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You need to create a new farm. What should you do?
The correct answer is B. Run Setup and then run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Creating a new SharePoint farm is done by running the SharePoint Setup program followed by the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, which initializes all farm components interactively.
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You need to create a new farm. What should you do?
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- ARun the following Windows PowerShell cmdlet: New-SPCentralAdministration
- BRun Setup and then run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard.
- CRun the following Windows PowerShell cmdlet: Connect-SPConfigurationDatabase
- DRun the following Windows PowerShell cmdlet: New- SPConfigurationDatabase
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Why each option
Creating a new SharePoint farm is done by running the SharePoint Setup program followed by the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, which initializes all farm components interactively.
New-SPCentralAdministration is used to create an additional Central Administration site on a server already joined to an existing farm, not to create an entirely new farm.
Running Setup installs the SharePoint Server binaries, and the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard then creates the configuration database, sets up the farm, and provisions Central Administration. This is the supported and recommended method for creating a new farm because it handles all prerequisites and configuration steps in the correct sequence.
Connect-SPConfigurationDatabase is used to join an existing configuration database (and therefore an existing farm), not to create a new one.
New-SPConfigurationDatabase is a PowerShell alternative for creating the configuration database but alone does not complete the full farm creation process that the Configuration Wizard handles end-to-end.
Concept tested: SharePoint Server farm creation using Configuration Wizard
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/create-a-sharepoint-server-2016-farm
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