Reader Challenge

One of the biggest challenges you face when you migrate your systems to Windows 2000 is understanding and managing Active Directory (AD). You need to work with AD a long time to become an expert, but you'll find that you pick up little nuggets of information almost subliminally. To test your level of AD nugget retention, take the following quiz about AD replication among domain controllers. (Answers appear on page 30.)

Questions

1. Which of the following tools can you use to set AD replication frequency?
   1. Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in
   2. Computer Management MMC snap-in
   3. Active Directory Sites and Services MMC snap-in
   4. Any of the above
   
   
   
2. The minimum number of minutes you can set between scheduled replications is
   1. 5
   2. 15
   3. 20
   4. 30
   
   
   
3. Which of the following events triggers Urgent Replication (automatic immediate replication regardless of the next scheduled replication process)?
   1. A change in domain password policies
   2. A change in a domain controller's computer name
   3. Creation of a new site object in the domain
   4. A locked-out user account
   5. None of the above
   
   
   
4. You can manually initiate AD replication.
   1. True
   2. False*