A new IT administrator is tasked with managing Active Directory for their company. The administrator needs to understand the types of objects in the tree and the properties of these objects.

Which of the following BEST describes the Active Directory component that the new administrator needs to understand?

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The administrator needs to understand the forest, as it is the highest level of the organization hierarchy.

The administrator needs to understand the organizational unit, as it subdivides and organizes network resources within a domain.

The administrator needs to understand the domain controller, as it manages the Active Directory database.

The administrator needs to understand the replication process, as it copies changes to Active Directory between the domain controllers.

The administrator needs to understand the schema, as it identifies the object classes and their attributes in the tree.