Gramm Records Gramm Records operates a chain of retail stores in North America, with a limited number of outlets in Europe, South America, and Australia. The business is run from a home office in San Francisco, which is housed in two separate buildings one block from each other. Gramm has six distribution centers located in Chicago, Dallas, New York, London, Buenos Aires, and Sydney. It has approximately 250 retail locations in North America and 1020 stores on each of the other continents. Current LAN/Network Structure Gramm runs Windows NT 4.0 servers at all locations. The PDC for the master accounts domain is located in the San Francisco home office, and six resource domains with PDCs are located at each of the distribution centers. BDCs for the accounts domain are situated in San Francisco and each distribution center. The only exceptions to the Windows NT 4 environment are the Gramm Web and DNS servers, which are all Unix based. Gramm does not intend to migrate either the Web server or the DNS servers. The DNS servers currently run BIND version 8.1.2. Each retail store has a single NT 4.0 member server. Workstations are a mix of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Windows 98 SE. The home office recently upgraded to 100Mbps Ethernet, whereas distribution centers and retail stores use 10Mbps twisted-pair Ethernet. This network infrastructure is considered adequate for current and future needs. Proposed LAN/Network Structure No major changes are planned to the network infrastructure. Gramm Records is planning to migrate to Windows 2000, replacing any client or server computers that cannot run on the new platform. Current WAN Connectivity The two San Francisco headquarters buildings are connected by a full 1.5Mbps T1 line. The distribution centers are connected to headquarters by means of a Frame Relay cloud. These 56Kbps circuits are frequently saturated , especially during peak periods of the day. Retail locations connect to the nearest distribution center using an analog dial-up connection, which is initiated at the start of the business day and closed when the store is closed. Proposed WAN Connectivity Gramm is investigating DSL as a way to ease WAN congestion and reduce costs for communications between the home office and the distribution centers, as well as between the distribution centers and the retail stores. However, there is neither a timetable nor a budget for this upgrade. Directory Design Commentary Chief Technologist : We need to get bandwidth out to each of our retail stores fast. The recorded music industry is changing so quickly, and we need to keep ahead of those changes. We need to be able to deliver music to the stores on demand and get the technology in place to deliver custom recorded music to our customers. Network Services Manager : We are getting swamped with requests for new user accounts, password changes, printer configuration changes, and the like. I have a staff of trained technology experts who are doing nothing but routine, mind-numbing tasks . Store Manager : Whenever I hire a new employee, I need to fill out three pages of paperwork, fax it to the home office, and then hope that someone looks at it and sets up a user account before the employee finds a new job elsewhere. If someone forgets a password, it seems that it takes forever to get it fixed. Current Internet Positioning Gramm Records has an extensive Web site from which customers can buy recorded music, paraphernalia, and accessories. Its registered Internet domain name is Grammrecords.com . All Gramm employees also have an email account on the corporate Exchange server. Future Internet Positioning Gramm recently created a subsidiary company called Gramm On Demand Music and registered the domain name Grammod.com . Gramm On Demand will compile custom music CDs based on customer requests. Management believes that the new venture will become a major portion of Gramm's business over the next three years . | Question 3.1 | Can Gramm Records use the existing BIND 8.1.2 DNS servers for Windows 2000 Active Directory? [Select the best answer.] -
a. No, Windows 2000 requires Windows 2000 DNS to operate properly. -
b. Yes, but only if SRV records are added manually because BIND 8.1.2 does not support Dynamic Update. -
c. No, the BIND server must be upgraded to BIND 10.1.3 to support SRV records. -
d. Yes, BIND 8.1.2 is completely compatible with Windows 2000 and Active Directory. | | Question 3.2 | Based on the current wide area network connectivity, how many sites should be created at Gramm Records? -
a. One site for the entire company -
b. Eight sites: one for each home office building and one for each distribution center -
c. Four sites: one for North America, and one each for London, Buenos Aires, and Sydney -
d. Seven sites: one for the home office and one for each distribution center | | Question 3.3 | The Gramm network services manager is designing the replication topology for the company's Active Directory implementation. What is the best way to manage replication traffic between San Francisco and the distribution centers? -
a. Configure a site link using RPC over IP and allow replication to occur at any time. -
b. Configure a site link using RPC over IP and set a site link schedule to allow replication only during evening hours. -
c. Configure a site link using SMTP. -
d. Configure a site link using SMTP and set a site link schedule to allow replication only during evening hours. | | Question 3.4 | Gramm management has decided to delegate some user management functions to the managers of the retail stores. Select the steps that must be performed from the following list and arrange them in the proper order. Some steps in the list might not be needed. -
Add the store manager global group to the Store Administration domain local group membership. -
Create an OU for all retail store managers. -
Move all retail store employees into the appropriate OU. -
Create a global group for the managers at each retail store and add the manager user accounts to these global groups. -
Create an OU for each retail store. -
Create a universal group for all store managers. -
Create a domain local group for each store and delegate approved administrative tasks to the members of the domain local group. | | Question 3.5 | Four domain controllers are situated in one of Gramm Records' San Francisco locations, as shown in Figure 10.4. Select a server role from the boxes on the left and place it on the most appropriate server in the diagram. Figure 10.4. Select and place the appropriate server role on the server.  | | Question 3.6 | The Help Desk supervisor in the Chicago distribution center updates the Last Name attribute for a user in the chicago.grammrecords.com domain. When will this change be replicated to the other domain controller in Chicago? | | Question 3.7 | The Gramm Music On Demand operation is installing several applications that will require extensive schema modifications. Gramm management does not want these schema modifications to affect the corporate headquarters or the distribution centers. What is the best way to isolate Gramm Records from the schema changes required at Gramm Music On Demand? -
a. Make grammod.com a child domain of grammrecords.com and block inheritance at the domain level. -
b. Make grammod.com a separate tree in the Gramm Records forest. -
c. Create a new forest for grammod.com . -
d. Install a second Schema Operations Master server in the Gramm Records forest. | | Question 3.8 | To ensure availability of network resources, which of the following actions should be taken? [Select all that apply.] -
a. Place a Global Catalog Server at each site. -
b. Place a DNS server at each site. -
c. Install a PDC Emulator at each site. -
d. Provide at least two domain controllers for every domain. -
e. Configure multiple site links for every site. | | Question 3.9 | Can Gramm Records place a Windows 2000 domain controller at each retail store? | | Question 3.10 | Retail store managers require access to company-wide sales information that is compiled at the headquarters office. Currently, a global group exists for each store that contains the user accounts for the managers of the store. Which options does Gramm have to provide the store managers access to sales information? [Select two.] -
a. Make each store manager global group a member of the domain local group that has access to the sales data. -
b. Create a global group in the home office domain and make each store manager global group a member. Then make the new global group a member of the domain local group that has access to the sales data. -
c. Create a universal group and make each store manager global group a member. Then, make the universal group a member of the domain local group that has access to the sales data. -
d. Change all the store manager global groups to universal groups and make each universal group a member of the domain local group that has access to the sales data. | | 