flexible single master operations

In the previous installment of this article, you learned about the two forest-wide FSMO roles. The remaining three roles are the Relative ID (RID) Master, Primary Domain Controller (PDC) Emulator and the Infrastructure Master. These roles are domain-wide.
The RID master is responsible for assigning strings of relative IDs to domain controllers within a domain. [...]

In the previous installment of this article, you learned that Windows Server 2003 supports five different FSMO roles. Two of those roles — the Schema Master and the Domain Naming Master — are forest-wide roles.
Having schema updates performed on any domain controller in the forest would result in inconsistencies. The schema master is the [...]

There is a very good chance that you will encounter at least one question pertaining to the Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) roles on one of your MCSE or MCSA exams. What it comes down to is that you need to know what the different roles are used for, whether they are forest wide or [...]