Learn About Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

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These practice test questions from MeasureUp are based on Microsoft’s exam 70-631: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring.

The audience for this exam includes individuals who are responsible for configuring Windows SharePoint and its related technologies. Experience managing SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and network load-balancing will help you prepare for this exam.

By passing exam 70-631, you earn this certification: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration.

Objective: Monitor Windows SharePoint Services.
Sub-objective: Maintain storage performance.

Multiple answers, multiple-choice

Your organization deployed Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 with two Web Front End (WFE) servers. The required databases are maintained on a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database server. There is a single content database.

The database server is configured with a mirrored pair through SQL Server Database Mirroring. The SQL Server database servers are configured for the high-availability mode with a witness server.

The principal server fails. The witness and mirror servers register that the principal server is unavailable. You need to restore access to the databases as quickly as possible. What actions must you take? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

A.    Update the configuration database and administration content database names on every WFE server and restart the WFE servers.
B.    Update the configuration database and administration content database names on one WFE server and restart that WFE server.
C.    Remove the current content database server and add the new server for every WFE server.
D.    Remove the current content database server and add the new server for one WFE server.
E.    Identify the new search database on every WFE server.
F.    Identify the new search database on one WFE server.

Answer:
A, D, F

Tutorial:
You need to take three actions:

* Update the configuration database and administration content database names on every WFE server and restart the WFE servers.
* Remove the current content database server and add the new server for one WFE server.
* Identify the new search database on one WFE server.

SQL Server database servers configured in high-availability mode are designed to fail over automatically when the principal server fails. However, it is necessary to notify WSS separately when this happens. You must update front-end Web servers with the new configuration database, administration content database, content databases and search database. You must run stsadm to update each WFE server with the new configuration database and administration content database and then restart the servers.

You should use SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration or stsadm to update the content database name(s) on one WFE server. Then use stsadm to update the search database on one WFE server.

To update the administrative databases, run stsadm with the renameserver option on each WFE, specifying the original principal server as the old server name and the mirror as the new server name. This must be run on each WFE server and must be completed by using stsadm.

The stsadm options deletecontentdb and addcontentdb let you change the content database if you would rather use stsadm than Central Administration for this purpose. The stsadm editssp option lets you change the search database. When using stsadm to change the content and search databases, you run the command on only one of the WFE servers.

References:
Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft Office Online
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102193651033

Alerting on Database Mirroring Events
Microsoft TechNet
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/mirroringevents.mspx

Planning a Highly Reliable WSS 3.0 Environment: Methods for Ensuring High Reliability of Content Databases in WSS 3.0
Collection 5403: Implementing Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0
Course 5245

Objective: Configure security for Windows SharePoint Services.
Sub-objective: Configure Web application authentication.

Single answer, multiple-choice

Your organization deployed Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 with a single physical Web server and separate database server. The network is configured as a Windows Active Directory domain.

You want to configure a Web application zone to support access by external users. Users should be required to provide security credentials for authentication. You want to manage user names and passwords separately from Windows security accounts. User names and passwords should be maintained on the same database server as the content databases. How should you manage this?

A.    Use Kerberos authentication.
B.    Use NTLM authentication.
C.    Use Digest authentication.
D.    Use Forms authentication.

Answer:
D

Tutorial:
You should configure the Web application to use Forms (ASP.NET forms) authentication. This lets you maintain a security credential database containing user names and passwords on the database server that hosts the content databases. Because credentials are sent in clear text during Forms authentication, you should encrypt traffic relating to login and authentication.

You should not choose Kerberos and NTLM as authentication methods. Kerberos and NTLM are Windows-integrated authentication methods. Because you want to manage security credentials separately from Windows security accounts, neither would be appropriate.

You should not choose Digest authentication. Digest authentication is a type of Windows-integrated authentication and requires Windows user accounts.

References:
Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services)
Microsoft TechNet
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/b6bc8fec-c11c-4ed7-a78d-3ad61c7ef6c01033.mspx?mfr=true

Plan authentication settings for Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)
Microsoft TechNet
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/74f80404-bfba-43b5-8941-95c4795df9d11033.mspx?mfr=true

Authorization and Authentication
MSDN
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms457529.aspx

Customizing Security Configurations: Considerations for Managing Access to Web Applications
Collection 5403: Implementing Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0
Course 5249