What does placing a GPO at the root of the domain affect?

What does placing a GPO at the root of the domain affect?

• A. Everything below it
• B. Only the root domain
• C. Everything above it
• D. It has no effect until linked

Answer: (A)

GPOs linked at the domain root apply to every object inside that domain because policy settings cascade from higher-level containers to lower ones. When you place a GPO at the root, it becomes part of the baseline configuration for all users and computers in the domain, and it will affect everything below it unless inheritance is blocked or overridden by other GPOs or filtering. In other words, it governs all objects in the domain tree, not only those at the root. It doesn't affect nothing or only the root, and it does take effect once linked to the domain root.

GPOs linked at the domain root apply to every object inside that domain because policy settings cascade from higher-level containers to lower ones. When you place a GPO at the root, it becomes part of the baseline configuration for all users and computers in the domain, and it will affect everything below it unless inheritance is blocked or overridden by other GPOs or filtering. In other words, it governs all objects in the domain tree, not only those at the root. It doesn't affect nothing or only the root, and it does take effect once linked to the domain root.