Active Directory / Intermediate

Active Directory โ€” Intermediate

Reason about policy, delegation, replication, sites, SYSVOL, and cross-boundary access.

6 lessons ยท No account required

What you will learn

  • Explain the levelโ€™s authority, data, and evidence boundaries.
  • Solve worked cases using synthetic models without live directory operations.

  1. Group Policy scope and processing

    Explain why a linked GPO may or may not affect a particular user or computer, and distinguish a simplified precedence model from resultant policy evidence.

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  2. Delegation and administrative boundaries

    Delegate a narrow task over an explicit object scope, distinguish data administration from service control, and verify denied actions as carefully as allowed ones.

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  3. Replication, partitions, and operation masters

    Reason about replicated naming contexts and specialized operation roles without treating every controller as one master copy or forcing synchronization.

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  4. Sites, subnets, and replication topology

    Model locality from declared network prefixes and distinguish logical site links from the physical network, controller scope, and replication health.

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  5. SYSVOL, DFSR, and policy consistency

    Distinguish directory replication from policy-file replication, correlate both halves of a GPO, and avoid improvised authoritative recovery.

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  6. Trusts and cross-domain access

    Describe who accepts whose identities, keep resource permission separate, and review cross-forest boundaries without creating or weakening a trust.

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