Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure — Question 18

Your company has three offices. The offices are located in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
The network contains two Active Directory forests named contoso.com and adatum.com. The contoso.com forest contains one domain. The adatum.com forest contains two domains. All of the servers in adatum.com are located in the Toronto office. The servers in contoso.com are located in the Montreal and Vancouver offices. All of the servers in both of the forests run Windows Server 2012 R2.
A two-way, forest trusts exists between the forests.
Each office contains DHCP servers and DNS servers.
You are designing an IP Address Management (IPAM) solution to manage the network.
You need to recommend a solution for the placement of IPAM servers to manage all of the DHCP servers and all of the DNS servers in both of the forests. The solution must minimize the number of IPAM servers deployed.
What should you recommend?

Answer options

• A. One IPAM server in each office
• B. One IPAM server in the Montreal office and one IPAM server in the Toronto office
• C. One IPAM server in the Toronto office
• D. Two IPAM servers in the Toronto office and one IPAM server in the Montreal office
• E. Two IPAM servers in the Toronto office, one IPAM server in the Montreal office, and one IPAM server in the Vancouver office

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The best solution is to have one IPAM server in the Montreal office and one in the Toronto office (Option B). This setup effectively covers both forests while minimizing the number of servers, as it allows management of all DHCP and DNS servers without redundancy. Options A, D, and E deploy more servers than necessary, and Option C does not adequately cover the network needs across both forests.