Question 7
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Your network contains an Active Directory forest.
You install Windows Server 2016 on 10 virtual machines.
You need to deploy the Web Server (IIS) server role identically to the virtual machines.
Solution: You use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to create a default configuration, and then you apply the configuration to the virtual machines.
Does this meet the goal?
Correct answer: A
Explanation:
DSC gives us a declarative model for system configuration management. What that really means is that we can specify how we want a workstation or server (a ‘node’) to be configured and we leave it to PowerShell and the Windows Workflow engine to make it happen on those target ‘nodes’. We don’t have to specify how we want it to happen. The main advantages of DSC are:To simplify your sysadmin tasks by configuring one or more devices automatically To be able to configure machines identically with the aim to standardize them To ensure, at a given time, that the configuration of a machine always be identical to its initial configuration, so as to avoid drift Deployment on demand as a Cloud strategy, or ‘en masse’, is largely automated and simplified References:https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/powershell-desired-state-configuration-the-basics/
DSC gives us a declarative model for system configuration management. What that really means is that we can specify how we want a workstation or server (a ‘node’) to be configured and we leave it to PowerShell and the Windows Workflow engine to make it happen on those target ‘nodes’. We don’t have to specify how we want it to happen.
The main advantages of DSC are:
To simplify your sysadmin tasks by configuring one or more devices automatically
To be able to configure machines identically with the aim to standardize them
To ensure, at a given time, that the configuration of a machine always be identical to its initial configuration, so as to avoid drift
Deployment on demand as a Cloud strategy, or ‘en masse’, is largely automated and simplified
References:
https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/powershell-desired-state-configuration-the-basics/