Window and AD Fundamentals: Active Directory Basics (TryHackMe)

In this article, I will write a write-up for Windows Fundamentals 3 that covers Windows Domains, Active Directory, Managing Users in AD, Managing Computers in AD, Group Policies, and Authentication Methods, together with Trees, Forests and Trusts.

1. In a Windows domain, credentials are stored in a centralized repository called... Active Directory

2. The server in charge of running the Active Directory services is called... Domain Controller

3. Which group normally administrates all computers and resources in a domain? Domain Admins

4. What would be the name of the machine account associated with a machine named TOM-PC? TOM-PC$

5. Suppose our company creates a new department for Quality Assurance. What type of containers should we use to group all Quality Assurance users so that policies can be applied consistently to them? Organizational Units

6. What was the flag found on Sophie's desktop? THM{thanks_for_contacting_support}

7. The process of granting privileges to a user over some OU or other AD Object is called... delegation

8. After organising the available computers, how many ended up in the Workstations OU? 7

when we remove the SRV (which is 3) we remain with 7

9. Is it recommendable to create separate OUs for Servers and Workstations? (yay/nay) yay

10. What is the name of the network share used to distribute GPOs to domain machines? sysvol

11. Can a GPO be used to apply settings to users and computers? (yay/nay) yay

12. Will a current version of Windows use NetNTLM as the preferred authentication protocol by default? (yay/nay) nay

13. When referring to Kerberos, what type of ticket allows us to request further tickets known as TGS? Ticket Granting Ticket

14. When using NetNTLM, is a user's password transmitted over the network at any point? (yay/nay) nay

15. What is a group of Windows domains that share the same namespace called? Tree

16. What should be configured between two domains for a user in Domain A to access a resource in Domain B? A Trust Relationship

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