Microsoft 74-409 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

  • Exam Code/Number: 74-409
  • Exam Name/Title: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
  • Certification Provider: Microsoft
  • Corresponding Certification: Windows Server 2012
  • Exam Questions: 99
  • Updated On: Jun 01, 2026
A company has a Hyper-V failover cluster that consists of sixteen host servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2. The company uses System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage the Hyper-V environment.
Eight of the host servers are used only for engineering-related services. The other eight host servers are used for general corporate use.
You need to ensure that the corporate virtual machines (VMs) are never moved to the host servers that are used for engineering.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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DRAG DROP
You are the virtualization administrator for an organization. The organization uses all components of System Center 2012 R2 in its production environment.
You need to configure the environment to support Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO).
How should you configure the environment? To answer, drag the appropriate server role to the correct location or locations. Each server role may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
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A company has a Windows Server 2012 R2 server that has the Hyper-V role installed. The server has a single processor and a single 10-gigabit network interface card (NIC). 12 virtual machines (VMs) run on the server.
You need to configure Hyper-V to allow higher network throughput and reduce processing overhead related to network operations. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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HOTSPOT
You plan to implement guest clustering. You review the following information:
Whoami results, as shown in the Whoami Command exhibit (Click the Exhibit button.)
System information settings, as shown in the System Information Settings exhibit (Click the Exhibit button.)
The Add Roles and Features Wizard, as shown in the Features Wizard exhibit (Click the Exhibit button.)



You need to ensure that you can implement guest clustering. For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select
No. Each correct selection is worth one point.
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HOTSPOT
You have an environment that contains the servers as shown in the following table:

You purchase a physical server that supports out-of-band management to deploy as a bare-metal Hyper-V host server.
Administrators must be able to deploy standard Hyper-V host server images to bare-metal computers by using the least amount of administrative effort.
You need to prepare the environment.
What should you use? To answer, select the appropriate option from each drop-down menu in the answer area.
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A company has Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain controllers that run Windows Server 2012 R2.
You prepare a disaster recovery plan for Active Directory. You have the following requirements:
- The domain controller restore process must complete as quickly as possible. - After the restore process completes, the Active Directory database on the domain controller must be brought up to date by using replication.
You need to implement the disaster recovery plan.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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DRAG DROP
A company uses System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). The VMM server has the following shares:

You need to configure VMM to share physical resources with private cloud users.
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.
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HOTSPOT
A company has six physical Windows Server 2012 R2 servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following diagram:

Host 1 and Host2 run Windows Server 2012 R2 and have the Hyper-V role installed.
You need to configure the environment to support shared files that use the VHDX file format.
Use the drop-down menus to complete each statement based on the information presented in the screenshot. Each correct selection is worth one point.
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HOTSPOT
You administer two Windows 2012 R2 servers named SERVER1 and SERVER2. Both servers have the Hyper-V role installed. SERVER1 has network adapters that have Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) enabled. You plan to implement live migration in the environment.
You have the following requirements:
- Use remote management tools to manage the live migration tasks.
- Optimize network performance during live migration.
You need to configure live migration settings on each host server.
In the Live Migrations section of the Hyper-V Settings window, which two options should you select? To answer, select the appropriate option buttons in the dialog box in the answer area.
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HOTSPOT
You are the virtualization administrator for an organization. You use System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to configure a virtual machine (VM) template that will host a new application.
You have the following requirements for new VMs that host the application:
- New VMs must be highly available. - You must join the VMs to an Active Directory Domain Services domain at deployment.
You need to modify the VM template to support the requirements.
On the properties page for the template, which two settings should you configure? To
answer, select the appropriate settings in the answer area.
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