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*

Congratulations to Cindy Chen, a systems analyst from Washington, DC, and Don Duvall of Mokena, Illinois. Cindy won first prize of $100 for correctly answering the June Reader Challenge. Don won second prize of a copy of Managing Windows NT Logons (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000).

JUNE WINNERS

Problem
It's June, so my thoughts turn to warm evenings, blooming azalea bushes, and of course, TechEd. Be sure to visit the Windows 2000 Magazine booth and take the Windows 2000 Magazine quiz. It doesn't matter whether you win a prize—what counts is the fun. (Okay, the prizes do count, and winning certainly adds to the fun.)

If you can't make it to TechEd, you can have some fun right here. This month's Reader Challenge is a Windows 2000 Magazine tech show quiz. You must answer all questions correctly to win.

1. The Windows 2000 (Win2K) boot process doesn't involve which of the following programs?
   1. Ntdetect.com
   2. Winrep.exe
   3. Hal.dll
   4. NT Loader (NTLDR)
2. Which MS-DOS command does Win2K support?
   1. Assign
   2. Backup
   3. Append
   4. Deltree
3. Win2K installation files must be in which of the following locations to use Remote Installation Services (RIS)?
   1. Any logical or physical drive, except the drive that you installed RIS on
   2. A drive on a separate computer running Windows 2000 Server (Win2K Server)
   3. A folder on the same drive that is running RIS
   4. Any of the above locations

Solution

B2. C3. A