Domain framework
D06 · Workforce & Directory Identity
Enterprise employee identities, directory infrastructure, workstation authentication, and device identity.
Key knowledge areas
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- Microsoft Entra ID
- LDAP Directory Services
- Workforce Identity
- Hybrid Identity
- Directory Synchronization
- Windows Workstation Logon
- macOS Authentication
- Domain Join / Entra Join / Hybrid Join
- Device Identity and Registration
- Cached Credentials and Offline Authentication
- Group Policy
- Microsoft Intune
- Mobile Device Management (MDM)
- Workforce SSO
- Device Trust and Compliance
Career alignment
- TRACK A — Identity Platform & CIAM Engineering: Supporting domain. View track
- TRACK B — Enterprise IAM / PAM / IGA Engineering: Core domain. View track
Suggested learning outcomes
- Trace enterprise workstation sign-in and device identity.
- Analyze directory and hybrid identity integration.
These prompts are editorial learning aids retained from the earlier textbook. They are not additional requirements in v0.4.
Connected questions
Build competency evidence
Explain a mechanism, analyze an implementation or failure, build a tested lab, and justify an architecture. Keep shared technical explanations in the Knowledge Base and link to them from research.
Domain name, scope, knowledge areas and representative technologies follow the authoritative Framework v0.4. Questions may span multiple domains.