Case Study Questions


1.  

Using the supplied options, create a network map that identifies how Insane Systems is currently configured.

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 insane systems currently has two locations: the home office and manufacturing. the home office has approximately 250 users and utilizes ip addresses 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.10.0/24, 192.168.11.0/24, 192.168.12.0/24, and 192.168.13.0/24. manufacturing has approximately 12 users and uses the ip address range 192.168.20.0/24.

2.  

Within the existing infrastructure, where would you create sites?

  1. Home Office ”1 site for users, 1 site for servers; Manufacturing ”1 site

  2. Home Office ”1 site; Manufacturing ”1 site

  3. Home Office and Manufacturing ”1 site

  4. Home Office servers and Manufacturing ”1 site; Home Office users ”1 site

b. because the home office and the manufacturing office are only connected by a 56kbps dialup connection, you should create two sites. you have no reason to create a site for the users because the domain controllers are located on the server subnet; the users will have to access that subnet for authentication anyway.

3.  

After adding the additional locations, where should sites be located?

  1. Home Office ”1 site; Manufacturing ”1 site; New York ”1 site; Atlanta ”1 site; San Jose ”1 site

  2. Home Office and Manufacturing ”1 site; New York ”1 site; Atlanta ”1 site; San Jose ”1 site

  3. Home Office and Manufacturing ”1 site; New York and Atlanta ”1 site; San Jose ”1 site

  4. Home Office and Manufacturing ”1 site; New York, Atlanta and San Jose ”1 site

b. the new infrastructure is going to employ a 1.5mbps sdsl connection between the home office and manufacturing that will only have a 20 percent consumption. there will be enough bandwidth to consider having a single site. the other locations are connected to the home office via t1 connections that are going to have approximately 40 percent total network consumption on each. however, there are exchange servers at each of the locations that will need to have local global catalog servers. creating a site for each one will also guarantee that users will authenticate to a local domain controller.

4.  

After the insane-systems.local domain is created, you want to add additional domain controllers for efficient user authentication. Where should you place domain controllers within the organization for authentication purposes? (Choose all that apply.)

  1. Home Office

  2. Manufacturing

  3. San Jose

  4. New York

a, b, c, d. because you want to allow users to be able to authenticate and access resources at any time, you should locate a domain controller at each of the sites. because not many users will be at each site, you could have them authenticate across the wan links and centralize the servers, but if you want the sites to be autonomous and able to function without the home office connection, you should decentralize the resources and allow local authentication.

5.  

When you are adding the domain controller at the remote locations, which of the following options would be the best for promoting the systems to domain controllers?

  1. Have the staff at each location run dcpromo on each domain controller at each location.

  2. Have an administrator from the Home Office run dcpromo /adv on each domain controller at each location.

  3. Install the servers at the Home Office and have an administrator run dcpromo on the servers and then ship them to each location.

  4. Install the servers at the Home Office and have an administrator run dcpromo /adv on the servers and then ship them to each location.

b. because the staff at the remote locations have limited experience, you may not want to give them the ability to create domain controllers. an administrator can run the advanced mode for dcpromo in order to copy the directory database to the server, which will reduce the amount of replication required to bring the domain controller up-to-date.

Answers

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Insane Systems currently has two locations: the Home Office and Manufacturing. The Home Office has approximately 250 users and utilizes IP addresses 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.10.0/24, 192.168.11.0/24, 192.168.12.0/24, and 192.168.13.0/24. Manufacturing has approximately 12 users and uses the IP address range 192.168.20.0/24.

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B. Because the Home Office and the Manufacturing office are only connected by a 56Kbps dialup connection, you should create two sites. You have no reason to create a site for the users because the domain controllers are located on the server subnet; the users will have to access that subnet for authentication anyway.

3.  

B. The new infrastructure is going to employ a 1.5Mbps SDSL connection between the Home Office and Manufacturing that will only have a 20 percent consumption. There will be enough bandwidth to consider having a single site. The other locations are connected to the Home Office via T1 connections that are going to have approximately 40 percent total network consumption on each. However, there are Exchange servers at each of the locations that will need to have local Global Catalog servers. Creating a site for each one will also guarantee that users will authenticate to a local domain controller.

4.  

A, B, C, D. Because you want to allow users to be able to authenticate and access resources at any time, you should locate a domain controller at each of the sites. Because not many users will be at each site, you could have them authenticate across the WAN links and centralize the servers, but if you want the sites to be autonomous and able to function without the Home Office connection, you should decentralize the resources and allow local authentication.

5.  

B. Because the staff at the remote locations have limited experience, you may not want to give them the ability to create domain controllers. An administrator can run the advanced mode for dcpromo in order to copy the directory database to the server, which will reduce the amount of replication required to bring the domain controller up-to-date.




MCSE
MCSE: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide (70-297)
ISBN: 0782143210
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 159
Authors: Brad Price, Sybex

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