70-223 Configuring and Administering Microsoft Clustering Services by using Windows 2000 Advanced Server Certification Exam

Demo Question 11.

You are the administrator of a two-node Windows 2000 Advanced Server cluster. The cluster serves as a high-traffic Web server for the marketing department and as a file Server for the accounting and marketing departments. NodeA is the preferred owner of all marketing resources and NodeB is preferred node of all accounting resources. Each node contains separate network adapters that are dedicated for cluster communications, the accounting subnet and the marketing subnet. The overall utilization on the marketing subnet is equal to 70 percent of the total network. The average utilization for the network is 50 percent. You notice that the marketing network adapter on NodeA is dropping packets. Marketing users report that access to the cluster is slow. You want to improve cluster access times. What should you do?

A. Move the marketing Internet Information Services (IIS) resource group to Node
B. Move the marketing File Share resource group to Node
C. On both nodes, add a network adapter for the accounting subnet.
D. Select All communications in the network adapter properties for the cluster network.


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Answer: B

Explanation: In this situation the best way to improve cluster access times is to move the marketing File Share resource group to NodeB. Incorrect answers: A. Moving the IIS resource Group to NodeB would not improve the cluster access times. C. Adding additional NIC for the accounting subnet will not the cluster access times. D. This would not assist with the dropping of packets. Microsoft Windows 2000 Advance Server Clustering Services Training Kit, pages 215- 216.