MCTS 70-640 Communication & Stakeholder Relations 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A domain administrator needs to notify all department heads when group policy changes are applied. Which tool provides the most structured reporting of GPO application results to share with stakeholders?
- Event Viewer
- Group Policy Results (GPResult) (Correct answer)
- Active Directory Users and Computers
- Performance Monitor
Correct answer: Group Policy Results (GPResult)
GPResult generates a detailed HTML or XML report of applied Group Policy Objects, making it ideal for sharing policy application status with stakeholders.
Question 2: Your organization requires that all Active Directory schema changes be communicated to the helpdesk team before implementation. Which AD role is responsible for controlling and communicating schema modifications?
- Infrastructure Master
- Schema Master (Correct answer)
- PDC Emulator
- RID Master
Correct answer: Schema Master
The Schema Master FSMO role holder is the only DC that can write changes to the AD schema, making it the central point for communicating schema change requests.
Question 3: An administrator wants to alert the network team automatically when AD replication fails between sites. Which Windows feature should be configured to send these notifications?
- Windows Firewall alerts
- Active Directory replication monitoring via SMTP notifications in Event Viewer subscriptions (Correct answer)
- DFS-N referral logging
- SNMP traps via Windows SNMP Service
Correct answer: Active Directory replication monitoring via SMTP notifications in Event Viewer subscriptions
Event Viewer subscriptions can be configured to collect replication failure events and forward them, enabling automated notification to the network team.
Question 4: A project manager asks you to document which users have access to a specific shared resource in AD. Which tool best generates this access report for stakeholder review?
- Nltest.exe
- Active Directory Administrative Center with dynamic access control reporting (Correct answer)
- Netdom.exe
- Dcdiag.exe
Correct answer: Active Directory Administrative Center with dynamic access control reporting
Active Directory Administrative Center with Dynamic Access Control provides access and permission reporting that can be shared with project managers and auditors.
Question 5: Management wants a weekly summary of failed logon attempts across the domain. Which audit policy category must be enabled to collect this data for the report?
- Audit Object Access
- Audit Account Logon Events (Correct answer)
- Audit Policy Change
- Audit System Events
Correct answer: Audit Account Logon Events
Enabling 'Audit Account Logon Events' captures authentication attempts on domain controllers, providing the data needed for failed logon summary reports.
Question 6: A stakeholder requests confirmation that all domain controllers are communicating properly after a network change. Which command-line tool provides a comprehensive DC health and connectivity report?
- Ipconfig /all
- Dcdiag /test:replications /v (Correct answer)
- Netstat -an
- Ping /a
Correct answer: Dcdiag /test:replications /v
Dcdiag with the replications test and verbose switch performs comprehensive AD replication health checks and outputs a detailed report suitable for stakeholder review.
Question 7: During an AD migration project, the change management board requires weekly status updates on object migration progress. Which approach best provides accurate counts of migrated objects?
- Manually counting objects in ADUC
- Using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) logs and reports (Correct answer)
- Running ping sweeps on migrated computers
- Reviewing DHCP lease logs
Correct answer: Using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) logs and reports
ADMT generates detailed migration logs and reports that document how many users, computers, and groups have been successfully migrated, supporting change board communications.
MCTS 70-640 Communication & Stakeholder Relations 2
A domain administrator needs to notify all department heads when group policy changes are applied.
Which tool provides the most structured reporting of GPO application results to share with stakeholders?