A systems administrator creates a new folder in the user profile. The administrator wants it to have different NTFS permissions than its parent folder. Which of the following settings should the…

The correct answer is D. Inheritance. By default, NTFS permissions are inherited from a parent folder - any new child folder automatically receives the same permissions as its parent. To assign different permissions to the new folder, the administrator must disable (break) permission inheritance on that folder…

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A systems administrator creates a new folder in the user profile. The administrator wants it to have different NTFS permissions than its parent folder. Which of the following settings should the administrator change?

Options

AFile attributes
BShare permissions
CLocal share
DInheritance

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Explanation

By default, NTFS permissions are inherited from a parent folder - any new child folder automatically receives the same permissions as its parent. To assign different permissions to the new folder, the administrator must disable (break) permission inheritance on that folder. Once inheritance is disabled, the folder's permissions can be set independently. File attributes (hidden, read-only, archive) have nothing to do with access control. Share permissions control network access to a shared folder but are separate from NTFS permissions. 'Local share' refers to sharing a folder on the local network, which is also unrelated to the underlying NTFS permission structure. Inheritance is the specific NTFS mechanism that must be changed to allow unique permissions on a subfolder.

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