabytes of virtual memory.

4. You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to 64-bit SharePoint Server 2010. As part of your investigation, you look into the security advantages of upgrading to a 64-bit hardware and software platform. Which of the following do you report as advantages? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Windows Server 2008 offers greater buffer overflow protection because the first parameters of a procedure call are passed in buffers.

B. Windows Server 2008 offers greater buffer overflow protection because the first parameters of a procedure call are passed in registers.

C. 64-bit processors include hardware support for data execution prevention (DEP) to prevent any malicious executables from running.

D. Microsoft Patch Guard prevents any kernel mode drivers in Microsoft-only applications from extending or replacing kernel services in Windows Server 2008.

5. You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010. You discover that 64-bit Windows Server 2008 includes Windows and Windows 64-bit (WOW64) translation layer, which emulates a 32-bit operating system, allowing a mixed 32-bit/64-bit environment to coexist. One of your interns asks about the possibility of mixing 32-bit Windows Server 2008 machines with their 64-bit counterparts in a SharePoint Server 2010 upgrade. What is true about this suggestion?

A. Although you cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 machine, you can use 32-bit SQL Server 2005 and 2008 for database services.

B. Although you cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 machine, you can use 32-bit SQL Server 2008 for database services, but not 32-bit SQL Server 2005.

C. You cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 machine, and you must use 64-bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for database services.

D. You cannot install SharePoint Server 2010 on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 machine, and you must use only 64-bit SQL Server 2008 for database services.

6. You are the CIO for an enterprise-level company. You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64-bit hardware and software by the CEO. As part of the task of preparing a report, you run across information stating that not all 64-bit processors are compatible with SharePoint Server 2010. Of the following options, which processor type is to be avoided?
A. 64-bit Intel Xeon processor w/2M
B. AMD Athlon 64 3500 processor
C. 64-bit Intel Itanium processor
D. AMD Sempron 3000 64-bit processor

7. You are the CIO for an enterprise-level company. You have been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of upgrading your SharePoint system to 64-bit hardware and software by the CEO. This includes the specific minimum hardware requirements for installing Share-Point Server 2010. You visit the related website at Microsoft and discover which of the following requirements? (Choose all that apply.)

A. A production installation requires a minimum of 60 GB of hard drive spaces, plus additional space on the drive to support regular operational requirements.

B. The minimum processor requirements are 64-bit processors in dual-core, with 2.5 GHz per core.

C. A minimum of 4 GB of RAM per physical server for development or testing purposes.

D. A minimum of 8 GB of RAM per production server.

8. You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010. You are currently looking into the required and optional software that must be installed on a single server with an integrated database for a SharePoint Server 2010 test deployment. Which of the following software packages must be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine in order to successfully install SharePoint Server 2010? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1

B. Microsoft “Geneva” Framework

C. Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft .NET

D. SharePoint Technologies (SSRS)

9. You are the DBA for your enterprise-level company, and you are meeting with the CIO and CEO to plan your company’s efforts to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010. You are tasked with inventorying the database servers in the server infrastructure and reporting on how many Microsoft SQL servers must be upgraded to support the proposed SharePoint deployment. Which of the following SQL Server versions will need to be upgraded? (Choose all that apply.)

A. 32-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4

B. 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4

C. 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3

D. 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1

10. You are a SharePoint administrator of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, and you have been tasked by your CIO to investigate the feasibility of upgrading to SharePoint 2010. You are currently looking into the required and optional software to be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 in order to deploy SharePoint Server 2010 as a frontend web server or application server. Which of the following options are optional software for those server types? (Choose all that apply.)

A. 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 in order to work with PowerPivot workbooks

B. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies (SSRS)

C. Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64)

D. Microsoft Server Speech Platform

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Answers to Quiz Questions

1. A, D. In option B, Windows cannot use 64-bit Windows Server 2003, and in option C, Windows can also use 64-bit SQL Server 2005 for database services.

2. A, C, D. In option B, 32-bit systems can support only 4 GB of RAM, while 64-bit systems support up to 1024 GB of RAM.

3. B. A 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine can use up to 1024 GB of physical memory and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory.

4. B, C. Option A is in error because procedure calls are passed in registers, not buffers. OptionD is incorrect, because Microsoft Patch Guard prevents any kernel mode drivers in third-party applications from extending or replacing kernel services, not Microsoft applications.

5. C. You must use 64-bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for database services. You cannot use any 32-bit server or database server platform. Both 64-bit SQL Server 2005 and 2008 are acceptable options.

6. C. The Intel Itanium 64-bit processor uses a proprietary design that will not support any of the Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies used by SharePoint Server 2010.

7. C, D. For option A, the minimum required hard drive space is 80 GB, not 60 GB. For option B, the minimum processor requirement is quad-core, not dual-core, though the other stated processor requirements in the answer are correct.

8. A, B, C. SharePoint Technologies (SSRS) is optional and needed only if you want to use Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010.

9. A, B. No 32-bit database server is supported by SharePoint Server 2010, and no version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is supported. The database servers listed in options C and D are both acceptable and will not need to be upgraded.

10. A, B, D. Each is an optional software package and not necessary to run SharePoint Server 2010 as a web server or application server. For option C, Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) is a required package and must be installed for the aforementioned SharePoint server roles.

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