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Which Active Directory infrastructure should you recommend?

Your company has a main office and a branch office. The main office contains 2,000 users.
The branch office contains 800 users. Each office contains three IP subnets.
The company plans to deploy an Active Directory forest.
You need to recommend an Active Directory infrastructure to meet the following
requirements:
Ensure that the users are authenticated by using a domain controller in their respective
office.
Minimize the amount of Active Directory replication traffic between the offices.
Which Active Directory infrastructure should you recommend?
More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.

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A.
Two domains and one site

B.
Two domains and two sites

C.
One domain and two sites

D.
One domain and six sites

Explanation:
To minimize the amount of replication traffic, create 2 sites.
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27 Comments on “Which Active Directory infrastructure should you recommend?

  1. James L says:

    Agree with Billy

    One domain 2 sites and the requirement to authenticate the user in their own site will mean there is a DC in each site (From the same domain) and this will incur all the replication traffic associated with that design.

    2 domains 2 sites covers the local authentication requirements by having a local DC for your domain in site 1 and a local DC for the other domain in site 2
    Replication traffic is minimised as certain partitions are domain specific and will not need to replicate across the link and also the GC for each domain will only replicate the PAS between sites and not the entire GC

    So to me the answer is B




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  2. Ricky says:

    Agree with Billy too. Single domain with 2 sites. There’s no reason to create a second domain. Single forest single domain is always the best design if there are no segregation requirements.

    Create 2 sites, add the 3 subnets to the respective sites and this will ensure authentication on the DC at the respective site. Control the replication time in the site settings and that’s it.

    Creating another domain adds phantom information to the replication and adds more PAS overhead to your GC’s for no reason.




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  3. ryan says:

    this is stupid, i can see how both answers are right, how can MSFT really think this is a good question.

    If someone actually things about in the real world, of course you would only do 1 domain, how much replication traffic would there be 10 meg a day, MAYBE

    but if you think about satisfying the question 2 domains would further minimize the traffic.

    stupid stupid stupid

    Im going 2 domains because its a test question




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