Answers to Review Questions
1. B. The only two options listed that are directory services are NTDS and NDS. Of those two, the only one that is an X.500-compliant directory service is NDS.
2. A, B, D. All of the NOSes listed, except NetWare 4, have a graphical interface. UNIX has X Window, NetWare 5 has the Graphical Java Console, and Windows Server uses a Windowsbased interface.
3. B. Novell Client for Windows is Novell’s NetWare client for the Windows platform, including Windows 98. It enables a Windows 98 machine to access the full range of NetWare (and NDS)
services.
4. B, C. Novell Client for Windows (as previously mentioned) and Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks will allow the station to access Windows servers.
5. B. Windows Server uses Active Directory to store the names of users and groups, but it uses Kerberos during the authentication process to verify the authenticity of those users.
6. C. Although all of the listed utilities are administration utilities of some type, the name of the administration program for modifying NDS objects in NetWare 4 and above is NetWare
Administrator.
7. B. Typefull distinguished names always have leading periods and call out the object types with their appropriate prefixes (CN=, OU=, etc.).
8. B. Active Directory (AD) is the directory service used by default by Windows Server 2003.
9. A. Novell Directory Services (NDS) is the default directory service used by NetWare 4 and later.
10. A, B, C, D. All the operating systems listed are available in one form or another for the Intel platform.
11. A. Typeless distinguished names still include the leading period, but without the object type identifiers (CN=, OU=, etc.).
12. B, C. There are two main methods users can use to interact with UNIX: through a text-based command line and through a graphical interface.
13. B. An object’s context is the complete name of all the containers in which it resides, so Admin.ACME is the only correct response.
14. B, C, D. The only platforms that NDS runs on natively are NetWare 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x. NDS will not run natively on NetWare 3.x.
15. B. There is no such thing as Windows XP Server. Windows XP is a desktop operating system.
16. D. Samba is the technology that allows Mac OS X Server to respond to Windows SMB network calls and will make a Mac appear as another Windows server.
17. D. Apple’s own directory, similar to NDS and Active Directory, is known as Open Directory.
18. B. The schema defines what types of objects can exist in a directory.
19. B. Although all of the listed distributions have ports to the Intel platform, the Slackware distribution was developed specifically for the Intel platform.
20. B. The main command-line interface in UNIX is known as a shell.
