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| wbafrank 2002-07-13, 7:19 am |
|  And the weekend poser is ....
Q11. Alison has a lab of 5 Windows 2000 Professional Workstations which are members of the Physics Domain at her University. There are 25 postgraduate students that use this lab who are members of the postgrad OU in this domain.
Each Windows 2000 Professional Workstation is configured with a 5 Gigabyte Data Drive. The students often store research data from machines that are out in the laboratory which they are running experiments on, however this data is rather volumous and quite often Alison is called in to delete old data so that new data could be saved.
Alison decides to institute quotas, allowing each student to store a maximum of 300 megabytes of data on any individual 5 Gigabyte Data Drive.
Which of the following methods should Alison use to institute this policy?
A. Create a Domain Level Quota GPO and apply it to the postgrad OU. Specify a quota maximum of 300 megabytes of data.
B. Create a new global group called postgrad-quota. Add each of the 25 postgraduate students to this group. Go to the QUOTA tab on each Workstation's 5 Gig Data Drive and select the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Using the Quota Entries button add the postgrad-quota group and set a maximum quota of 300 megabytes of data.
C. Create a new local group on each Workstation called postgrad-quota. Add each of the 25 postgraduate students domain accounts to this local group. Go to the QUOTA tab on each Workstation's 5 Gig Data Drive and select the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Using the Quota Entries button add the postgrad-quota local group and set a maximum quota of 300 megabytes of data.
D. On one workstation go to the QUOTA tab of the 5 Gig Data Drive and go to the Quota Entries Menu after selecting the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Select "new quota entry" and add each of the 25 postgraduate domain accounts. Specify a maximum quota of 300 megabytes. Then select all 25 accounts and go to the Quota menu and select EXPORT. Export the Quota settings to a diskette. Go to the remaining 4 workstations, go to the QUOTA tab of the 5 Gig Data Drive and go to the Quota Entries Menu after selecting the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. From the Quota Entries Menu, import the Quota settings from the file on the diskette.
Good Luck .... see you Monday for the answer!! | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-07-13, 1:55 pm |
| Going with ( B )
Now should go do research on it. | |
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| I am selecting "C"
I think you need to set Disk Quotas to each
Workstation.
See you...
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| Deja-vue 2002-07-14, 10:18 pm |
| "B" looks good to me.
Alison should also check the "enforce Quota" button. | |
| jsrockford 2002-07-15, 1:40 am |
| This is a tricky one! At first I thought it was 'B' or 'C' but then I looked at the GPO angle and saw that it could be done...the drawback, however, is that it would create a 300MB quota for the Postgrad OU on ALL machines in the domain that have disk quotas enabled...which might come back to bite you later. And the problem with 'B' or 'C' is that neither can be done. Quotas can only be applied to ALL USERS or INDIVIDUAL USERS per disk NOT Groups. So that leaves 'D' which is the hardest to administer but provides the most control.
ANSWER: D
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"Yes, that's my final answer."
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| wbafrank 2002-07-15, 3:56 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by wbafrank
And the weekend poser is ....
Q11. Alison has a lab of 5 Windows 2000 Professional Workstations which are members of the Physics Domain at her University. There are 25 postgraduate students that use this lab who are members of the postgrad OU in this domain. Each Windows 2000 Professional Workstation is configured with a 5 Gigabyte Data Drive. The students often store research data from machines that are out in the laboratory which they are running experiments on, however this data is rather volumous and quite often Alison is called in to delete old data so that new data could be saved. Alison decides to institute quotas, allowing each student to store a maximum of 300 megabytes of data on any individual 5 Gigabyte Data Drive. Which of the following methods should Alison use to institute this policy?
A. Create a Domain Level Quota GPO and apply it to the postgrad OU. Specify a quota maximum of 300 megabytes of data.
B. Create a new global group called postgrad-quota. Add each of the 25 postgraduate students to this group. Go to the QUOTA tab on each Workstation's 5 Gig Data Drive and select the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Using the Quota Entries button add the postgrad-quota group and set a maximum quota of 300 megabytes of data.
C. Create a new local group on each Workstation called postgrad-quota. Add each of the 25 postgraduate students domain accounts to this local group. Go to the QUOTA tab on each Workstation's 5 Gig Data Drive and select the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Using the Quota Entries button add the postgrad-quota local group and set a maximum quota of 300 megabytes of data.
D. On one workstation go to the QUOTA tab of the 5 Gig Data Drive and go to the Quota Entries Menu after selecting the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. Select "new quota entry" and add each of the 25 postgraduate domain accounts. Specify a maximum quota of 300 megabytes. Then select all 25 accounts and go to the Quota menu and select EXPORT. Export the Quota settings to a diskette. Go to the remaining 4 workstations, go to the QUOTA tab of the 5 Gig Data Drive and go to the Quota Entries Menu after selecting the "Enable Quota Management" checkbox. From the Quota Entries Menu, import the Quota settings from the file on the diskette.
And the answer is ....
Correct Answer: D
A few things to be noted here. You can't apply quotas through GPOs. You also can't use Groups in applying Quotas (neither Local nor Global). Quotas can only be applied to users.
The simplest way to apply similar quota settings across multiple computers is to set up one computer with the settings you like and then export them to a file. You can them import these quota settings on other computers. |
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