Test Bank Questions and Answers for System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services Unit 4

Unit 4 AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) - Answers The services that the directory services provide to all the computers within a company or organization Active directory (AD) - Answers The Microsoft alternative to directory services that offers customization and added features for the Windows platform Active directory users and computers (ADUC) - Answers The client tools that are used for accessing and administering a directory server Advanced group policy management (AGPM) - Answers A set of add-on tools from Microsoft that gives some added provision control abilities in GPMC Autoscaling - Answers A system that allows the service to increase or reduce capacity as needed, while the service owner only pays for the cost of the machines that are in use at any given time Backup and restore - Answers A Microsoft offer and first party solution that has modes of operation, as a file based version where files are backed up to a zip archive Bind operation - Answers The operation which authenticates clients to the directory server Central management - Answers A central service that provides instructions to all of the different parts of my IT infrastructure Change management process - Answers The process to notify others in the organization about the changes that you are about to make Cloud computing - Answers The concept and technological approach of accessing data, using applications, storing files, etc. from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection Computer configuration - Answers Contained within a Group Policy Object (GPO) Configuration management - Answers The creation of rules about how things should work in your organization, such as printers, configure software, or mounting network file systems Databases - Answers Databases allow us to store query, filter, and manage large amounts of data Data center - Answers A facility that stores hundreds, if not thousands of servers Data recovery - Answers Is the process of trying to restore data after an unexpected event that results in data loss or corruption Data tapes - Answers The standard medium for archival backup data storage Default domain control policy - Answers One of the two GPOs that are created when a new Active Directory domain has been made Delegation - Answers The administrative tasks that you need to perform a lot as a part of your day to day job but you don't need to have broad access to make changes in AD Deployment - Answers Hardware is set up so that the employee can do their job Detection measure - Answers The measures to alert you and your team that a disaster has occurred that can impact operations Differential backup - Answers A backup of files that are changed, or has been created since the last full backup Directory Access Protocol (DAP) - Answers A protocol that is included in the X.500 directory standard from 1988 Directory Information Shadowing Protocol (DISP) - Answers A protocol that is included in the X.500 directory standard from 1988 Directory Operational Bindings Management Protocol (DOBMP) - Answers A protocol that is included in the X.500 directory standard from 1988 Directory server - Answers The server that contains a lookup service that provides mapping between network resources and their network addresses Directory services - Answers A lookup service contained in a network server that provides mapping between network resources and their network addresses Directory System Protocol (DSP) - Answers A protocol that is included in the X.500 directory standard from 1988 Disaster recovery plan - Answers A collection of documented procedures and plans on how to react and handle an emergency or disaster scenario, from the operational perspective Disaster recovery testing - Answers A regular exercise that happens once a year or so, that has different teams, including IT support specialists, going through simulations of disaster events Distribution group - Answers A group that is only designed to group accounts and contacts for email communication Domain Name System (DNS) - Answers A global and highly distributed network service that resolves strings of letters, such as a website name, into an IP address DNS records - Answers A DNS request for the SRV records matching the domain that it's been bound to Domain admin - Answers The administrators of the Active Directory domain Domain computers - Answers All the computers joined to the domain except domain controllers Domain controllers (DC) - Answers The service that hosts copies of the Active Directory database Domain local - Answers The tool used used to assign permission to a resource Domain users - Answers A group that contains every user account in the domain Enterprise admin - Answers The administrators of the Active Directory domain that has permission to make changes to the domain that affect other domains in a multi-domain forest Enterprise mobility management (EMM) - Answers A system that can create and distribute policies and MDMs Fast logon optimization - Answers The group policy engine that applies policy settings to a local machine may sacrifice the immediate application of some types of policies in order to make logon faster File compression - Answers The files and folder structures are copied and put into an archive File storage service - Answers Allows to centrally store files and manage access between files and groups Flexible single-master operations (FSMO) - Answers The single domain controller that has been tasked with making changes to the AD database that can only be made by one DC at a time Forest - Answers The hierarchy above a domain that contains multiple domains, allowing accounts to share resources between domains that are in the same forest Full backup - Answers The full unmodified contents of all files to be backed up is are included in this backup mechanism whether the data was modified or not Functional levels - Answers The different versions of Active Directory, a functional level that describes the features that it supports Global - Answers The tool that is used to group accounts into a role Group policy management console (GPMC) - Answers The tools used for creating and viewing a group policy object Group policy objects (GPO) - Answers The ways to manage the configuration of Windows machines, referring to the objects that represent things in your network that you want to be able to reference or manage