Configuring Active Directory - Exam 70-640
Server 2008 Platform
Skills
Measured for Exam 70-640
Configuring
Domain Name System (DNS) for Active Directory (16 percent)
Configure zones
- May include but is not
limited to: Dynamic DNS (DDNS), Non-dynamic DNS (NDDNS), and Secure
- Dynamic DNS (SDDNS), Time
to Live (TTL), GlobalNames, Primary, Secondary, Active Directory
- Integrated, Stub, SOA,
zone scavenging, forward lookup, reverse lookup
Configure
DNS server settings
- May include but is not
limited to: forwarding, root hints, configure zone delegation, round
robin, disable recursion, debug logging, server scavenging
Configure zone transfers and replication
- May include but is not
limited to: configure replication scope (forestDNSzone, domainDNSzone), incremental
zone transfers, DNS Notify, secure zone transfers, configure name servers,
application directory partitions
Configuring
the Active Directory infrastructure (25 percent)
Configure a forest or a domain.
- May include but is not
limited to: remove a domain, perform an unattended installation, Active
Directory
- Migration Tool (ADMT) v3
(pruning and grafting), raise forest and domain functional levels,
- interoperability with
previous versions of Active Directory, alternate user principal name (UPN)
suffix,
- forestprep, domainprep
Configure trusts.
- May include but is not
limited to: forest trust, selective authentication versus forest-wide
authentication,
- transitive trust, external
trust, shortcut trust, SID filtering
Configure
sites.
- May include but is not limited
to: create Active Directory subnets, configure site links, configure site
link costing, configure sites infrastructure
Configure Active Directory replication.
- May include but is not
limited to: Distributed File System, one-way replication, bridgehead
server, replication scheduling, configure replication protocols, force
intersite replication
Configure
the global catalog
- May include but is not
limited to: Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC), partial attribute
set,
- promote to global catalog
Configure
operations masters
- May include but is not
limited to: seize and transfer, backup operations master, operations
master placement, Schema Master, extending the schema, time service
Configuring
additional Active Directory server roles (9 percent)
Configure
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS).
- May include but is not
limited to: migration to AD LDS, configure data within AD LDS, configure
an authentication server, server core, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Configure
Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS).
- May include but is not
limited to: certificate request and installation, self-enrollments,
delegation, Active Directory Metadirectory Services (AD MDS), Windows
Server virtualization
Configure the read-only domain controller
(RODC).
- May include but is not
limited to: unidirectional replication, Administrator role separation,
read-only DNS, BitLocker, credential caching, password replication,
syskey, Windows Server virtualization
Configure
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
- May include but is not
limited to: install AD FS server role, exchange certificate with AD FS
agents, configure trust policies, configure user and group claim mapping,
Windows Server virtualization
Creating
and maintaining Active Directory objects (24 percent)
Automate creation of Active Directory
accounts.
- May include but is not
limited to: bulk import, configure the UPN, create computer, user, and
group accounts (scripts, import, migration), template accounts, contacts,
distribution lists
Maintain Active Directory accounts
- May include but is not
limited to: configure group membership, account resets, delegation, AGDLP/AGGUDLP,
deny domain local group, local versus domain, Protected Admin, disabling
accounts versus deleting accounts, deprovisioning, contacts, creating
organizational units (OUs), delegation of control
Create and apply Group Policy objects
(GPOs).
- May include but is not
limited to: enforce, OU hierarchy, block inheritance, and enabling user
objects, Group Policy processing priority, WMI, Group Policy filtering,
Group Policy loopback
Configure GPO templates
- May include but is not
limited to: user rights, ADMX Central Store, administrative templates,
security templates, restricted groups, security options, starter GPOs,
shell access policies
Configure
GPO templates
- May include but is not
limited to: user rights, ADMX Central Store, administrative templates,
security templates, restricted groups, security options, starter GPOs,
shell access policies
Configure
software deployment GPOs
- May include but is not
limited to: publishing to users, assigning software to users, assigning to
computers, software removal
Configure account policies
- May include but is not
limited to: domain password policy, account lockout policy, fine-grain
password policies
Configure audit policy by using GPOs.
- May include but is not
limited to: audit logon events, audit account logon events, audit policy
change, audit access privilege use, audit directory service access, audit
object access
Maintaining
the Active Directory environment (13 percent)
Configure
backup and recovery
- May include but is not
limited to: using Windows Server Backup, backup files and system state
data to media, backup and restore by using removable media, perform an authoritative
or non-authoritative Active Directory restore, linked value replication,
Directory Services Recovery Mode (DSRM) (resetadmin password), back up and
restore GPOs
Perform offline maintenance.
- May include but is not
limited to: offline defragmentation and compaction, Restartable Active
Directory, Active Directory database storage allocation
Monitor Active Directory
- May include but is not
limited to: Network Monitor, Task Manager, Event Viewer, ReplMon,
RepAdmin,
- Windows System Resource
Manager, Reliability and Performance Monitor, Server Performance Advisor, RSOP
Configuring
Active Directory Certificate Services (13 percent)
Install Active Directory Certificate
Services.
- May include but is not
limited to: standalone versus enterprise, CA hierarchies—root versus
subordinate, certificate requests, certificate practice statement
Configure
CA server settings
- May include but is not
limited to: key archival, certificate database backup and restore,
assigning administration roles
Manage certificate templates.
- May include but is not
limited to: certificate template types, securing template permissions,
managing different certificate template versions, key recovery agent
Manage enrollments
- May include but is not
limited to: network device enrollment service (NDES), autoenrollment, Web enrollment,
smart card enrollment, creating enrollment agents
Manage certificate revocations.
- May include but is not
limited to: configure Online Responders, Certificate Revocation List
(CRL),
- CRL Distribution Point
(CDP), Authority Information Access (AIA)
