70-296 Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for a W2K MCSE Practice Exams

Demo Question 2.

You work as the enterprise administrator at EliteCertify.com. The EliteCertify.com network consists of a two Active Directory domains named EliteCertify.com and testlab.com. The functional level of both these domains is set at Windows Server 2003. EliteCertify.com has its headquarters in Chicago and a branch office in Dallas and each office represents a domain. Each of these offices has two locations. Each of these locations has been configured as an Active Directory site. Certificate services have been deployed on the network. The exhibit below illustrates the network structure. Exhibit: 1. ChicagoA andChicagoB is located in the forest root domain named EliteCertify.com 2. MiamiA and MiamiB is located in the east.testing.com domain 3. The connection between ChicagoB and MiamiA is an unreliable connection. Your job description includes the implementation of network design by means of creating sites, site links, and site link bridges. You have been instructed to ensure that the Active Directory database is regularly updated over the unreliable link between these two sites. To this end you need to configure replication between ChicagoB and MiamiA What should you do?

A. An SMTP site link between ChicagoB and MiamiA should be created.
B. An SMTP site link bridge between ChicagoB and MiamiA should be created.
C. An IP site link between ChicagoB and MiamiA should be created.
D. An IP site link bridge between ChicagoB and MiamiA should be created.


Display Answer

Answer: A

Explanation: To enable replication to occur you need to create at least one site link. Replication between sites can occur with RPC over IP transport (synchronously) or with SMTP over IP (asynchronously). SMTP replication functionality is limited and requires an enterprise certificate authority (CA. . SMTP can only replicate configuration, schema, and application directory partitions. It does not support the replication of domain directory partitions. It is mentioned in the question that there is an unreliable connection between ChicagoB and MiamiA, thus a SMTP would be the appropriate site link between the two sites. Incorrect answers: B. A site link bridge involves a set of site links using a transport. And it also corresponds to a router or set of routers in an IP network. No mention is made of existing site links in the question. Thus this option is invalid. C. The link should be an SMTP link rather than an IP link between the two sites. You could have done this but the link between the two sites is unreliable. D. A site link bridge involves a set of site links using a transport. And it also corresponds to a router or set of routers in an IP network. No mention is made of existing site links in the question. Thus this option is invalid.