Active Directory Basics

• 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