1. | Using the supplied options, create a network map that identifies how Insane Systems is currently configured. |
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2. | Within the existing infrastructure, where would you create sites?
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3. | After adding the additional locations, where should sites be located?
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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.)
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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?
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Answers
1. | 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. | 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. |