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  • Exam Code: 70-646
  • Exam Name: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator
  • Updated: Sep 11, 2026
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Microsoft 70-646 Exam Overview:

Certification Vendor:Microsoft
Exam Name:PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator
Exam Number:70-646
Passing Score:700 (out of 1000)
Real Exam Qty:40-60
Exam Format:Case studies, Multiple choice, Scenario-based questions
Exam Price:USD 165 (varies by region)
Exam Duration:120-150
Related Certifications:MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration (70-640)
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration (70-642)
Certificate Validity Period:Retired (no longer available; legacy certification)
Available Languages:English
Recommended Training:Microsoft Official Training Courses (legacy Windows Server 2008 track)
Microsoft Learn - Windows Server 2008 resources (legacy)
Exam Registration:Microsoft Certification Registration (Pearson VUE)
Microsoft Learn Certifications
Sample Questions:Free Download Pass 70-646 Exam Cram
Exam Way:Computer-based exam delivered via Pearson VUE (online proctored or test center)
Pre Condition:Recommended: MCTS certifications for Windows Server 2008 (70-640, 70-642) or equivalent knowledge of Active Directory, networking, and Windows Server administration.
Official Syllabus URL:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/retired-certifications

Microsoft 70-646 Exam Syllabus Topics:

SectionObjectives
Topic 1: Monitoring and Maintaining Server Infrastructure- Event logs and system diagnostics
- Backup and restore strategies
- Performance monitoring and optimization
Topic 2: Planning and Provisioning Server Infrastructure- Operating system deployment methods
- Hardware and capacity planning
- Server role planning and deployment strategy
Topic 3: Server Deployment and Configuration- Network services (DNS, DHCP) configuration
- File and print services setup
- Active Directory configuration and management
Topic 4: Security and Compliance Management- Security policies and access control
- Patch management and updates
- User and group policy management

Questions and Answers About Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator is an official Microsoft exam, listed under exam code 70-646. A passing result earns you the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) / Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator certification at the Professional level. It also ties into MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration (70-640), MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration (70-642), extending its value across your certification roadmap. Employers read this credential as verified competence, which is why it keeps appearing in job requirements.

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Recommended: MCTS certifications for Windows Server 2008 (70-640, 70-642) or equivalent knowledge of Active Directory, networking, and Windows Server administration.

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The Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator syllabus spans 4 domains, led by Monitoring and Maintaining Server Infrastructure, Planning and Provisioning Server Infrastructure, and Security and Compliance Management. The complete topic list is published above; candidates who study the map first rarely get lost later.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator Sample Questions:

Question #1

Testlet: City Power & Light
You need to recommend a delegation solution for CA1 that meets the company's security requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW Overview
City Power & Light is an international utilities company. The company has a sales department, a finance department, and a production department.
Physical Location
The company has a main office and a branch office.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT Network Infrastructure
The network contains the following servers:
A server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and has the Hyper-V role installed. Server1 hosts three virtual machines (VMs) that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The VMs always run.
A Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server in the main office. The WSUS server manages updates for the client computers in the main office only.
Several file servers that store data on an iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN). The file servers have multiple network cards.
An enterprise root certification authority (CA) named CA1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2.
The branch office connects to the main office by using a WAN link. The WAN link is highly saturated. All
client computers on the network connect to the Internet by using a single Internet connection at the main
office.
Problem Statements
All client computers run Microsoft Office 2003. The client computers for the users in the sales department run a 64-bit version of Windows 7. Sales users must be able to run a 64-bit version of Office 2010 and Office 2003 concurrently when they work offline. Office 2010 must be deployed by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
REQUIREMENTS Business Goal
City Power & Light has the following business goals:
Software and hardware costs must be minimized, whenever possible.
Due to power restrictions at the data center in the main office, all new servers must be deployed on VMs, whenever possible.
Planned Changes
City Power & Light plans to implement the following changes in their network:
A WSUS server in the branch office.
A robotic-based tape library for the file servers.
A document management system that supports the following requirements: Retains multiple versions of a document; Automatically applies access policies to documents
A solution for managing Group Policy objects (GPOs) that supports the following: Version tracking; Offline modification; Role-based access control
Nine VMs that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Only five VMs will run concurrently.
Two Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise servers in a failover cluster. The cluster will be attached to a hardware RAID-5 array that has five 2-terabyte drives.
Five additional physical servers for the finance department. The new servers will use native-boot virtual hard disks (VHDs). The VHD images will contain a single partition.
Technical Requirements
City Power & Light must meet the following technical requirements:
The file servers must maintain their connection to the SAN if a network card fails.
The bandwidth utilization between the main office and the branch office must be minimized.
Administrators in the main office must approve or reject updates for all of the client computers in all of the offices.
Security Requirements
City Power & Light must meet the following security requirements:
All help desk technicians must be able to approve certificate requests and revoke certificates. The help desk technicians must be prevented from modifying the properties of the CA.
All telecommunications technicians must be able to manage the virtual networks of Server1. The telecommunications technicians must be prevented from performing all other Hyper-V management task.
All of the documents created by users in the finance department must be shared with all of the managers in the company. After 30 days, only those who created the documents must be able to access the documents.

  • A. Active Directory delegation
  • B. Access-based enumeration (ABE)
  • C. Authorization Manager
  • D. Role separation
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Correct Answer: D  🗳️

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Question #2

Testlet: Blue Yonder Airlines
** Software can be deployed to USER by Published/ Assigned/ Advanced methods, while it can be deployed to COMPUTER by Assigned/ Advanced methods.
You need to recommend a NAP enforcement method that meets the company's security requirements.
Which method should you recommend?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
Blue Yonder Airlines has a main office and four branch offices. Each branch office has six satellite offices. The main office is located in Sydney. The branch offices are located in London, New York, Bangkok, and Istanbul. The main office has 1,000 users. Each branch office has 500 users. Each satellite office has 50 to 100 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Each satellite office will have a single server deployed. The servers will have the following server roles installed:
File server
Print server
Read-only Domain Controller (RODC)
Each satellite office will have a local support technician who performs the following tasks:
Manages printers.
Manages server backups.
Manages updates on the server.
Each support technician will only be permitted to manage the server located in his office.
You plan to implement a backup and recovery solution to restore deleted Active Directory objects. The solution must ensure that the attributes of the deleted objects are restored to the same state they were in before they were deleted.
You plan to deploy a custom sales application named App2 to the portable computers of all company sales consultants. The setup program of App2 requires local administrative privileges. App2 will be updated monthly.
BUSINESS GOALS
Blue Yonder Airlines has the following business goals:
Minimize server downtime.
Minimize administrative effort.
Minimize interruptions to users caused by WAN link failures.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
The network contains servers that run either Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008. All client computers were recently replaced with new computers that run Windows 7 Enterprise.
Users do not have local administrator rights on the client computers.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named blueyonderairlines.com. The functional level of the domain is Windows Server 2008. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2008.
Existing Network Infrastructure
All offices have wired and wireless networks.
The main office has a file server that stores large graphics files. The files are used by all of the users in all of the offices.
A Group Policy is used to assign an application named App1 to all of the users in the domain.
The branch offices contain public computers on which temporary employees can browse the Internet and view electronic brochures. When the employees log on to the public computers, they must all receive the same user settings.
App1 must not be installed on the public computers. The computer accounts for all of the public computers are in an organizational unit (OU) name Public.
REQUIREMENTS Security Requirements
All computers in the domain must have a domain-level security Group Policy object (GPO) applied.
You plan to implement Network Access Protection (NAP) by using switches and wireless access points (WAPs) as NAP enforcement points.
The public computers must meet the following security requirements:
Only authorized applications must be run.
Automatic updates must be enabled and applied automatically.
Users must be denied access to the local hard disk drives and the network shares from the public computers.
Technical Requirements
The file server in each branch office is configured as shown in the following table.

Each user is allocated 1 GB of storage on the Users share in their local office.
Each user must be prevented from storing files larger than 500 MB on the Data share in their local office.
Blue Yonder Airlines must meet the following requirements for managing App2:
Sales consultants must use the latest version of the application.
When a new version of App2 is installed, the previous version must be uninstalled. Sales consultants must be able to run App2 when they are disconnected from the network.

  • A. 802.1X
  • B. DHCP
  • C. VPN
  • D. IPSec
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Correct Answer: A  🗳️

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Question #3

Testlet: Graphic Design Institute, Case B
You are designing a Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment strategy for the Minneapolis campus servers.
Which deployment strategy should you recommend?
Case Study Title (Case Study): General Background
You are the systems administrator for the Graphic Design Institute (GDI). GDI is a private liberal arts and technical college with campuses in multiple cities.
Technical Background
The campus locations, users, client computers, and servers are described in the following table.

The campuses are connected by a fully meshed WAN.
The corporate network includes Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Domain controllers are located on each campus.
GDI uses Microsoft Windows Deployment Server (WDS) to distribute images by using Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). GDI builds images by using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK).
GDI uses Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to distribute and manage Windows security updates and software updates.
All private client computers and portable computers used by faculty and staff are members of the WSUS computer group named Staff. All shared client computers are members of the WSUS computer group named LabComputers. All faculty and staff users are members of the global security group named GDI_Staff. All students are members of the global security group named GDI_Students.
Specific servers are configured as shown in the following table.

The main data center is located on the Boston campus. ADMX and ADML files are centrally stored on BODC01.
All Charlotte servers reside in the CH_Servers organizational unit (OU). CHDATA01, CHDATA02, CHDATA03, and CHDATA04 reside in the CH_FileServers OU. CH_FileServers is a child OU of CH_Servers.
A Group Policy object (GPO) named ServerSettings applies Windows Internet Explorer settings to all servers.
Business Requirements
After successful migrations to Windows Server 2008 R2 in Boston, New Haven, and Tacoma, GDI plans to migrate its other campuses to Windows Server 2008 R2 in advance of a full Windows 7 client computer deployment.
Server deployment on the Austin campus must be performed on weekends by using scheduled deployments.
The post-migration environment must meet the following business requirements:
Maximize security.
Maximize data protection.
Maximize existing resources.
Minimize downtime.
Technical Requirements
The post-migration environment must meet the following security requirements:
All updates must be distributed by using WSUS.
All critical updates must be installed as soon as possible.
All drives on the Minneapolis campus servers must have Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption enabled. The post-migration environment must meet the following data protection requirements:
All servers must have automated backup routines.
All backups must be replicated to the Boston data center at the end of each business week. The post-migration environment must meet the following resource requirements:
Installations and recovery must be performed remotely.
All department volumes on file servers must have NTFS quotas.
Minimize download time for users who open Microsoft Office documents over the WAN.
Ensure that users' files are always opened from the closest file server when available.
Users' files must be accessible by the same path from all campuses.

  • A. Install from media.
  • B. Use a discover image in WDS.
  • C. Auto Add from Policy.
  • D. Use multicast image deployment.
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Question #4

Testlet: Proseware, Inc
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732524.aspx
You need to recommend a monitoring solution for the file server that meets the technical requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Case Study Title (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
Proseware, Inc. is a publishing company that has a main office and a branch office.
The main office is located in New York. The branch office is located in Sydney. The main office has 5,000 users. The branch office has 1,000 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Proseware plans to deploy a new 64-bit application named App2 to 10 users in the branch office. Only members of the local Administrators group can run App2.
Proseware is evaluating whether to deploy virtual desktop pools. The virtual desktop pools must meet the following requirements:
Apply the settings in GPO1 to the virtual machines (VMs).
Prevent the VMs from receiving the Automatic Updates settings from GPO2.
Ensure that only the host VM is affected if a virtual hard disk (VHD) file becomes corrupt.
Minimize the amount of storage used to support the VMs.
Minimize the amount of memory and CPU resources used by the VMs.
Minimize administrative effort.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. All of the client computers in the main office run Windows 7. All of the client computers in the branch office run Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 (SP3).
All of the client computers in the main office are configured as Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Visualization (MED-V) and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) clients.
A two-node Hyper-V cluster is deployed in the main office. The cluster uses Clustered Shared Volumes.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named proseware.com. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008.
The relevant organizational units (OUs) for the domain are configured as shown in the following table.

A custom Group Policy object (GPO) named GPO1 is linked to the domain, GPO1 contains corporate computer security settings.
A custom GPO named GPO2 is linked to both office OUs. GPO2 contains Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) settings.
Existing Network Infrastructure
Each office has servers that have the following server roles or role services installed:
WSUS
Hyper-V
File Services
Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access)
Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host)
Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host)
Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker) REQUIREMENTS Technical Requirements When users interactively logs on to any of the client computers in the branch office, they must automatically receive the local administrator rights to that computer. When users logs off, they must lose the administrator rights.
The disk space on all file servers must be monitored. If any file server has less than 20% free disk space on a volume, a script must run that deletes temporary files.
Problem Statements
The main office has a shared folder named Legal. The Legal share is only accessed by users in the legal department. Legal department users report that it takes a long time to locate files in the Legal share by using keyword searches.

  • A. File Server Resource Manger storage reports
  • B. Data Collector Sets
  • C. File Server Resource Manger quotas
  • D. NTFS disk quotas
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Question #5

Testlet: Humongous Insurance
You need to recommend a solution to decrease the amount of time it takes for the sales managers to generate reports.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Testlet: Humongous Insurance (Case Study): COMPANY OVERVIEW
Humongous Insurance has a main office and 20 branch offices. The main office is located in New York. The branch offices are located throughout North America. The main office has 8,000 users. Each branch office has 2 to 250 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Humongous Insurance plans to implement Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) on all servers.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
The network contains servers that run either Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run either Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows Vista Enterprise.
BUSINESS GOALS
Humongous Insurance wants to minimize costs whenever possible.
EXISTING ACTIVE DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY SERVICES
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named humongousinsurance.com. The forest contains two child domains named north.humongousinsurance.com and south.humongousinsurance.com. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008 R2.
EXISTING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
Each child domain contains a Web server that has Internet Information Services (IIS) installed. The forest root domain contains three Web servers that have IIS installed. The Web servers in the forest root domain are configured in a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster. Currently, all of the Web servers use a single domain user account as a service account.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is used for company-wide patch management. The WSUS servers do not store updates locally.
The network contains Remote Desktop servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2. Users in the sales department access a line-of-business Application by using Remote Desktop. Managers in the sales department use the Application to generate reports. Generating the reports is CPU intensive.
The sales managers report that when many users are connected to the servers, the reports take a long time
to process.
Humongous Insurance has the following standard server builds:
Class 1 - Dual x64 CPUs, 4-GB RAM, Windows Web Server 2008 R2
Class 2 - Dual x64 CPUs, 4-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Class 3 - Quad x64 CPUs, 8-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Class 4 - Quad x64 CPUs, 8-GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
CURRENT ADMINISTRATION MODEL
Humongous Insurance currently uses the following technologies to manage the network:
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft Forefront EndPoint Protection
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Humongous Insurance must meet the following technical requirements:
A certificate must be required to recover BitLocker-protected drives.
Newly implemented technologies must minimize the impact on LAN traffic.
Newly implemented technologies must minimize the storage requirements.
The management of disk volumes and shared folders must be performed remotely whenever possible.
Newly implemented technologies must minimize the amount of bandwidth used on Internet connections.
All patches and updates must be tested in a non-production environment before they are applied to production servers.
Multiple versions of a Group Policy object (GPO) must be maintained in a central archive to facilitate a roll back required.
The management of passwords and service principal names (SPNs) for all service accounts must be automated whenever possible.

  • A. Implement Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) on the web servers.
  • B. Implement File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) on the Remote Desktop servers.
  • C. Implement Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) on the Remote Desktop servers.
  • D. Implement File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) on the web servers.
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Correct Answer: C  🗳️

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