In VMware's vSphere, which setting can only be changed when creating a virtual machine from scratch?

In VMware's vSphere, which setting can only be changed when creating a virtual machine from scratch?

• Virtual Hardware Version
• NICs
• Hard Drives
• Disk Controller 

 

EXPLANATION

Resize a Hard Disk

You can increase the usable space in a virtual hard disk. You cannot reduce the size of a hard disk. You cannot make a blank hard disk smaller after it has been formatted.

Prerequisites

Having manual or AutoProtect snapshots in your virtual machine prevents you from making changes to a virtual hard disk. You must delete the snapshots before you can make a change.

Shut down or power off the virtual machine. You cannot change the setting while the virtual machine is powered on or suspended.

Procedure

1	Click Virtual Machine > Settings.
2	Click the Hard Disk you want to resize.
3	Use the Disk size slider to set the new size.
4	Set your disk space configuration, depending on the constraints of the file system. Option Description Pre-allocate disk space Can give better performance for your virtual machine. If you allocate all the disk now, you cannot use the VMware Tools shrink disk feature later. Allocating all disk space now is a time-consuming operation that cannot be canceled, and requires as much physical disk space as you specify for the virtual disk. Split disk into 2GB files Default. Some file systems, such as FAT and UFS, cannot support very large files. Use this option if your virtual machine will be used in a hard drive with a file system that does not support very large files. This option splits your virtual disk into 2GB files. Also, use this option if you might place the virtual machine on an external FAT drive or if you might move the virtual machine to an external drive.
5	Apply the changes and choose automatic or manual partition resize for Windows guests. Option Description Click Apply. For Windows guests, the partition is automatically resized when the hard disk is resized. Click Apply while pressing the Option key. The hard disk is resized but the partition is not. To manually resize the partition of the guest, see Resize a Windows Partition with the Disk Management Tool.

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What does LDAP stand for?

What does LDAP stand for?

• Lightweight Director Access Prevention
• Lightweight Distributed Access Protocol
• Lightspeed Dimensional Acceleration Procedure
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 

 

EXPLANATION

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP /ˈɛldæp/) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.^[1] Directory services play an important role in developing intranet and Internet applications by allowing the sharing of information about users, systems, networks, services, and applications throughout the network.^[2] As examples, directory services may provide any organized set of records, often with a hierarchical structure, such as a corporate email directory. Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number.
LDAP is specified in a series of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard Track publications called Request for Comments (RFCs), using the description language ASN.1. The latest specification is Version 3, published as RFC 4511^[3] (a road map to the technical specifications is provided by RFC4510).
A common use of LDAP is to provide a central place to store usernames and passwords. This allows many different applications and services to connect to the LDAP server to validate users.^[4]
LDAP is based on a simpler subset of the standards contained within the X.500 standard. Because of this relationship, LDAP is sometimes called X.500-lite.^[5]

 

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What does the extension .EPS stand for?

What does the extension .EPS stand for?

• Encapsulated PostScript
• Extrapolated Photorealistic Storage
• Expandable Photographic Standard
• Encrypted Postscript Storage 

EXPLANATION

Stands for "Encapsulated PostScript." EPS is a PostScript image file format that is compatible with PostScript printers and is often used for transferring files between various graphics applications. EPS files will print identically on all PostScript-compatible printers and will appear the same in all applications that can read the PostScript format.

As the name implies, EPS files contain PostScript code, which is used for storing font and vector image information. Vector images are usually drawings created by programs such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. EPS files may also include a rasterized version of the image used for previewing the contents of the file.
File extension: .EPS

 

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What was the first version of Windows to be offered with upgrade pricing?

What was the first version of Windows to be offered with upgrade pricing?

• Windows 3.0
• Windows 98
• Windows 2.0
• Windows NT 

EXPLANATION

 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 will be available within the next month for approximately $319. The price for customers upgrading from previous versions of Windows NT Workstation is approximately $149. For customers who have inadvertently used Windows NT Workstation 3.x as a server (with more than 10 inbound connections), a special promotional upgrade to Windows NT Server 4.0 is available for 90 days at $409.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ
“MSFT”
) is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

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First they called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"; later they renamed it to _____?

First they called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"; later they renamed it to _____?

• Yahoo
• Lycos
• Google
• Infoseek 

 

EXPLANATION

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc.. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s

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Who invented the QWERTY Keyboard?

Who invented the QWERTY Keyboard?

• Thomas John Watson
• Christopher Latham Sholes
• William Henry "Bill" Gates III
• Rosaline Martha Qwerty 

EXPLANATION

QWERTY (/ˈkwɜːrti/) is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in widespread use.  

The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé.^[1]
The first model constructed by Sholes used a piano-like keyboard with two rows of characters arranged alphabetically as shown below:^[1]

- 3 5 7 9 N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
2 4 6 8 . A B C D E F G H I J K L M

 

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Which of the following is true regarding Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in Windows?

Which of the following is true regarding Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in Windows?

• gMSAs are supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions.
• gMSAs do not have passwords.
• gMSAs are not supported in SQL Server.
• gMSAs can be used to run Scheduled Tasks. 

EXPLANATION

gMSAs can be used to run Scheduled Tasks, but as of Windows Server 2016, their assignment to tasks is still not supported through the Task Scheduler MMC.  Whenever you go to assign one to a task and try to set the task to run without the account being logged on, the console will complain about not receiving a password for the account.
10.196.10.135"The fundamental problem is that you can’t use the Task Scheduler UI. So we’ll use PowerShell cmdlets, instead. (You could also use schtasks.exe with an XML config file, but I’ll let you figure that one out yourself)."
gMSAs are supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions.MSAs are supported on WS 2008 R2 (but are limited to use on a single computer).  gMSAs require WS 2012 or later.
gMSAs are not supported in SQL Server.
gMSAs (and MSAs) can be used with SQL Server 2012 and later versions.  MSAs can't be used when failover clustering SQL Server.
gMSAs do not have passwords."The password for gMSAs are generated and maintained by the Key Distribution Service (KDS) on Windows Server 2012 DCs..."
"Passwords are very complex and changed automatically as often as desired (by default every 30 days). The passwords are cryptographically random and 240 bytes long."
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/markweberblog/2016/05/25/group-managed-service-accounts-gmsa-and-sq...

SOURCE

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2012/12/16/windows-server-2012-group-managed-service-accounts/

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