SECTION A: GENERIC SERVER ADMINISTRATION
This section contains two (2) questions; each question is worth 2 marks. Only short answer is expected.
1. Describe the main server administration tasks and explain the purpose of the post-installation configuration task.
2. Compare RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5? Explain why RAID-5 can be used to achieve both cost and performance objectives?
SECTION B: WINDOWS SERVER 2012 ADMINISTRATION
This section contains one (1) question, which is worth 5 marks
1. Perform the following administration tasks and take screenshots to demonstrate your solution. Note that, each screenshots should clearly show that the work is original.
a. Create 4 virtual hard disks on your VirtualBox machine, each has the size of 5Gb. Name the disks as VD1, VD2, VD3 and VD4.
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b. In your Windows server 2012, create a storage pool consisted of the four disks. Name the storage pool using the following format: sp_your_student_id.
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c. Create a virtual disk of the size 10Gb from the storage pool
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d. Format the disk to create a disk volume and create a folder on the volum name: s_your_student_id
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