Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 Practice Test
Exam 70-740 focuses on installing and administering Windows Server 2016 infrastructure, with practical work across storage, Hyper-V, and core server configuration. The available practice questions sample tasks such as preparing disks and volumes, choosing virtual disk formats, managing file access and offline files, and checking system logs. These topics connect routine deployment decisions with the operation of Windows Server hosts and workloads.
Exam overview
About the Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Serve… Exam
Storage questions address disk initialization, partitioning, formatting, NTFS allocation units, encryption, and Storage Spaces pools, virtual disks, and resiliency choices. Boot-storage scenarios distinguish GPT and UEFI requirements, including the EFI System Partition. Hyper-V items test virtual hard disk creation with PowerShell and the difference between fixed and dynamically expanding disks. Other questions cover Event Viewer for system and application records, Offline Files synchronization, and DNS registration settings on multihomed servers. These tasks reflect decisions administrators make when preparing server storage, protecting files, provisioning virtual machines, and limiting unwanted network name registration. Practice the sequence of operations as well as the terminology: a partition must be formatted before it can hold files, while a virtual disk's provisioning type affects host storage allocation.
Sample Practice Questions
Review a selection from this exam's published US Practice Tests practice bank.
An administrator wants to review system and application error records generated by a Windows Server 2016 computer. Which built-in utility provides access to these logs?
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Correct answer: AEvent Viewer displays Windows event logs, including System and Application records, which are useful for troubleshooting. The other utilities manage registry data, services, or memory diagnostics.
An administrator wants to change the allocation unit size used by a newly created NTFS volume. Where is this setting specified?
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Correct answer: AThe allocation unit size, also called cluster size, is selected when formatting a volume. The choice affects how file data is allocated on that filesystem and is not configured through firmware, Hyper-V integration services, or firewall rules.
A Hyper-V administrator wants to ensure a virtual machine's virtual disk remains at a fixed size on the host and does not grow as data is written. Which virtual disk type should be created?
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Correct answer: AA fixed-size virtual disk allocates its configured capacity on the host when created. A dynamically expanding disk grows as data is written, a differencing disk depends on a parent disk, and a pass-through disk uses a physical disk.
An administrator needs to create a virtual hard disk file on a Windows Server 2016 host using PowerShell. Which cmdlet creates a VHD or VHDX file?
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Correct answer: AThe Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlet New-VHD creates a virtual hard disk file in VHD or VHDX format. New-VM creates a virtual machine, while Initialize-Disk prepares a physical disk for use.
A Windows Server 2016 administrator wants to encrypt files on an NTFS volume so that file contents are protected from other users who do not have the appropriate decryption credentials. Which feature should be used?
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Correct answer: AEncrypting File System (EFS) provides per-file or per-folder encryption on NTFS volumes, with access tied to authorized user certificates. NTFS compression reduces storage use but does not encrypt data.
A Windows Server 2016 administrator needs to make a newly installed disk usable for storing files by creating a file system on a partition. Which operation should be performed after creating the partition?
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Correct answer: AFormatting creates a file system, such as NTFS or ReFS, on a partition so Windows can store and organize files there. The other operations do not create a file system.
A Windows Server 2016 administrator wants a shared folder to be available offline on a user's laptop and synchronized when the laptop reconnects to the network. Which Windows feature supports this use?
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Correct answer: AOffline Files caches network files on a client so they can be accessed while disconnected, then synchronizes changes when connectivity returns. DFS Replication synchronizes folders between servers rather than providing this client-side offline cache behavior.
How to use this practice test
US Practice Tests provides free practice from a bank of 50 published questions. Each session presents up to 20 questions selected at random and shows results afterward. Use the result review to identify whether errors concern disk preparation, Hyper-V storage choices, file protection, or server troubleshooting, then revisit those tasks in a Windows Server 2016 lab.
Preparation tips
- Create a test volume and distinguish disk initialization, partition creation, formatting, and allocation-unit-size selection.
- Compare fixed and dynamically expanding VHD/VHDX files; practice creating a virtual disk with the New-VHD PowerShell cmdlet.
- Build a Storage Spaces pool and virtual disk in a lab, noting how resiliency choices affect usable capacity and fault tolerance.
- On a UEFI/GPT disk, identify the EFI System Partition; separately test NTFS Encrypting File System and Offline Files behavior.
- Use Event Viewer to locate system and application errors, then inspect adapter DNS registration settings on a multihomed server.