Lesson: Lesson01: Overview of Active Directory Domain Services

Multiple Choice

1. What allows businesses to define, manage, access, and secure network resources including files, printers, people, and applications?
a) network service
b) directory service
c) Directory Infrastructure
d) NT directory

Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: A directory service allows businesses to define, manage, access, and secure network resources including files, printers, people, and applications. Without the efficiency of a directory service, businesses would have difficulty keeping up with demands for fast-paced data exchange.

2. A Windows Server 2008 computer that has been configured with the Active Directory DS role is referred to as a __________.
a) domain controller
b) domain manager
c) global catalog
d) DNS server

Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: A Windows Server 2008 computer that has been configured with the Active Directory DS role is referred to as a domain controller (DC). A domain controller is a server that stores the Active Directory database and authenticates users with the network during logon.

3. The process of keeping each domain controller in synch with changes that have been made elsewhere on the network is called __________.
a) copying
b) osmosis
c) transferring
d) replication

Ans: d
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: The process of keeping each domain controller in synch with changes that have been made elsewhere on the network is called replication.

4. Which of the following is not a benefit of Active Directory Domain Services?
a) single logon for access to global resources
b) fault tolerance and redundancy
c) personalized desktops
d) simplified resource location

Ans: c
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: The major benefits of the high-powered Active Directory Domain Services include centralized resource and security administration, single logon for access to global resources, fault tolerance and redundancy, and simplified resource location.

5. Interoperability with prior versions of Microsoft Windows is available in Windows Server 2008 through the use of __________.
a) domain controllers
b) functional levels
c) global catalogs
d) DNS servers

Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: Interoperability with prior versions of Microsoft Windows is available in Windows Server 2008 through the use of functional levels.

6. The __________ Domain Controller contains a copy of the ntds.dit file that cannot be modified and does not replicate its changes to other domain controllers within Active Directory.
a) Secondary
b) Primary
c) Read-Only
d) Mandatory

Ans: c
Difficulty: Medium
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: Windows Server 2008 introduces the Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC), a domain controller that contains a copy of the ntds.dit file that cannot be modified and that does not replicate its changes to other domain controllers within Active Directory.

7. The largest container object within Active Directory is a(n) __________.
a) organization unit
b) domain
c) tree
d) forest

Ans: d
Difficulty: Easy
Section Ref: Introducing Active Directory Domain Service
Feedback: The largest container object within Active Directory is the forest. The forest container defines the fundamental security boundary within Active Directory, which means that a user can access resources across an entire Active Directory forest using a single logon/password combination.

8. What contains the rules and definitions that are used for creating and modifying object classes and attributes within Active Directory?
a) Configuration NC
b)