Microsoft 070-246 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

  • Exam Code/Number: 070-246
  • Exam Name/Title: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
  • Certification Provider: Microsoft
  • Corresponding Certification: Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration
  • Exam Questions: 170
  • Updated On: Jul 25, 2026
You need to view the incidents and the related configuration items for the SQL Server clusters.
What should you use?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network contains an Operations Manager infrastructure and a Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) infrastructure.
You implement a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 farm that is hosted on 10 virtual machines.
The company defines a service level agreement (SLA) for the farm's availability of at least
99.9 percent uptime.
You need to ensure that the company's compliance officer can identify whether the SLA requirement is met.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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You have a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that has Orchestrator and Service Manager installed.
Integration between Orchestrator and Service Manager is configured.
You need to ensure that when a change request is made in Service Manager, the following requirements are met:
The ticket number is logged to a file.
The file contains the ticket numbers for every change request.
Each time a ticket number is logged to the file, an email message is sent to an
administrator.
Which activities should you use in a runbook?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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You need to identify the information that is required to discover each switch by using an explicit discovery.
Which information do you require for each switch? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)
Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer
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Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure. The network contains seven servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.

You need to recommend a solution to apply Windows updates to the virtualization hosts.
The solution must meet the following requirements:
- Approve Windows updates from the VMM Administrator Console. - Store information about Windows update installations in Configuration Manager reports.
What should you do first?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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You need to ensure that the self-service users and the administrators can deploy virtual machines. The solution must meet the technical requirements.
What should you create?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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HOTSPOT
You have a System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager deployment and a System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment. All servers are Configuration Manager clients.
You have a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) server. Configuration Manager is configured to use WSUS for software updates.
You need to implement a Windows Update deployment for all of the servers. The deployment must meet the following requirements:
Hyper-V hosts must be excluded from receiving software updates from
Configuration Manager.
VMM must apply software updates to all of the Hyper-V hosts.
VMM must obtain updates from the WSUS server.
Administrative effort must be minimized. Which actions should you perform in VMM and which actions should you perform in Configuration Manager? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
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HOTSPOT
You need to ensure that you can manage the updates to the virtualization infrastructure. You write the following Windows PowerShell script:

How should you complete the script? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
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Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
An administrator installs a new tape drive on a server that has Data Protection Manager (DPM) installed.
You discover that the tape drive is unavailable from the DPM Administrator console.
You verify that the tape drive is installed correctly on the DPM server.
You need to ensure that the tape drive is available from the DPM Administrator console.
What should you do from the DPM Administrator console?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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HOTSPOT
You need to recommend a solution to meet the monitoring requirements for the database administrators.
Which components should you recommend deploying in Operations Manager and SharePoint Server 2010? (To answer, select the appropriate components in the answer area.)
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Your company has a datacenter in Los Angeles that contains a private cloud. The private cloud is managed by using a System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) infrastructure.
You create a host group named HG1. You move several Hyper-V hosts to HG1.
You plan to manage Windows updates for the hosts in HG1 by using VMM.
An administrator creates a baseline as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

You discover that the updates defined in the baseline are not applied to the hosts in HG1.
You need to ensure that the required updates are deployed to the hosts in HG1.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
You deploy a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that contains Configuration Manager, Orchestrator, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Operations Manager is configured to monitor all servers. Configuration Manger is configured to deploy Windows patches to the servers.
You deploy 10 new web servers by using a VMM service template.
You plan to deploy several hundred patches to the servers.
You need to automate the server patching process without generating alerts.
What is the best approach to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
HOTSPOT
Your company help desk uses System Center 2012 Service Manager to manage and track problems.
You need to ensure that the manager of the help desk is notified automatically when a high-priority incident is updated.
What should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate configuration in the answer area.
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You need to ensure that users can self provision virtual machines.
To which object should you assign permissions?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
DRAG DROP
You have a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that has Operations Manager installed.
Your company is testing a custom application named App1. App1 is deployed to a test server named Server1. Server1 runs Windows Server 2012 R2.
You push the Operations Manager agent to Server1 and you start to receive alerts from Server1.
You need to give a team of developers historical traces of App1. The developers will store the traces in Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Correct Answer:
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