6.4.13 Practice Questions FSMO Roles and Global Catalog Servers

You are the network administrator for your company. Your network consists of two Active Directory domains, named research.westsim.local and sales.westsim.local. Your company has two sites, Dallas and Houston. Each site has two domain controllers, one for each domain. Users in Houston who are members of the sales.westsim.local domain report slow performance when logging in and accessing files in Dallas. Users in Dallas do not report any problems logging in and accessing local resources. You want all users in Houston to experience adequate login and resource access response time. What should you do?

Configure one of the domain controllers in Houston to be a Global Catalog server.

What does the netdom query fsmo command do?

Lists the FSMO roles and identifies the server on which they are running.

Which utility would you use to seize a role?

The Ntdsutil.exe tool

You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of one Active Directory domain that contains 1,500 users. westsim.com has one main office and 15 branch offices. There are three domain controllers at the main office and one domain controller at each branch office. You have been asked to identify which domain controller hosts the schema master role. Which utilities should you use? (Select two.)

Active Directory Schema snap-in Dsquery

You are the network administrator for a network with a single Active Directory domain and a default site configuration. Your domain consists of three domain controllers, two at the company headquarters in Los Angeles and one in New York. Active Directory Domains and Trusts shows that all three domain controllers are replicating without errors. You have implemented a group structure using Microsoft's recommendation. You have global groups, which are members of universal groups. The universal groups are members of domain local groups. You have assigned permissions to the domain's local groups. Users in Los Angeles aren't reporting any difficulties logging in and accessing local resources. However, users in New York report that login is very slow and that resource access is also very slow as well, even for local resources. You want to improve login and resource access performance for New York users. What should you do? (Select two. Each answer is part of the complete solution.)

Create two sites, one called Los Angeles and one called New York. Assign the IP subnet in use at each location to the appropriate site. Make the domain controller in New York a Global Catalog server.

You are the network administrator for an Active Directory forest with a single domain. The network has three sites with one domain controller at each site. You have created and configured sites in Active Directory Sites and Services, and replication is operating normally between sites. You configure two universal groups for use in securing the network. All users are members of one universal group or the other. After configuring the universal groups, users at Sites 2 and 3 report slow login and slow access to the corporate database. Users at Site 1 can log in and access the corporate database with acceptable performance. You want to improve login and resource access performance for users in Sites 2 and 3. What should you do?

Designate the domain controllers at Sites 2 and 3 as Global Catalog servers.

You are the network administrator for a network with a single Active Directory forest. All domains in the forest are at Windows Server 2008 functional level, and the forest is also at a Windows Server 2008 functional level. Offices are located in Denver, Chicago, and Miami. Each geographic location has an Active Directory site configured. The links that connect the Denver and Miami sites to the corporate headquarters in Chicago are highly utilized, and you want to minimize replication traffic over them. Company headquarters is located in Chicago, and that location has multiple global catalog servers to service global queries efficiently. Several users in Denver and Miami are members of universal groups throughout the forest. You need to make sure that, in the event of a WAN link failure, group membership will be protected, and logons will be available. What should you do?

Enable Universal Group Membership Caching for the Denver and Miami sites.

Which of the following are the responsibilities of the domain naming master? (Select three.)

Ensures that domain names are unique. Must be accessible to add or remove a domain from the forest. Must be a global catalog server if it resides in a multiple domain environment.

Your network currently has the following Active Directory domains: westsim.com, emea.westsim.com, uk.emea.westsim.com, and us.westsim.com. Your company is closing its offices in the United States. Previously, most of the network administration took place in that office. Now all IT administration will take place in your London office. You have removed all domain controllers from the us.westsim.com domain except for the DC1 server. This server hosts the following roles: RID master PDC emulator Domain naming master Infrastructure master Prior to removing Active Directory from the domain controller, you need to transfer the necessary operation master roles to servers in the westsim.com domain. The westsim.com domain has the following domain controllers: WS1, WS2, WS3, and WS4. All servers are also global catalog servers except for WS3. What should you do to prepare for Active Directory removal on DC1?

Transfer the domain naming master to WS1, WS2, or WS4.

Your network currently has two domains, eastsim.com and sales.eastsim.com. You need to remove the sales.eastsim.com domain. You have removed all domain controllers in the domain except for the DC1.sales.eastsim.com server. This server holds the following infrastructure master roles: RID master PDC emulator Infrastructure master Domain naming master You are getting ready to remove Active Directory from DC1. What should you do first?

Transfer the domain naming master to a domain controller in eastsim.com.