220-1102 Question #410: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: Enabling inheritance. When a newly created subfolder in a department share is only accessible by its creator, enabling inheritance is the most likely solution to allow all users to access it. This ensures that the subfolder automatically adopts the necessary permissions from the parent folder, grantin

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Question

Users access files in the department share. When a user creates a new subfolder, only that user can access the folder and its files. Which of the following will MOST likely allow all users to access the new folders?

Options

AAssigning share permissions
BEnabling inheritance
CRequiring multifactor authentication
DRemoving archive attribute

Explanation

When a newly created subfolder in a department share is only accessible by its creator, enabling inheritance is the most likely solution to allow all users to access it. This ensures that the subfolder automatically adopts the necessary permissions from the parent folder, granting wider access.

Common mistakes.

A. Assigning share permissions is done at the share level, but the problem describes an issue with newly created subfolders within the share, indicating a file system (NTFS) permission issue often related to inheritance.
C. Requiring multifactor authentication is a security measure for user login, unrelated to file and folder access permissions within a share.
D. Removing the archive attribute primarily affects backup processes and does not control user access permissions to files or folders.

Concept tested. NTFS permissions inheritance

Reference. https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/understand-security-permissions

Topics

#File Permissions#NTFS Inheritance#Shared Resources#Access Control

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