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You administer a Forefront Identity Management (FIM) 2010 server in your company network. You need to force domain users to reset their QA Gate answers. What should you do?

The correct answer is A. Select the Require Re-Registration option for Password Reset AuthN Workflow. In FIM 2010, forcing users to re-register their QA Gate answers requires enabling the 'Require Re-Registration' option on the Password Reset AuthN Workflow, which invalidates existing registrations and prompts users to re-enter their answers.

Submitted by tyler.j· Mar 4, 2026Configure FIM Password Management

Question

You administer a Forefront Identity Management (FIM) 2010 server in your company network. You need to force domain users to reset their QA Gate answers. What should you do?

Options

  • ASelect the Require Re-Registration option for Password Reset AuthN Workflow.
  • BSelect the Run On Policy Update option in the Extended Attributes of Password Reset AuthN Workflow.
  • CRemove the AuthN Workflow GUIDs from the User.AuthNWFRegistered attribute.
  • DRegister the System Workflow Required for Registration workflow.

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  • A
    73% (19)
  • B
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  • C
    15% (4)
  • D
    8% (2)

Why each option

In FIM 2010, forcing users to re-register their QA Gate answers requires enabling the 'Require Re-Registration' option on the Password Reset AuthN Workflow, which invalidates existing registrations and prompts users to re-enter their answers.

ASelect the Require Re-Registration option for Password Reset AuthN Workflow.Correct

The 'Require Re-Registration' option on the Password Reset AuthN Workflow is the built-in FIM mechanism that marks all existing QA Gate registrations as invalid, forcing domain users to go through the self-service registration portal again and provide new answers. This directly targets the authentication workflow configuration responsible for QA Gate registration state, ensuring all users must re-register before they can use password reset.

BSelect the Run On Policy Update option in the Extended Attributes of Password Reset AuthN Workflow.

The 'Run On Policy Update' option in Extended Attributes controls whether the workflow re-executes when a related policy is updated, not whether users are forced to re-register their QA Gate answers.

CRemove the AuthN Workflow GUIDs from the User.AuthNWFRegistered attribute.

While manually removing AuthN Workflow GUIDs from the User.AuthNWFRegistered attribute could technically clear registration state, this is not the supported administrative method and would require manually modifying individual user objects rather than using the built-in workflow configuration.

DRegister the System Workflow Required for Registration workflow.

The 'System Workflow Required for Registration' workflow handles the registration process flow itself but registering it does not force existing users to reset or re-provide their QA Gate answers.

Concept tested: FIM 2010 Password Reset QA Gate re-registration enforcement

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/working-with-self-service-password-reset

Topics

#Password Reset#AuthN Workflow#QA Gate

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