7.6.4 Practice Questions

Which of the following BEST describes ADUC?

A management console used for administering Active Directory objects.

You have received a call from a user telling you that his password no longer works. As you inquire about the reasons why the password doesn't work, he tells you that yesterday, he received a call from an administrator asking for his user account password, which he promptly supplied. You know that a legitimate administrator would have never made this request. You are concerned that the impersonator might have contacted other users with the same request. To protect your network, you would like to reset all user account passwords and force users to change their passwords at the next login. You want to accomplish this as quickly as possible. What should you do? (Select two. Each choice is a possible complete solution.)

Create a script that runs Dsmod. Specify the new password and account properties in the script. Run the script. Run Ldifde to export user account information. Edit the .ldif file to modify the user account properties and passwords. Run Ldifde to modify the existing user accounts.

You are the network administrator for your company. There is one main office and seven branch offices. You have been asked to create a script that can be used in the event of a disaster that destroys the entire network. The script must be able to recreate the company's Active Directory users, computers, and groups, as well as sites and subnet objects. Which command should you use in your script?

New-ADObject

Prior to installing Active Directory on your network, you set up a test network in your lab. You created several user accounts that correspond to actual network users. Now that your test is done, you'd like to move all user accounts from your test network to a new domain that you've just installed. You decide to use the Ldifde command to import the user accounts into the production domain. You want to set passwords for the new user accounts. How can you perform this task with the least amount of effort?

Run Ldifde to export the user accounts. Run Ldifde to import the user accounts. Edit the .ldif file to specify user account passwords. Run Ldifde to modify the existing accounts.

You are the administrator of a network with a single Active Directory domain. You need to create 75 user accounts in the domain Users container. You have a list of new user accounts that include an IP telephone number. The user accounts are available via an export from your company's HR application in the form of a comma-delimited file. You want to create the new accounts as quickly and easily as possible. What is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

Use Csvde to import user accounts using the .csv file.

You are the administrator of a network with a single Active Directory domain. The domain currently includes 75 user accounts. You have been asked to add 50 additional accounts. Your Human Resources manager has an existing database of employees that can be imported to Active Directory. You would like to use an automated method for data import if possible. What should you do? (Select two. Each choice is a complete solution.)

Use the Ldifde.exe utility. Use the Csvde.exe utility.

You manage a Windows server that functions as your company's domain controller. You want to test a new network application in a lab environment prior to rolling it on to your production network. To make the test as realistic as possible, you want to export all Active Directory objects from your production domain controller and import them to a domain controller in the test environment. Which tools could you use to do this? (Select two. Each option is a complete solution.)

csvde ldifde

You are the administrator of a network with a single Active Directory domain. You would like to create a script the Help Desk support staff can use to create domain user accounts. The Help Desk staff will input various user account values, and these values will be used in the script. Which of the following commands should your script include?

dsadd

You are the administrator of a network with a single Active Directory domain. The domain includes a user account named Bob Smith. The network security group has asked you to provide a list of all the domain groups to which Bob Smith is a member. You would prefer to use a command line utility so that the output can be saved and printed. Which command should you use?

dsget

You manage a Windows server that functions as your company's domain controller. Your organization was recently acquired by a larger organization, and the company name has changed as a result. You need to modify the Company property of each user account in Active Directory. Which tools could you use to make this change? (Select two. Each option is a complete solution.)

dsmod ldifde