Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 — Question 5

Your network contains an Active Directory domain. The domain contains a new file server named Server1 that runs a Server Core installation of Windows Server
2016.
Server1 has an ReFS-formatted volume D: and NTFS-formatted volume E:. The volumes do not contain any data.
You install the Data Deduplication role service on Server1.
You need to implement Data Deduplication for volumes on D: and E:.
Solution: From Windows PowerShell, you run Format-Volume D: -FileSystem EXFat and Enable-DeDupVolume -Volume D:,E:.
Does this meet the goal?

Answer options

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The solution does not meet the goal as formatting the D: volume with EXFat will erase its ReFS format, which is not compatible with Data Deduplication. Additionally, Data Deduplication can only be enabled on NTFS volumes, and since E: is NTFS but D: is changed to EXFat, the process will fail.