Introduction | p. xix |
Self-Assessment | p. xxvii |
Microsoft Certification Exams | p. 1 |
Assessing Exam-Readiness | p. 2 |
The Exam Situation | p. 3 |
Exam Layout and Design: New Case Study Format | p. 4 |
Multiple-Choice Question Format | p. 5 |
Build-List-and-Reorder Question Format | p. 7 |
Create-a-Tree Question Format | p. 8 |
Drag-and-Connect Question Format | p. 10 |
Select-and-Place Question Format | p. 11 |
Microsoft's Testing Formats | p. 13 |
Strategies for Different Testing Formats | p. 15 |
The Case Study Exam Strategy | p. 15 |
The Fixed-Length and Short-Form Exam Strategy | p. 16 |
The Adaptive Exam Strategy | p. 18 |
Question-Handling Strategies | p. 19 |
Mastering the Inner Game | p. 20 |
Additional Resources | p. 20 |
Overview of Active Directory Design Elements | p. 23 |
Overview of Active Directory Design Elements | p. 24 |
Major Design Elements of Active Directory | p. 25 |
Forests | p. 25 |
Trees | p. 30 |
Domains | p. 31 |
Organizational Units | p. 32 |
Sites | p. 34 |
DNS and DNS Namespace Planning | p. 36 |
Contiguous and Disjoint Namespaces | p. 37 |
Practice Exam | p. 38 |
Need to Know More? | p. 46 |
Gathering Information and Analyzing Requirements | p. 47 |
Gathering and Analyzing Business Requirements | p. 48 |
Determining Scope | p. 48 |
Assessing Organizational Models | p. 49 |
Assessing Business Processes | p. 52 |
Identifying Business Priorities | p. 52 |
Determining Client Computing Requirements | p. 53 |
Gathering and Analyzing Technical Requirements | p. 53 |
Determining the Technical Environment | p. 54 |
Assessing Security Requirements | p. 57 |
Determining Performance Requirements | p. 58 |
Assessing the Impact of Active Directory | p. 59 |
Existing Systems and Applications | p. 59 |
Technical Support Requirements | p. 60 |
Scheduled and Planned Upgrades and Rollouts | p. 60 |
Chapter Summary | p. 61 |
Practice Exam | p. 63 |
Need to Know More? | p. 70 |
Designing a DNS Implementation Strategy | p. 71 |
Overview of DNS and Windows 2000 | p. 72 |
Identifying Business Needs | p. 74 |
DNS and Active Directory | p. 75 |
Domain Names | p. 75 |
Registered Domain Names | p. 75 |
Differences Between DNS and Active Directory Domain Names | p. 76 |
DNS Infrastructure Design | p. 77 |
Integrating Windows 2000 DNS with BIND | p. 77 |
Ensuring Availability | p. 79 |
DNS Naming Strategies | p. 82 |
Use the Same DNS Domain Name Internally As Externally | p. 83 |
Use Existing DNS Servers and Delegate Active Directory Zones | p. 83 |
Create a Subdomain of the External Internet Domain for Use Internally | p. 84 |
Create an Internal Network Name That Is Different from the External One | p. 85 |
Common Goals of DNS Namespace Design Options | p. 85 |
DNS Integration Options | p. 85 |
Use BIND Version 8.1.2 or Higher | p. 86 |
Segregate DNS Implementations at the Firewall | p. 86 |
Create a Separate Active Directory DNS Domain for Windows 2000 | p. 87 |
Delegate Only Active Directory Zones to Windows 2000 DNS Servers | p. 87 |
Deciding on a DNS Integration Strategy | p. 88 |
Practice Exam | p. 89 |
Need to Know More? | p. 98 |
Designing Active Directory for Delegation | p. 99 |
Identifying Business Needs | p. 100 |
Determining the Administrative Model | p. 100 |
Identifying Responsibilities for Administering Resources | p. 101 |
Determining the Type of IT Organization | p. 102 |
Centralized Versus Decentralized Management | p. 102 |
Developing a Model for Administration | p. 104 |
Geographical (Location) | p. 105 |
Organizational (Business Unit or Department) | p. 106 |
Functional (Role) | p. 107 |
Hybrids | p. 108 |
Developing a Strategy for Delegation | p. 110 |
The Delegation of Control Wizard | p. 111 |
Inheritance and Inheritance Modification | p. 115 |
Designing an Organizational Unit Hierarchy for Delegation | p. 117 |
Design Guidelines | p. 119 |
Practice Exam | p. 120 |
Need to Know More? | p. 128 |
Designing Active Directory for Group Policy | p. 129 |
Business Needs for Group Policy | p. 130 |
What Does Group Policy Do? | p. 131 |
Applying Group Policy | p. 134 |
Where Can Group Policies Be Applied? | p. 135 |
Group Policy Planning Issues | p. 139 |
Filtering Using Security | p. 139 |
Inheritance Modification | p. 140 |
Loopback Processing | p. 143 |
Optimizing Group Policy Performance | p. 143 |
Designing Group Policy | p. 144 |
Testing Group Policy | p. 146 |
Practice Exam | p. 147 |
Need to Know More? | p. 156 |
Designing a Domain | p. 157 |
Determining Business Needs | p. 158 |
Administrative and Security Requirements | p. 158 |
Creating the First Domain in Active Directory | p. 160 |
Planning Security Groups | p. 161 |
Types of Security Groups | p. 162 |
Nesting Security Groups | p. 164 |
Mixed Mode Versus Native Mode | p. 166 |
Planning Organizational Unit Design | p. 167 |
Starting with Administrative Requirements | p. 167 |
Tailoring for Group Policy | p. 169 |
Practice Exam | p. 171 |
Need to Know More? | p. 182 |
Designing a Domain Tree | p. 183 |
Determining Business Needs | p. 184 |
Requirements for Multiple Domains | p. 184 |
Planning Domain Trees | p. 186 |
Accessing Resources Between Domains | p. 186 |
Authentication Across Domains | p. 187 |
Types of Trust Relationships | p. 188 |
Creating an Empty Root Domain | p. 91 |
Domain Design Issues | p. 191 |
Security | p. 191 |
WAN or LAN Constraints | p. 192 |
Legal Issues | p. 193 |
Domain-wide Policies | p. 193 |
Multiple-Tree Forests | p. 194 |
Business Requirements | p. 194 |
Trusts Between Trees | p. 195 |
Multiple Forests | p. 196 |
Business Reasons | p. 196 |
Trust Relationships | p. 197 |
Schema Issues | p. 198 |
Practice Exam | p. 199 |
Need to Know More? | p. 207 |
Designing a Physical Active Directory Topology | p. 209 |
Assessing Network Topology | p. 210 |
WAN Links and Available Bandwidth | p. 210 |
Replication Basics | p. 212 |
Sites | p. 212 |
Site Links | p. 214 |
Replication Schedules and Compression | p. 215 |
Planning Site Boundaries | p. 216 |
Managing Replication | p. 216 |
Planning Site Links | p. 217 |
Link Costs | p. 217 |
Link Schedules | p. 218 |
Determining the Need for Site Link Bridges | p. 219 |
Selecting Bridgehead Servers | p. 220 |
Locating Domain Controllers | p. 222 |
Standard Domain Controllers | p. 223 |
Global Catalog Servers | p. 224 |
Operations Masters | p. 225 |
DNS Servers | p. 227 |
Selecting an Intersite Transport | p. 227 |
RPC | p. 227 |
SMTP | p. 228 |
Comparing the Protocols | p. 229 |
Practice Exam | p. 230 |
Need to Know More? | p. 239 |
Sample Test | p. 241 |
Answer Key | p. 271 |
Glossary | p. 287 |
What's on the CD-ROM | p. 293 |
PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition | p. 294 |
Exclusive Electronic Version of Text | p. 294 |
Easy Access to Online Pointers and References | p. 295 |
Using the PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition Software | p. 297 |
Exam Simulation | p. 298 |
Question Quality | p. 298 |
Interface Design | p. 298 |
Effective Learning Environment | p. 298 |
Software Requirements | p. 299 |
Installing PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition | p. 299 |
Removing PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition from Your Computer | p. 299 |
Using PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition | p. 300 |
Starting a Practice Test Mode Session | p. 300 |
Starting a Flash Review Mode Session | p. 301 |
Standard PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition Options | p. 301 |
Time Remaining | p. 302 |
Your Examination Score Report | p. 302 |
Reviewing Your Exam | p. 303 |
Getting More Exams | p. 303 |
Contacting PrepLogic | p. 303 |
Customer Service | p. 303 |
Product Suggestions and Comments | p. 303 |
License Agreement | p. 304 |
Index | p. 305 |
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