Active Directory Interview Questions
Active Directory Interview Questions
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What is LDAP?
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDAP is the industry standard directory
access protocol, making Active
Directory widely accessible to
management and query applications.
Active Directory supports LDAPv3 and
LDAPv2.
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What is REPLMON?
The Microsoft definition of the Replmon
tool is as follows; This GUI tool enables
administrators to view the low-level
status of Active Directory replication,
force synchronization between domain
controllers, view the topology in a
graphical format, and monitor the status
and performance of domain controller
replication.
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What is ADSIEDIT ?
ADSIEDIT :ADSIEdit is a Microsoft
Management Console (MMC) snap-in that
acts as a low-level editor for Active
Directory. It is a Graphical User Interface
(GUI) tool. Network administrators can
use it for common administrative tasks
such as adding, deleting, and moving
objects with a directory service. The
attributes for each object can be edited or
deleted by using this tool. ADSIEdit uses
the ADSI application programming
interfaces (APIs) to access Active
Directory. The following are the required
files for using this tool: ADSIEDIT.DLL
ADSIEDIT.
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What is REPADMIN?
This command-line tool assists
administrators in diagnosing
replication problems between
Windows domain
controllers.Administrators can use
Repadmin to view the replication
topology (sometimes referred to as
RepsFrom and RepsTo) as seen from
the perspective of each domain
controller. In addition, Repadmin can
be used to manually create the
replication topology (although in
normal practice this should not be
necessary), to force replication events
between domain controllers, and to
view both the replication metadata and
up-to-dateness vectors.
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