Hands-On Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Chapter 4 Solutions

Review Questions

1. Your organization has a root domain called consult.com and other child domains called web.cs.com
and products.conslt.com. This is an example of a ____________________.
Answer: a. disjointed namespace

2. Which of the following are schema characteristics you would find in the user account class? (Circle all
that apply.)
Answer: a. required attributes, b. optional attributes, and c. pointers to parent entities

3. Your Active Directory planning committee is currently working on a plan for OUs in your company,
which makes auto parts. One of the committee members wants to create a top-level OU called parts
and then to create under it OUs for each of the 500 parts manufactured by the company. Which of the
following matches your response?
Answer: c. You recommend instead that the company create five OUs in a horizontal structure, so that
there is one OU for each of the five major departments

4. The first domain controller created in a tree that will have 10 domain controllers automatically
becomes ____________________.
Answer: b. a global catalog server

5. Your organization’s network covers several locations in three states. Also, these networks are divided
into multiple IP subnets. What Active Directory containers should you configure on the basis of the IP
subnets to enable faster access of the network and its resources by users?
Answer: d. sites

6. You want to create a mandatory user profile for a group of tellers in a bank. To do this, you create a file
for these users called __________________.
Answer: c. Ntuser.man

7. Which of the following is true about all trees in a forest? (Circle all that apply.)
Answer: a. All trees use the same schema and c. All trees use the same global catalog

8. A group of 25 physicians is implementing a new network that uses two Windows 2003 servers and that
will have Internet access. Besides the physicians, there is a bookkeeper, a business manager, five
billing clerks, 28 nurses, and five nurse practitioners. Each will have a connection to the network. How
many domains are needed when Active Directory is configured?
Answer: a. 1

9. You have a network of Windows 2003 servers and you’ve decided to create a universal security group
called AdminSecure for the server administrators. However, when you try to create the group, the
option for Universal is deactivated. What is the problem?
Answer: b. You must convert the domain to Windows Server 2003 mode.

10. You can use the ________________________ tool to delegate management of an OU

Answer: d. Active Directory Users and Computers

11. The accounting manager in your company is concerned about using Windows Server 2003 because he
has heard that user accounts can only be created on one server, and that there is no automatic backup of
the account information, even though your network has 24 servers. What is your response?
Answer: d. This is not a problem because Windows Server 2003 uses multimaster replication.

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12. Which of the following are important elements of namespace logic? (Circle all that apply.)
Answer: c. Active Directory as a container for named objects and d. one or more DNS servers

13. In a schema, objects have ___________________.

Answer: a. attributes

14. You are the server administrator in the IT Department of a community college. The head of the
Psychology Department has just resigned and his user account has access to many databases and
spreadsheets related to the department’s budget. What is the easiest way to create an account for his
replacement, who will be selected in two weeks?
Answer: c. Disable the current department head’s account, and when the new department head takes
over, rename the account and then enable it

15. One way to enable users to have their individual desktop configurations to follow them when the log
onto computers at different locations is to _______________________.
Answer: b. Create roaming profiles for those users.

16. You have an Active Directory structure that contains four domains. How might you plan to use groups
in this situation?
Answer: c. Use domain local and universal groups to manage resources and global groups to contain
user account members.

17. When a DNS server converts a computer name to a dotted decimal address, this is called
___________________________________.
Answer: b. name resolution

18. The default accounts in Windows Server 2003 are located in the _____________________________.
Answer: d. Users folder

19. You need to configure accounts so that they cannot log onto the network on Friday nights between 8:00
pm and midnight. How can you do this? (Circle all that apply.)
Answer: b. Use the Logon Hours button on the Account tab for the properties of each account

20. Which of the following is (are) properties of groups? (Circle all that apply.).
Answer: a. Member Of, b. Members, c. General, and d. Managed By