Exam Essentials

Understand the purpose of Group Policy.

Systems administrators use Group Policy to enforce granular permissions for users in an Active Directory environment.

Understand user and computer settings.

Certain Group Policy settings may apply to users, computers, or both. Computer settings affect all users that access the machines to which the policy applies. User settings affect users, regardless of which machines they log on to.

Know the interactions between Group Policy objects and Active Directory.

GPOs can be linked to Active Directory objects. This link determines to which objects the policies apply.

Understand filtering and inheritance interactions between GPOs.

For ease of administration, GPOs can interact via inheritance and ...

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