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Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP Failover
Applies to the "Design and implement network infrastructure services" objective of Exam 70-413.
Q: A company's IT team is planning to deploy a DHCP failover infrastructure. The team needs to know how to configure failover servers using a shared secret between DHCP failover cluster nodes.
Which of the following is required to configure DHCP failover servers to use a shared secret between DHCP failover cluster nodes?
- Set-DhcpServerv4Failover –Name "DHCPMCSDhcp" -SharedSecret "123"
- Get-ClusterResource –Name DHCPMCSDhcp | select OwnerNode
- Set-DhcpServerv6Failover –Name "DHCPMCSDhcp" -SharedSecret "123"
- Set-DhcpServerFailover –Name "DHCPMCSDhcp" -SharedSecret "123"
Answer is A. On the currently active cluster node, type the following command at an elevated Windows PowerShell prompt; Set-DhcpServerv4Failover –Name "DHCPMCSDhcp" -SharedSecret "123". The name of the cluster in this example is DHCPMCSDhcp and the shared secret is 123.
Quick Tip: DHCP failover is not supported for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) scopes.
Reference: What is DHCP Failover?
Bonus Question: What is the name of the technology available in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows devices to automatically remain office-network connected even when remote? (The answer, of course, will be revealed next time!)
Answer to bonus question from last week: IP Address Management (IPAM) is the name of the technology available in Windows Server 2012 R2 that automatically discovers IP address infrastructure servers.
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