6.6.6 Practice Questions Active Directory Sites

Which of the following best describes an Active Directory site?

A physical grouping of well-connected IP subnets which are connected with high-speed links.

You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. There is one main office in New York and several branch offices, including one in Chattanooga, TN. All of the clients in Chattanooga, TN, are configured using DCHP and obtain addresses in the 172.16.0.0/16 subnet with the scope ranging from 172.16.3.1 to 172.16.3.254. There are two domain controllers in the Chattanooga office named TNDC1 and TNDC2. TNDC1 has a static IP address of 172.16.2.3/16, and TNDC2 has a static IP address of 172.16.2.4/16. During an IT audit, you notice that users authenticated by TNDC2 experience significant logon delays. You order a new server to replace TNDC2. As a temporary fix, you would like to ensure that all users in the Chattanooga, TN, site are authenticated by TNDC1. The solution should enable users to be authenticated by TNDC2 only if TNDC1 fails. What should you do?

Create a new Active Directory site. Create a new subnet object using the 172.16.2.4/32 subnet. Move TNDC2 to the new site.

You are the network administrator of a network that spans two locations, Atlanta and Dallas. Atlanta and Dallas are connected using a dedicated WAN link. The Atlanta location is also connected to the internet. A single Active Directory domain spans both locations, and each location has a single domain controller. You have not used the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in to make any changes to the default configuration. Users in Dallas complain that internet access is very slow at times. After monitoring the network traffic across the WAN link, you discover that the slow performance occurs after major changes are made to Active Directory. What is the first step for solving this problem?

Create a new site object in Active Directory and move the server object for the Dallas domain controller into the new site.

You manage a single domain named southsim.com. The network has three locations: Seattle, Portland, and Boise. You need to configure Active Directory sites so that resource access and logon are localized for each location and WAN traffic is minimized. See the image for a diagram of the WAN links connecting each location, as well as the number of users and domain controllers in each location. What should you do?

Create a site for Seattle and a site that includes both the Portland and Boise locations.

You are the network administrator for a company with a single Active Directory domain. The corporate office is located in Miami, and there are satellite offices in Boston and Chicago. There are Active Directory sites configured for all three geographic locations. The Default-First-Site-Name was renamed the Miami site. Each location has a single IP subnet configured and associated with the appropriate site. Each office has several domain controllers. The Boston office has recently expanded to three additional floors in the office building that they are in. The additional floors each have their own IP subnet and are connected by a router. The domain controllers for the Boston office are all located on one floor and are in the same subnet. You notice that the users working on the new floors in the Boston office are sometimes authenticating to domain controllers from other locations. You need to make sure that all authentication traffic over the WAN links is kept to a minimum. What should you do?

Create subnets for the new floors in the Boston office and link them to the Boston site.

You are the network administrator for corpnet.com. The company has a main office and four branch offices. All of the servers run Windows Server 2016. All of the sites have been added to the DEFAULTIPSITELINK object, which is set to replicate every 15 minutes. The Branch1 office contains one domain controller, DC3. The WAN link between the main and Branch1 offices has excellent bandwidth and very low latency. You frequently update the user accounts for users located at the Branch1 office and encounter conflicts that require you to force replication. You need to enable replication between the main and Branch1 offices to occur more frequently than every 15 minutes. The change must not affect replication between the main office and the other branch offices. What should you do? (Select three.)

Remove the Branch1 office from the DEFAULTIPSITELINK. Create a new IP Site Link and add the main office and the Branch1 office to the new link. Configure the Options attribute on the new link. Configure the Cost on the new link.

Which of the following is true about Active Directory sites?

Sites are linked to one or more subnets.

A client computer comes onto the network and first looks in its own site for a domain controller. A domain controller is not found within its site. Only the default settings are configured. Which of the following is most likely to happen next?

The client computer will search randomly for a domain controller in any site.

Site-link cost is determined by which of the following?

The speed of the link

In following a best practice approach to organizing your sites in your Active Directory network, you would normally organize by which of the following ways?

You would match the site link design to the physical network with a site link for each WAN link.