You work as a desktop support technician at Domain.com. The Domain.com network consists of a single Active Directory domain named Domain.com. All servers on the Domain.com network run Windows 2000 Server and all client computers run Windows XP Professional.
Domain.com employs 30 new sales representatives that will visit Domain.com’s major customers on a regular basis. You issue the new sales representatives with new Windows XP Professional portable computers. The new sales representatives will require access to inventory and pricing documents when they visit Domain.com’s customers. The inventory and pricing documents are stored in a shared folder named SalesDocs. The SalesDocs folder is hosted on a file server named Certkiller -SR14. The new sales representatives must be able to open the files in the SalesDocs folder while they are offline, and must be able to make changes to those files at all times. You need to provide the sales representatives with the required functionality.
What should you do?
A.
Enable offline files on the portable computers and enable file caching on the SalesDocs folder.
B.
Enable file caching on the SalesDocs folder and reinitialize the offline folders cache on the portable computers.
C.
Enable offline files on Certkiller -SR14 and reinitialize the offline folders cache on the portable computers.
D.
Assign sales representative the Allow – Modify permissions to the SalesDocs folder.
Explanation:
To allow the sales representatives to have offline access to the SalesDocs folder, you must enable offline files on the portable computers and enable file caching on the SalesDocs folder.
Incorrect Answers:
C: Offline files must be enabled on the portable computers, not the file server. Also, reinitializing the offline folders cache on the portable computers will not allow the sales representatives access to offline files. You need to enable offline files on their portable computers.
D: NTFS permissions are used to control network access to files. It will not allow the users offline access to those files.
Reference:
Lisa Donald & James Chellis, MCSA/MCSE: Windows XP Professional Study Guide, Third Edition, Sybex, Alameda, 2005, p. 366.