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You are planning to deploy Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 in your company network. You need to select a FIM topology that meets the following requirements: - Removes single points of failure…

The correct answer is A. Create two service partitions. D. Create four instances of the FIM Service by using two FIM Service Names. To meet both requirements in FIM 2010, you must create two service partitions (separating end-user from admin/sync operations) and four FIM Service instances across two FIM Service Names (eliminating single points of failure via redundancy).

Submitted by parkjh· Mar 4, 2026Installation and Deployment

Question

You are planning to deploy Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 in your company network. You need to select a FIM topology that meets the following requirements: - Removes single points of failure. - Separates end-user operations from administrative data synchronization. What should you do? (Choose all that apply.)

Options

  • ACreate two service partitions.
  • BCreate four service partitions.
  • CCreate two instances of the FIM Service by using two FIM Service Names.
  • DCreate four instances of the FIM Service by using two FIM Service Names.

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    43% (13)
  • B
    37% (11)
  • C
    20% (6)

Why each option

To meet both requirements in FIM 2010, you must create two service partitions (separating end-user from admin/sync operations) and four FIM Service instances across two FIM Service Names (eliminating single points of failure via redundancy).

ACreate two service partitions.Correct

Creating two service partitions allows FIM to separate end-user portal operations from administrative data synchronization operations, directly satisfying the requirement to isolate these workloads from one another.

BCreate four service partitions.

Four service partitions is unnecessary and exceeds what is required; the two functional workloads (end-user and admin sync) only need two partitions to be properly separated, and adding more partitions introduces unneeded complexity.

CCreate two instances of the FIM Service by using two FIM Service Names.

Creating only two instances of the FIM Service (one per FIM Service Name) does not remove single points of failure, because each partition would still have only a single instance that, if it fails, makes that partition unavailable.

DCreate four instances of the FIM Service by using two FIM Service Names.Correct

Creating four instances of the FIM Service using two FIM Service Names provides redundancy for each partition (two instances per partition/service name), thereby eliminating single points of failure - if one instance fails, the other in the same group continues serving requests.

Concept tested: FIM 2010 high-availability service partition topology

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/mim/ee534892(v=ws.10)

Topics

#FIM Topology#Service Partitions#High Availability#FIM Service Instances

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