Your work for the RTS Group as a network administrator, you have been tasked to publish several web servers that require authentication. You implement a secure web publishing rule. You are presented with an option that allows SSL Tunneling, and another option that allows SSL Bridging. What are some of the differences between SSL Tunneling and SSL Bridging?
ISA Server has the ability to cache websites as a forward proxy and as a reverse proxy. What are the advantages of website caching? What are the disadvantages of website caching?
You are the administrator for RTS Group. The RTS Group has recently deployed ISA servers at the corporate office and at the branch office locations. You have been tasked wit managing all of the ISA servers. How could you manage the ISA servers at the various locations without physically being on-site at those locations?
You are employed as an administrator by RTS Corp. RTS is considering deploying a VPN to allow users to have access to network after hours, on weekends and when travelling. The executive staff is concerned about the security risks associated with setting up a VPN and allowing remote access.
You have been tasked with documenting how VPNs are secure traffic and connections.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545442.aspx
You are an administrator for a company named Widgets N’ Things. The company has a domain named WNT.com. You have been tasked with designing ways to simplify securing computers, servers and user accounts. A colleague has suggested that you use security templates. What would be the advantages of using security templates? What would be the disadvantages of using security templates?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816585
You are an IT Administrator for a company name Fauxcorp Incorporated. The company network consists of a domain named fauxcorp.com. Plans to expand the network are in the works. You have been tasked to design a DNS solution that will be efficient as the company grows. Fauxcorp Incorporated currently has a branch office that has 8 users, but plans to expand to have 70+ users over the next year at that particular location.
Currently the branch office has no DNS servers, but upper management is open to the idea of putting a DNS server at that location.
What type of zone could the DNS server have that would increase efficiency as the branch office expands (There is more than one feasible solution)?
You may also use any information you find at Microsoft Technet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772774.aspx
In your classroom exercise at Computertraining.com you worked to install and configure a DHCP server on your network. As you know from lecture, a DHCP server must be authorized in Active Directory before it can begin to assign IP addresses. What purpose does authorization serve? Once your DHCP server was authorized, you were able to hand out IP addresses. As you saw in the lab, a blue exclamation point appears on a scope when it has exhausted is available IP addresses. Is it possible to increase the useable amount of IP addresses in an existing scope? Explain your answer. You may use your class materials as well as the internet to answer.
In your class at Computertraining.com we recently discussed the topic of Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 (WSUS 3.0 SP1). Using the information provided in the following scenario, along with what you have learned in class, describe how you as an administrator would implement an updating stategy using WSUS.
Network:
Administration:
Company:
You may also use any information you can find on Microsoft’s WSUS home page :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx
In the following post you will read about an admin who is having trouble understanding how he should nest groups in order to grant users in one domain access to a resource in a different domain. The first scenario he describes is viable, and will work, but does not follow Microsoft’s best practices. In what way could the first scenario be improved? The second scenario is closer to Microsoft’s best practices, but is incorrect in its structure. What would be the correct nesting structure based on the information he provides? Finally, the assisting user has a much stronger grasp on nesting principals, and has quoted a post that he stated helped him gain his level of understanding. The post in its entirety is very good, but contains a minor error in his explaination of the group scopes. Using knowledge gained from textbooks, lecture and labs at Computertraining.com, locate and define the error and explain why it is a minor, not a major flaw.
http://www.sadikhov.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t45207.html
Recently at Computertraining.com, we discussed Active Directory, Organizational Units (OUs) and, the objects that represent the users and computers in our local and domain environments. In your own words, descibe the differences, as well as the situations which we would use, local and domain user accounts. Why do we have accounts for computers that belong to our domain, and is it nessecary? List and briefly describe 3 ways we can create user and computer objects in our Acitve Directory. Describe some of the conventions we can use to name the OUs in our Active Directory heirarchy. What is the Microsoft recommended depth of ‘layering’ for an OU structure? Do you agree?
In the following link, an admin of sorts is having problems with the syntax for the DSADD command line tool. Can you determine the errors in his terminology? Based upon the information in the link, what would be the exact syntax for the DN (Distinguished Name) the troubled admin should use to get the -memberof switch to work in his DSADD command?
