Lesson 07 Glossary for Manage Security

Question 1

An access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to an object.

Answer 1

Access Control List (ACL)

Question 2

The act of recording specific actions that are taken within a secure network operating system.

Auditing is often used by administrators as a security measure to provide for accountability.

Typical audited events include logon and logoff events as well as accessing files and objects.

Answer 2

Auditing

Question 3

Collection of Active Directory users used primarily for email distribution.

Distribution groups do not have security identifiers (SIDs).

Answer 3

Distribution group

Question 4

An Active Directory security or distribution group that can contain universal groups, global groups, or accounts from anywhere within an Active Directory forest.

Answer 4

Domain local group

Question 5

An Active Directory object that is used to assign and maintain security settings.

The primary security principals are users, groups, and computers.

Answer 5

Security principal