12.4 Active Directory
You are the owner of a small startup company consisting of only five employees. Each employee has their own computer. Due to the type of services your company offers, you don't foresee the employee count increasing much in the next year or two. As a startup company, you want to keep costs low and facilitate easier file sharing, internet access, printers, and other local network resources. Which of the following would be the BEST implementation for your business?
A workgroup
What is the name of the service included with the Windows Server operating system that manages a centralized database containing user account and security information?
Active Directory
Drag the group policy setting on the left to the appropriate description of how the setting is enforced on the right
Causes the policy to be enforced - Enabled Does not change the current setting for the policy - Not configured Prevents the policy from being enforced - Disabled
You manage a group of 20 Windows workstations that are currently configured as a workgroup. You have been thinking about switching to an Active Directory configuration. Which advantages would you gain by switching to Active Directory?
Centralized configuration control and Centralized authentication
You manage a large number of workstations that belong to a Windows domain. You want to prevent anyone that might try to gain access to a computer from guessing login information by trying multiple passwords. Which default GPO contains a policy you can enable to guard all computers in the domain against this security breach?
Default Domain Policy
A user has complained about not being able to remove a program that is no longer needed on a computer. Tje Programs option is not available in the Control Panel. You suspect that a policy is enabled that hides this option from the user, But after opening the Local Group Policy Editor, you see that the policy to hide Programs is not configured. You know that other users in this domain can access the Programs option. To determine whether the policy is enabled, where should you look next?
GPOs linked to organizational units that contain this user's object
You are managing a workstation that is not part of a Windows domain. Users on this computer should not be permitted to download applications from the Windows Store. Which administration tool can you use to enable a policy that turns off the Store application for all users on this computer?
Local Group Policy Editor
The Hide Programs option setting is configured for a specific user as follows: After logging in, the user is able to see the Programs option. Why does this happen?
The GPO link to the user's organizational unit is applied last, so this setting takes precedence.
Match the Active Directory definition on the left with its corresponding term on the right.
Domain Controller - A server that holds a copy of the Active Directory database that can be written to Site - Represents a group of networks that are connected with high-speed links Subnet - Represents a physical network segment Forest Root Domain - The first domain created in an Active Directory forest Tree Root Domain - The highest-level domain in a tree
Match each Active Directory term
Logical organization of resources - Organizational Unit Collection of network resources - Domain Collection of related domain trees - Forest Network resource in the directory - Object Group of Related domains - Tree
A new computer has been added to the Sales department and needs to be joined to the CorpNet domain. Which of the following System Properties settings MUST be used to make the change?
System Properties > Computer Name
You are an IT administrator troubleshooting a Windows-based computer. After a while, you determine that you need to refresh the group policy on that computer. Rather than rebooting the computer, you open a command prompt from which the refresh can manually be completed. Which of the following is the BEST command line tool to run to accomplish this task?
gpupdate
