Case Study 5

Traviano Publishing

Traviano Publishing is the parent company for five publishing houses . Each publishing house maintains its identity and, typically, a unique Web presence. Each publishing house reports to Traviano management, so the unique identity of each is for marketing purposes more than management. The Traviano companies, locations, and Internet domain names are summarized in Table 10.1.

Table 10.1. The Traviano Companies, Locations, and Internet Domain Names

Company	Main Location	Domain Name
Traviano Publishing	New York, NY	traviano.com
Pisces Press	Boston, MA	piscespress.com
Bard and Co.	London, England	bard.co.uk
Finn Books	St. Louis, MO	finnbooks.com
The Quill and Well	New York, NY	quillnwellbooks.com
Artisan Press	Hong Kong	artisan.hk

Current LAN/Network Structure

Traviano and the subsidiary publishers all run Windows NT 4.0 networks, with NT at the desktop level as well. The only exception is the sales force, which uses laptops running Windows 98.

The five subsidiaries operate independent NT 4 single-domain environments, as does Traviano. Currently, users needing access to more than one company must have a user account for each domain.

All offices use 10Mbps twisted-pair Ethernet, and this network infrastructure is considered adequate for current and future needs.

Proposed LAN/Network Structure

Traviano will upgrade the backbone in its corporate office to 100Mbps within six months. More importantly, the company wants to upgrade to Windows 2000 as a way to better manage the corporate computing environment.

Current WAN Connectivity

Each subsidiary publisher has a T1 circuit to the corporate parent. These circuits are used for both voice and data, configured for 768Kbps data.

Proposed WAN Connectivity

No changes are contemplated.

Directory Design Commentary

CIO : Although our network hardware infrastructure is sound, we have a poorly designed domain model with NT 4.0. We need to be able to manage access to resources better and eliminate extra user accounts.

VP, Marketing : We need to keep a strong brand identity for each of our subsidiaries. It is critical that each keeps its own Web site.

Security Administrator : The number of user accounts is becoming unwieldy. I am concerned that we are going to sacrifice security by keeping our publishers' systems separate.

Current Internet Positioning

Traviano and each subsidiary have registered Internet domain names. (Refer to Table 10.1 for the name of each.) In addition to Web and FTP servers, each company maintains an Exchange email server.

Future Internet Positioning

No changes in Internet strategy are forecasted.

Question 5.1	What is the most appropriate Active Directory design for Traviano? a. Six forests b. One forest, six domains, with a disjoint namespace c. One forest, six domains, with a contiguous namespace d. One forest, one domain
Question 5.2	Traviano Publishing and The Quill and Well are located in the same building in New York. A consultant called in to assist with physical topology planning has stated that separate sites must be created for the two companies, even if they share the same forest. She stated, "Because they do not share the same domain namespace, we must create separate sites for the two domains." Is the consultant's statement correct? a. Yes b. No
Question 5.3	How many domain trees will be needed in the Traviano forest? a. 1 b. 3 c. 6 d. 7
Question 5.4	Will all the companies share a common Global Catalog and schema? a. Yes b. No
Question 5.5	Bard and Company has acquired an Active Directory-enabled application. During the installation process, the setup program aborted with the error message Cannot update schema . What is the probable cause for the error? a. The schema can be updated only at the console of the Schema Operations Master. b. The user account of the person performing the installation at Bard is not a member of the Schema Admins group . c. The schema at Bard and Company is corrupt and must be restored from a backup tape. d. You must be an Enterprise Admin to make changes to the schema, and the user performing the installation is not an Enterprise Admin. e. The schema-replication topology has not been configured for the bard.co.uk domain.
Question 5.6	Which of the following servers must be found in the artisan.hk domain? [Select all that apply.] a. Domain Naming Master b. DNS server c. PDC Emulator d. RID Master e. Schema Master
Question 5.7	Traviano has just opened a San Francisco office. It is connected to the corporate WAN through Finn Books in St. Louis by a 384Kbps fractional T1 circuit. How can the domain controllers in San Francisco replicate with the domain controllers in New York? [Select the best two answers.] a. Create a site link from St. Louis to San Francisco (STL-SFO). Replication will automatically be configured to bridge the STL-SFO link to the existing link from New York to St. Louis. b. Create a site link from St. Louis to San Francisco (STL-SFO). Create a site link bridge for the STL-SFO link and the existing link from New York to St. Louis. c. Place the San Francisco office subnet in the same site as the New York office. d. Reconfigure the T1 circuit to run from New York to San Francisco.
Question 5.8	For each of the domains shown in the first list, list the automatically created security groups that will be found on domain controllers in the domain. You can use a security group more than once, and not all security groups may be used. Domains: traviano.com piscespress.com bard.co.uk Security groups: Backup Operators Schema Admins Server Operators Domain Admins Power Users Enterprise Admins