Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services — Question 13

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains two member servers named Server1 and Server2. All servers run
Windows Server 2012 R2.
Server1 and Server2 have the Failover Clustering feature installed. The servers are configured as nodes in a failover cluster named Guster1. Cluster1 contains a file server role named FS1 and a generic service role named SVC1. Server1 is the preferred node for FS1. Server 2 is the preferred node for SVC1.
You plan to run a disk maintenance tool on the physical disk used by FS1.
You need to ensure that running the disk maintenance tool does not cause a failover to occur.
What should you do before you run the tool?

Answer options

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct action is to run cluster.exe with the offline parameter to take the FS1 resource offline while performing maintenance, preventing any failover. Suspending the cluster resource or node does not ensure that the resource won't failover during maintenance, while the pause parameter isn't appropriate for this scenario as it doesn't take the resource offline.