Week 4

Question 1

Directory Server

Answer 1

Contains s lookup service that provides mapping between network resources and their network addresses

Question 2

Replication

Answer 2

Good for directory servers

Stored directory data can be copied and distributed across a number of physically distributed servers, but still appear as one, unified datastore for querying and administrating

Question 3

Centralized Management

Answer 3

A central service that provides instructions to all of the different parts of my IT infrastructure

Question 4

What do directory services provide?

Answer 4

Centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)

Question 5

RBAC

Answer 5

Role based access control

Give users access to certain information depending on their role in the company

Question 6

Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP)

Answer 6

Used to access information in directory services like over a network

Question 7

Kerberos

Answer 7

A network authentication protocol that’s used to authenticate user identity, secure the transfer of user credentials, and more

Question 8

Active directory

Answer 8

The native directory service for Microsoft Windows

Question 9

What do domain controllers do?

Answer 9

Host a replica of the active directory database and group policy objects. Also serve as DNS servers. Provide central authentication through a network security protocol called Kerberos.

Question 10

What two things happen when a computer joins an active directory?

Answer 10

The AD knows about the computer and has provisioned a computer account for it. The second is that the computer knows about the active directory and authenticates with it.

Question 11

What is SAM?

Answer 11

Security Account Management

It stores usernames and passwords for active directory

Question 12

What does active directory store instead of a password?

Answer 12

One-Way cryptographic hash

Question 13

What is auditing in an IT sense?

Answer 13

Keeping track of who did what in the IT framework.

Question 14

Group Policy Object (GPO)

Answer 14

A set of policies and preferences that can be applied to a group of objects in the directory

Question 15

How do you put a GPO into effect?

Answer 15

Link it to a domain/site/OU

Question 16

Policies

Answer 16

Settings that are reapplied every few minutes, and aren’t meant to be changed even by the local administrators

Question 17

Group policy preferences

Answer 17

Settings that, in many cases, are meant to be a template for settings

Question 18

What folder are policies from the Domain Controller replicated from?

Answer 18

sysvol

Question 19

Windows registry

Answer 19

A hierarchical database of settings that Windows, and many Windows applications, use for storing configuration data

Question 20

What is the group policy results tool used for?

Answer 20

To see which group policies are are applied to what computers in the network

Question 21

Remote wipe

Answer 21

A factory reset that you can trigger from your central MDM, rather than having to do it in person on the device

Question 22

ldapadd

Answer 22

Takes the input of an LDIF file and adds the context of the files

Question 23

ldapmodify

Answer 23

Modifies an existing object

Question 24

ldapdelete

Answer 24

Will remove the object that the LDIF file refers to

Question 25

ldapsearch

Answer 25

Will search for entries in your directory database