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Chapter 13 - Users, Groups, and Permissions

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1. Which tool or mechanism defines what resources a user may access and what he or she may do with those resources? A. Authentication through user accounts and passwords B. Authorization through user accounts and passwords C. Authentication through NTFS D. Authorization through NTFS
D. Authorization through NTFS defines resources a user may access and what he or she can do with those resources.
2. Which is the best password for the user Joy, who has a pet named Fido and a birth date of January 8, 1982? A. joy1982 B. joylovesfido C. 1982cutie D. oddvr88*
D. Of the choices listed, oddvr88* would be the best password; it has a non-alphanumeric character, which makes it more difficult for a hacker to crack.
3. How can you encrypt an entire drive, including files and folders belonging to other users? A. EFS B. User Account Control C. Administrative Shares D. BitLocker
D. BitLocker Drive Encryption enables you to encrypt an entire drive, including files and folders belonging to other users.
4. What feature in Windows 7 opens a consent prompt for standard users to enter administrator credentials to accomplish various tasks reserved for the latter group? A. User Access Command B. User Access Control C. User Account Command D. User Account Control
D. The User Account Control feature in Windows 7 provides a consent prompt for standard users to enter administrator credentials to accomplish various tasks normally reserved for the Administrators group.
5. Which permission enables an administrator to change the ownership of a file without knowing the user account password for that file? A. Change permission B. Change Ownership permission C. Ownership permission D. Take Ownership permission
D. The Take Ownership permission enables an administrator to change the ownership of a file without knowing the user account password for that file.
6. You copy a file from a folder on a hard drive formatted as NTFS, with permissions set to Read for everyone, to a USB thumb drive formatted as FAT32. What effective permissions does the copy of the file have? A. Read-only for everyone. B. Full Control for everyone. C. None. D. You can't copy a file from an NTFS drive to a FAT32 drive.
C. The key here is that you are copying from an NTFS hard drive to a FAT32 USB drive. Copying from an NTFS-based partition to a FAT- or exFAT-based partition creates two copies of the object; the copy of the object in the new location has no effective permissions at all.
7. Which of the following commands is used to change file permissions in Linux? A. chmod B. chown C. users D. pwn
A. The chmod command enables you to change file permissions in Linux.
8. Which tool in Windows 8.1 enables you to create a new user account based on a global Microsoft account? A. User Accounts in Control Panel B. Users and Groups in Control Panel C. Settings charm D. Users charm
C. The Settings charm in Windows 8.1 enables you to create a new user account based on a global Microsoft account.
9. Which option enables you to share files easily among multiple users on a single Windows system? A. Place the files in the Public libraries. B. Place the files in the Public Shares. C. Place the files in the EFS folders. D. You cannot. Windows locks down sharing on a single system.
A. The Public libraries make it easy to share files among multiple users of a single system.
10. Which of the following file systems enables you to encrypt files, thus making them unviewable by any account but your own? A. EFS B. FAT C. FAT32 D. OSR
A. The Encrypting File System (EFS) enables you to encrypt files, making them unviewable by any account but your own.
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