Local Users and Groups Quiz

This quiz covers the the training module “Local Users and Groups”. This module contains three lessons. Here is a summary of the previous lessons. Local Users and Groups Creating and Configuring User Accounts Creating a New Group [mtouchquiz 8]

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Creating a new user group in Windows XP

To create a new group the Computer Management console is used. Expand Local Users and Groups. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Select Groups. A list of all current groups is displayed. To create a new group right-click on Groups. Select New Group. While in theory an Administrator can assign any name…

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Creating and Configuring User Accounts in Windows XP

To configure user accounts on a local machine the Local Users and Groups console is used. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Click on Start. Right-click on My Computer. Select Manage. The Computer Management Console will appear. Expand Local Users and Groups to configure user and group accounts. Open the Users folder…

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Local Users and Groups

Windows allows for multiple users to log on to a single machine, each user will posses differing access rights to the resources located on the machine. Users and the groups to which they belong form the cornerstone of Windows file and folder security.  For each physical user on a machine, a user account must be…

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Managing Disks Quiz

This quiz covers the the training module “Managing Disks”. This module contains eight lessons. Here is a summary of the previous lessons. This first lesson is “Partitions and Volumes“. The second lesson is “Converting to Dynamic Disks”. The third lesson is “File Systems”. The forth lesson is “Volume Sets”. The fifth lesson is “Spanned Volumes”.…

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RAID-5 Volumes

RAID 5 Volumes are similar to striped volumes. However, as well as striping the information across 3 disks it also creates parity information, which can be used to recover lost data in the event of a disk failure. Therefore this system is fault-tolerant. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson You can use…

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Mirrored Volumes

Mirrored Volumes store exactly the same information on each drive, making the information on the second drive available for fault tolerance. Mirrored Volumes are supported by Windows Server 2003 but not Windows XP.  When files are written to the disk they are written to both disks at the same time.  It is beneficial to place…

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Striped Volumes

Striped Volumes are similar to spanned in that they use the space available on both disks and appear to the user as one single volume.  There can be 2-32 disks in a striped set.  Striped Volumes are supported in both Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. Use the buttons below to navigate through the…

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Spanned Volumes

Spanned Volumes can make use of any unused drive space on separate drives.  Spanned Volumes are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks were to fail the entire volume would be lost with the data along with it.  There can be up to 32 disks in a spanned volume. Spanned Volumes are supported in…

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Volume Sets

Fault-Tolerance/Redundancy of data and high speed data access are essential requirements in many of today’s businesses.  Using dynamic disks in Windows 2003 enables the use of Volume Sets. A volume consists of a part or parts of one or more physical disks grouped in either a simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 configuration. Use the…

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