Users, groups, permissions

Question 1

What are users and groups for?

Answer 1

Used to authenticate and authorize, as well as categorize user accounts into groups and permissions.

Question 2

How do you add an account to a group using Local Users and groups?

Answer 2

Groups > Select group > Type username and add

Question 3

True for false: Local users and groups is used for networked computers on a domain

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What does ownership of a file entail?

Answer 4

Full control.

Question 5

What does ‘Take ownership’ mean?

Answer 5

It means an account can seize ownership of a file from another account.

Question 6

What does the “Change permission” permission mean?

Answer 6

The ability to change permissions of other users

Question 7

What does the NTFS permission “modify” entail?

Answer 7

Read, write, delete subfolders and files

Question 8

Folder 1 gives you full access to the documents within. You set a “Read only” permission on one of the files inside, but others can still modify the file. Why is that?

Answer 8

Permissions are cumulative: The file will adopt, or, inherit, the permissions of the folder it resides in.

Question 9

An admin wants to remove a file but the student has locked any one but their own account from modifying it. What do they do?

Answer 9

Take ownership

Question 10

You open the NTFS security settings but see the permissions are greyed out and you cannot change them. y do?

Answer 10

Inherited permissions from the folder above. This can be overwritten by ticking the “deny” box.

Question 11

What is permission propagation?

Answer 11

The act of permissions either staying with a file when it is moved/copied, or whether it inherits the permissions from the new folder.

Question 12

Yay or Neigh: A file copied to a different partition retains the same permissions?

Answer 12

Neigh

Question 13

Yay or Neigh: A folder moved to a different partition retains its permissions?

Answer 13

Neigh

Question 14

Yay or Neigh: A file moved to the same partition retains its permissions

Answer 14

Yay

Question 15

How do you share a file in windows?

Answer 15

Right click > Share > Select person > Select permissions

Question 16

Where do you find all of your computer’s shared folders in one place?

Answer 16

Computer management

Question 17

True or false: Windows home edition has no encryption options

Answer 17

True

Question 18

EFS can be found at minimum on what version of windows

Answer 18

Pro

Question 19

True or false: Bitlocker can only encrypt individual files

Answer 19

Incorrect. It encrypts the whole drive. EFS does single files.

Question 20

What happens if you move an encrypted file to a non-NTFS partition

Answer 20

It is no longer encrypted

Question 21

Jeff encrypted his windows files on his last PC and moved the drive to his new PC, but now he cannot read them. Why?

Answer 21

Encryption is tied to both the version of windows and account that encrypted it. If those conditions are not met, you lose access.

Question 22

What is TPM

Answer 22

Trusted platform module. It checks the computer on boot to ensure nothing has been tampered with.

Question 23

What does Bitlocker go do?

Answer 23

Bitlocker for removable media

Question 24

What is an important thing to have if you are going to use bitlocker?

Answer 24

A recovery key

Question 25

An admin wants to enforce a 30 day maximum password age policy. What tool does he use to do this?

Answer 25

Local security policy

Question 26

What is UAC

Answer 26

User account control is used to allow normal accounts to access admin commands if they have the credentials, and also lets the user know when they are doing something dangerous.