Question 1 of 5
You are the network administrator for your company. Your network consists of two Active Directory domains:
research.westsim.local and sales.westsim.local.
Your company has two sites: Dallas and Houston . Each site has two domain controllers, with one domain
controller for each domain.
Users in Houston who are members of the sales.westsim.local domain report slow performance when
logging in and accessing files in Dallas. Users in Dallas do not report any problems logging in and accessing
local resources. You want all users in Houston to experience adequate log on and resource access response
time .
What should you do?
@ Configure one of the domain controllers in Houston to be a global catalog server.
0 Enable universal group membership caching in Houston.
0 Increase the replication frequency between the two sites.
0 Decrease the site link cost between the two sites.
Explanation
Configure one of the domain controllers in Houston to be a global catalog server. A global catalog server needs to be
contacted during logon, so having a local global catalog server will speed up response time. A global catalog server also
maintains universal group membership (apparently being used on the network described in the question). Group
membership needs to be consulted during resource access, so this is another reason why having a local global catalog
server will speed up response time.
Enabling universal group membership caching would not help in this situation because the domain in question is a
Windows 2000 Native mode domain. The domain must be in Windows Server 2003 functional level for universal group
membership caching to take effect. Changing the replication frequency or modifying the site link cost will not affect logon
response. Logon is slow because the logon requests must cross the WAN link. Using a global catalog server places the
global catalog in the local site.
Objectives
Objectives for MS 70-41 0:
501 Install domain controllers
References
LabSim for Windows Server Pro: Install and Configure, Section 4.2.
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