Incorrect: SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) does not support SharePoint 2010. Service Pack 3 is required.

Correct: SQL Server 2005 SP3 (64-bit) is the minimum version of SQL Server that supports SharePoint Server 2010.

Incorrect: SQL Server 2008 (64-bit) does not support SharePoint. SP1 is required. However, SQL Server 2008 SP1 (64-bit) is not the minimum version required by SharePoint—earlier versions are supported.

Incorrect: SQL Server 2008 R2 supports SharePoint, but is not the minimum version required—earlier versions are supported.

Incorrect: The sysadmin role is not necessary for the setup user.

Incorrect: The serveradmin role is not necessary for the setup user.

Correct: The dbcreator server role is required for the setup user. The setup user credentials are used during configuration of the farm to create the SharePoint configuration database.

Correct: The securityadmin server role is required for the setup user. The setup user credentials are used during configuration of the farm to assign database roles to the SharePoint farm account.

Incorrect: Setup.exe is used to install SharePoint. The setup wizard will report that prerequisites are missing, but it cannot install missing prerequisites.

Incorrect: The SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool cannot download missing prerequisites without Internet connectivity unless it is supplied with parameters that direct the prerequisite installer to prerequisite installation files.

Correct: A PrerequisiteInstaller. Arguments.txt file can direct the Preparation Tool to an offline source of prerequisite installation files.

Correct: PrerequisiteInstaller.exe accepts command-line parameters that point to an offline source of prerequisite installation files.

Incorrect: PrerequisiteInstaller. Arguments.txt is used to automate the installation of SharePoint prerequisites, but not of SharePoint binaries.

Correct: Config.xml can be used by Setup.exe to automate installation of SharePoint binaries.

Incorrect: Unattend.xml is used to automate the installation of Windows, but not of SharePoint.

Incorrect: Windows PowerShell can be used to launch the installation of SharePoint binaries (Setup.exe), but by itself cannot automate the configuration of the installation.

Correct: SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard steps you through the configuration of a SharePoint server.

Incorrect: Setup.exe is used to install the SharePoint binaries, but is not used to configure the server.

Correct: Windows PowerShell can be used to configure the server.

Incorrect: Central Administration is used to configure and manage the farm after a server has joined the farm, but cannot be used to manage a server until after the server has been configured.

Incorrect: The Farm Administrators group is not configured by the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Correct: A managed account is created, if it does not already exist, and is given permissions required by the service applications that are configured by the wizard.

Correct: The selected service applications are deployed and configured by the wizard.

Incorrect: Connections to back-end data sources are not configured by the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Incorrect: The outgoing email server is not configured by the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Correct: The Administrators group of the SharePoint server is a default member of the Farm Administrators group.

Incorrect: The Domain Admins group is not a default member of the Farm Administrators group. However, if Domain Admins is a member of the local Administrators group on the SharePoint server, then users in Domain Admins will be farm administrators.

Incorrect: The dbowner role on the SQL server is not a default member of the Farm Administrators group.

Correct: The farm account is a default member of the Farm Administrators group.

Correct: The setup user account is a default member of the Farm Administrators group.