SK0-004 · Question #364
A user is unable to save an image file to the home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user has enough space…
The correct answer is A. The user is attempting to save a file with a prohibited file extension. When disk space and ACL permissions are confirmed adequate, a file screening or extension restriction policy is the most likely reason a user cannot save a specific file type.
Question
A user is unable to save an image file to the home directory on a server. The server technician checks the disk space and ACL on the user's home directory and finds that the user has enough space and required access to write to the directory. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the user is unable to save the file?
Options
- AThe user is attempting to save a file with a prohibited file extension.
- BThere are too many open files on the server.
- CThe user does not have permission to save files to the server.
- DThe hard drive containing the user's home directory is failing.
How the community answered
(43 responses)- A81% (35)
- B5% (2)
- C12% (5)
- D2% (1)
Why each option
When disk space and ACL permissions are confirmed adequate, a file screening or extension restriction policy is the most likely reason a user cannot save a specific file type.
File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and similar tools allow administrators to configure file screening policies that explicitly block certain file extensions (such as image types like .jpg or .png) from being written to directories, regardless of the user's write permissions or available disk space. This policy-based restriction precisely targets file types and matches the symptom of one user being unable to save an image file while other conditions check out.
An open file limit is a system-wide resource constraint that would affect all users broadly, not a single user saving one specific file type.
The technician already verified through the ACL inspection that the user has the required write permissions to the home directory, ruling this out.
A failing hard drive would produce errors for all users accessing that volume, and the disk space check completed successfully, making a physical drive failure unlikely.
Concept tested: File screening and extension restriction policies on file servers
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/fsrm/file-screening-management
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