You work as a Network Administrator for NetTech Inc. To ensure the security of files, you encrypt data files using Encrypting File System (EFS). You want to make a backup copy of the files and maintain security settings. You can backup the files either to a network share or a floppy disk. What will you do to accomplish this?

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C. Copy the files to a network share on an NTFS volume. Encrypting File System (EFS) is an NTFS feature, meaning EFS-encrypted files retain their encryption only when copied to a destination that also uses NTFS formatting. Copying to a network share on an NTFS volume preserves the encryption attributes and security settings because the destination file system natively supports EFS. Any non-NTFS destination will silently strip the encryption during the copy operation.

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A. Place the files in an encrypted folder. Then, copy the folder to a floppy disk. Placing files in an encrypted folder and copying to a floppy disk will not maintain EFS encryption because floppy disks use FAT format, which does not support NTFS encryption attributes.

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B. Copy the files to a network share on a FAT32 volume. Copying to a network share formatted with FAT32 will strip the EFS encryption because FAT32 does not support the NTFS encryption feature.

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D. Copy the files to a floppy disk that has been formatted using Windows 2000 Professional. Floppy disks formatted with any version of Windows use FAT-based file systems, which do not support EFS, so encryption would be lost during the copy.

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