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70-648 · Question #38

Your company has an Active Directory domain that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. The Sales OU contains an OU for Computers, an OU for Groups, and an OU for Users. You perform nightly backups. An…

The correct answer is B. Perform an authoritative restore of the Groups OU. An authoritative restore will overwrite the existing copy of the Groups OU. A non-authoritative restore would get deleted again, as the newer revision of the AD database does not have the OU! We do not want to restore the Sales OU, as that also contains a Computers OU and Users…

Configuring Active Directory Infrastructure

Question

Your company has an Active Directory domain that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. The Sales OU contains an OU for Computers, an OU for Groups, and an OU for Users. You perform nightly backups. An administrator deletes the Groups OU. You need to restore the Groups OU without affecting users and computers in the Sales OU. What should you do?

Options

  • APerform an authoritative restore of the Sales OU.
  • BPerform an authoritative restore of the Groups OU.
  • CPerform a non-authoritative restore of the Groups OU.
  • DPerform a non-authoritative restore of the Sales OU.

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  • B
    85% (17)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

An authoritative restore will overwrite the existing copy of the Groups OU. A non-authoritative restore would get deleted again, as the newer revision of the AD database does not have the OU! We do not want to restore the Sales OU, as that also contains a Computers OU and Users OU that could be affected.

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#authoritative restore#OU recovery#ntdsutil#Active Directory backup

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