1) What is Active Directory

2) What are FSMO Roles? Explain Each Role

3) What is a Global Catalog
4) What are Group Policies
5) What is the difference between a Domain and Workgroup
6) What is the relationship between tree and a forest
7) What is the file name of Active directory and where is it stored
8) What are the different types of backups explain them
9) Where is system State and what does it contain
10) What is the difference between NTFS and FAT file system
11) What is a logical Partition and Physical Partition in Active Directory
12) How do you install Active Directory
13) Can Active Directory be uninstalled? if yes how? if no why
14) What is DNS?
15) what router does, which protocol it uses
OSI layer & protocols in each layer
16) what is ping (packet internet gropher) & its protocol (ICMP) -- ping is
used to check connectivity to an IP
17) wht r the boot options for a PC. list them & which option do we use &
when (the option we get by pressing F8 - safe mode , safe mode with
networking .. 7 so on.)
18) wht is LAN
19) diff betn switch & hub & router, layers on which they work
20) boot files
21) What are the domain functional level in Windows Server 2003?
22) What are the forest functional level in Windows Server 2003?
23) How we can raise domain functional & forest functional level in Windows Server 2003?
24) In which domain functional level, we can rename domain name?
25) What Are Resource Records?
26) What are the benefits of using Windows 2003 DNS when using AD-integrated zones?
If your DNS topology includes Active Directory, use Active Directory–integrated zones. Active Directory–

integrated zones enable you to store zone data in the Active Directory database. Zone information about any

primary DNS server within an Active Directory– integrated zone is always replicated.

Because DNS replication is single-master, a primary DNS server in a standard primary DNS zone can be a

single point of failure. In an Active Directory–integrated zone, a primary DNS server cannot be a single point of

failure because Active Directory uses multimaster replication. Updates that are made to any domain controller

are replicated to all domain controllers and the zone information about any primary DNS server within an Active

Directory–integrated zone is always replicated. Active Directory–integrated zones:

Enable you to secure zones by using secure dynamic update.
Provide increased fault tolerance. Every Active Directory–integrated zone can be replicated to all domain

controllers within the Active Directory domain or forest. All DNS servers running on these domain controllers

can act as primary servers for the zone and accept dynamic updates.
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Enable replication that propagates changed data only, compresses replicated data, and
reduces network traffic.

If you have an Active Directory infrastructure, you can only use Active Directory–integrated zones on Active

Directory domain controllers. If you are using Active Directory–integrated zones, you must decide whether or

not to store Active Directory–integrated zones in the application directory partition.

You can combine Active Directory–integrated zones and file-based zones in the same design. For example, if

the DNS server that is authoritative for the private root zone is running on an operating system other than

Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000, it cannot act as an Active Directory domain controller. Therefore, you

must use file-based zones on that server. However, you can delegate this zone to any domain controller

running either Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000.

27) What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?

28) How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
29) What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?
30) How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I
get user passwords from the AD database?
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