7.9. Exam Essentials

Understand the purpose of OUs.

OUs are used to create a hierarchical, logical organization for objects within an Active Directory domain.

Know the types of objects that can reside within OUs.

OUs can contain Active Directory User, Computer, Shared Folder, and other objects.

Understand how to use the Delegation of Control Wizard.

The Delegation of Control Wizard is used to assign specific permissions at the level of OUs.

Understand the concept of inheritance.

By default, child OUs inherit permissions and Group Policy assignments set for parent OUs. However, these settings can be overridden for more granular control of security.

Know groups and group strategies

We can use three groups in Native mode: domain local, global, ...

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