6.6.13 Section Quiz

For users on your network, you want to automatically lock user accounts if four incorrect passwords are used within ten minutes. What should you do?

Configure account lockout policies in Group Policy

You want to make sure that all users have passwords over eight characters in length and that passwords must be changed every 30 days. What should you do?

Configure account policies in Group Policy

You have hired ten new temporary employees to be with the company for three months. How can you make sure that these users can only log on during regular business hours?

Configure day/time restrictions in user accounts

You manage a single domain named widgets.com. Organizational units (OUs) have been created for each company department. User and computer accounts have been moved into their corresponding OUs. Members of the Directors OU want to enforce longer passwords than are required for the rest of the users. You define a new granular password policy with the required settings. All users in the Directors OU are currently members of the DirectorsGG group, which is a global security group in that OU. You apply the new password policy to that group. Matt Barnes is the chief financial officer, and he would like his account to have even more strict password policies than are required for other members in the Directors OU. What should you do?

Create a granular password policy for Matt. Apply the new policy directly to Matt's user account.

You are configuring the Local Security Policy of a Windows system. You want to prevent users from reusing old passwords. You also want to force them to use a new password for at least five days before changing it again. Which policies should you configure? (Select two.)

Enforce password history Minimum password age

You manage a single domain named widgets.com. Organizational units (OUs) have been created for each company department. User and computer accounts have been moved into their corresponding OUs. You define a password and account lockout policy for the domain. However, members of the Directors OU want to enforce longer passwords than are required for the rest of the users. You need to make the change as easily as possible. Which of the following actions should you take?

Implement a granular password policy for the users in the Directors OU.

Match each smart card attack on the left with the appropriate description on the right.

Software attacks Exploits vulnerabilities in a card's protocols or encryption methods Eavesdropping Captures transmission data produced by a card as it is used Fault generation Deliberately induces malfunctions in a card Microprobing Accesses the chip's surface directly to observe, manipulate, and interfere with a circuit

You are teaching new users about security and passwords. Which of the following is the BEST example of a secure password?

T1a73gZ9!

Upon running a security audit in your organization, you discover that several sales employees are using the same domain user account to log in and update the company's customer database. Which action should you take? (Select two. Each response is part of a complete solution.)

Train sales employees to use their own user accounts to update the customer database. Delete the account that the sales employees are currently using.

You have just configured the password policy and set the minimum password age to 10. What is the effect of this configuration?

Users cannot change the password for 10 days.