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HS1011 Lec 6
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. You are the network administrator for a company. The company's policy is that the users are allowed to set their
own passwords but that they must change their password every 30 days. You have just received a call from a
user who can't log on because she forgot her password. After you change her password, which of the password
options listed would you set in the user's account so that she will have to change the password when she logs on
using the password you assigned?
  a. User must change password at next logon
  b. User cannot change password
  c.  Password never expires
  d. Account is disabled

2. In Windows, what do rights define?

  a. when the user can sign in to the system
  b. the types of actions a user can perform
  c.  which files the user has access to
  d. how often the user must change the password

3. You are creating a new group for the Sales department. All of the users that will be in this group will need to
have access to the same resources. What scope would you use for this group?
  a. domain local
  b. universal
  c.  global
  d. local

4. A user logs on to her account and is able to makes changes to her desktop, like adding a background and screen
saver. However, when she logs off and logs back on, the desktop reverts to its original configuration. What type
of user profile does this user have?
  a. roaming
  b. local
  c.  default
  d. mandatory

5. What tool would you use to view error messages that are generated by system services or applications?
  a. Resource Manager
  b. Event Viewer
  c.  Task Manager
  d. Performance Monitor
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6. Employees in the Sales department need to be able to access the sales share on the file server. They will need to
have the ability to create files, read them, and make corrections or additions. Which of the following share
permissions should the group be given?
  a. change
  b. read
  c.  modify
  d. write

True False

While group accounts make managing user rights and permissions more cumbersome, using them is a best practice.
  a. True
  b. False

Using Performance Monitor, performance monitoring can be scheduled for later analysis, but cannot be tracked in real
time.
  a. True
  b. False

A RAID 1 requires two drives because it copies data to both drives at the same time, making an exact duplicate of the
data.
  a. True
  b. False

Completion

A user logs on to the network from a different computer than they normally use, and they still have the same desktop as
usual. This user's profile is called a _______ profile.

In Windows, printer _______ allows a single printer to represent two or more print devices

As a network administrator, it is a good idea to have a performance _______ a collection of performance data from a
time when the network is performing normally, which can be used as a point of reference.

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Review Questions

1. What is the key difference between a user account created in Active Directory and a user account created in a
Windows client OS?

2. When might you use Universal groups in a Windows domain environment?

3. Why is real-time monitoring not the best way to track causes of poor system performance?

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