You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016 and has the File and Storage Services server role installed.
Server1 has an ReFS-formatted volume named Volume1 that is 512 GB. Volume1 is mounted as C:App1 temp.
You need to ensure that you can enable deduplication of Volume1.
What should you do?
A. Initialize the physical disk that contains Volume1.
B. Unmount Volume1.
C. Format Volume1.
D. Install a Windows feature.
Question is tricky, but despite “ReFs is not supported” the questions says:
“you need to ensure that you can enable data deduplication of volume1”. It doesnt’ say “you need to activate data deduplication”. So probably the best way to know if you can use data deduplication is installing Data Deduplication feature and from there you will see that you are not capable to activate it.
you are right, but what a shitty question to ask and not fare i think.
REFS support Deduplication
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview
But only from version 1709 of Server 2016!
This looks wrong to me. Dedup is not supported on REFS, so if you want to use dedup you should format volume 1 to NTFS. C is the correct answer