Question
Your network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named contoso.com. The domain contains the servers shown in the following table.
| Name | Role |
|----------|-------------------------------|
| Server1 | DFS Namespaces |
| Server2 | DFS Replication |
| Server3 | DFS Namespaces, DFS Replication |
| Server4 | None |
You need to create a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace that will contain the following:
• A domain-based namespace named \\contoso.com\Public
• A folder named Finance
Which servers can you configure as folder targets for the Finance folder?
- A. Server3 only
- B. Server2 and Server3 only
- C. Server1 and Server3 only
- D. Server1, Server2, and Server3 only
- E. Server1, Server2, Server3, and Server4 Correct
Explanation
A folder target in a DFS namespace is just the UNC path of a shared folder (or of another namespace) that the namespace folder points to. Only the namespace servers that host the namespace root (\\contoso.com\Public) need the DFS Namespaces role service. The server that hosts a folder target only has to share the folder over SMB; it needs neither DFS Namespaces nor DFS Replication. DFS Replication is needed only if you want to keep several targets in sync. Server1, Server2, Server3 and Server4 can all share a folder, so any of them can be a folder target for Finance.
