Lesson 5 - Manage User Accounts

Question 1

What are the types of user accounts in macOS Sierra? How are they different?

Answer 1

Standard is the default account type, administrative users can make changes to the system, a guest user doesn’t require a password, and sharing-only users can access only shared files.

Question 2

What are some security risks associated with each user account type?

Answer 2

Standard user accounts are very secure, assuming they have strong passwords. Administrative users can make changes that may negatively affect the Mac or other user accounts. A guest user could fill shared folders with unwanted files. Sharing-only users are generally very secure as long as they don’t have too much access to other user’s items.

Question 3

Which two local user password types are supported by macOS Sierra?

Answer 3

In macOS Sierra, the default local user account requires a local account password. macOS Sierra supports local accounts that already use an Apple ID password, but you can’t create new accounts that use an Apple ID password.

Question 4

What are account attributes?

Answer 4

Account attributes are the individual pieces of information used to define a user account. Examples include full name, account name, user ID, universally unique ID (UUID), group, and home folder.

Question 5

How can you limit a user account from having full access to all apps?

Answer 5

You can use Parental Controls to limit user account access to apps. Examples of limitations include enforcing a simple Finder, limiting apps and widgets, limiting App Store content, setting time limits, and filtering content for several apps that are included in macOS Sierra.

Question 6

What types of resource contention issues can occur when fast user switching is enabled?

Answer 6

Resource contention occurs when fast user switching is enabled and a user tries to access an item that another user has open in the background. Document contention occurs when a user attempts to open a document that another user has already opened. Peripheral contention occurs when a user attempts to access a peripheral that’s already in use by another user’s open app. App contention occurs when a second user attempts to access an app that is designed to run only once on a system.

Question 7

Which storage-related security risk can occur when fast user switching is enabled?

Answer 7

When fast user switching is enabled, all users are allowed to see other users’ locally connected disks.