Question 8 of 15
You have connected two identical print devices to the Srv12 server and created two printers for them named
Printerl and Printer2. You have shared both printers using their default names and granted the Everyone
group permission to print to them.
Printerl receives the vast majority of print jobs submitted from users on the network. You want to distribute
the printing load evenly between the two print devices. You want to do this while minimizing hardware costs.
What should you do?
(i) Enable printer pooling for Printerl and configure it to print to both local printer ports in use by your print
devices.
0 Remove the two current print devices. Attach both print devices to a print multiplexer and attach this to
one port on the server. Create a single printer named Printerl.
0 Set half the computers on the network to use Printerl as the default printer. Set the other half of the
computers to print to the Printer2 by default.
0 Lower the priority on Printerl. Increase the priority on Printer2.
Explanation
Creating a printer pool allows several identical printers to share the printing workload by distributing the print jobs to the
available printers. That is the only solution that would distribute the printing load evenly across the two print devices
without using additional hardware, such as a print multiplexer. You would then configure all computers to print to Printer1
and delete Printer2.
Configuring half of the computers to use one printer by default and the other half of the computers to use the other
printer by default would not evenly distribute the printing load between the two print devices because some computers
might submit more print jobs than others. Also, users could easily print to a different printer.
Objectives
Objectives for MS 70-41 0:
202 Configure print and document services
References
LabSim for Windows Server Pro: Install and Configure, Section 7.2.
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