70-640 Easy way to remember what can be a member of what group

It's nearing exam time and on refresher, I'm finding I'm having trouble remembering what can be a member of what security group. Example, an external universal group into an internal domain group. A user in a child domain into a domain group.

I guess I could memorise a chart but wondered if anyone had an easy way to remember such as a mnemonic or memory map of some kind.

Some of the ones I have that I found quite useful:

PDNTSPA - OSI model
Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything (OR Please Do Not Throw Away Sausage Pizza, etc)
Phyiscal, Data, Transport, Network, Session, Presentation, Application

RIP DS - FSMO masters
Rest In Peace Domain Services

RID, Infrastructure, PDC (Domain FSMOs) - Domain naming, Schema (forest).

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netsysllc

I have never done well with mnemonics. I find it easier to write them down a million times.

Lunchbocks

netsysllc wrote: »

I have never done well with mnemonics. I find it easier to write them down a million times.

That's what I do. I take a blank piece of paper and write it over and over. The repetition helps me remember.