Active Directory Basics

Prompts and answers

• In a Windows domain, credentials are stored in a centralised repository called...
  Active Directory
• The server in charge of running the Active Directory services is called...
  Domain Controller
• Which group normally administrates all computers and resources in a domain?
  Domain Admins
• What would be the name of the machine account associated with a machine named TOM-PC?
  TOM-PC$
• Suppose our company creates a new department for Quality Assurance. What type of containers should we use to group all Quality Assurance users so that policies can be applied consistently to them?
  Organizational Units
• What was the flag found on Sophie's desktop?
  THM{thanks_for_contacting_support}
• The process of granting privileges to a user over some OU or other AD Object is called...
  delegation
• After organising the available computers, how many ended up in the Workstations OU?
  7
• Is it recommendable to create separate OUs for Servers and Workstations? (yay/nay)
  yay
• What is the name of the network share used to distribute GPOs to domain machines?
  sysvol
• Can a GPO be used to apply settings to users and computers? (yay/nay)
  yay
• Will a current version of Windows use NetNTLM as the preferred authentication protocol by default? (yay/nay)
  nay
• When referring to Kerberos, what type of ticket allows us to request further tickets known as TGS?
  Ticket Granting Ticket
• When using NetNTLM, is a user's password transmitted over the network at any point? (yay/nay)
  nay
• What is a group of Windows domains that share the same namespace called?
  Tree
• What should be configured between two domains for a user in Domain A to access a resource in Domain B?
  A Trust Relationship