Computer Support/Security/Windows
This lesson covers Windows operating systems security.
Objectives and Skills
editObjectives and skills for the operating systems security portion of A+ certification include:[1]
- Compare and contrast differences of basic Windows OS security settings.
- User and groups
- Administrator
- Power user
- Guest
- Standard user
- NTFS vs. Share permissions
- Allow vs. deny
- Moving vs. copying folders and files
- File attributes
- Shared files and folders
- Administrative shares vs. local shares
- Permission propagation
- Inheritance
- System files and folders
- User authentication
- Single sign-on
- Run as administrator vs. standard user
- Bitlocker
- Bitlocker-To-Go
- EFS
- User and groups