Your network contains a DHCP server. You plan to add a new subnet and deploy Windows Server to the subnet. You need to use the server as a DHCP relay agent. Which role should you install on the…

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Options

• ANetwork Policy and Access Services
• BRemote Access
• CNetwork Controller
• DDHCP Server

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  90% (37)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Remote Access (B) is correct because the DHCP Relay Agent feature is included within the Remote Access role - specifically through the Routing component (formerly called RRAS: Routing and Remote Access Service), which lets a server forward DHCP broadcast messages across subnets to a DHCP server on a different network.

Why the others are wrong:

• A (Network Policy and Access Services) handles authentication, authorization, and network access policies (like RADIUS/NPS) - not packet forwarding between subnets.
• C (Network Controller) is an SDN management role for large-scale virtualized network infrastructure, unrelated to DHCP relay.
• D (DHCP Server) installs a full DHCP server, but the question specifies you already have a DHCP server and just need to relay requests to it - installing another DHCP server would be redundant and wrong.

Memory tip: Think "relay = routing" - a DHCP relay agent routes broadcast traffic across subnet boundaries, so it lives in the Remote Access/Routing role, not in the DHCP Server role itself.

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