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You need to manage IIS on a Windows Server 2025 Server Core installation from your desktop computer. What must you configure on the server first?
Enable Remote Desktop on the Server Core server
Install and start the Web Management Service (WMSVC) on the server
Upgrade the server from Server Core to the full Desktop Experience installation
Configure RPC over HTTP for IIS Manager
You want to grant a developer named devuser the ability to manage only the MarketingSite in IIS, without granting them any Windows administrator rights or visibility into other sites. Which two features must you use together?
IIS Manager Users and IIS Manager Permissions
Windows Authorization rules and NTFS permissions
Application Pool Identities and delegation
WMSVC and Windows Authentication
You need to create a backup of IIS configuration before a major change. Which AppCmd command is correct?
appcmd create backup "Pre-Change"
appcmd add backup "Pre-Change"
appcmd export config /dest:"Pre-Change"
appcmd save backup "Pre-Change"
In what scenario should you use iisreset rather than recycling individual application pools?
iisreset
Whenever a website returns a 500 error
As the first troubleshooting step for any IIS problem
When IIS configuration files were modified outside IIS Manager, or when IIS services themselves are unresponsive
Every time new web content is deployed to a site
What does the command Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools return?
Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools
A list of all active HTTP requests on the server
A list of all application pools on the local IIS server
The configuration properties of the Default App Pool
A list of all websites on the local IIS server
An IIS log entry shows an HTTP status of 503. What does this indicate and what is the most likely cause?
A 404 Not Found error; the requested file is missing
A 401 Unauthorized error; authentication failed
Service Unavailable; the application pool is stopped or has exceeded its request queue limit
A network timeout; the client disconnected before the server responded
You want to list all currently executing HTTP requests on the server from the command line. Which AppCmd command is correct?
appcmd list site /state:Started
appcmd list requests
appcmd list wp /state:Running
appcmd list requests /all
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